Super Value! 10 Educational software Titles in 1
Collection
Software Information
Imagine having your own personal tutor who is accessible anytime to guide you
through the land of learning software! This game fun and powerful series turns your
computer into a powerful, interactive educational tool. Inside these 5
feet, you will explore and learn about the great men and women of science and
the miracle of life around us, the changing role of the U.S. Government in its
first 200 years of history, revolutionary developments in art and music during
the beginning of the twentieth century, the emergence and growth of nationalism,
and the history and significance of poetry, prose and other forms of literature.
Softwares Included
- American Concise Encyclopedia
- What Is Science Learning Learning
- What Is Biology
- A Literary History (Catch 22 - Color
Purple)
- U.S. Government 1866-1977
- U.S. Government 1783-1865
- Twentieth-Century Nationalism (World
History)
- Nineteenth-Century Nationalism (World
History)
- Short Story Writing
- The Twentieth Century (Art and Music)
Unique Advantages
The PowerCD operating environment uses the multimedia power of your personal
computer to make learning software fast, game fun, and easy. Combining hypertext links,
powerful indexing, extensive search capabilities, and both an on-line dictionary
and encyclopedia, PowerCD turns your computer into an interactive educational
tool. You'll find that PowerCD users several different methods or operational
modes to present information. The extensive on-line help makes it easy for the
reader to navigate through these modes, and to discover the joy of learning software.
Just Plug and Play!
- No installation required - software runs
from the CD-ROM
- No Hard Disk Space required
- Works with both Microsoft windows and Macintosh
- Auto-start for Microsoft windows
- All images print in color - great for
school projects!
- The Merriam-Webster Dictionary & The American Concise Encyclopedia
included on each CD-ROM
Power CD Features:
- Enlarge many of the images to full
screen; print or save to clipboard.
- Access over 100 interactive questions,
with explanations, and automatic quizzes.
- Link to The American Concise Encyclopedia
with over 15,000 entries.
- Play feature presentation of self-running
multi-media content.
- Browse indexes to locate information by
subject and other relevant categories.
- Access The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
with over 70,000 definitions.
- Look up key words in the customized
electronic glossary.
- Click highlighted world to link to supplemental reference materials.
Feature Presentation Mode
The main multimedia program of your Zane title. Playing the Feature Presentation
is easy - it begins automatically when you run your Zane title.
It combines text, audio, images, and a variety of interactive features,
including questions and quizzes. The Feature Presentation is the perfect way to
begin your leaning experience, whether you just want to sit back and listen to
the subject matter presented or access the supplemental reference material
offered on each title.
Presentation Mode
Consists of self-playing multimedia presentations - such as A Thousand Years of
English Pronunciation - that supplement the Feature Presentations of selected
titles by providing topical, in-depth discussions of the subject matter.
Text Mode
Can be thought of as the "library" of your PowerCD title. In text
mode, in selected Zane titles, you'll find study aids to assist you, such as an
encyclopedia or the complete texts of selected novels by the authors Charles
Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
View Mode
If Text mode is the "library" then View mode is the "art
gallery" within PowerCD. In View mode, you can browse all the images
contained on the software title. On some Zane titles, the images are accompanied
by audio captions that are read aloud, providing even more information about a
specific image.
Indexes
Even though your Zane title contains an extensive amount of information,
it's always easy to find exactly what you're looking for by using the powerful
system of Indexes. The main Index provides immediate access to all the major
areas of your Zane title. To help you zero in on the information you need, some
documents have a Local Index.
Questions Mode
A great way to see what you've learned. Just in case you're stumped and need
a quick review, the questions are linked to other modes within PowerCD. The
information you need is just a mouse-click away. And if you pick the wrong
answer, you'll still get a full explanation, as well as additional pertinent
information. It's like having your own personal tutor!
Quiz Mode
Now it's time to put your knowledge to the test! In Quiz mode, you can
choose from several quizzes focused on particular subject areas. You can pick
the topic, the number of questions, and even set your own time limit. Quizzes
can be taken on-line or printed (the answer key can be printed as well). When
the test is over, PowerCD tells you how you did, and makes it easy to go back
and review any questions you missed.
Hypertext with Historical Reference Sources
In every Zane title, selected words appear in blue text. These words are
hypertext references, which take you to a related location or document within
the title. For example, selecting a blue text reference to William Shakespeare
might take you to an index that lists more than 26 reference to this playwright!
Encyclopedia
Many of the blue text references link to the American Concise Encyclopedia TM,
which offers more than 15,000 up-to-date entries organized alphabetically or by
subject matter. The subjects covered by this encyclopedia include art, biology,
history, literature, music, and religion. The encyclopedia also features
an appendix of many of the world's most important historical documents,
including all 66 books from the Old and New Testaments (King James version), the
Magna Carta, and the U.S. Constitution.
Dictionary
Most Zane titles feature the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, which features over
70,000 definitions and 500,000 links to related words. This best-selling
dictionary also features pronunciation symbols that link to audio samples.
Customized Glossary
Learning new material always involves learning software new word. PowerCD provides
two way to find a word's meaning. If the word is in green text, that means it's
includes in the customized Glossary featured on each title. Just select the word
to open the Glossary and find a contest-sensitive definition or explanation of
the term. Once you've mastered the subject matter of a specific title, you'll
have learned the meanings of all the terms featured in the customized Glossary.
Word Search
Another powerful tool for finding information on your Zane title. By locating
all references to a particular person, event, place, or idea you can design your
own study guide. There's no need, for example, to flip through page after page
looking for Shakespeare. Simply type in his name and every reference in the
title to this great playwright will be listed in seconds.
Grade Computer learning software computer game educational software Book
PowerCD Grade Computer learning software computer game educational software Book imports statistical information from PowerCD, such as
Quizzes, Quiz Results, and the History List, which are set up in Preferences
under the Edit Menu. The Grade Computer learning software computer game educational software Book provides a statistical view of a student's
progress through multiple PowerCD programs, displaying any quizzes taken and
their results, plus a history of all documents visited prior to taking the quiz.
Instructors or parents can review statistics by individuals or by classes.
Presentation Manager
A tool that gives you the capability of creating your own specialized storyboard
or script for use in PowerCD. It allows you or your students to design unique
presentations and select specific focus areas for lectures, tutorials, and
student presentations. A teacher, parent, or student can now outline topics for
further study, thus enhancing valuable classroom time. Presentation Manager
files can be as simple as a few review questions or as complex as all text and
features pertaining to relevant chapters or topics.
Presentation Manager allows you to record images, videos, text, and audio in all
six PowerCD modes. You also can record glossary terms from the customized
glossary. Once recorded and saved to a file, each presentation can be played
back through the PowerCD title by simply selecting Play from the presentation
manager menu and the desired file, and then clicking OK (making sure that the
CD-ROM is in the drive).
PowerCD Help File
Guides you through four sections: Introduction, Using PowerCD, Quick Reference,
and Technical Support. Introduction teaches you about the six operational modes,
as well as Quiz Results and the Main Index. Using PowerCD explains how to use
the modes, the glossary, the dictionary, the main and local indexes, the word
search, and reference lists, and provides you with a list of shortcuts to
perform certain game functions. Quick Reference provides an alphabetical listing of
all contents and game functions on a PowerCD title. Technical Support offers
information on system requirements and installation.
Note: The PowerCD Help File is available only on Microsoft windows.
( Macintosh uses can either access the balloon Help or select "Text"
from the Contents menu and choose "Help for Macintosh Users)."
Software Overview
American Concise Encyclopedia
The American Concise Encyclopedia is your one-stop information source for a wide
variety of topics, including Art, Biology, Business, Computers, Geography,
Government, Health, History, Law, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion and
more. It contains more than 15,000 up-to-date entries that can be accessed
alphabetically or by 21 subject categories. It also contains an index of
the world's most influential original source documents.
What Is Science Learning Learning
Meet the great men and women of science and examine the game fundamentals of
scientific inquiry such as experimentation, data analysis, and the formation of
hypotheses.
Learn the process of scientific inquiry and investigation and key scientists
who have been instrumental in the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Discuss how Math Program and math learning software software, especially statistics, is important in determining the
relationship between variables. Explain how the knowledge gained by
science can create better ways of maintaining and improving life on earth.
Multimedia Presentation:
26 Minutes
13 Minutes of video
Images included: 328
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
What Is Biology
Learn the miracle of life around us, from the creatures far beneath the sea to
the tiny strands of DNA found in all living things.
Identify the various branches of biology and distinguish between them and key
figures in the development of modern biology. Also learn the benefits and
challenges facing genetic research and engineering.
Multimedia Presentation:
28 Minutes
18 Minutes of video
Images included: 312
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
A Literary History (Catch 22 - Color Purple)
Examine the poetry and prose published during the forty-year period that
followed World War II. And also examine how accelerating technological changes
and increasing public advocacy of human rights and social responsibility shaped
the literary works during this period.
Discuss how literary works combining fictional material with personal
experiences and other factual accounts, such as those by Norman Mailer, reflect
a focus on realism and the relationship between an individual and society.
Multimedia Presentation:
41 Minutes
Images included: 480
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
U.S. Government 1866-1977
Chart the path of the U.S. government in the decades following the Civil War.
Explore the changes that occurred in government as the nation's leaders dealt
with the problems of massive immigration, poverty, and a devastating depression
during the emergence of the industrial nation.
Discover how new foreign policy challenges helped to shape the role of the
government.
Multimedia Presentation:
45 Minutes
Images included: 550
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
U.S. Government 1783-1865
Trace the changes in U.S. government through the early years of the nation's
history. Study the drafting and passage of the Constitution and explore
how elected leaders interpreted the document in the critical early years of the
nation's history.
Examine the events that helped to define the powers of the federal
government, including the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Multimedia Presentation:
45 Minutes
Images included: 550
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
Twentieth-Century Nationalism (World History)
Examine the emergence of nationalism as a powerful political force in Third
World countries, and survey two routes to national independence: constitutional
and revolutionary.
Presentations trace the progress of nationalist movements in India where British
rulers were overthrown by constitutional means and peaceful protest and Vietnam,
where foreign powers were expelled after years of bloodshed.
Multimedia Presentation:
40 Minutes
Images included: 400
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
Nineteenth-Century Nationalism (World History)
With this title, you'll learn why nationalism grew into a major force that
dominated the politics of nineteenth-century Europe.
Examine the concept of nationalism as it developed and changed throughout
Europe, starting from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I.
See how the Romantic movement and the Napoleonic Wars planted the seeds of
European nationalism early in the nineteenth century. Learn why by the end of
the century, the forces of nationalism had sparked a full-scale arms race that
set the stage for World War I.
Multimedia Presentation:
40 Minutes
Images included: 400
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
Short Story Writing
Trace the development of the short story as a form of literature. Learn
how ballads, fables, fairy tales, and epic poems gave birth to this unique form
of writing software.
Analyze some of literature's classic short stories: Washington lrving's
"Rip Van Winkle," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart,"
and Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House."
Multimedia Presentation:
75 Minutes
Images included: 775
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
The Twentieth Century (Art and Music)
Witness the revolutionary developments in art and music that occurred at the
beginning of the twentieth century, and learn how those changes continue to
influence how we view the world.
You'll examine the paintings of Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, and Klee
and listen to excerpts from the music of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Satie,
and Webern.
Multimedia Presentation:
33 Minutes
Images included: 490
Interactive Computer Q&A: 100
Microsoft windows Computer Requirements
- Intel 80486 DX/25Mhz (or faster)
- Microsoft windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP
- 16 MB RAM minimum
- CD-ROM Drive (Double Speed or greater
recommended)
- 640 x 480 VGA (SVGA, 256 colors
recommended)
- Mouse
- Sound Card recommended
Macintosh Computer Requirements
- 33 MHz 68030+ Macintosh
- System 7 to 9.1
- 8MB RAM (6MB Free RAM Required)
- CD-ROM Driver (Double Speed or greater
recommended)
- 640 x 480 Color Monitor (256 colors
recommended)
- Mouse
- Sound Card recommended
Due to the
type of software product packaging, once this software product has been opened it is
non-returnable. If the software product is defective, it will be exchanged
for the same software product. No cash regame funds.
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