Products
January 2011 What’s New
1/4/2011 By:
Online & Software
Adobe Education Exchange
http://edexchange.adobe.com/pages/home
Adobe Education Exchange is a free
online community that provides educators
the resources for preparing for new
courses and projects, or instructions on
the skills needed to teach with Adobe
software. Educators can share lesson
plans, class projects, technical tutorials,
background materials and other
resources and get feedback and recognition
from the community.
Price: free
Category: productivity
Bookshare
www.bookshare.org
Bookshare has announced
that 100,000 students now
benefit from its collection of digital accessible books. Students with
print disabilities can receive their accessible textbooks on the first
day of the semester.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: reading, assistive technology
DIBELS Next
www.testwiz.com
TestWiz allows educators to take students’
results from DIBELS Next and input them
into the online system for diagnosis. After
they key-enter the scores, TestWiz lets
them analyze the data, create multiple reports, and plan effective student
interventions if necessary.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: assessment
DTP 5.0
www.timetoknow.org
The Time To Know digital teaching platform (DTP)
5.0 is the latest version of the interactive curriculum
system designed specifically for one-to-one computing
classrooms. The DTP 5.0 features new tools
for data management, assessment, progress monitoring,
reporting, and classroom instruction.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: one-to-one
The Educational Assessment
Scoring Environment (Ease System)
www.oscworld.com
The EASE System has 17 integrated components of which the four
most important are a Scoring Environment, which provides a powerful set of tools that make scoring fast and
easy; a Workflow Interface, which provides
a unique combination of tools for
assessment processing that help manage
scoring; patented Closed End Mark Sense Processing Software;
and embedded Data Cleaning, Formatting, and Reporting ‘C’-like
Programming Language, which permits unprecedented customizing.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: assessment
e-rater
www.turnitin.com
The e-rater scoring-engine technology will be
integrated with Turnitin’s GradeMark online paperless
grading tools allowing instructors to mark and
comment on student papers. Available in Summer
2011, e-rater uses natural language-processing
techniques and provides instructors with fast
diagnostic feedback on grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to
augment their assessment of student work.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: writing
FCAT Achiever!
www.brainchild.com
FCAT Achiever! helps students improve
their performance on state assessments
and assesses standards-based performance,
then delivers tutorials and retests
students to determine progress on state
standards in mathematics, language arts,
and science.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: assessment
Gale NewsVault
www.gale.cengage.com
Gale NewsVault provides access to
more than 2,000 titles and 10 million
digitized pages. Users can read newspapers
cover to cover in full-screen or
save, print, highlight, bookmark, grab,
pan, zoom, and crop content and images.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: reference
The Geometer’s Sketchpad
Sketch Exchange
www.keypress.com
Within this free online community,
math educators can share
ideas and connect with peers.
Price: free
Category: math
Guidance Systems
www.cerebellum.com
Cerebellum Corporation has created new
titles to address sensitive issues students
encounter, such as bullying and harassment,
sex education, substance abuse, and Internet
and cell-phone safety. Each Guidance
System program includes the selected DVD
along with an extensive workbook for facilitating classroom discussion.
Price: $79.95 each or $359.95 for all five; see Web site for more
information
Category: health
journ(i)e
http://thinqed.com
journ(i)e includes two new features:
Google Docs integration and a new
Assignments feature that enables
teachers to easily manage and share
assignments from their electronic grade books. In addition, for
teachers who use Pearson’s PowerTeacher Gradebook, journ(i)e
introduces DirectConnect, a sync option that provides an even more
seamless experience in grade-book integration.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: productivity
Jumpstart World of Learning
www.jumpstart.com/school
This immersive, fully customizable
world for children encourages
interactivity and play while building
important learning skills, such
as reading, math, social skills, and
critical thinking. The characters and
environments all change and react to
a child’s progress through the world
and shift accordingly in real time to reflect seasons and holidays.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: online learning
Learn360 and Film Clips
www.learn360.com
Learn 360 announces its newest content
partner, Film Clips for Character
Education. More than 100 clips from
award-winning Hollywood films and
accompanying teacher guides assist in
character-education curriculums in all
grade ranges, from pre-K to high school.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: video/health
The Lightspeed Rocket,
Web Access Manager
www.lightspeedsystems.com
This product offers
intelligent features
for customization,
granular policy control,
safe Web 2.0 access, mobile filtering, proxy blocking, and
network threat protection. My Big Campus, one of the key software
features, integrates online resource management and collaboration
into the network security suite.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: security
Lightspeed Systems’
Web Access Manager
www.lightspeedsystems.com
Lightspeed Systems’ Web Access
Manager with Guide Mobile Filter
offers intelligent cross-platform
Internet filtering that enables districts
to easily extend network
policies to users and devices off
the network to maintain security,
meet CIPA compliance, prevent
cyberbullying, enforce acceptableuse
policies, and protect students
from inappropriate content.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: filtering
Mathematica 8
www.wolfram.com/mathematica
Mathematica 8 makes it possible
to enter math or data calculations
in plain English and get immediate
answers or start an extensive analysis.
It adds a major new end point:
generation of C code and standalone
executables, along with more
than 500 new functions.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: math
Mydiscover-e.org
Mydiscover-e.org
This new Web destination connects
users to engineering-related
resources in their areas through
maps, event calendars, event searches,
and an engineer network. It also
demonstrates the ways in which
engineering is a creative career
choice that affects and shapes our
past, present, and future.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: STEM
My Vision Version 2.0
www.netop.com
With the release of MyVision version
2.0, both MyVision Basic and
MyVision Free feature integration
with Active Directory. This new
feature allows teachers to monitor
students wherever they choose to
work—in the library, a study room,
or an open computer lab.
Price: $199 for an annual subscription
(discount information available on Web site)
Category: management
The NEA Academy
www.neaacademy.com
The National Education Association
Academy has partnered with
UM assOnline, Western Governors
University, and Walden University to
provide master’s degrees in education to NEA members. The agreement
creates the first master’s degree program offered through
strategic alliances with the NEA.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: professional development
NovaNET
www.pearson.com
Pearson has introduced four new
STEM courses for NovaNET: Physical
Science, Earth Science, Chemistry,
and Algebra 1. All courses feature a
wealth of lessons, interactive features, and more.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: STEM
RoomPro Global
www.roomprotech.com
RoomPro Global is a solution for
remotely controlling, monitoring,
and managing classroom AV technology.
It offers classroom access and control for the entire
RoomPro product line from any Web-enabled computer as a result
of having been developed on a cloud-computing platform.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: AV monitoring
Science Power Enhancements
www.worldbookonline.com
Designed for students in the upper
elementary grades, Science Power
lessons cover all science curriculum
topics and provide highlighted vocabulary,
rich multimedia, custom-made
animations, and review questions.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: science
Social Media Cache
www.superluminal.com
The SuperLumin Social
Media Cache is a new,
64-bit architecture that
handles the increasing demand for socialmedia
Web applications, such as Facebook
and YouTube. Social media Web applications
use a redirection model to distribute content,
which means that the same Web objects
often originate from different servers with
different URLs. The SuperLumin Social Media
Cache can determine if an object has already
been retrieved from another server and vend
it from the existing cache inventory.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: networking
SoftChalk and IMS
Learning Tools
Interoperability
www.softchalk.com
SoftChalk LLC has
announced its collaboration
with the
IMS Learning Tools Interoperability group to
support a new scoring solution that will work
directly with learning management systems.
This solution will use the IMS LTI and Basic
outcomes framework, which allows remote
tools and content to be integrated into an LMS .
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: interoperability
STRATEGY ZONE
www.brightpointliteracy.com
A new digital resource for targeted
reading-comprehension
instruction using interactive
whiteboards, Strategy Zone
combines interactive technology and targeted
comprehension instruction to improve the
reading of students in grades three and four.
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: reading
TurningKey
www.turningtechnologies.com
This lightweight application
is the company’s
latest addition to
its suite of interactive
polling software. It
allows educators to create digital answer
keys for new and existing tests and quizzes
and deliver the self-paced summative assessments
to students using ResponseCard NXT .
Price: Contact company for pricing.
Category: assessment
Userful MultiSeat
Linux 2011
www.userful.com/productsuserful-multiseat-linux
This product turns one Linux computer
into 10 high-performance independent
computer stations.
Price: $59 per seat
Category: virtualization
Hardware/AV
AVerMedia Information, Inc. announces the new AVerComm
H Series Video Conferencing Solutions (www.averusa.com). The AVerComm H100 features 720p, high-definition
quality at full-motion 30-frames-per-second video,
dual screen display, content sharing, and a professional
speakerphone. The AVerComm H300 adds multipoint
capabilities for up to four locations, screen capture, and
meeting session recording to a USB flash drive.
Califone’s new Wireless PA Upgrade Kit (www.califone.com) can switch any system from the 700 MHz band to
another frequency quickly, making it easier than ever for
schools to go from a wired PA system to wireless. The kit
includes a wireless microphone, transmitter, and receiver
and is simple to install.
Canon’s REALiS WUX4000
Installation LCOS Projector
(www.usa.canon.com) delivers
higher-than-HD-resolution (1,920
x 1,200) wide-screen images with
an aspect ratio of 16:10 and a
high brightness level, of 4,000
lumens. It employs Canon’s latest,
fourth-generation proprietary
AISYS-enhanced LCOS optical
engine, an advanced projectiondisplay
technology that delivers
crisp, seamless images with intricate
detail, high brightness, high
contrast, and accurate color.
Casio released the first in its nextgeneration
line of graphing calculators, the
PRIZM (fx-CG10) (www.casioeducation.com), which has high-resolution color
LCD and various functions designed to
assist with math lessons. PRIZM includes
the Picture Plot*1 function, which enables
users to plot graphs over curves and
other familiar real-life shapes, such as the
parabola of jets in a water fountain.
The Kensington ClickSafe Keyed
Twin Laptop Lock (www.us.kensington.com) is designed
for effortless protection of
computers, peripherals, and
your business’s most important
data. The lock attaches to hardware
in a single step. ClickSafe
combines a cable made from
superior materials and a tamper-
proof disc-style lock to
deliver the strongest security
available in a cable lock.
Crestron’s DigitalMedia 8G transmitter-switcher,
matrix switcher input and output cards, and
receiver–room controller (www.crestron.com)
deliver true one-wire transport without signal scaling,
compression, or hardware repeaters. Uncompressed
digital signals, HDMI , DVI , DisplayPort, Ethernet, and
USB keyboard and mouse control are seamlessly
distributed up to 1,000 feet.
The Epson PowerLite 4100, 4200W, and
4300 (www.epson.com) offer a wide range
of combinations of lumens and resolution.
The PowerLite 4100 and 4200W provide
4,500 lumens of color and white-light output,
and the 4300 offers 5,200 lumens of
color and white-light output. The 4100 and
4300 feature XGA resolution, while the
4200W has WXGA (1,280 x 800) resolution
to accommodate wide-screen content.
Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard 2.0 (www.qagraphics.com) is
a Web-based device that communicates with a building’s automation
system or metering device to access real-time data on the building.
The Data Manager collects the live building data and distributes it
internally and externally for viewing on the Dashboard. The Dashboard
consists of a series of graphical user interface screens that creatively
display the organization’s energy efficiencies and green features.
Hitachi’s CPWX8 multimedia projector (www.hitachi-america.us/digitalmedia) weighs less than five pounds and provides
native WXGA (1,280 x 800) resolution along with 16.7 million
colors and 2,600 ANSI lumens of brightness. The projector also
includes HDMI , S-Video and composite video inputs, RGB computer
video inputs and outputs, two audio inputs, and an audio
output. It also features a built-in speaker and offers a host of
convenience features.
The PN-L601B touch-screen LCD monitor (www.sharpusa.com) allows users to display and mark digital images or
scanned documents for presentation via a bright screen.
Energy efficient and ENER GY STAR qualified, this model
is also ideal for a wide array of high-impact digital-signage
applications.
Acer’s Aspire TimelineX series provides an
extended battery life of eight hours, thanks
to 3M’s multilayered optical films (www.3m.com). The films brighten the flat-panel displays
used in the Aspire TimelineX series
and give them wider viewing angles while
reducing internal components.
The SAMCAM 860 document camera
(www.samcam860.com) has a
6x optical and 8x digital zoom for
a combined 48x focal length; true
SX GA display output and recording
of movies with audio at 30 fps;
compatibility with Webcam applications,
such as Skype, GradeCam, and
Windows Movie Maker; and a built-in
Macro and Microscope mode.
SMART Technologies (www.smarttech.com) announces a range of five
key accessories designed to enhance
the SMART Board 800 series interactive
whiteboard. The SMART Mobile
Floor Stand and SMART Height-
Adjustable Wall Mount are designed
to increase mobility and enhance
accessibility for teachers and students.
Speakers mount to either the
wall or the SMART Board 800, and
CAT 5 to USB extender or wireless
Bluetooth connection enables teachers
to position the teacher’s computer
anywhere in the classroom.
Bretford (
www.bretford.com) introduced two
affordable carts for general AV equipment.
Designed for educational environments, the two
height-adjustable AV carts incorporate two pull-out
shelves, one for a projector and one for a laptop,
with room on top for a document camera. The
A2642DNS has an open shelf design while the
CA2642DNS has a cabinet base with lockable storage
for equipment safety. Their small and compact
size makes them easy to move and position in multiple
places throughout the classroom.
The Sanyo Dual Camera PD2 (www.us.sanyo.com) is about the size of a deck of
cards and delivers 3x optical zoom for video
as well as photos. The large display allows
users to display HD video or still images.
Sanyo’s built-in software application makes
it easy to share videos and photos via sites
like Facebook, YouTube, and Picassa. The
PD2 captures 10-megapixel digital photos in
a small pocket camcorder design.