Interwrite Workspace- ExamView Edition, eInstruction

Designed for use with interactive whiteboards or wireless tablets, Interwrite Workspace- ExamView Edition includes over 50 tools and 4,000 resources for creating, annotating and capturing lessons and activities. The new ExamView integration provides educators with the means to assess student comprehension. In addition, Workspace can be used with any program or content teachers are already using.

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www.raz-kids.com, Learning A-Z

Raz-Kids is a motivational website that delivers student-centered reading experiences with books, songs, and poetry at students’ reading level. Books span 27 levels. A listen-to mode with fun animation and sound effects, models fluency and is great for reading along. A read mode allows fluency practice and permits students to record and play back their reading. Following book readings, students take online comprehension quizzes. For further motivation, students earn reading and quiz points that they use for purchasing items and fun characters for their space-themed clubhouse.

Raz-Kids has a teacher-friendly management tool. Teacher can build a roster and assign passwords for 36 students. Students are assigned a reading level. The program default takes students, after logging in, to a page displaying all books at their assigned reading level. Once they read these books and pass quizzes they are moved to the next level. The teacher can make optional customized assignments or open a bookroom to all books in the Raz-Kids collection. Teachers can view and print out student reading reports.

Raz-Kids encourages critical independent reading practice at school or home and helps build reading proficiency.

SIIA Members can log in to www.raz-kids.com using the following username "codieSIIA" and password "welcome."

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DRA2 Handheld -Tango Software Edition, Pearson

With DRA™2 Handheld – Tango™ Software Edition, teachers have a tool in the palm of their hands for measuring student reading ability and linking the results to instruction. Developed by Pearson in collaboration with Liberty Source, this device is the latest technology for using the Developmental Reading Assessment™, Second Edition (DRA2). This easy-to-use, portable technology allows teachers to administer DRA2 quickly — with no software installation required. The DRA™2 Handheld – Tango™ Software Edition is also a greener option, saving the time and expense of photocopying.

Built on more than 20 years of research and development, the DRA2 is an accurate, widely used assessment that helps identify each student’s reading ability and level, document progress and tailor teaching to drive effective reading instruction. Using state-of-the-art handheld technology, the DRA2 Handheld – Tango Software Edition allows teachers to follow the same four simple steps to administer the reading assessment; technology just allows them to do so smarter, faster and more accurately. Using the DRA2 Handheld ensures consistent assessment administration to guarantee reliable results across schools in a district. The DRA2 Handheld solution is fast, accurate and at educators’ fingertips when they need it. It takes the “managing” out of managing data.

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Visagraph� III, Reading Plus by Taylor Associates

The Visagraph� III is an objective measurement system for recording and evaluating reading efficiency (fluency). It analyzes data collected via a patented input device (goggles) that track and record eye movement real-time as a student is reading leveled text. In minutes, a detailed analysis of a student's reading level is generated. Data collected can be used pre/post and to guide intervention.

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http://www.lecturetools.org, University of Michigan

LectureTools offers an advanced student response system that enables students to type notes synchronized with the lecture slides; self-assess their understanding; pose questions and view answers; draw on lecture slides; respond to wide range of instructor question types; listen to podcasts; and print lecture slides and notes for off-line review.

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