netTrekker Partners With the Arkansas Department of Education to Provide
Students, Educators With High-Quality Online Content
Two-year adoption of netTrekker offers Arkansas districts access to safe,
reliable and relevant educational resources
CINCINNATI, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arkansas Department of Education (ADOE)
has signed a two-year agreement with netTrekker, a leader in the delivery of
digital K-12 educational content and developer of the leading educational
search tool, to provide districts statewide with access to online
instructional resources. Through the partnership, more than 460,000 public
school students and teachers will have access to the netTrekker search tool
for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years. Students enrolled in teacher
education programs also will gain access to netTrekker, allowing them to
become familiar with its features and capabilities to incorporate resources in
their own classrooms in the future.
"The Arkansas Department of Education is pleased that netTrekker's resources
and features are now available to all public school students and teachers in
Arkansas," said Jim Boardman, assistant commissioner of research and
technology for the Arkansas Department of Education. "The netTrekker tools
ensure that students and teachers will receive excellent, educationally
relevant Internet search results and instructional resources."
netTrekker provides students and educators with over 300,000 educator-reviewed
and state standards-aligned digital resources. A universal design for learning
and a variety of unique features designed to support personalized learning
enable netTrekker to support every student's individual learning needs.
The state's two-year subscription for netTrekker's service also supports the
EAST® Initiative, a program funded by the ADOE that focuses on student-driven
service projects through the use of technology. Established in 1996, the EAST
Initiative has successfully engaged students in their education, their
communities and emerging technologies.
"netTrekker's powerful, collaborative tools help our students to explore and
develop their projects," said Matt Dozier, president and CEO of the EAST
Initiative. "We believe that the work we are doing together will lead to a
better educational experience for our students and ultimately to their
contributions in improving communities around the world."
Many educators in the state were already using netTrekker through district
subscriptions. "netTrekker has been the first stop for our student Internet
research for the last three years," said Jim Yeager, director of instructional
technology for Pottsville School District in Pottsville. "Not only has it
saved our students countless hours of fruitless searching, but it has added a
collection of valuable tools for our teachers. It has become one of the most
important tools in our district."
Representatives from the 15 Education Service Cooperatives across the state
have already begun training as netTrekker administrators, and are moving
quickly to start training with districts across Arkansas.
For information on the Arkansas Department of Education, please visit
http://arkansased.org/.
For more information on netTrekker, please visit http://www.netTrekker.com.
About netTrekker
netTrekker is a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content.
The company is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with
highly effective technologies that deliver the rich educational value of the
Internet to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. netTrekker is
the #1 educational search tool and was first to market with a standards-based
solution utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks, the premier provider
of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools,
and integration products. Peers, educators and parents have honored netTrekker
more than 25 times for its contribution to education. Founded in 1999 by
Robert Reinders, the company serves millions of students and thousands of
schools around the world. For more information, visit www.netTrekker.com or
phone 877-517-1125.
SOURCE netTrekker
Laura Hannah, Marketing Manager of netTrekker, +1-513-731-4090,
lhannah@netTrekker.com; or Kristen Plemon of C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.,
+1-608-839-9805, kristen@cblohm.com, for netTrekker
