James Gunn and Chris McKitterick run the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. They have a summer seminar for educators which revolves around using SF in the classroom. They also have other materials available. The Center's webpage is: http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/index.html They'll be glad to help you out.

Wow. I hope you got paid for that. There's a reason people call Excel and Word bloatware. Also, Apple realizes that at this point, while trying to reach out to the Enterprise community, they can't give Micro$oft a reason to stop development of Office for Mac. Pages is a cross between Publisher and Wordpad, it isn't designed to compete with Word. Keynote however, is an awesome program. And, it shouldn't be dismissed so easily.