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January 2009 | PG 1
IN THIS ISSUE NaNcy’S NoTESa NoTE from THE EdITor 
Speaking o investing
The Florida Educational TechnologyConerence (FETC) is just days away. Thisissue o the newsletter will tell you what youneed to know to make the most o your timewith SMART at FETC. You’ll ind a scheduleo our stage presentations and daily prizegiveaways, and you’ll learn about some oour latest innovations that we’ve broughtto show you. And to discover more aboutSMART Sync 2009, the latest version o ourclassroom management sotware, read theproduct spotlight onpages 6 and 7.Have you already subscribed to this ree,monthly e-newsletter rom SMART? I not,it’s easy to sign up on our websiteateducation.smarttech.com/subscribe.I you have any comments about thenewsletter or any o the inormationeatured in this issue, we’d love to hearrom you. Please e-mail your eedback toeducation@smarttech.com.Nancy’s Notes..........................................1Classroom Content...............................2–5News....................................................2–5Feature Article.........................................3SMART Showcase School Proile..............5Product Spotlight..................................6–7From recent conversations I’ve had withadministrators and teachers in the UnitedStates, I know educators are worried aboutwhat the uture holds beyond this budgetyear. Public announcements o cutbacks havebeen prominently eatured lately, and thoughmany administrators remain conident aboutunding or the current iscal year, they areconcerned about the next.Given these circumstances, it’s high time that issues around education unding werelaid out or discussion and debate by all concerned, not just those in the business oeducation. We could start by considering the ollowing:Why is education unded at the district level, rather than at the state or ederal
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level? Would a per-student state unding model blur or even eradicate the distinctionbetween have and have-not schools – at least in terms o public unding sources?What is the appropriate amount o time over which administrators should have
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budget visibility? Is year-to-year really the only way to go?While everyone agrees that student outcomes are the primary ocus o the education
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system, a certain level o input or investment is required. How can unding prioritiesbe established without undue consideration o whether times are good or bad?Money is always a controversial topic because there isn’t an unlimited supply. Makingchoices is hard. But it’s better to talk about the elephant in the room than just ignoreit and hope that everything works out. Investing or the long term takes vision,commitment and healthy discussion and debate.You’ll see the results o our investment decisions on display at trade shows and inannouncements over the coming months. We listened to customer input and workedhard to anticipate needs and requirements – with the goal o delivering powerul tools tohelp in technology-enabled 21st-century classrooms. We hope you will appreciate whatyou see and experience.All the best in 2009.Nancy Knowlton
is the CEO of SMART Technologies.
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January 2009
Welcome to theFETC 2009 edition oEDCompass
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January 2009 | PG 2
January 21–24, 2009Orange County Convention CenterOrlando, FloridaSMART booth 1401
claSSroom coNTENT
Find hundreds o proessionally developedK–12 lesson activitieson our educationwebsite. The lessons are correlated tolocal curriculum standards and created byclassroom teachers or SMART’s team ocurriculum resource developers.Try one o the ollowing SMART-created lessonactivities during your next science, math orgeography class.
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: You must have SMART Notebooksotware 10 to download these lessonactivities.Upgrade your sotware.Food FuelsK–3 science students can learn which oodsthey need or energy and which oods helpthem grow. Students can sort a variety odierent oods into these two categories.Flip ImagesMath students in grades 4–6 can learnabout lip images, inding out how torecord the vertex, its lip image locationand its mirror line. They can then practicedrawing the lip image o various polygons.PopulationGeography students in grades 10–12 canind out which parts o the world aredensely populated and why.
SMART Notebooklesson activities
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Visit us at FETC
5:00 p.m.
SMART Table
5:30 p.m.
SMART Classroom Suite
6:00 p.m.
SMART Notebook math content
6:30 p.m.
SMART Learning Marketplace
6:50 p.m.
Daily prize draw
Friday, January 23Saturday, January 24
9:30 a.m.
SMART Sync 2009 SMART Classroom Suite
10:00 a.m.
Meet a SMART Exemplary EducatorSMART Notebook sotware 10
10:30 a.m.
SMART TableSMART Notebook math content
11:00 a.m.
Senteo
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assessment sotware 2.0 Senteo assessment sotware 2.0
11:30 a.m.
SMART Learning MarketplaceSMART Learning Marketplace
12:00 noon
Meet a SMART Exemplary EducatorSMART Table
12:30 p.m.
SMART Board
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interactivewhiteboard basicsSMART Board interactivewhiteboard basics
1:00 p.m.
SMART Notebook sotware 10SMART Sync 2009
1:30 p.m.
Florida curriculum solutionsSMART Notebook SE
2:00 p.m.
SMART Sync 2009Florida curriculum solutions
2:30 p.m.
SMART TableDaily prize draw
3:00 p.m.
SMART Notebook math content
3:30 p.m.
Meet a SMART Exemplary Educator
4:00 p.m.
Senteo assessment sotware 2.0
4:30 p.m.
SMART Notebook SE
5:00 p.m.
SMART Classroom Suite
5:30 p.m.
SMART Learning Marketplace
6:00 p.m.
Daily prize draw
SMART booth presentations
SMART is excited to be at FETC again this year – we hope you can stop by our booth to sayhello! When you’re there, you can learn about some o our latest products and services, winprizes and hear presentations on a variety o technology topics.I you’re attending the conerence, carry this list o SMART’s presentations and prizegiveaways so you can attend the sessions that interest you and ensure you’re at our boothwhen we’re giving away ree prizes.
Thursday, January 22
 
January 2009 | PG 3
claSSroom coNTENT
Find a database oSenteo question sets on our education website. Each set includes10 questions that are correlated to localcurriculum standards and are compatiblewith a matching SMART-created lessonactivity on the same topic.Try one o the ollowing Senteo questionsets with your language arts, social studiesor math students.Fact or Opinion: Do You Know the Dierence? Language arts students in grades 2–4 cantest their ability to dierentiate between aact and an opinion.United States Geography QuizSocial studies students in grades 4–6can test their ability to identiy variousU.S. states.Coordinate GeometryMath students in grade 7–9 can test theirability to calculate the area and perimetero shapes.
Senteo question sets
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Sehrab and Joseph are two irst-grade students in Heather Lister’s multi-aged primaryclassroom in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They don’t really care that a team o visionary peoplerom various departments at SMART Technologies worked hard to put thisSMART Table into their Montessori classroom. They’re not concerned about the engineers who spent longhours creating the sotware that makes this table respond to little ingers. And their curiositylikely wouldn’t be piqued by the designers who made prototype tables or many years until,inally, the product was ready or Killarney Elementary School.Sehrab and Joseph are ar too busy trying out the SMART Table.
 
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During FETC, you’ll have many opportunities to win prizes rom SMART. Here are just a ew:
Wear a SMART T-shirt and win!
All FETC attendees will receive a T-shirt-shaped handout rom SMART in their conerence bag.Fill it out and bring it to the SMART booth to receive a ree SMART T-shirt. I you’re spottedwearing it on the trade show loor, you could win a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. Themore you wear your shirt, the more chances you’ll have to win!
SMART Notebook SE USB bracelet
SMART Notebook SE (Student Edition) is now available on aconvenient USB silicon bracelet. When you attend a boothpresentation on SMART Notebook SE, you can walk away withyour own plug-in-and-go USB bracelet that’s loaded with the beta version o the sotware.The bracelet oers your students portable interactive learning sotware thatcomplements SMART Notebook. They can plug the bracelet into any computer, completetheir assignments and save their work to a single, portable USB key with 2 GB o space.The bracelets are currently compatible with the Windows
®
operating system – a Macversion and cross-platorm version are currently under development.
SMART Notebook math content CD
I you’re a math teacher, you won’t want to miss the SMART Notebook math contentpresentation. Attendees will receive a ree CD loaded with math content to use withtheir SMART products (while quantities last).
Win prizes at the SMART boothLearning through touch
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