The screensaver from Cool Educational Software no longer does what its name says, namely saves screens. It educates! And it does so in a really unusual way, which is appealing to everyone.




Cool Educational Software released its first product, Cool Educational Screensaver, a new way educational software that downloads educational video lessons from the Internet server and plays them when the PC becomes idle.



All the lessons are grouped to courses by subjects. As an example, the "History::Ancient Egypt" course contains lessons "Pharaohs", "Mythology of Ancient Egypt" and so on.



Every day on the first launch Cool Educational Screensaver downloads the next lesson of the specified course and shows it during the day. After all lessons from the current course are shown, user chooses another one and continue.



"We see screensavers as an opportunity not only to individualize computers 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 you constantly exposed to this information, there is no other chance but to absorb it!"



Cool Educational Screensaver has a special mode - Content Wizard, which opens upon installation and lets you set up the delivery and playback of educational videos. You can, for example, change channel preferences, and select a desirable background audio. Then you update the index of lessons from the Internet and choose the subject to learn. Cool Educational Software updates the lesson database regularly - a pack o new lessons is ready every day!



A lesson about Pharaohs (the "Ancient Egypt" course of Astronomy channel) was provided 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 need a nice piece of software that's very different and compelling running on your PC when you're not working, then go visit www.cooleducationalsoftware.com for the educational experience that will never end. The free trial version of Cool Educational Screensaver offers only the first courses of each channel just to show you an idea of this software. Subscribed users gain an unlimited access to all courses. Subscription is available for 1, 3, 6 and 12 months.