Software Winners: Helping Educators Manage It All By Zach Miners January 2009

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The winners are:

Photo Editing Program, $99

Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 6 offers complete photo-editing solutions for Apple computers. New features in this version include Photomerge technology, which lets users easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of shots to create a single group shot, and the new Quick Selection Tool, which reduces the once time-consuming select-and-adjust task to a single click. www.adobe.com

Course Management Program, Starting at $5,000

The GoCourse Learning System was developed specifically to deliver best practices in online learning and to overcome the potential pitfalls of delivering virtual courses. The program revolutionizes course management in the areas of authoring, presentation, distribution and measurement to better engage learners and improve learning outcomes. It integrates rigorous core curriculum and comprehensive assessment tools with GoCourse’s advanced electronic delivery system, ensuring high schools are able to meet all state and national standards. www.agilix.com

E-learning Courseware, $1,000 each

All three of these new elective programs meet the requirements of a one-semester high school course and are incorporated into the existing A+nyWhere Learning System, which includes the core subjects of language arts, math, science and social studies. Each focuses on providing a broad perspective of the subject through personal exploration, with an emphasis on essays, projects, journals and constructed responses. www.amered.com

Collaboration Program, $99.95 for an academic license

NoteShare is a powerful desktop collaboration application for creating, publishing and sharing media-rich, multipage notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information in the same room, same building or globally. NoteShare is an ideal collaboration tool for students, educators or administrators who work on team projects or have a need to share notebook information with one or more users in a small group or classroom. www.aquaminds.com

Intervention, Pricing varies

AutoSkill’s Response to Intervention package for its Academy of READING program delivers oral fluency assessments over the Web and combines an RtI management tool with an intervention program and professional development. When used with the Academy of READING intervention solution, the RtI Package gives schools a single, Web-based environment for fully supporting the RtI model. The Academy of READING uses a patented methodology to deliver individualized, computer-based instruction with an adaptive intervention engine focused on attaining skill mastery. www.autoskill.com

Instructional Delivery Program, $249

Workspace ExamView Edition marks the first new product of the merger between eInstruction and InterWrite Learning. This program is designed to coordinate existing ExamView content—currently used by 500,000 educators nationwide—with student response hardware, including Interwrite’s Classroom Performance System clickers, and interactive whiteboards. Workspace ExamView Edition is available individually for purchase or for free with the purchase of InterWrite’s Boards and Pads. www.einstruction.com

Security Program, $35

Administrators can use Deep Freeze to protect a workstation’s operating system and software without restricting user access. Once Deep Freeze is installed on a workstation, any changes made to the computer are never permanent, regardless of whether they are accidental or malicious. The available Enterprise Edition protects multiple computers across a distributed LAN, WAN or over the Internet. www.faronics.com

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