The Digital Frog Blog » ScienceMatrix http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog Virtual frog dissection, nature, and science education for teachers, students and homeschoolers Mon, 17 May 2010 14:21:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 An intro to Digital Frog software in five minutes (or slightly less) http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2010/03/04/an-intro-to-digital-frog-software-in-five-minutes-or-slightly-less/ http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2010/03/04/an-intro-to-digital-frog-software-in-five-minutes-or-slightly-less/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:51 +0000 Jim Bridges http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/?p=326

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.)

]]> http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2010/03/04/an-intro-to-digital-frog-software-in-five-minutes-or-slightly-less/feed/ 0 Get ScienceMatrix: Cell Structure & Function for free with our back to school special http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2008/09/03/get-sciencematrix-cell-structure-function-for-free-with-our-back-to-school-special/ http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2008/09/03/get-sciencematrix-cell-structure-function-for-free-with-our-back-to-school-special/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:26 +0000 Jim Bridges http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/?p=58 It’s early September and, as hard as it may be to believe, summer holidays are over and most kids (and teachers) are back in school.

To mark the start of the new school year, we are offering parents and teachers the gift of free software. Namely our World Summit award-winning cell biology program ScienceMatrix: Cell Structure and Function. Until Oct. 31, 2008, any purchases made in our online store with a cart subtotal of $45 or more will earn you a free copy of ScienceMatrix.

Spend between $45 and $199, and you’ll receive a single user license, worth $49.

If your cart’s subtotal is between $200 and $599, we’ll send you a Lab Pack (5 CDs), worth $122.50.

And if you spend $600 or more, you will receive a building site license for ScienceMatrix, giving you use of the program on an unlmited number of computers at one site, worth $399.

The offer ends October 31, 2008 and is available only through The Digital Frog Online Shop.

]]> http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2008/09/03/get-sciencematrix-cell-structure-function-for-free-with-our-back-to-school-special/feed/ 0 NSTA 2008: The post-show report http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2008/04/12/nsta-report/ http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/2008/04/12/nsta-report/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:18:13 +0000 Celia Clark http://www.digitalfrog.com/blog/?p=28 We recently returned from the National Science Teachers’ Conference in Boston, exhausted but at the same time exhilarated. Our booth was busy the whole time and teachers were excited about our software. One lady rushed up to our booth insisting “I cannot live without Digital Frog”. We love quotes like this, even it is a little extreme, and probed further. This teacher has been using The Digital Frog 2 for many years to prepare her class for the wet lab. We have asked her to write about her experiences in our new forum which we will be launching soon for teachers and homeschoolers to share their experiences.

Another teacher purchased a Building Site License for ScienceMatrix: Cell Structure and Function last year and told us that her students scored higher marks on this subject than any other class she has ever taught.

A special ed teacher was extremely excited about our Digital Field Trip series to help his mixed grade class of 7 to 12 year olds.

Of course, our goal in attending these conferences is to showcase our products to teachers who have never seen them before, but we get energized by stories from teachers who are using the products. One experienced biology teacher approached our booth with some reluctance having been asked to check out dissection alternatives by his colleagues. We showed him The Digital Frog 2.5 and he then admitted that he had been completely biased against all dissection alternatives, but was now planning on recommending a district-wide purchase!

I was asked at the last minute to present The Digital Frog 2.5 at a presentation hosted by Animalearn (who loan out dissection alternatives free of charge, including The Digital Frog 2, their most popular loan item). Although The Digital Frog 2.5 has been rated the best dissection alternative many times, we do not consider it a dissection alternative program. It’s an anatomy and physiology learning tool, supported by an interactive frog dissection. After all, the ultimate goal of dissecting in schools is to help students understand their own bodies, not to teach them how to wield a scalpel.

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