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NewProducts ELMO P100 Document Camera www.elmousa.com, Hardware, $3,850 The P100 presentation tool is high-deﬁnition TV ready, offering 30 frame-per-second capability. It comes with an advanced 64x zoom document camera, 1.3 million pixels from a CMOS image sensor for ultra-high resolution, and a ﬂexible arm that broadens the camera’s reach to project three-dimensional objects and highly detailed materials of almost any kind. The ﬂexible arm design also permits one-ﬁnger setup of the unit, making it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It’s also compatible with Windows or Mac applications. VIVA MEDIA Crazy Machines 1.5 www.viva-media.com Software, $19.99 The latest Crazy Machines release challenges students to brainstorm over 200 new challenges. They begin the game in Inventor’s Training Camp where they sharpen their skills by solving 100 puzzles or brainteasers. In part 2, called “New from the Lab,” students are confronted with another 100 more challenging and mind-bending puzzles to solve. They build offbeat contraptions, using unusual elements such as a funky toaster or old-time gramophone to work out solutions, for putting their machine creations to work. ALARM LINK Alarm over IP www.alarmlink.com Hardware, $169.95 per unit This module was speciﬁcally designed to handle the data requirements of alarm transmitters. It bypasses traditional telephone carriers, ensuring that alarm transmitters can reliably communicate with a central station using an Internet connection. The module connects to the telephone line of almost any alarm control panel, then to a school’s dedicated high-speed Internet network, and lastly with the company’s dedicated server through its own router. Features include two-way voice capability, a built-in router and a preprogrammed i.Ip.Link (alarm over IP) module that enables a fast and easy connection with the company’s dedicated alarm monitoring service. Your Vote Counts and YOU Can Make a Difference! DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION is naming the Reader’s Choice Top 100 K12 Products of 2007. Let us know what works best for your district. Vote today for your favorite products. There are more than 1,000 products to view and we’re adding to our database daily. Your comments may be posted online and published in our additional January issue, which will be devoted to New Products. Visit www. districtadministration.com/products or contact our New Products Editor Ken Royal at kroyal@edmediagroup.com. District Administration SUNDANCE PUBLISHING Comprehension Strategies Kit www.sundancepub.com Program, $249 each/$485 complete kit This reading program is designed to help students develop the six comprehension strategies: monitor and clarify, make connections, visualize, ask questions, infer and predict, and summarize. Each kit includes 36 ﬁction and nonﬁction transparencies to introduce and model each of the six strategies, 12 student cards for hands-on, guided strategy practice, and 36 ﬁction and nonﬁction selections for all readers to independently practice and apply the strategies. A teacher’s guide is included, along with a resource CD that offers assessment materials, tests, 12 takehome readers, and family letters to promote home/ school instruction. 72 June 2007 http://www.viva-media.com http://www.elmousa.com http://www.elmousa.com http://www.viva-media.com http://www.alarmlink.com http://www.districtadministration.com/products http://www.sundancepub.com http://www.sundancepub.com http://www.districtadministration.com/products http://www.districtadministration.com/products

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - June 2007

Contents
Editor's Letter
Letters
News Update
Security Update
Technology Update
Curriculum Update
Inside the Law
Admistrator Profile
District Profile
Refreshing the ISTE Technology Standards
Action Teams
RE-Construction
Professional Development for the New Century
Multimedia LIT
New Products
Leadership Books
Problem/Solution
Online Edge
Speaking Out
Supervisor's Opinion
Professional Opinion
Research Corner
Calendar of Events
Understanding the Times

District Administration - June 2007