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feedback, while the essay scoreboard grades students on grammar, spelling, redundancy, and irrelevancy as well as six additional writing skills. Questionmark (www.questionmark .com) has released its Results Management System (RMS), an application that works in conjunction with Questionmark Perception, the assessment management system that enables teachers to create, deliver, and report on surveys and exams. The RMS provides fully integrated item and test statistics, enabling a complete view of how a test is performing. Questions with poor or borderline performance are flagged, enabling the user to spot potential problems. Users can employ standard Web browsers to review test items and drop, credit, or alter scoring. Online Projector Lamp Services, LLC, which provides re-lamping services for the projection display industry, has relaunched an improved Web site, Relampit.com (www.relampit .com), featuring a new look with easier navigation and enhanced ordering features for customers. PLS has developed a process that allows lights to be remanufactured at a reduced cost without compromising lifetime or performance. The company also offers a no-charge projector lamp recycling service that focuses on reducing waste and environmental mercury contamination from the lamps in front and rear projectors, encouraging districts to think green when they replace their AV equipment. Nortel LearniT and Curriki have formed an alliance to coordinate their Web sites into one of the world’s largest, free online sources of educational materials. Nortel LearniT (www.nortel learnit.org) is a key philanthropic initiative of Nortel, a worldwide communications technology firm; Curriki (www.curriki.org), originally founded by Sun Microsystems, is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to make curricula and learning resources available online to everyone at no cost. Teachers will now be able to access a free forum for creating and sharing online instructional materials on both sites, integrating the latest digital technologies. Experience NECC 2008 A Uniquely Hands-on and Interactive Conference MORE THAN: 450 Sessions, 180 Workshops, 500 Exhibitors, 750+ informal and interactive learning activities Register & Reserve Housing Now! www.iste.org/necc Thank you Technology & Learning, a NECC 2008 Media Sponsor Priority Code: NC080205TL 62 | www.techlearning.com http://www.questionmark.com http://www.questionmark.com http://www.questionmark.com http://www.nortellearnit.org http://www.Relampit.com http://www.nortellearnit.org http://www.Relampit.com http://www.Relampit.com http://www.curriki.org http://www.iste.org/necc http://www.iste.org/necc http://www.iste.org/necc http://www.techlearning.com

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