Still Swirling Around: SoftwareOnline Trends

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Still Swirling Around Software/Online Trends

• NCDPI
• October 2002

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Software Whos Left?

• Vivendi (Knowledge Adventure, Sunburst, Houghton
  Mifflin, etc.)
• Scholastic (Tom Snyder, Grolier)
• Riverdeep (Learning Co., Edmark, Logal, etc.)
• Pearson (CCC, DK, Longman, etc.)

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Ramifications

• One-stop shopping
• Less product development
• Instability of product availability and support

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Continuing Trend CD to Online

• CD and Online Versions
• Tom Snyders Reading for Meaning and Decisions,
  Decisions
• CD Morphing into Online Versions
• SASinSchool - Curriculum Pathways

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Trends - Real World Approach

• CDs with Visualization/modeling and Video
  Scenarios
• Crocodile Series
• Between the Lines, etc.
• Problem Solving Online
• Gales Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• Tom Snyders Decisions, Decisions Online

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Trends

• Interactive Books
• SIRS Interactive Citizenship Series
• Beyond Books Series
• Testing/Assessment (24/7!)
• Comprehensive Curriculum Packages
• e.g., Compass Learning

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Trends

• Online Professional Development for Teaching
  Strategies
• e.g., Scholastic RED
• Online Tutoring
• e.g., brainfuse

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Trend to Watch - PDAs

• Some current uses
• Administrative/record-keeping/scheduling
• Word processing, spreadsheets, etc.
• Data collection
• E-mail and Web access
• Note taking (in and out of classroom)
• Sharing information via beaming

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Trend 508 Compliancy (Not there yet)

• eSchool News Report (9/17/02)
• MARTEC database (280 titles - none fully
  compliant)
• Our experience Digital Field Trip to the
  Rainforest AT

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Stay Tuned...