Your kids can do a great job with even the toughest school projects with just a computer running Windows Vista and the right information resources. Research no longer requires a trip to the neighborhood library because a whole world of information—and the tools to put it all together—are right at home on your family computer.
Here are five homework power tools that can turn your children’s ho-hum project into A+ work:
| • | Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 |
| • | Microsoft Encarta 2008 |
| • | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Office Online Clip Art |
These five tools working together will truly enrich your student’s study experience.
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Your kids can do a great job with even the toughest school projects with just a computer running Windows Vista and the right information resources. Research no longer requires a trip to the neighborhood library because a whole world of information—and the tools to put it all together—are right at home on your family computer.
Here are five homework power tools that can turn your children’s ho-hum project into A+ work:
| • | Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 |
| • | Microsoft Encarta 2008 |
| • | Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 |
| • | Microsoft Office Online Clip Art |
These five tools working together will truly enrich your student’s study experience.
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Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008
If your middle- or high-school student is looking for just one resource to help them save time and complete high-quality homework, Microsoft Student is it. It includes tools to help students find information faster, improve their study skills, and complete their projects.
In addition to 2-D and 3-D four-color graphing capabilities, for example, one great resource in Microsoft Student is Learning Essentials. It provides templates, tools, and tutorials in Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Students will have a great place to start with a variety subjects and assignments, from history reports and essays to physics projects and chemistry labs.
Microsoft Student also includes a full version of Microsoft Encarta Premium 2008.
Microsoft Encarta 2008
Microsoft Encarta 2008 has information on almost anything you can imagine. It contains:
| • | Reference Tools including thousands of articles by experts in a wide variety of fields, an Interactive World Atlas, Thesaurus, and Dictionary |
| • | Search functions that make finding relevant information easy include the Encarta Search Bar and thousands of Web Links to sites that have been pre-selected by Encarta editors |
| • | Multimedia features including videos, photos, and more to satisfy the curiosity of every member of the family |
You can get Microsoft Encarta in:
| • | Microsoft Encarta Premium 2008 |
| • | MSN Encarta Premium |
With all that knowledge, Microsoft Encarta 2008 will help your student move backward and forward in time, around the world, and inside living organisms.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 can help your kids put all the information they gather together into a dazzling presentation.
An easy-to-use but sophisticated program, PowerPoint 2007 includes dozens of ready-made templates but also allows students to design their own look and feel. Your students can simply plug in their information, choose the slide transitions they want, and give their presentations in the classroom.
Tip: You can learn more about PowerPoint 2007 by viewing one of the online demos on the Microsoft Office Online Web site.
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
For students and educators who gather and interpret data from multiple sources, collaborate with peers, juggle classes, meetings, social activities, and more, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is a note-taking program that makes it easy to take, organize, manage, and reuse notes more productively.
Unlike paper systems or word processing applications, OneNote 2007 combines the ability to capture typed and handwritten text, diagrams, Web page content, and audio notes in one place with the flexibility to organize and reuse them any way you want. There are many ways OneNote 2007 can help your kids in their studies—they can use it to record lectures, create outlines, and take notes when they do research online.
Microsoft Office Online Clip Art
No presentation would be complete without some kind of art—a photo, drawing, cartoon, or media clip.
Your students can use the clip art in PowerPoint 2007, and they can get free access to more than 150,000 pieces of art, photos, sounds, and animation on the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media site.
To download free clip art, your kids just:
| 1. | Go to the Clip Art and Media site. |
The site copies the art to the computer, and your student can plug it into their presentation or print it with their report.
Each of these tools makes it easy for your student to research and create school projects. But even more importantly, these homework power tools can open your children’s minds to a world of curiosity, ideas, inspiration, and creativity.
