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NetOp School Wins Technology & Learning Magazine "Award of Excellence 2002"NetOp School's second major award of the year, which recognizes the best K-12 educational software productsBoca Raton, Fl - NetOp School, which provides teachers with a powerful combination of essential tools for networked classroom instruction won an "Award of Excellence" from Technology and Learning Magazine, one of the education industry’s leading trade publications. NetOp School, the premier educational resource for networks, beat hundreds of worldwide competitors when it received the industry’s coveted award for providing the best software tools for supervision, instruction, and classroom productivity in the K-12 educational markets. The award is NetOp School's second major distinction of the year. In May, the product was named winner of the prestigious Media and Methods Magazine Portfolio Award. “We are thrilled to receive this award, particularly since it comes from the country’s leading educators,” noted Doug Taylor, Vice President of Marketing for CrossTec. “This represents an industry-wide recognition of the impact NetOp School is making throughout North America in teaching and learning.” 2002 Awards of Excellence – Technology & Learning Magazine The Awards of Excellence program is now in its 20th year. The magazine's December Awards Issue will cover winning products in the feature article. The AOE recognizes the best K-12 educational software and Web sites. Technology & Learning Awards of Excellence is one of the only awards programs in which K-12 classroom educators and technology coordinators participate in an extensive on-site judging process that takes place over the course of several weeks. Curriculum products, school management tools, and professional development offerings are all evaluated for their instructional design, appropriateness of content, creative use of computer technology, and suitability for the classroom. How NetOp Works NetOp School, which is used in more than 50 countries worldwide, once again sets new standards for networked software that helps teachers teach. With NetOp School instructors now have even more options for instruction, supervision and support of their students within a networked classroom, library, computer lab, over an Internet or Intranet connection or with networked users who are seated at their individual workstations (in virtual classrooms). First released in 1997, NetOp School enables a teacher, or corporate instructor, to increase student time-on-task by being able to monitor their PC activity while they work. Teachers can also enhance classroom interactivity with NetOp by broadcasting live demo screens to participants; mark-up the featured screen to highlight a lesson; create monitored chat rooms or allow students to send private questions via an instant message button located on student PC. NetOp School provides many other tools to help instructors multi-task their efforts including the ability to send coursework and files to all student PCs, remote control students for one-on-one instruction, shut down or restart PCs and view their connected classroom in several different ways. NetOp School works without any additional hardware, projection system or classroom redesign and installs in less than two minutes. NetOp User Elaine Johnson, who teaches Computer Aided Drafting classes says, “NetOp is the answer for so many people, and I believe in the product and that it is the future for extended learning. We had to do a classroom change in the middle of the semester and move to a different building, our students were devastated throughout the period of time we did not use NetOp, they love it.” NetOp School 2.5 runs on Windows platforms such as Windows XP, 2000, NT, ME, and 95/98 along with Windows Terminal Server 2000/NT4. The program supports popular network protocols NetBIOS, IPX and TCP/IP. NetOp School 2.5 is provided on a CD-ROM with language versions in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch and Danish. NetOp School classroom packages are available at prices starting at $639. NetOp products, along with no-charge, toll-free technical support, are available throughout North America directly from the CrossTec Corporation or through our exclusive network of authorized resellers. For a free fully functional evaluation copy and additional information visit the CrossTec Web site at http://www.NetOpUSA.com, call 800-675-0729 (561-391-6560) or e-mail info@crossteccorp.com. Editorial Contact: Melissa Hoffman CrossTec Corporation 561-391-6560 Melissa@crossteccorp.com top of page |
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