Easy Hardware Installation

To install Fiddlehead, just plug the multi-head video card into a PCI slot, plug the Fiddlehead cube(s) into a USB port, connect up to five monitors, keyboards, mice, and sound, and you're done.

Easy-to-Configure, High-Performance Computer Sharing Software

COSMOS™ - At Fiddlehead's core is our patent-pending containerized operating system for multiple operators simultaneously, which offers substantial benefits over competitive software solutions:

• Fiddlehead is capable of running multiple standard operating systems (OS) such as Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, Mac OS X® or Linux® in separate containers at the same time, each dedicated for a single user.
• Each user's OS operates as if it were the only one on the system, with no delays, buffering, booting, or tiling of windows required - whether all users are running the same OS or different ones.
• IT professionals enjoy all the speed, power, and flexibility of our COSMOS control kernel, yet educators and students interact only with their familiar Windows® OS and programs, reducing the time required for both administrative and support services.
• Fiddlehead can also serve as the ideal bridge to the freeware, open-source, and Linux worlds from a familiar Windows® environment.

Teacher Control™ - The name says it all. Working from your own "teacher's home screen," this powerful classroom management feature enables you to:

• View all students' computer screens simultaneously, or "zoom in" on an individual screen for a close-up look. You can see every keystroke and mouse movement as they happen.
• Take control of a single student's workstation from your own workstation to show her or him how to do something.
• Temporarily pause or blank a student's workstation - or all the workstations in the room - whenever you need a student's attention or want to pause an activity.
• Show one student's work to the whole class - on a central screen, an electronic white board or on every workstation, as you prefer. Use, control, and interact with electronic whiteboards more easily and effectively than ever before.

Search to Teach™ - Get immediate access to free educational software. This powerful combination of a customized search engine and a large, growing collection of high-quality educational programs on our servers gives you the power to:

• Quickly find and install teacher-approved, age- and subject-appropriate educational software.
• Enhance the learning of virtually every subject - from math and sciences to the arts and humanities - and at every grade level, with minimal effort.
• All educational software is reviewed and approved by the Syracuse University Center for Digital Literacy.

Please note that the Search to Teach search engine and access to our servers are available only to Fiddlehead users.

Differentiated Learning Software - Implement differentiated learning through the facilitation of a project-based learning (PBL) curriculum system developed specifically for Fiddlehead integration. Combining this curriculum with our other teacher-empowering features, Fiddlehead helps make the promise of more engaged, socially interactive learning a reality.