Media Trek

Age Range: 9-12 yrs
Platforms: Mac and Windows
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: $399 (All 10 themes for $698 )

Company: Demco Media
Phone: 800-448-8939
Email: mediatrek@demcomedia.com

Description:

Media Trek is an in-class, book-and-computer-based program that moves beyond literal comprehension, giving the teacher an instructional tool that is also a powerful evaluative system. A multimedia reading tool, Media Trek includes colorful graphics and animation, video and voice narration. Some features are:

• Model lessons for 10 thematic literary units
• Enrichment activities that support developmental reading stages
• Feedback relevant to story content
• Detailed printouts for teachers and parents
• Adaptable to individual reading groups

The literary categories, with 10 books in each category, are:

Kit One

• Voices from the Past (Folklore)
• Slices of Life (Interpersonal Relationships)
• Fantastic Journeys (All About Fantasy)
• The World in Our Hands (Fiction Focused on Ecology)
• Investigating the Mysterious (Mystery Fiction)

Kit Two

• Celebrating Laughter (Humor)
• In the Face of Change (Inner Conflict in Realistic Fiction)
• Facing the Challenge (Conflicts with Nature)
• Capturing the Human Spirit (Overcoming Obstacles)
• Stories from Another Time (Historical Fiction)

Media Trek comes with all the materials teachers need to conduct a full lesson plan centered around literature based reading. Each 5 theme kit includes:

• Media Trek CD-ROM Program Disk
• Fully functioning program including a comprehensive reporting facility on student results and all of the Story Treks for 5 complete themes (50 books).
• Media Trek Slideshow/Tutorial Program
• A tutorial program on the CD-ROM disk that will make it easy for teachers to learn the Media Trek program along with the students.
• Media Trek Program Guide
• Media Trek Teacher's Guide & Lesson Plans
• 5 Turtleback Books®, one for each theme
• 5 Media Trek Book Collector's Cards per book (250 in all)
• Comprehensive instructions

A free, fully-functional Media Trek Preview Kit & CD-ROM is available by phone or email today.

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Riverdale, Maryland 20738
hjbender@epicent.com