Are you a Smart Notebook user? Would you like to share your Notebook resources with individuals who don’t have Notebook?

I’ve been waiting for this for some time, and the bods at Smarttech have finally done it! With the release of ‘Notebook Interactive Viewer’ you can now share the content and lessons you create with your Notebook software.

The viewer will allow you to exchange files with individuals who don’t have the full version of Notebook. This is great for students, now they can access learning resources used in lessons from home without the need for the full version of Notebook which is quite a weighty download.

You can also view your Notebook created content on a any brand of interactive whiteboard.

There is an open license so it can be installed on every computer in a school and on student home computers.

The Smart Notebook Interactive Viewer is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms from the link below.

Download Smart Notebook Interactive Viewer

Looking for free or open source software for your Mac? Then look no further, the fantastic site The Free Mac Classroom outlines some of the best free software for the Mac.

There are some titles that I use already, although I think I’ll be using much more in the future!

http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/iWeb/simon_elliott@mac.com/Software.html

There are some titles that I use already, although I think I’ll be using much more in the future!

I’ve been looking for a while now for an information manager for my Mac -Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. Journler is a simple, intuitive program. Type your thoughts and attach pictures and songs using the iLife integration.

This is what the makers of Journler have to say about it:

‘Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. The goal is to create a space in which you chronicle, organize, find and connect the thoughts, experiences and media most important to you. Ultimately Journler hopes to provide access to that recorded information from as many perspectives as possible.’

Journler is potentially one of those ‘Killer Apps’ for teachers and students to connect the written word with a range of media they use in their daily lives. All of these currently exist in seperate areas of my Mac – now I can access them from one place. I’ll be trialling Journler over the remainder of this term and hope to report back later in the summer.