Just a reminder that to mark the occasion, we’re having a one day only, Save the Frogs Day sale.

Until midnight tonight, you can save 25% off any Digital Frog 2.5 license, plus we will donate 25% to the Save the Frogs Foundation.

Orders must be placed through our online store.

And to find out what else is going on on Save the Frogs Day, be sure to check out the Save the Frogs Day web site.

When we heard about it, we had to be involved.

For April 30 only, we’re offering 25% off the regular price of The Digital Frog 2.5 AND donating 25% of the proceeds to Save the Frogs.

While the virtual dissection portion of the program can save the need for using real frogs, the whole program is a wealth of information on amphibians, their anatomy and even a section on ecology including environmental concerns and the effects on frog populations.

Come back to The Digital Frog Online Shop on April 30 to place your order and save both money and donate to Save the Frogs organization. (If you are an educator, you can even place your order with a purchase order.)

For more information on Save the Frogs day (or to find or register your own event for the day), visit the Save the Frogs web site.

Case in point: teacher Lovelle Ruggiero not only enthusiastically came to visit us at our booth, she even helped us make a video of her thoughts and experiences using Digital Frog software in her school:

You can see this video (and our others) on the Digital Frog International YouTube channel.

Find us on Facebook

Looking for other ways to find out what we’re up to? We’ve just created a page on Facebook. Come on over, check it out, become our fan. We’re still adding content, but you can have a look at some pictures from the recent NSTA conference, as well as other things to come.

(Don’t forget, you can still find us on Twitter too.)

I’ve been trying to come up with a pithy little introduction here, but really all we wanted to share is that we’ve put together a short(ish) movie as an introduction to Digital Frog International’s educational software programs. We think it does a pretty good job explaining what you get with a DFI program, the range and depth of topics we cover and why you and your students can benefit from our software.

So grab some popcorn, but your feet up for a few minutes and let us show you what you get with a Digital Frog product. And if you’re really inspired, you can head over to our DemoWare pages to get your free demo versions to try for yourself.

(If you’ve never checked out the Digital Frog YouTube channel, you can find a growing number of videos, from sample dissection videos from The Digital Frog 2.5 to the shockingly popular time-lapse of a decomposing rabbit, with more going up in the coming months.)

We added one additional video that we recorded but were never able to use in a finished product: a time lapse showing the decomposition of a rabbit over eight days, reduced to one minute of video. This has become a surprising breakaway smash success on the Digital Frog YouTube Channel, closing in on 400,000 views and over 1200 comments.

We produced the video for a forest ecology program that was never completed as a way of demonstrating natural decomposition in a manner that words alone could not describe. It can be a bit disturbing for some, but quite dramatically shows how quickly the process happens, the various insects and organisms who help in decomposition, and goes a long way to explaining why you don’t often see the carcasses of dead animals in the woods‚ they don’t last long.

The version above is a new, higher resolution version than the original, allowing to you to see a bit more clearly what happens over the week the video was shot.

While our YouTube channel has been a bit quiet over the past while, we’re looking forward to putting up new videos both from our existing educational software and others that have not been publicly seen before. We’ll provide updates here, or you can also subscribe to the Digital Frog YouTube channel to see when new videos come online.

(If you’d like a downloadable version, we’re currently working on a new version of this video with narration to describe what is happening and the processes at work. That will be available exclusively through our Digital Frogger Club. You can sign up now and be notified when the video is ready for download.)

If you’re using QuickTime version 7.6 or later, you may encounter a problem when you try to launch our software with QuickTime not being recognized. You may be prompted that you need to install QuickTime to use the program even if you have it installed and will be unable to run the program at all. Unfortunately this effects both full and free DemoWare versions on all versions of Windows that run our programs.

Thankfully we have two pieces of good news:

1. We’re working on a fix.
2. Until then, we have a workaround solution that will allow you to run the programs. You can get full details on a support page on the QuickTime issue.

We regret if this creates any problems for our users. The cause of the issue was out of our hands. But we’re doing all we can to make things just work as they should again.

While payments have always been processed through secure servers, we have had some customers concerned that the entire store was not hosted on a secure site. And we’ve taken those concerns to heart.

We’re happy to announce that as of today, the entire store has been upgraded to ensure that every step in the ordering process is secure and all information transmitted to us is encrypted. It’s an extra layer of security to ensure that you can feel safe placing your order through our online shop.

Photo by AMagill released under Creative Commons.

Also included is a fully editable electronic version of the teacher and student workbook materials, as well as the rights to make up to 20 copies to loan out for home use.

And unlike some other virtual dissection software, this is a one-time license fee. There is no annual subscription fee. Once you have purchased The Digital Frog 2.5, you can use it in perpetuity, with as many students as require the program.

The special is available exclusively in our online store through January 31, 2009.

This month, we’re offering the home version of The Digital Field Trip Series DVD for just $66. That’s all three Digital Field Trips‚ÄîThe Wetlands, The Rainforest, and The Desert‚Äîat 33% off the already low regular price of the DVD, and over 50% off the price of buying all three field trips separately.

Normally, we charge $45 per title for each Digital Field Trip. For the month of December, for just $21 more you’ll get all three Digital Field Trips on one DVD, containing both the Windows AND Macintosh versions. There has never been a better and more affordable way to bring the wonders of the world’s ecosystems to your children than this.

The DVD is licensed for home use and contains full versions of all three Digital Field Trips in the series. Each field trip contains virtual-reality trips to the ecosystem to allow you and your children to visit it digitally, as well as a wealth of other modules covering everything from its plants and animals, the processes that keep it functioning, as well as more general natural science and geography topics in an fun, interactive and engaging way.

The Digital Field Trip to The Wetlands
Wetland ecology without getting your feet wet, including sections on food webs, nutrient cycles and photosynthesis.

The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest
Rainforest ecology, from the rainforests of the world to interdependencies, botany and human impact.

The Digital Field Trip to The Desert
Deserts of North America and around the world, with in-depth sections on adaptations, homeostasis and landscape formation.

The special is available exclusively in our online store through December 31, 2008.

(You can also download free limited demo versions of all of the Digital Field Trips if you want to preview them before buying. But act fast, The offer ends at the end of the year.)