Timeliner XE, student presentation program: Tom Snyder Productions.

Timeliner XE, student presentation program: Tom Snyder Productions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOM SNYDER PRODUCTIONS Timeliner XE, Student Presentation Program Software, $99 for one computer, up to $2,600 for an unlimited sitelicense Tom Snyder Productions' updated version of its Timelinerprogram was developed with Adobe AIR technology and is an all-in-onetool designed to help K12 students conduct online research, visuallyorganize information in timelines, and communicate their learning inrich multimedia presentations. The "timeline" format forstudent presentations using this software emphasizes skills such asproblem solving, critical thinking and communication. Such timelines canbe used in social studies to illustrate history, science to demonstratecycles and processes, or language arts to explore story arcs and plotsequences, for example. Unique features in XE include an integrated,seamless Web browser to enable online research without exiting theprogram, intuitive formatting tools, and a library of more than 1,000media files and free articles from Grolier Online. www.tomsnyder.com Kurt O. Dyrli is products editor(kdyrli@districtadministration.com)