Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center

by Learning Company

Product Features

• Explore, Discover, Imagine, Write, and Learn!
• Easy-to-use writing and creativity tools. Includes children's dictionary and thesaurus
• Coaches young writers through the five stages of the writing process
• Transforms documents into multimedia presentations
• Mac OS 7.0.1 - 9.2/ OS X Classic mode, Windows 95/98/Me/XP

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• ASIN: B0002667NG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 20, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,180 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Writing and creativity program that inspires andempowers young writersProduct InformationUltimate Writing & Creativity Center is a powerful writing and creativity tool designed to stimulate and support children as they learn to write. Gives young writers exciting technological tools to use in writing illustrating and presenting their ideas with clarity andimagination.  Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center combines an easy-to-use word processor with creativity tools enhanced by special educational features. Students can transform them into multimedia presentations complete with sound music and animation. Cross-curricular student activities in the Teacher's Guide help reinforce the five steps of the writing process.  Paint your own pictures or add clip art photos sound music and animation to brilliantbackgrounds such as Tropical Rain Forest Southwestern Desert Pacific Oceanand Space.  Also you are provided with interesting facts about eachbackground.  It shows this program to be for ages 6-10 but as you will see within thehighlights it is pretty involved and even adults can benefit from all that thisprogram has to offer!Create: Reports Illustrated storybooks Newsletters Journals Signs  PoemsProduct Features Easy-to-use word processor 1000 writing projects and ideas Spoken help on the writing process 900 Clipart pictures and borders 150 sound clips and 40 animations to add to your documents Paint program Spelling checker Animation Sound and music Colorful graphics Inspiring ideas Interactive characters Fonts in a variety of sizes styles and colors Easy cut copy and paste Children's dictionary and thesaurus Multiple column layouts Import text and graphicsEducational Features"Did You Know Facts" Include: What is Prewriting What is Brainstorming What should I think about before I start

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes writing fun!, December 27, 2005

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Anonymous (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center (CD-ROM)

I got this to encourage my dyslexic daughter to do more writing. She enjoys playing with it. She doesn't think of it as an "educational toy," which is good, yet I think she is getting in a lot of good writing practice. It works well (we have it on a Mac) and it has a lot of cool features, like a password-protected journal and a feature that will read back what you have written. You can even add sound effects. I'm glad we got it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center, November 15, 2009

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M. Norris - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center (CD-ROM)

This software was a big disappointment, b/c most of the writing ideas are reports of a factual nature. I had thought that the software would take my child through the steps of writing, but it didn't. Furthermore, the motivational comments are not motivational to my student, but rather annoying. I spent the money for nothing. We are not using the software.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It might be good, but needs a basic instruction booklet, January 1, 2011

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Anonymous - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center (CD-ROM)

My six year old daughter got The Learning Company's Storybook Weaver Deluxe for Christmas last year. She has had a great time using it to write stories by herself, with friends, and with family members. This year, we got the Ultimate Writing and Creativity Center program for her because we thought it was the next step up from Storybook Weaver. Maybe it is better or worse or just different, but we can't figure it out and my daughter is frustrated. She does not like it at all. To say that the program is not user friendly is an understatement. The introduction and the help menu are basically useless. It might be a great program and it might be worth twice the list price if it came with a simple two or three-page instruction booklet with the CD, but it does not. I don't know everything that the program can do but, frankly, it has not shown enough potential to make me want to invest a lot of time trying to figure it out.

I am very disappointed with the limited writing program choices available for children. I think that software manufacturers are missing out on a very lucrative market.