Curriculum/Content
Delivery Software & Resources
Advanced
Academics
Advanced Academics, partnering with school districts, delivers
rigorous, state-correlated courses over the Web to help students
catch-up, advance and graduate on time.
www.advancedacademics.com
Apex
Learning
They help educators meet the needs of all students – from
those not succeeding in a classroom to those
capable of accelerating their learning – with multiple approaches
to online learning.
www.apexlearning.com
CompassLearning
CompassLearning is an innovative education technology solution
company, delivering research-based,
standards-based assessments, aligned PreK-12 curriculum, and comprehensive
data reporting for
improved student achievement.
www.compasslearning.com
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E-Rate
Universal
Service Administrative Company
The main administrative authority for all E-rate submissions.
www.sl.universalservice.org
E-Rate
Central
Dedicated to simplifying the E-rate Program for schools, libraries,
and vendors.
www.e-ratecentral.com
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Leadership
& News
The
Consortium for School Networking
COSN’s mission is to promote the use of information technologies
and the Internet to ensure technology has a positive effect on
learning by focusing on leadership development, coalition building,
advocacy and emerging technologies.
www.cosn.org
eSchool
News
First published in March of 1998, eSchool News is a monthly print
newspaper providing the news and
information necessary to help K – 20 decision-makers successfully
use technology and the Internet to
transform North America’s schools and colleges and achieve
educational goals.
www.eschoolnews.org
U.S.
Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology
(OET)
Provides leadership to the nation in using technology to promote
achievement of the National Education Goals and to increase opportunities
for all students to achieve State content and challenging State
student performance standards, by supporting the overall national
technology policy and consulting with other Federal departments
of agencies.
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology
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Online
Collaboration
Gaggle.net
Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe email accounts for students.
The tools we provide allow schools to
finally feel secure when giving their students email access. On
the Gaggle Network teachers control
what can be written and who can correspond with the students.
Messages with inappropriate words are
automatically re-routed to the teacher's account. This allows
the teacher to decide whether or not the
student gets to see the message.
www.gaggle.net
QuickTopic
For any quick group discussion you could use QuickTopic’s
free bulletin boards instead of just e-mail.
Your messages will be in a private central place. Your friends
can participate by e-mail or use the web
forum, because QuickTopic’s super-easy web bulletin boards
let you get and post messages by e-mail.
You can use it on your own web site too.
www.quicktopic.com
CommunityZero
CommunityZero is an interactive web site that allows a group of
people to communicate and exchange
information over the Internet in their own private and secure
area. Within each area, called an online
community, participants are provided access to a suite of powerful
tools that enable a group to
effectively get organized, share knowledge and communicate
www.communityzero.com
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Project-Based
Learning Tools
Project
Foundry
Project Foundry is a proven, practical web-based tool for the
classroom that builds on the strengths of
project-based learning. Flexible in a variety of educational environments
and applications, Project
Foundry has evolved over the last three years from a successful
urban training organization.
www.projectfoundry.com
Creative
Learning Systems
CommunityZero is an interactive web site that allows a group of
people to communicate and exchange
information over the Internet in their own private and secure
area. Within each area, called an online
community, participants are provided access to a suite of powerful
tools that enable a group to
effectively get organized, share knowledge and communicate.
www.creativelearningonline.com
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Student
Data Management Software
PowerSchool
PowerSchool, a web-based student information system from Apple,
simplifies data-driven decision
making by providing real-time information to all stakeholders
– over the Internet. Administrators get
the most accurate information to make more effective decisions.
Teachers gain timesaving
administrative tools, parents gain immediate access to their children’s
grades, and students can track
their own progress. Works with both PC and Apple computers alike.
www.powerschool.com
JMC
JMC Combines the elements of simplicity, affordability, and support
to offer the finest in Student Record Management Software. Their
unsurpassed technical support means you will always feel confident
and comfortable.
www.jmcinc.com
Chancery
Student Management Solutions
Chancery SMS supports statewide implementations, school districts,
school, classrooms and homes.
Chancery SMS delivers the lowest total cost of ownership through
its web-based, open architecture. It
also offers a role-based educational dashboard that provides teachers
and administrators with specific
information they need to allocate resources and time effectively
and make informed, data-driven
decisions that support and enhance student performance.
www.chancery.com
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Technology
Planning
MN
Department of Education: Technology Guide for 2008
The official technology planning guide for the 2008-2009 planning
cycle.
http://education.state.mn.us/mdeprod/groups/SchImprove/documents/Report/003528.pdf
Taking
a Good Look at Instructional Technology (TAGLIT)
TAGLIT is a suite of assessment tools designed to help principals
and other school leaders gather,
analyze, and report information about how technology is used for
teaching and e-learning in their
schools.
www.taglit.org
North
Central Regional Education Laboratory enGauge
The enGauge Online Assessment is designed to provide a system
wide view of a school’s and/or district’s use of technology
for teaching and learning. The online assessment comprises surveys
for nine different school community stakeholders. Once an enGauge
project has been set up and survey participants have taken the
surveys, several types of reports/profiles are generated.
www.ncrel.org/engauge
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