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You Tube is a vidoe sharing website. On which the public can share videos.

Created in February 2005 It was bought over by google.

It uses adobe Flash Video Technology.Any one can register and sign up to be a user.

This to me is very educational because even though we think this can encourage inappropriate vidoes to the public such as Pornography,Copyright violations and Defamation . This is prohibited by You Tube Terms Of Service.

figure 2.

This can be benificial in the classrooms because in the class children like more than jus pictures an hearing from the teachers voice.

A real life video can be very useful and educational form children. they now have a fell of real life (animals or plants etc)

eg.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3UwX3bPaM

IXL MATH SOFTWARE

IXL software is a math practise tool developed by Quia Corporation, which was founded in 1998

Practice make perfect , with IXL makes math practice fun . With unlimited math questions in more thatn 1000 topics,students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet.

All ages and grades can use this fun and exciting software

• pre skills



• kindergarten skills



• first grade skills



• second grade skills



• third grade skills



• fourth grade skills



• fifth grade skillss



• and many more

this can be very fun an educational in the calss. Children experiencing problems with maths can use this software and it can help them bring up their grades in school. with out the agony of reading and writing

Heres a link to the website that inspired me to write on IXLmaths

http://www.ixl.com/math/

Blogs i have commented on:

http://daniellaaleong.blogspot.com/

http://geeta-teched.blogspot.com/

desktop publishing software

Desktop publishing is the process of using the computer and specific types of software to combine text and graphics to produce documents such as newsletters, brochures, books, Today desktop publishing software does it all - almost. But before Page-Maker and other desktop publishing software there were e-scales, paste-up, and other non-desktop computer ways of putting together a design for printing.
there are different types of publishing software :web or electronic software
graphic design soft ware
page layout software
word processor software
This is a good software to use in the class. It can allow learning in the classroom with fun and creative methods by the teacher designing ways to learn and teach her class.

to view a video on desktop publishing click this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDOiQ8wsH0I&feature=related

References:

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/softwarehardware/tp/Software_Desktop_Publishing.htm