science software for the home and school (1995)
visitors this year: 22 What’s the good software for learning and why it’s worth having – by Roger Frost, TES 1995. There was a time when the best thing to do with software catalogues...
visitors this year: 22 What’s the good software for learning and why it’s worth having – by Roger Frost, TES 1995. There was a time when the best thing to do with software catalogues...
visitors this year: 97 Update – Coach 7 was available in 2018. In 2008 I wrote: Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models...
visitors this year: 71 Here is some excellent software that can collect and analyse data and it now works with a huge number of different brands. Called Insight and known to thousands of science...
visitors this year: 102 How much of the software used on computers in the 1990s is still being used on them today? One favourite, called Datalogging Insight, lives on today (2016) Insight is a...
visitors this year: 138 Q. What is SID? A. It’s a standard file format that every data logging manufacturer is encouraged to support. The results of data logging experiments can be better shared in...
handling data from experiments / schools technology
by Roger · Published Oct 2018 · Last modified Jun 2021
visitors this year: 233 The sensors and equipment you buy for school requires software made for it. There IS a generic program, called Insight (below). which works with lots of different manufacturer’s kit. It...
visitors this year: 61 Real results are often messy, but these all offer good material for discussion. This is the page from which you can download the results of other people’s experiments using sensors....
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