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MapPoint 2006 helps learners visualise data that relates to a geographic area by combining maps and your own data and information. Microsoft MapPoint 2006 with European Maps contains detailed geographic and demographic coverage for eight European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Coverage outside of those regions is limited to political boundaries and populated places. MapPoint 2006 European edition is coming soon.
Microsoft MapPoint in Education
Whether you want to use it as an aid for teaching geography or to decide on the best school bus routes, MapPoint 2006 provides helpful maps containing road, landmark and other useful information. It also enables users to map data straight from Microsoft Excel, making it ideal for surveys.
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Microsoft Visio 2007
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Microsoft Visio 2007 lets you create business and technical diagrams that help you visualise complex systems, sharpen communication and transform your business processes. With Visio 2007, you'll spend less time designing, documenting and maintaining processes and systems – and more time planning for the future. Visio 2007 helps you visualise and communicate ideas and information. Students can document and share ideas visually and assemble diagrams by simply dragging task-specific shapes onto pages. It’s also easy to manage people, processes and projects.
Microsoft Visio in Education
Visio 2007 provides tools that help learners create mind maps and technical drawings. It enables learners, educators and staff members to organise and share their ideas quickly.
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Digital Image Suite 2006
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Give your students the power to master digital photography with Digital Image Suite 2006’s tools and features. New, easy-to-use features help them organise, creatively enhance and share their pictures with the world. As their passion for great photography grows, Microsoft Digital Image Suite gives them exactly what they need to bring their creative vision to life.
Microsoft Digital Image Suite in Education
Keep all your images safe on CD, DVD or other formats, organised and archived so you'll always know exactly where to find the pictures you want. The Digital Image Library makes finding and sharing pictures and videos easy.
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Microsoft Expression
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If you think and design visually, Expression Studio is a perfect tool to enable you to create compelling, impactful and expressive designs for the desktop and the web. The visually rich technologies in Silverlight and .NET offer amazing possibilities to bring your creative ideas to life using a range of design tools purpose built for the task. Microsoft Expression delivers an effective, streamlined and powerful designer and developer workflow that is imperative to deliver the types of compelling and engaging web sites, web applications and desktop experiences that clients expect today.
Whether you're an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is faster and easier with Microsoft® Expression® Web 3.
Expression Studio and Silverlight have been designed from the ground up to make it easier to succeed when creating these experiences by focusing on three key areas. ‘Going beyond HTML’ with richer graphics, layout, controls and video; ‘Playing well with Others’ because you need your application to work on many platforms and browsers and to connect to your existing HTML and backend web services; and enabling ‘Rapid Development’ using built in powerful .NET framework support and powerful design and development tools Expression Blend and Visual Studio.
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Microsoft DreamSpark is available to all students whose studies touch on technology, design, math, science and engineering. Students of today are more technical in their everyday lives than ever — representing both their personal interests and what is expected of them when they arrive in the workplace for the first time. The following cutting-edge software is available free to empower students to unlock their ingenuity by building critical skills:
- Microsoft developer tools. Visual Studio is the Swiss Army knife of computer programming. These professional-grade products provide a security-enhanced and reliable environment, enabling students to program everything from a cell phone to a robot or to create their own Web page. Students will also be able to invent compelling new gaming content and make their dream game a reality by porting their creations to their Xbox 360 console.
- Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
- XNA Game Studio 2.0
- 12-month free Academic membership in the XNA Creators Club
- Microsoft designer tools. This ultra-versatile suite of tools will enable students to vividly bring their creative visions to life in vibrant new Web site designs and more effective digital content, including animation, imagery and photography.
- Expression Studio, including
- Expression Web
- Expression Blend
- Expression Design
- Expression Media
- Microsoft platform resources. The foundation for development and design platforms, these products deliver a security-enhanced, reliable and manageable environment for students to more quickly turn ideas into reality.
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
- Windows Server, Standard Edition
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