The Encyclopedia Britannica 2009 (established in 1768), both in its Ultimate (now also called "Student and Home") and Deluxe versions, builds on the success of its completely revamped previous editions in 2006-8. The rate of innovation in the last three versions was impressive and welcome. It continues apace in this rendition with Britannica Biographies (Great Minds and Leaders), Classical Music (500 audio files arranged by composer), and a great Workspace for Project Management (a kind of friendly digital den). Generous 6-12 months of free access to the myriad riches of the Britannica Online complete the package.

The Britannica comes bundled with an atlas (close to 1800 maps linked to articles and 287 World Data Profiles of individual countries and territories); the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, augmented by a Spanish-English translation dictionary; classic articles from previous editions; eleven yearbooks; an Interactive Timeline with 4000+ indexed timeline entries; a Research Organizer; and a Knowledge Navigator (called The Brain or BrainStormer). All told, it offers a directory of more than 166,000 reviewed and vetted links to online content.

In its new form, the Britannica is as user-friendly as the Encarta. With a new A to Z Quick Search feature, monthly updates and the aforementioned 6-12 months of free access to its impressive powerhouse online Web site, it is bound to give the former tough competition.

The Britannica's newest interface is even more intuitive and uncluttered than previously and is great fun to use. It offers morsels of knowledge, some of it date-specific, appetizingly presented through a ticker tape of visuals that leisurely scrolls across the bottom of the screen plus highly edifying interactive tours of articles and attendant media.

When you enter even the first few letters of a term in the search box, it offers various options and is persistent: no need to click on the toolbar's "search" button every time you want to find something in this vast storehouse of knowledge. Moreover, the user can save search results onto handy "Virtual Notecards". Whole articles can be copied onto the seemingly inexhaustible Workspace.

The new Britannica's display is tab-based, avoiding the erstwhile confusing proliferation of windows with every move. Most importantly, articles appear in full, not in sections. This major improvement facilitates the finding of relevant keywords in and the printing of entire texts. These are only a few of the numerous alterations and enhancements.

Perhaps the most refreshing change is the Britannica's Update Center. Dozens of monthly updates and new, timely articles are made available online (subject to free registration). A special button alerts the user when an entry in the base product has been updated.

Regrettably, unlike in the Encarta, the updates cannot be downloaded to the user's computer or otherwise incorporated into the vast encyclopedia. Moreover, the product does not alert its user to the existence of completely new articles, only to updated ones. It takes a manual scan of the monthly lists to reveal newly added content.

Speaking of updates, one must not forget to dwell on the Britannica's unequalled yearbooks. Each annual volume contains the year in events, scientific developments, and everything you wanted to know about the latest in any and every conceivable field of human endeavor or nature. About 10,500 articles culled from the last 11 editions buttress and update the Encyclopedia's anyhow impressive offerings.

The Britannica provides considerably more text than any other extant encyclopedia, print or digital. But it has noticeably enhanced its non-textual content over the years (the 1994-7 editions had nothing or very little but words, words, and more words): it now boasts in excess of 22-30,000 images and illustrations (depending on the version) and 900 video and audio clips. This is not to mention the Britannica Classics: articles from Britannica's most famous contributors-from Sigmund Freud to Harry Houdini, Marie Curie to Orville Wright.

The Britannica fully supports serious research. It is a sober assemblage of first-rate essays, up to date bibliographies, and relevant multimedia. It is a desktop university library: thorough, well-researched, comprehensive, trustworthy.

The Britannica's 84-103,000 articles (depending on the version) are long and thorough, supported by impressive bibliographies, and written by the best scholars in their respective fields. The company's Editorial Board of Advisors reads like the who's who of the global intellectual and scientific community.

The Britannica is an embarrassment of riches. Users often find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. This is why the Britannica incorporated the BrainStormer to cope with this predicament. But an informal poll I conducted online shows that few know how to deploy it effectively.

The Britannica also sports Student and Elementary versions of its venerable flagship product, replete with a Homework Helpdesk and interactive tutorials, but it is far better geared to tackle the information needs of adults and, even more so, professionals. It provides unequalled coverage of its topics. Ironically, this is precisely why the market positioning of the Britannica's Elementary and Student Encyclopedias is problematic: with Wikipedia and even the Encarta around, the Britannica's brand is distinctly adult and scholarly.

Still, the 2009 editions of both the Student and Elementary encyclopedias improve on the past in terms of both coverage and facilities: the Homework Helpdesk is a collection of useful homework resources including a video subject browse, online learning games and activities, online subject spotlights, and how-to documents on topics such as writing a book review. There are also Learning Games and Activities: hundreds of fun and interactive games and activities to help students with subjects like Math, Science, and Social Studies.

The current edition is fully integrated with the Internet. Apart from the updates, it offers additional and timely content and revisions on a dedicated Web site. The digital product includes a staggering number of links (165,808!) to third party content and articles on the Web. The GeoAnalyzer, which compares national statistical data and generates charts and graphs, is now Web-based and greatly enhanced.

The Britannica would do well to offer a browser add-on search bar and to integrate with desktop search tools from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others. Currently it offers search results through Google but this requires the user to install add-ons or plug-ins and to go through a convoluted rite of passage. A seamless experience is in the cards. Users must and will be able to ferret content from all over - their desktop, their encyclopedias, and the Web - using a single, intuitive interface.

Some minor gripes:

The atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus incorporated in the Britannica are still surprisingly outdated. Why not use a more current - and dynamically updated - offering? What about dictionaries for specialty terms (medical or computer glossaries, for instance)?

Despite considerable improvement over the previous edition, the Britannica still consumes (not to say hogs) computer resource far in excess of the official specifications. This makes it less suitable for installation on older PCs and on many laptops. If you own a machine with anything earlier than Pentium 3 and less than 4 Gb of really free space - forget it!

The Britannica uses a new graphic and text renderer. On some systems, the user needs to modify his or her desktop settings to get rid of jagged fonts and blurry photos. The software also seriously conflicts with security applications (especially anti-virus and firewall products). This edition, though, is finally compatible with the latest QuickTime.

Learning and increasing vocabulary is an important part of education and K-12 education in particular. Children tend to learn many words from hearing them spoken around them, and learn further words from general reading, but manyteachers also believe it helps for children to be specifically taught to learn useful words and their definitions.   One idea that can help make this a fun and exciting idea for students is introducing vocabulary games, and one game in particular that can be played for this purpose is vocabulary bingo.

The way that vocabulary bingo is played is:

1. Each student is given a bingo card (also known as "bingo board" or "bingo worksheet") containing a grid of squares. Each square in the grid is printed with a different word.

2. The teacher, playing the part of bingo caller, reads out the definition for a word. The students then attempt to find the matching square on their bingo card, and if they find it, cover that square with a counter.

3. The process of teacher reading out definitions, and the students trying to find matches continues until one student achieves a winning pattern (for example a line of five countered covered squares - although the definition of a winning pattern can be varied) and calls out "Bingo!"

Vocabulary bingo is not only a lot of fun, but really can help students learn new words. What's more, the same idea can be adapted to other educational purposes, for example, teaching parts of speech (example bingo call: "a verb beginning with P"), math or even foreign language words. All that is needed is a set of bingo cards containing the particular items that the teacher chooses for the particular lesson - and these can very easily be printed using a PC and some bingo card maker software.

Before going further lets just get our terms straight. The following are from the Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:

Conformation: The proportional shape or contour of an animal.

Breed: A group of animals related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characteristics.

To often both PHD's and horse lovers do not use the above words correctly when describing a group of horses. This is especially true of the Spanish Mustang of North America. Most breeders talk of the conformation of the horse as showing breed but it is the breed traits of the horse that defines it breed; that is the unusual characteristics which clearly show the similarity of a group of horses falling into that breed. Conformation outlines the contour or shape of the horses that shows wether a horse is sound or not and can be used to judge many different breeds of horses for the same conformation traits.

As a Spanish Mustang owner I know every time I tell someone about my horses they saya€..I love those mustangs I saw on the Discovery Channela€ , they think those are my horses because I used the word mustang. But, Mustang is not a breed type it is a corruption of the Spanish word mesteno which means lost or unowned. So what is a Spanish Mustang?

The Spanish horse was brought to America by Columbus, to the Carribean Islands, and by the Conquistadors to Mexico, Southern North America and South America. These were the first horses brought to America. As they populated the Southwest and Mexico some were lost or stolen by the Indians and became unowned. The Americas, especially the open plains of the west were the perfect breeding ground for the horse and they prospered. Their characteristics were small stature (not more than 13.2-14.2 hands high), smooth muscling, low set tail, convex face (from poll of the head to the tip of their nose), deep base of the neck, sparse hair on the fetlocks, Chestnuts are small and flat and smooth and sometimes on the hindlegs they are not present. When standing the front legs are slightly under the horse as if they are leaning forward, and the hindlegs will be up under the horse a little; that way the horse is ready to move and go at an instant. Higher at the withers than at the hindquarters. Spanish Mustangs are agile and surefooted and smooth gaited. Their action is fairly high. These characteristics defined their breed as Spanish and were recognizable by any knowledgeable horse man of the period. For the entire time they ruled the west the were not tainted by any other breed of horses. They were the horse of the Indian, cowboy, conquistador and traveler of the west.

In the 1870's there was estimated to be around two million Spanish Mustangs in the West. As America moved into the late 1800's and the cattleman and the farmer began fencing the West the Spanish Mustangs began being slaughtered, like the buffalo, to stop their competition for grass. J. Frank Dobie in his book a€œThe Mustangsa€, written in 1934 says a€œWell, the wild ones - the coyote duns, the blues, the blue roans, the snip-nosed pintos, the flea-bitten greys and the black-skinned whites, the shining blacks and the rusty browns, the red roans, the tossed sorrels and the stockinged bays, the splotched appaloosas and the cream colored palaminos, and all the others in shadings and colors as various as the hues that show and fade on the clouds at sunset - they are all gone now, gone as completely as the grass they vivified.a€

Dobie did not know about Gilbert Jones, Bob Brislawn, Monty Holbrook who also lived in the late 1800's. These men saw the Spanish Mustangs and realized that they were a dying breed. They started to save them and breed them. It is from this group of horses that the Spanish Mustangs of today have survived.

The wild Mustangs of today are not the survivors from the Spanish Mustang herds but mostly mixed breeds of horses that have been lost by ranchers through the 1900's and horses abandon by horse owners who no longer could care for their horses. Since the West is the land of the horse they have prospered and make up the herds of feral horses that populate the BLM lands and exist at other sanctuaries. You will not see all the colors that were described above in the quote from J. Frank Dobie and you will not find all the breed characteristics mentioned above that define a Spanish Mustang breed type. There are only a little more than 1,800 Spanish Mustangs in the United States presently, it is this breed of horses that needs to be saved and preserved as part of our American Western History.

I know there are many people who want to disagree with this but I have found that they do not use facts or historical records to back up their claim. The Spanish Conquistadors keep excellent records during their period of conquest. Their is no disputing which horses were in Western North America during the 1500's to the 1800's. There are many documented accounts of the Mustangers and the Spanish Horses they destroyed. The drawing of Will James and the paintings of Remington to name a few show accurate visual documentation of the breed type. I myself have found photos of the Northern Plains Indian (now some 200 years ago) with horses that look identical to my own.

The flooding of Spanish-speaking immigrants to the U.S. has resulted in the USA harboring a Spanish speaking population of over 34 million people aged 5 or above according to a 2007 survey conducted by the American Community Survey of United States Census Bureau. The Spanish speaking population is concentrated especially in the U.S. states bordering Mexico namely California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. There are also 45 million Hispanics who speak Spanish and there are 6 million Spanish students. With 21 Spanish speaking countries in the world, in another 20 or 30 years the Spanish language might be elevated to second position globally just behind English. In fact, according to Business Week magazine, international students who have enrolled for MBA in the best international universities are beginning to choose and learn French, and Spanish, other than English which most of the time is already their spoken language or is learnt. This would give a clear picture of the scope and estimated usage of the Spanish language in business communication as well as other forms of communication in the times to come. The growing population of the Spanish language speakers is a fitting testimony to the future estimates.

Why and how to learn Spanish in Guatemala?

While some of those who wish to study Spanish might look around and find schools near where they reside or work within the US, for the best results, some opt to move to neighboring countries like Guatemala which offers some of the best living conditions that would help understand and learn the language better. Students who are intent on learning Spanish in Guatemala can opt to stay alone in apartments or else chose to stay with families who would permit a paid accommodation.

One advantage of the set up is that the student gets to get a firsthand experience of being in a Spanish surrounding, enjoying the Spanish food, listening and learning Spanish for the best part of the day without having to abide by any time restrictions and also have the chance to imbibe the Spanish culture without having to pay for the culturing. Individuals who would opt to live on their own can consider renting a house, apartment or even a hotel.

The Spanish language classes offered in Guatemala conduct sessions on weekly basis which can be complemented if the students were staying with a Guatemalan family. The best Spanish language schools in Guatemala maintain a one student-one tutor ratio, thereby providing the best chance at individualized personal attention and instructional support a student could ask for.

Designed as per student demands

The Spanish language classes are designed to offer a multilevel approach to cater to students of all levels, who would consider them-selves to be beginners, intermediate and for those looking for advanced and specialized courses. There is the additional advantage of enrolling for the Spanish language course any time during the year which facility not many Spanish language schools or universities in the United States would offer.

As Guatemalan language schools are getting popular in the US among all those who are on the lookout for the best Spanish language schools, it would be ideal to make an advance reservation so that you could find the best available learning options as well as accommodation to make your stay in Guatemala a memorable experience.

As the classes are so designed to allow each student to learn at his/her own pace to avoid the pressures of having to complete a course within a certain amount of time, the whole learning experience can be punctuated with trips to enjoy the natural landscape of Guatemala has to offer. As the courses are designed to suit the affordability options, the course fees range from .00 to 0 per week which would include 4 to 7 hours of daily instruction.

Students who opt to be accommodated with friendly and hospitable Guatemalan families should bear the additional cost of being accommodated in a private room and also for meals that would be provided, which of course is optional. As the Spanish language schools are spread all around Guatemala the rich diversity of Guatemala allows each student to pick and choose where he or she wants to reside and learn thereby exposing one to various cultural and geographical backgrounds that Guatemala has to offer. Temporary visas are generally offer for a month to 90 days, depending upon which country the individual is traveling from.

If you're thinking about learning conversational Spanish, good for you! That's terrific! You should be happy that you've made the commitment to learn a foreign language - and though it won't be extremely easy, it isn't the hardest language to learn and there are many reasons supporting your decision to learn to speak conversational Spanish.

Useful Language? You Bet!

Given you want to learn a language, you might as well learn one that will be very useful. If you were planning to move to the Congo, learning Afrikaans would make sense. If you were going on a trip to Iceland, learning Icelandic might be smart. But some languages are useful in many more places than one. Spanish happens to be one of them. (So is English, so you're already ahead there!)

Used All Over the Place!

Learning conversational Spanish is a smart thing to do because there are so many people in the world who speak Spanish. Not only do people from Spain speak it, but also those from Mexico, Latin America, and South America.

If you ever travel to a Spanish-speaking country, you'll be grateful that you've learned conversational Spanish. You'll have an easier time of getting around the country as you travel, and can go to the places the locals go rather than just the touristy places.

If you never travel to a Spanish-speaking country, you'll still be grateful for your language of Spanish! Our country now has a lot of Spanish-speakers living in it. If you learn conversational Spanish you can communicate with any of them.

Also, being able to speak the language of so many people means there are more people you can converse with and get to know. A lot of the nice people out there you will now have access to meeting!

Job Opportunities Galore!

If you are ever job hunting, it is a big boon if you can claim to be bilingual. Learning conversational Spanish will give you what it takes to achieve a fluency that will make you welcome in many fields - customer service, of course, but also other jobs.

Be aware, too, that in many jobs you will get a bonus if you can speak more than one language. Wouldn't you like to be paid more for having learned conversational Spanish? You can!

What about the Future?

Once you know Spanish, you have knowledge you can pass on to others. You can teach your children, grandchildren, friends, husband/wife, boyfriend . . . anyone you know who wants to learn a few useful phrases or more.

If you are in urgent need of a helping hand with learning Spanish Verb Conjugation do not be too concerned, you are certainly not alone. Almost every student of Spanish requires assistance at one time or another, the difficulty is choosing which form that help will take!

The obvious choice for many people are self help books, one of the most popular at this time has the same title as this post funnily enough - 'Spanish Verbs for Dummies'. All self help books aim to do pretty much the same thing, their teachings may differ slightly but they all try to make your transition from Spanish novice to verb master as comfortable as possible.

The problem is that many of these books fail to deal with an individual's specific problem in most cases and are far to generalized, focusing on the most common and generic problem areas that most students have issues with.

The truth is that all students will never always have the same problem, a verb that one person doesn't have any trouble with may be the same verb that absolutely infuriates someone else and the same applies to different tenses and moods and this is why self help verb books often fall short.

Individuals, are just that, they are all different and will therefore struggle with different verbs and it is therefore logical to presume that books, although there are some that are really good, are too inflexible for an individual's needs.

The only method of learning irregular Spanish verbs and verbs in general that offers the flexibility that: 1. enables the student to concentrate his or her studies on their individual problem areas, and 2. increase the speed at which Spanish verbs are mastered and Spanish, as a whole, is learnt, is with the use of a verb training software program.

One verb training program in particular that stands out more than any other is the Verbarrator. The Verbarrator program is about a year old yet it has received many rave reviews for the way it has helped students, who were previously struggling badly with learning verb conjugation, and it is well worth reading a good review about the software before looking into buying a self help book.

A quick pointer on finding a good verbarrator review will contain detailed information about the program and how it will benefit the student more so than using traditional methods of verb training and it will also explain how it will shorten the time taken to learn Spanish.

Understanding the meaning and usage of the different parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections) is the primary step in learning grammar. It helps in the systematic study of the fundamentals of Grammar, which in turn will aid in the co-ordination of linguistic skills necessary for particular patterns of expression. It is learnt that the subject and verb coordination is of paramount importance while we construct a sentence in the process of writing or in our conversation.

While the declarative and imperative sentences end with a period (full stop), the interrogative has a question mark (?) and exclamatory sentences has an exclamation mark (!) in the end of the sentences.

The important complementary elements in a sentence are phrases and clauses. Phrases may function as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. The clauses may be main clauses and subordinate clause. Understanding and identifying different subordinate clauses like noun clause, adjective clause and adverb clause would enable the learners to differentiate as well as construct simple, compound and complex sentences easily. This in turn will help in improving the writing and communication skills.

Again, the change of active voice into passive voice and the importance of their usage are also dealt in the unit, while changing the active voice into passive voice, the meaning and the tense of the sentence do not change.

It is also important to understand and learn the different degrees of comparison and their appropriate use in the context, which is aptly dealt in this unit. Furthermore, the introduction of direct and indirect speech is a connection to the way we converse.

It is learnt that while we report any precisely written or told sentence (dialogue), we have to make some changes in our report. The most important change is that of distance. While converting the direct speech into indirect, the tenses and distance change but the meaning of the sentence remains the same.

Finally, the question tag and their usage are learnt. They are essential in the conversational English. Once we learn their right usage, it is easy to develop fluency in our day-to-day conversations.

The financial crash of 2001 in Argentina resulted in a devaluation of the peso, which caused a significant foreign tourism boom. A result of this has been the emergence of a number of high quality Spanish schools that offer you the chance to study Spanish on a budget. In addition to cost though, there are further grounds for opting to learn to speak Spanish there.

(1) Few Argentines speak English. In contrast to countries in the northern hemisphere, which have greater contact with native English speaking tourists, businesses, and pop culture, Argentina has had relatively little contact with the English-speaking world. Until recently, Argentines considered French to be of a higher standing than English and the people who had the means and interest to learn a second language tended to learn that language instead.

Even though attitudes are fast changing there now (English instruction now being an obligatory element of public school education), English is still seldom spoken fluently by Argentines. This represents an ideal situation for those wanting to learn Spanish as they will be forced to use the local language in order to get by.

(2) Argentines are easy to understand. Argentines do not talk too fast, nor do they mumble or swallow consonants, which can be common for Caribbean or Central American speakers. Many beginner students have difficulty differentiating between words with spoken Spanish due to them not being able to hear the stopping of one word and the beginning of the next and learning Spanish in Argentina reduces this issue.

You will of course acquire an Argentine accent when you speak Spanish, but this is no great problem, and you will still easily be able to be understood by Spanish speakers in other countries. In fact, having a slight variation on standard European Spanish can be a good thing, as when you speak in Spanish to natives of other Spanish speaking countries, they will be intrigued as to how you acquired your accent, making it a good ice breaker.

(3) Talking a lot is common in Argentina. You will find no problem in finding others to practice with because Argentina has a talkative culture and it is easy to start a conversation with perfect strangers. No-one will think you strange or crazy if you walk up to them and ask them how they are doing and what their plans are for the day.

When Argentines find out that you have gone there specifically to study Spanish and to learn about their culture, they will be particularly welcoming, and you can expect to be asked to have dinner at their houses, and to be taken sightseeing. Confident learners will undoubtedly benefit from such an open environment.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity to you, you just need to do a little research on the internet. Whether you prefer a relatively short month long study holiday, a half year home stay arrangement, or something between the two, you will be sure to find something in Argentina for you.

A brilliant method to knowledge a Spanish high school, obtain a deep knowledge of the language in lots of different areas and make friendships which may last for life. Learning Spanish on your own can be hard. Most of us are used to study together in group or classes, but what do you do if you desire an excellence Spanish education and don't want to go to a formal class. There are a not many key things to look for in a self-study Spanish course. First, the lessons must be pleasing and easy to use. So don't anguish yourself by using a mind-numbing course with hard to use lessons. Make sure the lessons are interactive, attractive, and user pleasant. Second, make sure the course focus on the most important phrases and questions in the language. A course that deals directly with helpful Spanish phrases will help you use your study time and increase your personal Spanish education knowledge. Finally, find a course that fits your learning method. If you learn well from just hearing and listening, look for an auditory Spanish courses in Spain. If you are not sure how you learn most excellent, try out as many free lessons as you canning and paying attention to which type help you learn faster.

Try not to study all of your Spanish studying into one day. Remember replication is the key to learn a foreign language. Don't hesitate to do again a section a few times. Mastering the words and phrases you are currently studying will boost your ability to learn what you study in the future. It is the perfect combination for those who love non-traditional western medicine and mystical aspects of live. Kids read using Spanish children's books and you will be amazed at the capability of your children to pick up this language quickly. There are a lot of benefits available to people who learn to speak Spanish. Speaking the Spanish language will explain you with the Spanish culture like nothing else can. Efficiently speaking Spanish speakers are a quickly growing market worldwide and are predict to be one of the key markets going forward.

above all if you've taken on the dare of studying Spanish in Spain or a different Spanish-speaking country, you're sending out a message to others that you're an self-determining thinker, practical and ambitious. Some of the world's best text has been and continues to be written in Spanish. Great works are forever translated, but any author will tell you that a lot is missing in translation and there's nothing like analysis a novel in its unique language. Valencia is Spain's third biggest city and has experienced a cultural new start in recent years. It's a amazing place to learn Spanish because although it's a big city, it still has a little town feel that make foreigner feel at home. Spanish school in Valencia is dedicated in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language in Valencia. The centre is located next to the university campus area and a few minutes away from the city centre. The services include the most modern technology, accessible in a cheery and modern environment.

Bingo is an activity suitable for Spanish classes. This is because bingo is simple to learn, extremely adaptable, and, particularly importantly, does not require the teacher to obtain expensive specialist resources or materials.

If you choose to play bingo in Spanish classes, the thing to remember is that the game ought to be played in Spanish. Since playing the game in Spanish can form a wonderful learning challenge in and of itself.

As far as the mechanics of play are concerned, each member of the class gets a bingo card, and the game is played according to the standard rules of bingo with the teacher playing the part of the bingo caller. One important difference is that the bingo cards contain words and phrases rather than the numbers typically found on bingo cards. Since the words will of course all be in Spanish, they are supposed to assist students in improving their knowledge of Spanish.

Variants of Spanish bingo include variants where the bingo calls are made in English, and students must look for matching Spanish language words or phrases, using bingo cards written in English and making the the bingo calls in Spanish, or mixing Spanish and English for the bingo calls and cards.

The only remaining question is how to obtain suitable Spanish bingo cards. The good news is that this is quite straightforward and cheap: You can download some bingo card maker software, to your PC, and then you can print out customized bingo cards, containing whatever items you choose, with the absolute minimum of effort. You might be very pleasantly surprised at how well an educational version of bingo works in your classes.