SpexWorld! - Presentation

SpexWorld! School is a fun and rewarding way to grasp basic maths, d&t and ict concepts in a practical setting by planning and designing rooms in a school.

Curriculum	Mathematics	SpexWorld! School has a budget facility and a simple spreadsheet and graphs to help pupils learn about budgeting, handling and managing money. Pupils also become familiar with shapes, space and dimensions, proportion and symmetry as they design and furnish different shaped rooms. Great introduction to Spreadsheet modelling.
	Design & Technology	Design a school floor plan, choose the shape and size of the classrooms and add furniture. With SpexWorld! School the pupil becomes a designer, making predictions, decisions and plans, and exploring the possibilities of the design. It is in 3D so they can take a virtual walk around the school to see for themselves how it looks
	ICT Graphical Modelling	Ideal for Graphical Modelling; drag items into the plan, select, move, copy, paste and rotate to see how the different ‘graphical elements’ fit together.
Age	6 to 99 yrs!	For all ages but designed for primary school use and lower secondary school.
Ease of use	Intuitive and simple.	SpexWorld! School is powerful but very easy to use and any school who uses Spex+ or SpexV2 will find the program particularly easy to integrate into their curriculum.

How does it work?

1. Choose from a selection of classrooms and set the sizes, or design your own floor plan.

There are different classroom shapes

to choose from.

After a classroom shape is selected

you can alter the sizes

Or use the classroom room planner to design a school floor plan with classrooms of different shapes and sizes.

2. Choose items of furniture and drag these in to your floor plan.

Items of furniture are dragged

into the classroom, rotated and

moved into place.

There are lots of different views,

here is a 3D view of the room.

The whole school can be rotated to see different views, here is a view of two classrooms and a corridor.

3. Display the content of the design as a bar graph, pie chart, pictogram or spreadsheet.

A bar graph showing items

in the classroom

A pie chart showing

items in the classroom.

This simple spreadsheet display is a great introduction to spreadsheet modelling.

Other stuff!

4. Here is a brief summary of some of things SpexWorld! School will do for you:

Display

Display the plan view, 3D view and side views.

Display all the views in either perspective or orthographic modes.

Zoom in close or zoom out.

Rotate the room(s) clockwise or anticlockwise.

Go inside of the room and walk around it using the arrow keys.

Show or don't show internal walls.

Show or don't show external walls. (the walls at the back of the view will always show)

Display the design with day or night lighting.

Furniture

Drag items of furniture in to the room(s).

Rotate and move individual items of furniture.

Cut/Copy/Paste items of furniture in the room.

Open the doors with the mouse to walk into the next room.

Right click mouse over an item of furniture to investigate close-up.

    Dimensions
     Decide the dimensions of the room(s)
     Show dimension between items, and item to wall.
     Change units of measurement, including metric and imperial measurements.

    Prices

Change the prices of the items.

Use different currencies and exchange rates.

Set a budget.
Display the budget, amount spent and amount of last item.

Display the furniture in a spreadsheet showing individual prices and totals. (export CSV)

Display the furniture on a simple bar graph, pie chart or pictogram.

Choose to exclude doors, windows and people from the spreadsheet.

Export

Export whole room(s) as a bitmap image.

Export selected item as a bitmap image.

Export spreadsheet as a CSV file. (will load into excel etc)

SpexWorlds 'Versus' Spex+

What is the difference between SpexWorlds and SpexClassic ? click here for more information.