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netTrekker is the award-winning academic search engine created by educators expressly for students, teachers and librarians. netTrekker delivers only the best educational resources from the entire Internet in an organized, safe, standards-aligned format to every desktop.

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• Helps you easily integrate technology and standards into the classroom and daily curricula

Qwizdom
Qwizdom, Inc. is a world leader in response system technology and interactive standards-based curriculum solutions. Dedicated to making learning effective and engaging for ALL students, our comprehensive approach keeps every student involved and our unique reporting features give teachers instant, real-time feedback. Our software allows the user to customize the presentation for the K-12, Higher Ed and Corporate audiences.

Qwizdom offers the most advanced radio-frequency response system technology available. Our easy authoring software lets you create outstanding lessons using digital video, sound files and images. Qwizdom's ReadySet curriculum packages are already tagged to your state's standards and allow for the best in data-driven instruction. With over 200,000 curriculum slides and images, our content is unmatched in the industry. Qwizdom was founded in 1984 and has offices in the United States and Europe.

Every day, tens of thousands of teachers around the world trust SMART's products to create an engaging learning environment. Whether in the kindergarten classroom or the university lecture hall, SMART is there. SMART products have been proven effective in increasing student engagement, motivation and learning, and in helping educators streamline lesson preparation.

SMART Technologies Inc. is both the industry pioneer and global market leader in easy-to-use interactive whiteboards and other group collaboration tools. SMART products include the family of award-winning SMART Board interactive whiteboards, as well as interactive pen displays, multimedia furniture and software. Visit www.smarttech.com for more information.

Supporting education initiatives across the country, Adobe Systems, Inc. enables a new way of teaching and learning by providing digital creation, communication and collaboration tools for classroom and campus-wide use. By offering industry leading products at accessible prices, free curriculum and resources for educators, Adobe is ensuring that teachers and students have access to the latest technology they need to be successful in and out of the classroom. Adobe continues to care and support the education market. For more information please visit: http://www.adobe.com/education

Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and support. Do you need to know how to produce an outline in Word, create a web page using Dreamweaver, or use transitions in PowerPoint? Atomic Learning has the answers! Atomic Learning uses a web-based show-and-tell approach to answer the common questions people have when learning software: just-in-time, just-enough. Atomic Learning's library of 14,000 tutorials covering over 80 different software applications works great as an integral part of a professional development program or as a curriculum supplement with students. It's like having a technology specialist in every classroom.

Educational institutions are increasingly embracing technology in the classroom as a means for improving academic achievement. Various digital technologies have been introduced in education over the years, beginning with projectors and televisions, later computers and smart boards, and finally video- and web-conferencing and the Internet. Unfortunately, these classroom technologies rarely complement each other, and the level of complexity to schedule and use the multitude of available devices make it difficult for even the most motivated educators to integrate technology into their lesson plans. Come and learn how AMX enables hundreds of education institutions nationwide to build an integrated technology infrastructure that extends from the electronic classroom to the institution-wide network to digital media distribution complete with centralized technology management tools. Take your technology management to the next level with AMX!

NComputing offers a new way to expand a network by creating up to 30 computing terminals from one host PC! Each PC Expanion terminal works independently and securely from each other thus, allowing each user to have their own desktop login ID and password. This technology helps to significantly reduce hardware and IT costs while increasing data security because all the information resides with the host PC instead of having individual PCs. The PC Expanion proprietary protocol works on most Linux OS, Microsoft XP Home, XP Professional, Microsoft MCE and Microsoft 2000/ 2003 Server.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in animation software solutions. Toon Boom carries several leading animation products, including Opus, Harmony, Solo, Studio and Express. In 2005, Toon Boom was granted the Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its significant contribution made to the animation industry targeted for television. Over the years, Toon Boom products have become the standard in animation training. Training facilities around the world have found Toon Boom products ideal for teaching animation to novices and experts alike, as part of 2D animation, 3D animation or design programs. Toon Boom Educational Program includes attractive discounts and instructional materials.

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