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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Photo Editing Program, $ 99 Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 6 offers complete photo-editing solutions for Apple computers. New features in this version include Photomerge technology, which lets users easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of shots to create a single group shot, and the new Quick Selection Tool, which reduces the once time-consuming select-and-adjust task to a single click. www.adobe.com Agilix Labs GoCourse Learning System Course Management Program, Starting at $ 5,000 The GoCourse Learning System was developed speciﬁcally to deliver best practices in online learning and to overcome the potential pitfalls of delivering virtual courses. The program revolutionizes course management in the areas of authoring, presentation, distribution and measurement to better engage learners and improve learning outcomes. It integrates rigorous core curriculum and comprehensive assessment tools with GoCourse’s advanced electronic delivery system, ensuring high schools are able to meet all state and national standards. www.agilix.com American Education Corporation Psychology, Career Essentials, and Personal Finance Electives E-learning Courseware, $1,000 each All three of these new elective programs meet the requirements of a one-semester high school course and are incorporated into the existing A+nyWhere Learning System, which includes the core subjects of language arts, math, science and social studies. Each focuses on providing a broad perspective of the subject through personal exploration, with an emphasis on essays, projects, journals and constructed responses. www.amered.com AquaMinds NoteShare 1.7 Collaboration Program, $99.95 for an academic license NoteShare is a powerful desktop collaboration application for creating, publishing and sharing media-rich, multipage notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information in the same room, same building or globally. NoteShare is an ideal collaboration tool for students, educators or administrators who work on team projects or have a need to share notebook information with one or more users in a small group or classroom. www.aquaminds.com AutoSkill International Academy of READING RtI Intervention, Pricing varies AutoSkill’s Response to Intervention package for its Academy of READING program delivers oral ﬂuency assessments over the Web and combines an RtI management tool with an intervention program and professional development. When used with the Academy of READING intervention solution, the RtI Package gives schools a single, Web-based environment for fully supporting the RtI model. The Academy of READING uses a patented methodology to deliver individualized, computer-based instruction with an adaptive intervention engine focused on attaining skill mastery. www.autoskill.com eInstruction InterWrite Workspace ExamView Edition Instructional Delivery Program, $249 Workspace ExamView Edition marks the ﬁrst new product of the merger between eInstruction and InterWrite Learning. This program is designed to coordinate existing ExamView content—currently used by 500,000 educators nationwide—with student response hardware, including Interwrite’s Classroom Performance System clickers, and interactive whiteboards. Workspace ExamView Edition is available individually for purchase or for free with the purchase of InterWrite’s Boards and Pads. www.einstruction.com www.DistrictAdministration.com January 2009 23 http://www.adobe.com http://www.agilix.com http://www.amered.com http://www.aquaminds.com http://www.autoskill.com http://www.einstruction.com http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - January 2009

District Administration - January 2009
Contents
Editor’s Letter
Letters
News Update
Security
Facilities & Construction
Administrator Profile
District Profile
Conversations
Leadership Books
Research Center
District Web Site Essentials
The Second Annual X-Factor Student Achievement Grant
Social Studies for the 21st Century
Tech Disruptions
Professional Opinion
New Products
Product Focus
Understanding the Times

District Administration - January 2009