Holt's online math courses include Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and Geometry for students in middle school and high school. Teachers can choose from ready-made exams that are correlated to the textbook content, or they can upload their own tests, track results and view trends using reporting features. Other new tools include lesson tutorial videos, formative assessment and a multilingual glossary with terms defi ned in 13 languages. Additionally, there are algebra tiles, fraction bars, various calculators and integer chips, as well as workbook and lab activities. www.hrw.com
INNERLINK
TeamPrepared, Security and Emergency Preparedness and Information Portal, Starts from $2,000/fi rst year, one building
TeamPrepared utilizes portal technology to help schools improve their security and preparedness. It coordinates the integration of emergency information, allowing for an effective response to emergencies and unplanned events. Features include 24/7 secure access to online personal health records for staff, and critical public safety and health information for key community stakeholders. Dermatologic diagnostic tools recognizing disease trends or biological terrorism and an alert system utilizing multilingual text, e-mail, voice and voice-to-text for emergency notification are also available. www.theinnerlink.com
NETSUPPORT SCHOOL
RESOURCE CENTER, Curriculum for Teachers, Starts at $19 per license The Resource Center provides teachers with over 1,000 curriculumbased questions and resources that can be used within its software. Teachers can also access a forum area to upload their own curriculum content or download content developed by other educators, leave comments, rate questions, browse through available questions by topic or category, and identify multimedia resources supplied by other educators. In the testing modules, questions are automatically marked as students take their tests. www.netsupportschool.com
NEW DIMENSION MEDIA
CCC! VIDEO ON DEMAND 2.0, Starts at $2,995
CCC! Video on Demand integrates with iTunes, allowing users to watch K12 core curriculum content anywhere on their iPods. Webcasts of classroom sessions, school sporting events, cultural performances and professional development workshops can be broadcast or stored for playback. This open system enables users to search for content from an external application. It also features Digital Director, which enables teachers to select from over 40,000 teaching segments from any of its titles and customize their own video segments. www.cccvod.com
NTI GROUP
Connect-ED, Mass Notification System, $3.60 per student per year
Connect-ED is a mass notification system that enables school administrators to record, voice messages in minutes to parents and staff via voice, text, e-mail messages and TTY/TDD receiving devices. It is SIF certified, fully hosted, and managed and designed exclusively for the education market. It also tracks message delivery, offers comprehensive reports, sends targeted messages in a household's native language, and easily integrates with most student information systems. www.ntigroup.com
ONCOURSE SYSTEMS FOR EDUCATION
OnCourse, Web-Based Tools for School Districts, $34.99 annually per teacher or administrator
OnCourse is a provider of Web-based tools that automate educational processes for school districts. They integrate educational standards from each state in On-Course's Lesson Planner, Grade Book and Student Stats solutions and provide instant updates as standards are added or changed. Teachers can use these relevant educational standards, while administrators can generate reports about instructional activity and create standards-based report cards.www.oncoursesystems.com
RENZULLI LEARNING
RENZULLI LEARNING SYSTEMS, Web-Based Differentiated Curricula, $40 each/up to 40 students; $5,000 per school
Renzulli's Web-based learning system differentiates curricula by creating an individualized assessment of each child's interests and preferred method of learning. This new version provides enhancements that give teachers more reporting and accounting capabilities. Highlights include a comprehensive learning assessment that can be used to identify each student's motivational makeup, and a differentiation search engine that matches online and offline resources to each student's interest areas and learning styles. www.renzullilearning.com
SAFARI MONTAGE
WAN MANAGER, Video-on-Demand and Digital Media Management Solution, Pricing based on district size, bandwidth and options
The WAN Manager by SAFARI Montage is a turnkey video-ondemand and digital media management solution for school district WANs. The expansive solution not only provides the finest educational video titles available but also enables districts to upload and manage their own created content to the SAFARI Montage media server and distribute that content to every school. Their approach solves the bandwidth problems faced by districts with low-bandwidth T-1s while also providing the ultimate tools for optimizing new high-bandwidth fiber WANs. www.safarimontage.com
