FOCUS ON MINI AND MICRO COMPUTERS

Which software? Educational Software is an Open University training pack for teachers. It discusses software design and helps them to pick the best buy for their classrooms from the many commercial packs available. It is available for the Apple II and RML 380Z machines, and is for teachers experienced enough to connect up a microcomputer and run a fairly complex program, or for those who have completed the OU Awareness pack that launched the Open University's Micro in Schools Project in 1982. This is the second pack in the Project series, funded by the government's Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP). Versions of the pack are planned, for later in the year, for the RML 480Z, Sinclair Spectrum, and BBC Model B. Designed for use by individual teachers, by groups or by teachers in traditional in‐service training, the pack requires some 40–50 hours' study, is suitable for both secondary and primary school use, and requires no knowledge of programming. It includes a study book, activities book and course reader, disks with programs specific to the pack and the three CAL packages. There is also an audio cassette and optional video.