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RM Easiteach The Next Generation

The Next Generation
RM Easiteach Next Generation is a complete whole class teaching and learning application that puts users in the driving seat for creating and delivering engaging lessons and resources. The tools within Easiteach are rich and powerful but easy to use, removing barriers and allowing teachers and students to make the most of their classroom hardware such as interactive whiteboards, classpads, voting systems and multi-touch tables.
Built-in widgets and multimedia assets in a range of topic areas help fuel ideas and bring lessons to life. Create and prepare resources well in advance of lessons to use Easiteach as a high-end narration tool to support classes. Its wide range of content can be used or adapted to suit users’ needs.
A powerful and flexible software application for creating and delivering motivational, interactive lessons, Easiteach provides a wide range of cross-curricular teaching tools in both primary and secondary contexts. Users can combine animations, video, flash files, text or number based activities all within a single document.
Easiteach has been designed specifically for education and whole-class teaching, and can be used throughout schools across a wide range of sucjects. Easiteach already has a raft of key features, but as an ongoing development these are being added to and updated all the time. Keep an eye on www.easiteach.com for regular updates.

Key features

Multi-language

Easiteach Next Generation will be available for users in a wide variety of languages, with settings easily changed depending on which language you want to work with in just a few clicks. Already Easiteach next Generation has been localised for a number of languages with more to follow.

Media bank

The localised and searchable media bank within Easiteach comprises over 4,500 curriculum-based resources including over 70 videos. The media back enables users to search for and add multimedia assets to a page and is accessible by selecting the multimedia button on the Easiteach menu bar.

Multi-touch

Supports object manipulation on multi-touch devices, enabling users to enlarge and manoeuvre objects they have created with the tips of their fingers! This is ideal for encouraging pupils to interact directly with the interactive whiteboard and is perfect for use during presentations.

Record sound and video

Within Easiteach Next Generation, users are able to record sound and video directly on to a page. Using the media bank you can also capture images, record sounds and record videos using external hardware, such as microphones or digital cameras, and add them to your page and your personal media bank.

Text-to-speech capabilities

Type letters, words and sentences on to a page and listen to them being read back to you. The text-to-speech functionality within Easiteach enables text on the page to be read by one of the voices installed in your operating system. Text-to-speech can read both single words and whole blocks of text within a text box. This feature is available in a wide variety of languages.

Handwriting and Shape Recognition

Write words or draw shapes freehand and the writing and shape recognition tools within Easiteach Next Generation will recognise your markings. You can either write or draw images with your mouse on a computer screen, or use your interactive whiteboard pen, and the handwriting and shape recognition tool will transform your markings in typed copy or shaped objects with sharpened edges.

Widget bank

Access a range of mini-applications that bring you a growing bank of added extras such as, calculator, clock, periodic table, protractor, picture reveal, dice, early years sudoku, word builder cards, tangrams and more. There are currently 40+ widgets available in the bank with more to be added with each new release.

Easily-accessible toolbars

The toolbars within Easiteach Next Generation have been designed to make the functionality you want easier to find and aid cross-curricular use. These easily-accessible toolbars allow you to work quickly and efficiently in creating whole-class teaching activities to fit with your learning objectives. The most commonly used tools can be found in the main navigation bar along the bottom of your screen, with extra functionality available from within the main navigation.

Language tools

There are a wide variety of language tools built-in to Easiteach Next Generation that will help you to quickly and simply create activities for your whole class. These tools include a cloze tool (for creating missing words activities), remove punctuation tool (ideal for testing punctuation knowledge by removing all punctuation from a block of text and asking your class to put it back in the right place) and word wallet (for use alongside the cloze and remove punctuation tools).

Numeracy tools

Alongside the language tools, there is also a wide range of numeracy tools available with Easiteach Next Generation that will assist you in creating simple but effect whole class activities for use in Maths lessons. Some of the numeracy tools available include number lines, number grids and an equation builder.

Content packs

There is a range of content provided within Easiteach that has been designed within the functionality of the software and that will enable you and your pupils to successfully match objectives within key subject areas. So far, almost 1000 documents spanning many subjects have been created, covering topics including speaking and listening, number and algebra, handling data, environmental change and more. See our content page for further details.

You can also visit the RM Easilearn content portal where you will find lots more Easiteach resources.

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