Technology & Learning - April 2009 - (Page 41) W W W.T E C H L E A R N I N G . C O M MY PORTFOLIO AND NETTREKKER D.I. (WWW.THINKRONIZE.COM) Powered by My Portfolio, the K-12 safesearch tool netTrekker d.i. now allows educators to create, organize, and share content for standards-based instruction with fellow teachers within their school or district. Educators can scaffold, save, and share digital content, including resources found in netTrekker d.i. and from third parties. They can add content to their portfolios—templates, time-line and famousperson search results, and images— and then, as with a digital file cabinet, create folders to facilitate organizing. Price: $1,730 per school building Category: content development SPEAKQ (WWW.WORDQ.COM) SpeakQ plugs into WordQ and adds simple speech recognition. Conventional speech-recognition systems are designed primarily as a productivity tool for persons who have no trouble writing (and dictating) or as an alternative hands-free access tool for those with physical disabilities. WordQ/SpeakQ is for those who can type but have trouble reading and writing in the first place. Price: SpeakQ 1.4 Plug-in software, $99 (requires preinstallation of WordQ 2 or higher, $199) Category: speech recognition PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY (WWW.PEARSONSCHOOL.COM/PERSONALFINANCE) Pearson’s new Personal Financial Literacy program provides high school students the basic tools and knowledge they need to make informed financial decisions, while providing teachers the flexibility they need. Personal Financial Literacy, which combines textbooks with online tools, offers a practical, highly accessible focus that meets financial literacy education standards as defined by the Jump$tart Coalition and the National Business Education Association Standards. Category: financial literacy Costs: Range from $19.97 for individual unit books to $64.97 for full volume with access to MyFinLitLab online. PBWIKI CAMPUS EDITION (HTTP://PBWIKI.COM) The new PBwiki Campus Edition makes PBwiki’s hosted collaboration suite affordable for schools with up to 1,000 students, faculty, and staff. With the PBwiki Campus Edition, a school can roll out an unlimited number of PBwikis for its classes, clubs, and any other student activities. Previously, schools had to purchase wikis individually. Price: $799/year for up to 1000 users Category: collaborative tools AD INDEX COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3LCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 AverMedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 NetSupport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CDW-G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Epson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 HP DLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 InfoComm 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 LanSchool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 SMART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A&B, 44 LG Electronics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 My Web Lockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 NEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tech Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Turning Technologies, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Pasco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 PolyVision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Promethean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Saywire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE NECC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 For more information about the advertisers in this issue, please visit www.techlearning.com and click on the Advertiser Index. TECH & LEARNING | 41 http://WWW.TECHLEARNING.COM http://WWW.THINKRONIZE.COM http://WWW.WORDQ.COM http://WWW.PEARSONSCHOOL.COM/PERSONALFINANCE HTTP://PBWIKI.COM http://www.techlearning.com
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