What Is Max's Toolbox 2007?
Max's Toolbox 2007 is an early childhood interface to Microsoft® Office suitable for children in grades K through 5. The flexibility of the programs makes them suitable for teaching children of all capabilities.
The suite of three products—MaxWrite for Microsoft® Word 2007, MaxShow for Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2007, and MaxCount for Microsoft® Excel 2007—gives teachers a platform for incorporating technology across a wide range of subjects and lesson plans.
Max's Toolbox 2007 sits within the Microsoft® Office environment and uses child-friendly lessons and features to give young students productive and creative ways to learn skills they will use throughout their school years and beyond. Since all the documents created with Max's Toolbox 2007 are actually Microsoft® Office documents, they can be shared with anyone who has Microsoft® Office.
Max’s Toolbox gives children the gift of learning without boundaries. Children use these exciting programs to build new skills and use them in ever more complex ways. The fun text to speech feature lets pre-reading children join in the fun:
- Reading
- Maths
- Language
- Spelling
- Thinking
- Drawing
- Technology
Using Max’s Toolbox in the Classroom
Because it interfaces to Microsoft® Office 2007 Max’s Toolbox provides young students with technology skills they can transfer directly to professional software:
- Intuitive learning suite teaches young students skills they’ll use for life
- Suits prewriting, gifted and talented, special needs, ages K-5
- Promotes interest and fun in learning
- Empowers children to explore their own learning
- Provides a flexible teaching platform
- Easily tailored to curriculum requirements
- Teachers can switch multimedia features on and off with ease
What early childhood educators say about Max’s Toolbox
“I taught my 6-year-olds spreadsheet skills in half a day”
“Easy for children to use independently”
“Game-style visual appeal while remaining a useful tool”
“Allows students to explore their own learning in an uninhibited way”
Parents Give Their Kids the Love of Learning with Max’s Toolbox
The idea that kids learn more when they are entertained is at the heart of an exciting new suite of learning programs called Max’s Toolbox.
Developed in Australia in collaboration with early childhood educators, Max’s Toolbox is the world’s only junior version of popular software Microsoft® Office. It’s already being used in primary and nursery schools around Australia, the UK and United States and has only recently become available for home use.
This extraordinary new children’s educational software package “grows up” with each child so it’s never out of date.
Like training wheels for grown-up software, Max’s Toolbox teaches all about word processing (MaxWrite), electronic presentations complete with sound and pictures (MaxShow) and spreadsheets (MaxCount), including charts and counting. To use the programs, make sure you have Microsoft Office already installed on your computer.
Computers have become part of our children’s everyday lives and though these lively programs are colourful and fun to use, ultimately they are teaching children skills they’ll use right through school and in their future careers.
Children love Max’s Toolbox because it doesn’t confine them to pre-programmed activities like a lot of computer games do. They can use the MaxPaint to create artwork, listen to Peedy the Talking Bird read their stories, or insert their own sounds and pictures. The complexity increases as the child’s skill in using the programs increases.
Parents love Max’s Toolbox because it’s not a game that children use for a couple of weeks then throw under the bed.
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Download a free trial version of Max's Toolbox 2007 now. The 45-day trial includes full functionality and content.