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Pip-Online is a website-based tool, aimed
at both adults and children, to enable them
to design and manage a stress-free school
website. Teachers without website building
experience will be able to develop their
school website and Key Stage 2 pupils will
be able to add content with ease, although
the teacher needs to authorise the final
content.
There are simple menus, an online guide
and a hard copy of a Step-by-Step Guide
to Managing Your Pip website, that take
you through the stages of adding and managing
on-line content, so that up to 5 users can
edit their own different areas of the site.
The package includes full access to unlimited
technical support from Macromedia.
First impressions are of a product that
does fulfil the claims that it makes in
its advertising, to make the school website
an up to date link between pupils, staff
and wider community.
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The Dums has been written explicitly to
cover the music and ICT curriculum (QCA
unit 3b), but can be used at other Key Stages.
The classroom activities are easy to follow
and link to the schemes of work for music
and ICT but lessons can be customised.
Excellent animated characters tell the
user about their instruments and let you
hear them being played, individually and
in an ensemble. There is detailed information
on each instrument including its history,
composers, background and how it's played.
It is simple to install on networks and
individual PCs or notebooks. Clear menus
make it easy to use. Children can work individually,
or in groups with a projector and speakers.
The sound reproduction and compositions
are very good and children engage immediately
with the software.
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