“iWork4School is not just one of those teacher material sites,” Joel Wolfgang, founder of both the Free iWork Templates Blog and iWork4School, said in the press release. “It’s a site designed with everyone who works in and around schools in mind. I wanted to create a site that specifically delivers iWork templates for those individuals.”
The Free iWork Templates Blog strives to be a community of iWork users who put their best foot forward and share their work with other iWork users. These two sites hope to help education professionals by saving them the time necessary to create their own templates for projects, papers and assignments.
“When I started The Free iWork Templates Blog, I really hoped to connect iWork users from around the globe,” Wolfgang said. “To date, we’ve had templates submitted from all six inhabited continents. With this new site I hope to bring educational resources and put them in one central location for anyone one to use.”
More info and download links here.
Source: Free iWork Templates / iWork4School
Not to complain about free templates, but most of those are kind of ugly.
Free fonts and free templates offered by commercial company === useless. They’re the epitome of bad taste.
We need AppleWorks back. iWork just isn’t there. We especially need AppleWorks for iOS. The killer productivity app for iPad.
Maybe if I was a student or teacher, I could have figured how I would download the templates from that site.
I went over it a couple of times for my niece, and I don’t see the download link anywhere.
@lurker
Ah, AppleWorks… I miss it, but I think iWork isn’t bad either. Agreed it would have been better to improve on AppleWorks instead of starting from the beginning. I believe a re-brand was a good thing, because many of the windows switchers thought “Oh, AppleWorks, that must be similar to MS Works, so I need MS Office on my pink iMac!”.
Still, Keynote is great, and Pages is getting better and better – especially the UI needs work there, the iPad version is a step in the right direction in my opinion. I wish Apple would buy EazyDraw, it is an absolutely superb app, and imports Claris/AppleDraw files. Sometimes I think back at AW, and yes it is a pity, but I hope the best for the future of iWork…
@Lemon
I’m hoping for a WordArt like thing for iWork on both the Mac and iPad, then I can switch from NeoOffice to Pages.
Not that I don’t like NeoOffice.
@Dag
Well, if I needed curved text or fonts with gradient fill I would do with EazyDraw and then drag it into the pages document. As far as I understood Apple’s idea, iWork shouldn’t be everything to anybody but cooperate easily with other apps. Well, it does, but that EazyDraw cost me 100$… ok was worth it, but still would be nice to have a drawing app in iWork. Maybe the next release will have a basic solution for that. Last time they added Numbers, so maybe there comes something. Can’t do any illustrations for geometry/physics with Pages at present state, only very, very basic stuff.
NeoOffice I use only for opening some .doc and .odt-files from friends. A good stable program, but for me a bit complex UI. Reminds me of MS Office, of course.
iWorks is nice. I was a computer teacher in Maine for years. Maine is the state that gives ibooks to it’s kids. Appleworks had the advantage of being integrated. We could do things easily like put spreadsheets in the word processor. you could make the word processor or drawing program act like a webpage with links to other pages within the document. It really was a nice program. It would be the perfect item for home and education use just like it was years ago.
Anyone remember appleworks for the apple II? it was pretty nice too for a menu driven program.
Yeah right, everything was in one app… I can understand that today, there are maybe too many tasks to put all into one app… But the problem for me is this: I write something about arithmetic and then want to put in an illustration of some geometry, let’s say a tetrasection of an angle. I start with pages, but after a while I figure out that I can’t complete it because pages can’t do more complex circle stuff. So I have to buy another drawing app and start all over again. And for formulas, you have to start grapher, copy and paste then. MathType doesn’t work at the moment; that’s the beauty of relying on third party software, always issues…
Re: Appleworks comments
I totally agree. The app just worked and it was so easy to use in the sense that everything just made sense. And those were the days when you received a paper manual. Remember those? And cross referencing with a manual perched on your desk was much easier to use than being asked to create a question.
For the record I use iWork but Appleworks was so good and sometimes when I get nostalgic I start comparing it to the Pages part of iWork. Pages doesn’t stack up all that well. In fact when will iWork be a complete package in the sense that everything makes sense and everything just works seamlessly? I’m still waiting…and paying.
For the nostalgy:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php