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Technology Review.
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Childhood Education, 1995
Reviews four CD-ROM titles: (1) "The Way Things Work" provides explanations of machines and scientific principles that make them work; (2) "Stowaway" teaches about intricacies of an 18th-century warship; (3) "Explorapaedia: The World of Nature" teaches about plants, animals, ecosystems, and universe; and (4) "My…
Descriptors: Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education, Dictionaries, Elementary Education
ConSearch: An Electronic Document Research and Retrieval Utility for Windows from Management Information Technologies.
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Combs, Joseph, Jr. – Library Software Review, 1995
Reviews ConSearch 3.0, a product that provides flexible searching of electronic files, allowing the location of related meanings as well as exact matches. ConSearch 3.0 differs from other file retrieval approaches by relating words in search phrases of questions to the "meaning" of the words, which are stored in a "conceptual…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Databases
Studying Sign Language via CD-ROM.
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Gannon, Rosalyn L.; Kurlychek, Ken – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1995
Reviews and compares two CD-ROMs designed to teach sign language skills: "The American Sign Language Dictionary on CD-ROM" and "Sign Language for Everyone." The first is seen to be the better reference tool whereas the second is judged the better choice for computer users wanting to learn sign language in a structured way. (DB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews