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In a nutshell, Spex is a children's educational
software used by youngsters to design rooms
in the home, classrooms in a school and other places. They drag items of
pre-made furniture into a room, arrange the layout and colour scheme and view it in the bird's eye,
plan view or in 3D;
budgets, graphs and a spreadsheet are included in the software.
You can find free downloads on most pages on this
site so you can try our software for yourself.
Buyers of Spex shouldn't expect to see an all singing all dancing
software program with flashing lights and shoot'em'up. One of the main
reasons for the popularity of Spex has been its simple and modest style,
which means that a teacher can put Spex in front of a whole class of
pupils and they all just know how to use it! It is a great learning
software!
Spex is also very flexible with no predetermined outcomes which means
children use their imagination and initiative to make their own
decisions and produce their own individual result. This has been one of
the many benefits of the software in schools. Teachers love Spex and the
children love Spex too!
Spex, often referred to as Spex+ or Spex Plus was first published for Acorn Computers, popular until around the
mid 1990's, when the share of Acorn computers in schools started to
diminish in favour of PC's which had become the mainstream in business.
The conversion of Spex to work on the PC secured the continuity of
its use in schools which were in the process of rapidly expanding the
provision of IT in the classroom.
Spex found its usefulness in several curriculum areas in education,
including Design Technology, ICT and Mathematics, all under the guise of
a room designer.
We try not to market it as just a room designer though, rather, the
room 'interior design' aspect of Spex is a cover story to get children to grapple
with design, spatial awareness, money, budgets and dimensions, mapping
and much more.
Spex thrives in both primary and secondary education.
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Quite early in its development Spex was recognised by
the ICT agency as the ideal bridge into the abstract area of spreadsheet
modeling! And all this learning is happening while children are just
having fun designing their favourite bedroom and lots of other places.
In 2009 there are now thousands of educational software
titles in the market, but Spex still prospers! Marketing nowadays is a
different story however, and much harder, the larger companies have
raised the game in terms of quality and quantity of sales material and
schools are bombarded with a spectacular array of new and fantastic
educational software to choose from.
Spex seems to be benefitting from its long term popularity because most
of the sales are made by word of mouth, and the number of schools who
have installed the software mean that Spex is one of the most popular
children's educational software programs ever made.
Teachers, parents and children buy Spex because they like it; Teachers
like Spex because of the benefits it provides in the classroom combined
with the short learning curve to get to grips with the new software, and
parents and children buy the software because they love it, it's simple,
absorbing and so much fun!
At
aspex we receive lots of enquiries from parents wishing to buy the 'Spex
game' that their child uses at school. Spex is an education software and
it's great fun! Since its
first launch Spex has been released under the following names: Spex,
Spex Plus, Spex+, Spex+ V2 and now SpexClassic. Why not try Spex out for
yourself, the free software downloads on this page are available for
schools and home users to download and trial.
Downloaded software will run for sessions of about fifteen
minutes. Spex is just one of the many educational software downloads on
this website, click downloads to find
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