netTrekker Newsletter Archive > January, 2006

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A note from netTrekker:

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.

Share Your netTrekker Success Story on Technology & Learning's Educators' eZine:

Technology & Learning is looking for educators to share their success stories about how they're using netTrekker in their schools and classrooms. They are specifically looking for educators to write for the Educators' eZine section of www.techlearning.com.

To learn more about how to submit an article for the Educator’s eZine, please visit http://www.techlearning.com/
content/speak/articles/write.html
or contact Gwen Solomon, Director of TechLearning.com at gwensol@earthlink.com.

In the Field with netTrekker d.i.:

At Mesquite ISD in Texas, educators and students struggled in the past to find safe, pornography-free images on the Internet to use in classroom activities. Mary Woodard, Director of Library Services, said,

"One of the struggles in our district is how to provide quality, appropriate images for our students to use in projects and presentations. The Google image search was just too risky. The new image search in netTrekker d.i. is just what we needed to solve this problem."

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Welcome back to school! We hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday and we wish you a very happy new year! By now you have probably started thinking about meaningful and attainable New Year's goals and resolutions for yourself and for the classroom!

One of netTrekker's goals this year is to provide a variety of resources and tips that will help with the implementation and promotion of netTrekker usage at your school or district.

netTrekker
Tip of the Month

Implementation and Promotion

To assist with the implementation and promotion of netTrekker in your school or district, we want to share the following tools and resources with you to help you accomplish this more quickly and easily.

  •  IP Access
  •  Individual Account Registration
  •  Training and Professional Development
  •  Administrative Accounts
  •  Parent Communication

Please click here to learn more about these tools and resources.

netTrekker Classroom Activities Contest

Congratulations to Anu Chapin, Elementary Media Specialist, in Washington for submitting the winning netTrekker classroom activity where she collaborated with fifth grade teachers on a project that incorporated several netTrekker d.i. features.

Anu won a free one-year netTrekker d.i. subscription for a school of her choice and the netTrekker Prize Pack.  We understand that Anu has provided the free subscription to an elementary school in Oregon and the staff has been trained and are loving netTrekker d.i.!

To learn more about Anu’s classroom activity, please click here.

Product News

netTrekker Updates and Enhancements

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us as we continue to improve netTrekker. We encourage you to continue to use the online feedback or contact us sections to share your comments or suggestions about netTrekker with us. The following changes and enhancements have recently been made or will be made by early February based on customer feedback.

  •  New netTrekker Front Door and Domain Name
  •  New Layout of netTrekker Help Section
  •  New Atomic Learning Online Tutorials for netTrekker d.i.
  •  Refine Search to Filter out Wikipedia Sites
  •  Updates to netTrekker d.i. Legend

Please click here to learn more about these updates and enhancements.

Congratulations to Technology & Learning's 2005 Leaders of the Year Winners and Semifinalists

Congratulations to the following netTrekker customers who were recently recognized as technology trailblazers for their significant contributions to the implementation of technology in their school or district in the Technology & Learning 2005 Leaders of the Year contest.

Leader of the Year Winner

  •  Stephen Hefner, Superintendent
     Richland School District Two
     Columbia, SC

Leader of the Year Semifinalists

  •  Micha Villarreal, Director of Instructional Technology
  •  Larry Ferlazzo, Teacher
  •  Julie Masterson-Smith, Library Media Specialist
  •  Kelly Smith, Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services

Please click here to learn more about the semifinalist.

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