tabs is one of the longest established educational software products
ever developed.
tabs was first developed for the Acorn computer and was rapidly
converted to PC as a matter of survival in the 1990's when the schools
switched to using the PC. The development to put tabs on the PC was
timely, for its release coincided with a contract to supply the software
to 7000 schools in the UK!
tabs development on the PC was first instigated by the persistent
lobbying of a North American company,
The
KnowledgeTree inc, which was very enthusiastic about the software
and champing at the bit to see American children get the benefits of
using tabs on their school computers.
The KnowledgeTree soon put its money where its mouth was and started
winning orders for tabs in Canada and in America. Before long tabs was
being used successfully in thousands of schools on the American
continent and some large educational orders ensued. The biggest
contracts were to make tabs available to 5400 schools in the Province of
Ontario and 2200 in the State of Sao Paulo!
tabs is found in other hot spots around America, and
we are really pleased to see tabs being used in over 300 schools in New
York!
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tabs is popular in lots of different kinds of schools, primary,
secondary and special needs too; it seems that some youngsters who have
difficulty in some learning areas can adapt to the relative complexity
of 3D modelling with more ease than most.
The attraction of tabs for the home user is found in its ability to
display the unfolded shapes on the screen, as nets, and to print these
out with tabs on, so that you can make a real model; hence the name of
the software! Many a colourful tissue box, just the twinkle of an idea
on the computer the night before, has been presented to Mum on Mothers
day!
Development has continued and the current range of tabs software, called
aspexTabs and aspexTabsMST, is still finding new enthusiasts both at
school and at home.
In the early days tabs enabled the user to draw 3D shapes and print
out their nets, but now, in aspexTabsMST you can create a whole variety
of geometric shapes, colour them, put images on the faces, view
different projections in the 1st and 3rd angle and of course still print
the nets to make a real world model of your design. |
