Following up on 'Technology and Problem Solving'

I just finished reading 'Technology and Problem Solving' by Howard Budin. There were many programs and much software that was referred to. I first looked up Decisions, Decisions: Immigration by Tom Snyder Productions. It seems that it may be a little too mature and expensive for my fourth grade students. This is a shame since I think that it looks interesting and valuable. I then went back to our class Webspiration page to play around with some of the features that I didn't realized existed until reading the article. It's very interesting the way that the program can take the web that have been created and reorganize it into an outline. That's something that would be very helpful to my students. I also like how you can use pictures inside the web to represent words and ideas. I spent a little bit of time looking up The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. This looks like a cute program that my students would like. It was also very reasonably priced. I'm definitely going to look for this to buy. Lastly, I tried to figure out a spreadsheet program. I tried Microsoft Works. What I learned was that I need someone to teach me how to use the program properly so I can teach my students how to use it.