This document discusses various educational technology tools and their purposes and benefits. It covers CAD software like AutoCAD and Alibre for creating models, music editors and MIDI tools like Garageband for developing musical compositions, reading tools such as Readability formulas and Accelerated Reader to help teachers select stories and motivate students to read, and microcomputer-based labs, calculator-based labs, and graphing calculators to assist with experiments measuring light, temperature, voltage and speed. It also mentions geographic information systems and global positioning systems for studying locations and navigation, as well as online foreign language dictionaries and translators to look up meanings and translations between languages.