• The 53rd Street Writer by The Daedalus Group is designed specifically for use in freshman writing courses. It is a fully-functioning word processor with an extensive on-line handbook and documentation capabilities. Students can use the split-screen option to work on two documents at the same time, or they can draft from a pre-writing exercise or an outline.
• The macGIS 2.0 by Hulse/Larsen of the University of Oregon is an academic version of a geographic information system built on the map processing language developed by Dana Tomlin for MAP (Map Analysis Package). A graphical user interface is used with text-based map manipulation and cartographic modeling. This version is designed expressly as a teaching/ research tool, which supports color maps and multiple map windows on screen and has enhanced analytic capabilities. This software can supplement any course in GIS, regional planning, urban geography, remote sensing, cartography, and spatial analysis.
• Macrosim and Macro-Study/Micro-Study Tutorials by Byrns and Stone are used in principles of economics classes. Macrosim is a macroeconomic simulation that students use for macroeconomic policymaking. Students manipulate key policy instruments such as tax rates, government spending, and the money supply in an attempt to manage the U. S. economy according to different economic scenarios (recession, inflation, stagflation, and others). Macro-Study/Micro-Study Tutorials are interactive software applications depicting every concept and key graph in the texts they support. With Macro-Study, students can review graphical analysis, production possibilities, demand and supply, unemployment and inflation, classical vs. Keynesian theory, and other topics.
