Issue 4, Volume 8 - November 2008

2007-2008 netTrekker d.i. Safe Search Awards Announced

Forsyth Co. 5th grade teacher at Promethean ACTIVboard with students Evie & Olivia

Thinkronize and netTrekker d.i. honor the following 100 districts for their outstanding commitment to keeping students safe when searching the Internet for educational purposes. This year's list was categorized into small, medium, and large-sized districts. The number of safe searches by district ranged from 460,000 to 7.2 million.




Top Three Districts in Each Category

  Large-sized Medium-sized Small-sized
1. Forsyth County Schools, GA Blue Springs School District, MO Dupage County School District 45, IL
2. Sacramento City USD, CA Pflugerville ISD, TX Jonesboro Public Schools, AR
3. Greenville County School District, SC Valley View Community Unit SD 365U, IL Woodridge School District 68, IL

We applaud all of the Top 100 districts for providing their students with safe, relevant digital content, and for improving the learning process with innovative technology solutions like netTrekker d.i. A special congratulations to Forsyth County Schools in suburban Atlanta for topping the list for the 2nd year in a row.

To see the full list of districts and learn more about the Safe Search Awards program, click here.


LearningStation's Test Builder is an Integral Partner to netTrekker d.i.

We've teamed LearningStation's Test Builder, a fast and easy formative assessment tool perfect for classroom use, with netTrekker d.i.'s standards-based instructional resources to deliver an integrated solution that helps teachers understand on a daily basis what their students are really mastering.

Check Out Post-Election Content

Now that the polls are closed, keep your students interested in civic engagement with the following netTrekker d.i. resources.

Visit netTrekker d.i.'s Blog

Our blog will bring you educational best practices, ways to integrate netTrekker d.i. with our partners' products, 21st century learning skills ideas, as well as training and implementation strategies.

NT101 Online Course Coming in January '09

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Broward, Palm Beach, & Baltimore Districts Choose netTrekker d.i.

Three of our nation's largest school districts have chosen netTrekker d.i. to ensure their students are searching safely online. Now educators in Florida's Broward County Public Schools and The School District of Palm Beach County, and Maryland's Baltimore County Public Schools are providing their students and teachers with netTrekker d.i.'s educational search tools and resources.

The three new district-wide adoptions bring the total number of students with access to netTrekker d.i. to over 12 million. Developed by Thinkronize, Inc., netTrekker d.i. is used by over 600,000 teachers in 21,000 schools in all 50 states.

Increase Usage with Quick & Easy Access to netTrekker d.i.

The top netTrekker d.i. districts increase usage with the following easy access tips:

  • Make netTrekker d.i. your school's default homepage
  • Add netTrekker d.i. to your bookmarks
  • Add netTrekker d.i. to your toolbar
  • Create a desktop link to netTrekker d.i.
  • Create a netTrekker d.i. login box
  • Create a netTrekker d.i. search box

Fine Arts Students Produce a Curriculum Guide

Students in Richland Northeast High School's Palmetto Center for the Arts Dance Ensemble present several performances of a ballet each fall. As a part of a performance for district students, the PCA students use resources from netTrekker d.i.'s Multicultural Pavilion to produce a companion curriculum guide that is distributed electronically to teachers across the district.


Our Customers

"We have had an amazingly positive experience implementing netTrekker d.i. in the Sheboygan Falls Schools. On August 27th every teacher in our district received an hour of hands-on training in using the site. The response has been very impressive! Teachers immediately began to develop lessons using netTrekker d.i. We have already seen more than 47,000 page views by our elementary school alone since the training. I have never experienced this kind of immediate and positive response to the implementation of a new program. It is exciting to be teaching this product to educators!"

Martin Gross
Technology Specialist, Sheboygan Falls School District
Sheboygan Falls, WI


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