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NewProducts THE LATEST OFFERINGS IN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE and THE INTERNET • Carol Patton and Ken Royal ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES P100i Card Printer Hardware, $1,795 The P100i is a single-card printer that produces single-sided full-color or monochrome cards. Additionally it prints color employee and student ID cards, loyalty, gift, and membership cards, or transit and recreational passes in a single-card feed on various types of cards and technologies, including those that are preprinted. Besides providing both magnetic stripe and smart card encoding, it also offers USB and Ethernet connectivity so users can deploy and manage card printers on an enterprise-wide basis. Other features include an integrated cardholder that stores 100 cards in three separate bays to keep different types of cards easily available and clean before printing. www.zebra.com SPECTORSOFT Spector 360 Internet Use Monitor Software, $1,995/50 PC lab Spector 360 helps schools monitor students using the Internet. It records Web sites visited, e-mails sent and received, chats and instant messages sent and received, keystrokes typed, ﬁles transferred, documents printed and applications run. With its surveillancelike camera recording tool, it also shows in exact visual detail what students do every step of the way. Then it feeds that information into a database, offering more than 50 built-in reports and unlimited customization to answer questions such as which students are spending time surﬁng shopping sites, sports sites or adult sites, sending the most e-mails with attachments, or using anonymous e-mail services. ESOFT InstaGate Internet Use Monitor Hardware, Starting at $919 with a $299 annual subscription InstaGate with Web ThreatPak allows administrators to control where on the Web users can go and blocks inappropriate or dangerous sites. Blocking examples include phishing, viruses, spyware, and options to stop IMs (instant messaging), P2P (peer to peer) applications. It also addresses access to social networking sites. ThreatPak ak monitors and enforces the use of Internet resources and protects against legal liability brought on by inappropriate or illegal Internet activity. www.esoft.com www.spectorsoft.com SMART TECHNOLOGIES SMART Learning Marketplace Digital Resources Internet, $239, one year/single user SMART Learning Marketplace offers teachers access to a collection of more than one million regularly updated and copyright-cleared digital resources. It is delivered through the Global Grid for Learning and works with Notebook collaborative learning software. Users conduct a search in the software by subject, ﬁle type or grade level, or from the online search portal, and download content directly into their Notebook ﬁle. The content, which ranges from text to video clips, images, audio ﬁles and manipulatives, comes from top education publishers, museums, and technology and software educators. www.smartlearningmarketplace.com 62 February 2008 District Administration http://www.zebra.com http://www.esoft.com http://www.spectorsoft.com http://www.smartlearningmarketplace.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - February 2008

District Administration - February 2008
Contents
Editor’s Letter
Letters
News Update
Technology Update
Security Update
Virtual Schools Update
Curriculum Update
Inside the Law
District Profile
The “Other” Advanced Program
State of the Superintendency
Landing the Chief
Purchasing Security Products and Services
How Well Does This Web Site Work?
Speaking Out
Professional Opinion
Supervisor’s Opinion
Overheard on the Pulse
New Products
Problem Solution
Computer Literature
Research Corner
Calendar of Events
Products Showcase
Understanding the Times

District Administration - February 2008