Educational Software Becomes Funny

By Author: Alexander Mozgovoy
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Endless education is available with new class of screensaver.

The screensaver from Cool Educational Software no longer does what its name says, namely saves screens. It educates! And it does so in a fun, unobtrusive way, which is appealing to kids and adults alike.

Cool Educational Software announces Cool Educational Screensaver, a new way educational software that downloads educational video lessons from the Internet server and plays them when the computer becomes idle.

The lessons are grouped to courses by subjects. As an example, the "Astronomy::The Solar System" course offers lessons about the Sun, the Earth and other eight planets.

Every day the screensaver downloads and shows a new lesson of the specified course. After all lessons from the current course are shown, you pick another one and continue.

"We see screensavers as a chance not only to individualize your Windows but also satisfy the passion of many people for self-education," says Alexander Mozgovoy, CEO of Cool Educational Software. "The latest research shows that screensavers work for about 40% of the time the computer is ...
... on. Displaying educational information via a screensaver throughout the day is 4-5 times more effective than traditional learning methods at ensuring people remember. It's what we call incidental learning and our screensaver is all about it. It shows some principle scientific and cultural information in history, geography, biology, astronomy in a casual way. If the person is constantly exposed to this information, there is no other chance but to absorb it!"

Once installed, Cool Educational Screensaver opens into Content Wizard that lets user set up the delivery and playback of educational lessons. As an example, you can change channel preferences, and select a desirable background audio. Then you update the index of lessons from the Internet and pick your first course to show. Cool Educational Software updates the database of lessons regularly - every day there are a lot of new lessons ready for download!

A lesson about Pharaohs (the "Ancient Egypt" course of Astronomy channel) was taken for this review. It presents some basic data and interesting cultural facts about Ancient Egypt, pictures and photos of the Pharaos. The information is well-organised and the educational video itself looks just fine.

If you look for something that's very different and compelling running on your computer when you're not working, then go visit www.cooleducationalsoftware.com for the educational experience that will never end. The free trial version of the screensaver offers only the first courses of each channel just to show you an idea of what to expect. Subscribed users gain an unlimited access to all courses. Subscription is available for 1, 3, 6 and 12 months.