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

Education Technology Standards