Issue 3, Volume 8 - April 2008

Teacher Appreciation Week

netTrekker d.i. salutes all teachers throughout the year for your endless work in and out of the classroom and we want to show our appreciation for you during Teacher Appreciation Week! We'd like to send you a Success Strategies poster developed by Joe Caruso as a classroom tool for teachers to promote Joe's top 20 success strategies for youth and students of all ages.  Be one of the first 500 educators to submit a favorite website from netTrekker d.i. and we'll send you a Success Strategies poster valued at $12.50. We'll share your favorites in each newsletter.

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Top 100 Districts Honored in Safe Search Awards Program

Forsyth County Named #1 User

Congratulations to the Top 100 Districts in the first-ever netTrekker d.i. Safe Search Awards Program recognizing districts that are keeping kids safest when searching on the Internet.  Districts were honored for outstanding usage in the 2006-2007 school year and for their extremely successful district-wide implementations of netTrekker d.i.

Forsyth County Schools in Cumming, GA, earned top honors as the #1 district, with nearly 6 million searches.

Christine Willig, president of Thinkronize, presents a
$5,000 prize package to Forsyth County Schools.
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Best Practice

MaryJo Humphreys, Director of Instructional Technology at Round Rock ISD, ranked #14 in the Safe Search Awards Program, offers several ways the district encourages the use of netTrekker d.i. with students and staff:

1) links from our library web pages.

2) links in the librarian-created "pathfinders."

3) links on the second tab of Internet Explorer or a link on the desktop of all computers (created during the setup and imaging process of new equipment) and/or set the default "live search" on IE as netTrekker d.i.

4) emphasis on the use of netTrekker d.i. when our Instructional Coaches, Technology Integration Specialists, and Librarians work with teachers.

Product News
April Enhancements

The Technical & Product Team at Thinkronize is always working to make netTrekker d.i. easier, more robust, and more efficient for educators, students, and parents.

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Spectrum K12 Partners with Thinkronize to Provide Technology Solution that Helps Special Needs Students Achieve

Thinkronize has partnered with Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive management solutions for special populations in K-12, to share complimentary products and services to better serve the special needs student as well as their parents, teachers, and administrators.

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eChalk and Thinkronize Bring Successes of Technology Immersion to Schools Nationwide

Thinkronize and eChalk, developers of a comprehensive online communication environment that supports leadership, teaching, and learning, announced at the Texas Computer Education Association Conference (TCEA) in February that they will partner to offer schools nationwide a safe and secure online learning environment with standards-based digital content.

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Tip of The Month
May
Easily find classroom resources for Cinco de Mayo in any grade level.
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June
Have FUN this summer using netTrekker d.i. activities and learning games to strengthen math and reading skills!
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Our Customers
"Even though nettrekker d.i. is very easy to use, we purchased a 1-hour professional development webinar for our trainers along with our subscription so they could see all that netTrekker d.i. has to offer.  The training was one of the best we've had from an outside vendor because they worked with us in streamlining the training to our needs, answered all of our questions, and gave us great advice for running our staff development sessions.  My training staff was very excited and able to train our teachers the very next week using the materials covered during this session."
Joncia Lytwynec
Director of Curriculum
Simsbury Public Schools, CT
Student Use
"I needed to do a report on John Smith and I used the Famous Person search to find all the information I needed.  Also, the image search helped me with pictures for my display board.  At home, my parents always let me on the internet, as long as I use netTrekker d.i."
Merit dressed as John Smith
Merit
5th Grade Student
Mitchell Intermediate School, TX
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FAQs from Contact Us

Q: What happened to the option to select teacher, student, or parent when a new login is registered?

Q: Why are Wikipedia sites included in your safe search engine?

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