By Jef Raskin
When I received the Intellimation catalog, I rolled my eyes netward and looked at the 4-foot shelf full of catalogs I already have. I buried the catalog on my desk and put it out of my mind. Today, in a frenzy of overpapered guilt, I dug it up. Surprise! – this one's different.
The full title is Intellimation: Higher Education Macintosh Software and Multimedia Catalog. How about an electronic paper grader and editor? Works with any word processor. Or version 2.0 of an automatic grading program? There are tools for building multimedia presentations and for writing tutorials and exams. In another category are technical paper-production tools. There are a few standard programs (like ClarisWorks) at below list-prices (like everybody else).
There are a number of content-specific programs that help teach math, life science, the arts, computer science, business, English (among other languages), and many more subjects at a high school to college level. Examples: MacPig. "The classic step-by-step pig dissection simulation.... As the student removes each part and organ to the correct 'tray,' the function and physical characteristics are described." Another program is "Infection Connection," in which you investigate the maladies of 31 patients (it should have been titled "Where In the World is Carmen Staphylococcus?"). Then there's "an easy-to-use tool for calculating numeric solutions to diffraction patterns" and "an interactive introduction to the Inca Empire at the time of the Spanish Conquest." Sounds good to me.
Intellimation: (800) 346 8355, fax +1 (805) 968 2291, e-mail intelilfm@aol.com.
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