“netTrekker is a great tool for both my students and teachers. Students can find reliable information quickly and teachers can easily incorporate state standards into their lesson plans. The variety of information and the ease of use make netTrekker a real time saver.”

Terry Palin
Librarian
San Antonio ISD
San Antonio, TX

Have you ever found a great list of websites and wanted to share them with your students? In netTrekker it’s easy to do. Once you have logged into your netTrekker account and completed a search, you may save and share those websites in your search results with other users within your school. This timesaving feature allows students to quickly use designated resources that you have set aside for them, on any desired topic. Students may log on to netTrekker from home or school and go directly into the list of websites that you have saved for them

• You can save your search results and organize them in folders for easy future access. You can then share your folders with other users from your school.

• You can edit the title of your search result, delete specific search results from your saved search, add additional websites to your saved search, email your saved search to a friend, and share your search with everyone on your school's network.

To learn how to save and share a search in netTrekker, please click here* to view the netTrekker Help topic on Share Your Saved Searches.*

netTrekker is a valuable resource that makes exploring Black History Month fun and easy for your students. In small groups have students research topics related to the Civil Rights movement.

• Keyword Searching* and Subject Searching* on these topics in netTrekker will provide a variety of resources.

  	Some examples include:* - Black History Month - Civil Rights Movement

• Using netTrekker’s Famous Person Search,* you can quickly and easily locate information about well-known people including political leaders, athletes, scientists, artists, writers and more.

  	Some examples include:* - African American Leaders - African American Writers

• netTrekker's Dynamic Timeline* provides a chronological index of eras, events, arts and innovations, and famous people throughout history.

  	One example includes:* - The Upheaval of a Nation (1960 to 1975)

• Students can evaluate and synthesize data from different types of resources in netTrekker (lesson plans, learning exercises, pictures, audio, video, biographies, primary source documents, etc.) by using the Refined Search* (including Refinement Tabs*).

  	Some examples include: - Black History Month Lesson Plans - Martin Luther King, Jr. Pictures

netTrekker was honored as one of the top three winners in the Technology & Learning 2003 Awards of Excellence competition. The other top winners were Apple's iLife for the Classroom and Ready, Set, Learn from LeapFrog Schoolhouse.

• Now celebrating its 22nd year, Technology & Learning's Awards of Excellence program continues a long tradition of recognizing achievement and innovation in education technology, and is one of the few award programs where educators serve as judges.

netTrekker has negotiated a special discount for our customers with eZedia. eZedia provides easy-to-use multimedia authoring and editing software. Current netTrekker customers will receive a 10% discount when ordering eZedia MX and eZedia QTI.

• eZedia MX is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring and editing software for Windows and Macintosh. Create digital portfolios, multimedia presentations, electronic slide shows, interactive CD-ROMs, and much more with no programming required. To learn more visit the eZedia website at www.ezedia.com.

• You will need to mention that you are a netTrekker customer to receive the negotiated discount.

• Contact eZedia at 1-877-408-0195 or sales@ezedia.com.

• To learn more about our partnership with eZedia and about purchasing eZedia products, please click here.

• Saved Searches
• Share Your Saved Searches
• Keyword Searches
• Subject Searches
• Famous Person Searches
• Dynamic Timeline
• Refined Search

Access netTrekker's Customer Reference Documents where you can download the most current copies of our netTrekker Usage Guide and netTrekker Training Guide.

* Please note that you will have to log in to netTrekker to view all areas of the product,
   including help topics.