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Activstudio is a software application designed specifically for teachers and presenters who use an Activboard Interactive Whiteboard, Promethean's interactive whiteboard. Activstudio and the derivative product Activprimary were designed and implemented by (Nigel Pearce ) together with a software development team at Promethean (Blackburn, England). ==History== *Promethean released its first commercially available interactive whiteboard application 'PandA' (an acronym for ‘Presentations and Annotations’) in March 1997. PandA (also designed by Pearce) was based loosely upon the Windows multimedia authoring software Creator. *During 2000, PandA was renamed Activstudio. *The first version of Activstudio was released in the UK in February 2001. This version replaced and expanded upon the features of PandA. *Activstudio v2 was released in March 2004. *Activstudio v2.5 was released in February 2006. *The derivative application Activprimary (similar in functionality to Activstudio but offering an interface aimed towards the younger learner) was released for the primary education sector in January 2004. *Activprimary won the (Worlddidac ) award for Software Innovation in 2004 and again in 2006.〔WorldDidac, http://www.worlddidac.org/〕〔Promethean Awards,http://www.prometheanworld.com/server.php?show=nav.21199〕 *Activprimary 2 won Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity at The Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 23rd Annual CODIE awards in 2006 〔〔SIIA / CODIE, 2006, http://www.siia.net/〕 *Version 3 of Activstudio and Activprimary were released in January 2007. *A number of prototype, simultaneous, (multi-input whiteboard techniques ) were developed in June 2006. These ideas were first exhibited at the NECC, Atlanta, in July 2007 and many were included under the product name 'Activarena' within Activstudio and Activprimary versions 3.5 (released Sept 2007). New features included shared concept mapping and dual flipcharting. *Version 3.6 of Activstudio and Activprimary were released in December 2007. *Activprimary 3.6 won the (Worlddidac ) award for Software Innovation for the third time in 2008.〔〔 *Version 3.7 of Activstudio and Activprimary for Windows were released in August 2008. *Promethean Learning and Activstudio 3 were both finalists for Best Professional Development Solution and Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity at The Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 23rd Annual CODIE awards in 2008 〔〔SIIA / CODIE, 2008, http://www.siia.net/〕 *(ActivInspire ), the successor to (and the redesign of) Activstudio, was released in March 2009. ActivInspire contains most of the functionality found within ActivStudio and ActivPrimary, including both user interfaces in one product. It also adds support for the ActivExpression learner response system and the ActivArena Dual User mode. ActivInspire runs on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Activstudio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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