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2008 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products INTERNET WINNERS Hewlett-Packard/Microsoft Teacher Experience Exchange Online Curriculum Sharing, Free Educators who belong to the Teacher Experience Exchange online community can share their classroom experiences and ideas with other educators. Features of the Web site include forums where teachers can discuss teaching techniques as well as share lesson plans, projects and photos of classroom setups, tutorials for teaching technology in the classroom, and free technology resources. Complete curricula of Vista, XP and Ofﬁce courses are also available through podcasts and videos. www.hp.com/go/TeacherExperience Inﬁnite Campus Student Information System, $ 6 per student Inﬁnite Campus is a Web-based student information system that provides districts with the integrated tools needed to streamline student administration, enable stakeholder collaboration, and individualize instruction. A variety of tools are offered in district-level student administration, curriculum planning, instruction, school services, communications, reporting and analysis. The program also includes attendance and behavior records, grade books, special education resources, food-service management tools, an e-mail service and a parent-student Web portal. www.inﬁnitecampus.com Knowledge Adventure Activity Builder Classroom Activity Resource, $ 50 per teacher annually Teachers can use Activity Builder to create a large variety of classroom resources and activities to supplement curricula, such as bingo boards, clocks, deﬁnition or ﬂash cards, puzzle pieces, scrambled words and word searches. To create an activity, teachers choose an existing word list from the program’s library, which contains more than 100,000 words in eight different languages, and select an activity. The program then generates the activity using the speciﬁed word list. www.kaactivitybuilder.com Maximus Tienet Contact Maximus for pricing Maximus’ Tienet system provides three district management applications, available alone or as a package. The Instructional Data Management application organizes the instructional process and monitors its impact on achieving mandated educational standards. The Response to Intervention Management application enables progress monitoring and a unique problem-solving framework to identify and serve students who require intervention. The Special Education Case Management application documents all special education activities, including pre-referral, eligibility, IEP development, service documentation, parent reporting and Medicaid billing. www.maximus.com/tienet Open Text FirstClass 9.0 Collaboration Suite, $10 per student license FirstClass 9.0 offers a set of enterprise-class integrated applications that enable district administrators to create collaborative online communities that securely connect students, teachers and parents with resources via any Internet-connected device. Applications include e-mail, instant messaging, calendars, contact management, work-group collaboration, Web publishing, safe-student social networking, blogging, and the newest feature, archiving. www.ﬁrstclass.com 30 January 2009 Top 100 Products http://www.hp.com/go/TeacherExperience http://www.infinitecampus.com http://www.infinitecampus.com http://www.kaactivitybuilder.com http://www.maximus.com/tienet http://www.maximus.com/tienet http://www.firstclass.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