This newsletter contains important updates about netTrekker. We value our relationship with you as a subscriber and want to be sure that you are current with ongoing announcements and helpful tips so you can better utilize netTrekker.

We encourage you to share this information with other netTrekker users in your school and district.

Our hearts go out to the communities of MS, AL, and LA that have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To support the many educators and students in these states who have been impacted by the storm, we'd like to extend extra subscription time to our netTrekker customers in these areas for their lost instructional time.

To take advantage of this offer, simply contact us at
877-517-1125 (toll free) once your school or district is up and running again. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time.

In Cobb County, Georgia, two current issues include differentiated instruction and developing a Lexile reading level metric. Director of Instructional Technology Linda Morrell says,

“netTrekker d.i. helps us sort sites by Lexile level to address student needs. And the ELL teachers find the dictionary hot key translations are very helpful too.”

Welcome back to school! We hope you had an enjoyable summer. This is a great time to encourage your school community to create individual user accounts through netTrekker’s online registration process. Districts that have encouraged individual registration for staff and students have higher proven usage results.

The registration process to create an individual username and password is simple and takes just a few minutes to complete. Students, teachers and parents may create their accounts from a school or home computer.

The benefits of having an individual account:

We’re looking for suggestions from our customers for ways that you’ve incorporated netTrekker into your classroom activities. For every suggestion you share, you will be entered to win the netTrekker Prize Pack. The netTrekker Prize Pack includes:

• 1 Free 1-hour web training for your school or district
• 25 netTrekker posters
• 5 Mouse pads
• 25 Quick Reference Guides (training guides)
• 2 netTrekker hats
• 2 netTrekker T-shirts
• A gift certificate that allows you to share the gift of a one-year netTrekker subscription with one school in another district

Our customer suggestions will be highlighted in future newsletters this year. The winner of the netTrekker Prize Pack will be announced in the November 2005 newsletter.

Please click here to see examples of suggested classroom activities and entry guidelines.

To submit your entry, please email Jill Allen at jallen@netTrekker.com by October 15, 2005.

On September 1, 2005, an exciting new version of netTrekker was launched. netTrekker d.i. is a major upgrade to netTrekker classic and is based on the same foundation of providing safe, fast, easy access to over 180,000 standards-based, educator-selected, online resources.

With netTrekker d.i., quickly and easily find resources for general-education students, ELL/ESL students, those working below or above grade level, those with reading challenges, special needs and more.

Exciting New Features Include:

• Search for Resources by Readability Level

• Customized ELL Content and Dictionary/Translation Hot Key

• Safe, School Friendly Image Search

• To learn more about these exciting new features, please click here.

Special Discounts for Current Customers & Promotional Pricing through October 31st!

To learn more about how to upgrade your current netTrekker subscription to netTrekker d.i., please contact your account representative at
877-517-1125 (toll free).

We’re offering free webinars every Thursday and Friday in September so you can see the new features of netTrekker d.i. in action. The webinars are open to all subscribers who would like to see the new features that help educators differentiate instruction. You’re invited whether you’ve already upgraded to netTrekker d.i. or would like to see it for the first time. You’ll see the readability levels, dictionary hot key, English Learners channel, image search, and expanded refinement tabs. The 30-minute presentations include a question and answer period.

Dates and times* are:
Thu, Sep 8	1:30 p.m. EDT
Fri, Sep 9	2:30 p.m. EDT
Thu, Sep 15	4:00 p.m. EDT
Fri, Sep 16	9:00 a.m. EDT
Thu, Sep 22	3:00 p.m. EDT
Fri, Sep 23	11:00 a.m. EDT
Thu, Sep 29	6:30 p.m. EDT
Fri, Sep 30	9:30 a.m. EDT

*All times are in Eastern Daylight Time

Each webinar is limited to 15 participants. Register now and guarantee your spot. Once you’re at the WebEx site, click the Weekly or Monthly tabs to review the webinar dates, then click Register for the webinar that best fits your schedule. You’ll receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the webinar. Questions may be directed to Jill Allen at 877-517-1125 x 3040 or jallen@netTrekker.com.

On September 1, 2005, several upgrades and changes to netTrekker classic were made. It is important to note that although we have made several changes to the look of netTrekker classic and the placement of some of the features and tools, the search engine you know and love still works the way you are familiar with.

Specifically, you will still access netTrekker classic at www.netTrekker.com, all previously created usernames and passwords will still work, all saved searches will remain in your folders, and all netTrekker Admin accounts will continue to work.

In our continued efforts to meet the changing needs of our customers, we’ve made the updates listed below.

• New netTrekker classic Logo

• New Look to netTrekker classic Home Page and Login Boxes Moved

• Username and Logout Buttons Moved

• New Cleaner Look

• New Grade Level Tabs: Elementary, Middle (New), High

• New My Tools and Features Sections

• Search Refinement Tabs Have New Look

• Updated Refine Search Page

• Updated Help Section

• New Location for Edit Your Profile Options

• New Preferences Options

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