Micha Villarreal:
Interim Director of Instructional Technology
Ysleta ISD, TX |
"The first time I saw netTrekker, I thought to myself,
‘Wow, why hadn’t someone thought of this before?'" |
Tish Mulkey:
Assistant Director for Learning Media Services
Plano ISD, TX |
"Of all the electronic resources that we’ve purchased
in the last few years, netTrekker is going to be close to the top, if not
the top." |
Kathy Platt:
Technology Integration Specialist
Cobb County School District, GA |
"It’s the first resource that we’ve had
that a teacher can search by standard and go to an internet resource that
their students can use in the classroom." |
Kevin Reed:
Staff Development Coordinator
Memphis City Schools, TN |
"As soon as we got netTrekker, we began doing everything
we possibly could to roll it out." |
| Micha Villarreal: |
"netTrekker meets the needs of pre-K through twelfth
grade students and teachers, and further, it crosses all curriculum boundaries.
You get tremendous bang for your buck because you know it’s being
used." |
| Kevin Reed: |
"Our teachers just love it. I've never had teachers
come up and say, 'Are we going to get to keep it? Are we going to get to
keep it? Are we still going to have it next year?' I've never seen them
so excited about anything. Honestly!" |
Todd Slaughter:
Teacher
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, OH |
"netTrekker has given me this amazing feeling of accomplishment.
I can go onto the web site, I can type in a particular keyword . . . and
then netTrekker, within moments, pulls up every relative direct hit that
will give me the type of information that I need." |
| Micha Villarreal: |
"We did a search on the Alamo because that’s
part of our Texas standards . . . We put 'Alamo' into Google and came up
with probably two point five million hits. And the top hit was Alamo Rent-A-Car…
But in netTrekker I think there were over three hundred hits and they were
all related to education. They were educator reviewed and aligned to our
state's standards. So right away, a teacher who is using netTrekker is
going to realize the instructional value of that product." |
| Todd Slaughter: |
"I was immediately taken by the beautiful web layout
design of the product, how everything was just perfectly lined out for
whatever particular topic that I needed. And when I saw that, I thought
to myself, ‘Hey, this is great . . . this is going to be something
that is going to actually reinforce what I’m trying to do in the
classroom.'" |
| Kevin Reed: |
"We can see that it is helping teachers and students . . .
With netTrekker it is like, ‘Oh, my gosh, thank you. This has saved
me time. This has made my life so much easier.'" |
| Micha Villarreal: |
"Time is money, and teachers are under-the-gun to produce
results when it comes to testing. With netTrekker time is of the essence
- it takes care of things immediately." |
| Tish Mulkey: |
"And of course, anything that’s easy to use is
going to be high on everybody’s list because you don’t want
to look at a web site that is so convoluted that you can’t find what
you really need." |
| Kathy Platt: |
"I’ve had teachers where I showed it to them
on a Monday and by the next Monday they had found a resource for their
current content area, and used it, used the lesson plan in the classroom
with kids during a one week period." |
| Tish Mulkey: |
"The unique thing about netTrekker that has made it
so important to our district is that it brings the librarian and the teacher
closer to understanding the specific resources that will help their students
to match up with our state standards." |
| Kevin Reed: |
"(Teachers) have to teach to the standards, so when
you can go on a site and say, ‘Here is the standard and boom, here
are ten resources that are going to help you accomplish teaching these
standards and help your students learn these specific skills - and do it
within seconds.’ They're hooked." |
| Kathy Platt: |
"netTrekker is the best product that we found to integrate
our state standards into our core curricula." |
| Todd Slaughter: |
"And what teachers are finding out is that when kids go onto netTrekker,
you can actually see the expressions on their face, like, 'Wow, this
is really cool.'"
"This is what we’ve really been looking for - a type of interactive,
user-friendly, quick internet system that gives me exactly what I need.
And when students get onto the system, and they see that, that brings
a great sense of joy and accomplishment to the teacher."
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| Kathy Platt: |
"When a teacher tells me that netTrekker is one of the best tools
that I have shown her, then it makes me feel successful - it makes me
feel like I’ve done my job."
"As a Technology Integration Specialist, I want to provide teachers
with resources that they can go back and immediately use in their classroom
with their students - and that they feel successful using. So, that makes
me feel successful."
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| Kevin Reed: |
"I think netTrekker helps the teachers kind of relight
their fire… You can actually kind of take some time to remember,
“Oh, this, this is why I did this. This is great. There is actually
learning going on." |
| Todd Slaughter: |
"And there is no greater feeling for a teacher to be
able to present material that kids actually learn and understand and then
can regurgitate back to you and say, 'Mr. Slaughter or, Mr. and Mrs. Whomever-You-May-Be,
I really have grasped and understood what you were trying to teach today.'
And, that type of feeling that netTrekker provides for us is absolutely
amazing." |
