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Mac Software Standards

The following is a list of software that is recommended and installed on the Creativity Labs in our schools.  Links to free downloads are provided for community members who would like access to review or sample these programs.

• Celestia - Solar System Interactive
  Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
• Chess
• Comic Life 2
• Firefox Web Browser
  Available at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
• Garageband
• Google Earth
  Available at http://www.google.com/earth/
• Sketch Up 
  (Google Sketchup is now known as part of Trimble Buildings)
  Education package available at http://www.sketchup.com
• iMovie '11
• iTunes
  Available at http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Keynote
• MS Office Suite  
  (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, OneNote) - please contact your school's assigned Field Tech to have this software installed on a district owned computer.  For installation on your personal computers, please visit http://it.canyonsdistrict.org/index.php/csd-home-use  for district discount pricing. 
• Numbers
• Pages
• Photos
  
• Pixie
  Elementary schools only.  Trial version available at
  http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie
• Safari
• Scratch
  Available for download at  http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/
• SRI

The following is a list of software that is recommended and installed on teacher computers.  Although teachers are able to download and install certain programs and software packages it is recommended that school assigned EdTechs and/or Field Techs be contacted for support or questions.

• Comic Life 2
• Firefox
• Garageband
• iMovie '11
• iPhoto
• iTunes
• Keynote
• Microsoft Excel 2011
• Microsoft Outlook 2011
  
• Microsoft Powerpoint 2011
• Microsoft Word 2011
• Numbers
• Pages
• Safari
  

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