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THE LATEST IN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BOOKS & MATERIALS, FACILITIES, AND THE INTERNET NewProducts • • Kurt O. Dyrli • • • SCHOOL LOOP School Loop Standard Web Site Design Program Internet, Free to ﬁrst 100 districts School Web site design company School Loop has recently made its Standard product free to the ﬁrst 100 districts who sign up. Designed to be easy to use and to create functional and professional-looking Web sites, School Loop Standard enables districts, schools and teachers to design their own sites and easily publish news and events to be accessed by parents, students, employees and community members. A variety of page templates make design easy and do not require knowledge of HTML. These templates allow for a consistent look for all the sites in the district and include drag-and-drop tools such as tables, directories, calendars, news sections, images and more. Upgrades to more sophisticated products are also available. www.schoolloop.com APPLE iWork ’09 and iLife ’09 Ofﬁce and Multimedia Suites Software, $79 each Apple’s new software suites offer a variety of features useful to educators. An ofﬁce productivity suite, iWork includes Keynote, a presentation program that now allows advanced object transitions that animate objects in slideshows; Pages, a document program that includes new templates and a full-screen view mode; and Numbers, a spreadsheet program that can quickly organize data. A multimedia program, iLife includes major upgrades to each utility. Picture-organizing tool iPhoto now includes facial recognition and geotagging capabilities, iMovie now includes a precision video editing tool and video stabilization, and GarageBand offers iTunes-style video piano and guitar lessons for purchase and download. www.apple.com • ADOBE Creative Suite 4 Master Collection Design Program, Software, $2,499 Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 line is the company’s biggest software release ever and increases the collaboration between designers and developers to integrate the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, ﬁlm and video productions. A simpliﬁed workﬂow enables users to design across media more efﬁciently by making it easier to complete common tasks and switch between mediums without leaving a project. Designers will appreciate the new design capabilities of Adobe Flash 10, a variety of new tools bring 3D design center stage, and new online functions increase the collaborative possibilities of this deﬁnitive design software. www.adobe.com www.DistrictAdministration.com April 2009 47 http://www.schoolloop.com http://www.apple.com http://www.adobe.com http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - April 2009

District Administration - April 2009
Contents
From the Editor
Letters
News Update
Assessment
Conversations
Administrator Profile
District Profile
Education’s Shot in the Arm
Lessons Learned from Columbine’s 10th Anniversary
An Interview with Columbine’s Superintendent, Cynthia Stevenson
Keeping Track of Technology
Classroom Technology Integration
How Well Does This Web Site Work?
Professional Opinion
Research Center
New Products
Product Focus
Online Edge

District Administration - April 2009