Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Exhibit Hall - Wednesday

www.facts4me.com

"More than 400 pages of engaging content written for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade readers.

Fifty dollars a year for a school site license.

RedHalo

http://www.redhalo.com/

This is an "online service for the distribution and management of digital learning content for environments where the learner is mobile." It's client installed on the device and runs in the background. Anything saved in the RedHalo folder in My Documents in automatically synchronized in the background. It's a free service and offers 1 GB of storage. Students could save their work there and access it anywhere.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

www.history.org/teach

They offer a series of specials on Williamsburg that are braodcast through CSD in St. Louis. There will be seven this year starting in October. There is a $500 charge and it includes much supporting material.

Netsmartz

http://www.netsmartz.org/

They have a new sheet out on blogging safety.

NetSupport School

http://www.netsupport-inc.com/

They offer a classroom management software similar to DyKnow. Cindy and I will investigate it this summer. Their cost is approximately $1100 (one-time fee) for the 20 tablets in middle school science. Yearly maintenance would be about $250.

Zarbeco

http://www.zarbeco.com/

They have a small electronic microscope which is a digital movie camera with 40 - 140 magnification. It includes a light and is connected to a computer through USB. It costs $250.

Lumens Integration, Inc.

http://www.mylumens.com/

They have a portable document with SXGA resolution. It costs $700 - $800. One nice feature is the ability to take a screen shot and show a divided screen with half showing a live picture and half the screen shot.

TakingITGlobal

http://www.tiged.org/

They offer a free service of connecting classes around the world. They offer blogs, podcasts, maps, live chat, discussion boards and student writing. For $30 a year, a teacher gets access to these tools. Vangie could be interested in this.

Toshiba

http://www.sell.toshiba.com/

Toshiba offers a 2700 lumen projector with wireless for under $1400. Could be interesting.

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