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NewProducts THE LATEST OFFERINGS IN BOOKS, HARDWARE, INTERNET AND SOFTWARE • Carol Patton and Ken Royal Scholastic Get Test Smart! www.scholastic.com Book, $6.99 The book’s author, Dr. Laurie Rozakis, who is also an experienced teacher, provides students between the ages of 9 and 12 with concrete advice about strategies to use on test day, including how they can get into the right frame of mind. She provides sample questions based on the formats of actual standardized tests and offers helpful hints for answering every type of question, including essays, short answers, and multiple choice. A similar book by Rozakis—Be a Super Test-Taker!—is also priced at $6.99 and offers similar tips for children between the ages of 7 and 10. Camelot Learning Math Intervention Curriculum www.camelotlearning.com Curriculum, $349 Each of this curriculum’s 120 lessons ﬁt within a traditional classroom period. Social development and team building are enhanced as students are motivated to share and interact through small group instruction, games and activities. Math vocabulary has been added to all-inclusive kits that include Computation, Fractions & Decimals, and Geometry & Measurements. Each of the optional lessons is based on the best practices of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ teaching strategies. The lessons include games, mental math strategies, daily problems, test-taking skills, and hands-on activities using manipulatives. Panasonic New LCD projectors www.panasonic.com/projectors, Hardware, $4,399-$4,999 Panasonic’s three new LCD projectors—PT-F100U, PT-F100NTU and PT-FW100NTU— offer lens shift and 2x power zoom capabilities that help reduce installation costs by allowing the projectors to be placed near an AC power source. Administrators also avoid the expense of reconﬁguring network equipment in order to comply with building code regulations. The Auto Rolling Filter, an electrostatic technology, automatically detects and removes dusty ﬁlter sections. The last two models come equipped with a wireless, local area network capability that allows them to connect to multiple PCs without any cables. Danware NetOp School 5.0 www.netop.com, Software, $727/one teacher and 10 students NetOp School 5.0 enables teachers to monitor student activities and to simultaneously broadcast their or any student’s screen image to every PC in the class. With the improved test center, teachers can customize tests, choosing from 10 different types of questions, and determine the weight of the individual test questions in relation to the total result. Speciﬁc questions can also be given a negative score if the answers are wrong or if a student doesn’t provide an answer. Teachers can also correct and score tests automatically and offer students immediate feedback on their performance via electronic reports. District Administration 76 April 2007 http://www.camelotlearning.com http://www.scholastic.com http://www.scholastic.com http://www.camelotlearning.com http://www.panasonic.com/projectors http://www.panasonic.com/projectors http://www.netop.com http://www.netop.com

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

Editor's Letter
Update
Inside the Law
Curriculum Update
District Profile
Administrator Profile
“See You in Court!"
Lost in Translation
Bonding Agents
Certifying AP Courses
Hunting for Talent - Part 2
Buying Power
The Musty Bookshelf
New Products
Leadership
Speaking Out
The Online Edge
Problem/Solution
Calendar of Events
Overheard On The Pulse

District Administration - April 2007