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KAPLAN PUBLISHING APLAN SCORE! Mountain Challenge Workbook Series www.scoremountain.com Curriculum, $10.95 per title Designed for K6 students, this series of supplemental resources provides practice in math and reading and teaches students how to set and achieve academic goals. The workbooks offer interactive, bite-sized, reward-driven exercises that help improve academic skills. Each workbook includes six themerelated sessions full of questions, fun activities , practice quizzes and challenging exercises that promote critical thinking skills, special sessions on math or writing, hints that guide students toward the right answers, and access to an interactive, online companion with quizzes tied to each session. SAF-T-NET AlertNow www.alertnow.com Internet, $3 per student STN’s Web-based application service provider manages and hosts the hardware, software and telephone infrastructure required to deliver voice, e-mail or text-based messages to telephones, mobile phones, PDAs or any Internet-enabled device. Features include the displaying of “411” on the recipient’s caller ID when sending an emergency message, a proprietary, redundant nationwide network for the delivery of emergency messages, and translation in 11 different languages, including Mandarin and Cantonese. Each campus has secure login rights to the application via the Internet and can send messages through mobile or landline phones. ADOBE FrameMaker 8 www.adobe.com, Software, Starts at $899 With this authoring and publishing software, users can generate comprehensive, technical documents that incorporate 3D models, tec simulations, product speciﬁcations, test plans, designs or sim reports. They can also edit and create documents in multiple re languages for global audiences. The software includes lan complete dictionary and hyphenation support, Flash support co and an the ability to track edits, undo multiple changes and generate PDFs with text edits highlighted. DITA support is ge also als provided to author, review, publish and exchange topicoriented information in XML and to create DITA maps. or ALLEGRO RAINBOW Yourhomework Music Wizard Academy www.yourhomeworkmusicwizardacademy.com Curriculum, $199.99/Easy Mode version Created for the after-school and home education market, this course includes a combination of lesson books, lesson plans, sheet music and DVD video lessons, with special instruction from professor Don Beattie, creator of the Piano Wizard Academy curriculum. It comes in two versions. Academy Premier, which sells for $299.99, contains 20 DVD lessons and books one and two, and Academy Easy Mode contains 10 DVD lessons. Rate your favorite New Products at www.districtadministration.com/products. New Products Editor Ken Royal (kroyal@edmediagroup.com) Carol Patton is a contributing editor. www.DistrictAdministration.com September 2007 63 http://www.alertnow.com http://www.scoremountain.com http://www.adobe.com http://www.yourhomeworkmusicwizardacademy.com http://www.districtadministration.com/products http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

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Cover Contents Editor’s Letter Letters News Update Curriculum Update Inside the Law District Profile Administrator Profile District Buying Power 2007 X-Factor Student Achievement Awards 2007 We've Got Mail Supporting New Teachers How Well Does This Web Site Work? New Products Problem Solution Computer Literature Research Corner Online Edge Supervisor’s Opinion Speaking Out Calendar of Events Understanding the Times

District Administration - September 2007

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