Sharpen Your Classroom Management Tools
In our Vision seminar you will learn how take control of your computerized classroom while capturing your student's interest and imagination. Use powerful features such as student computer monitoring, screen sharing and remote control to reach your teaching goals. We will also cover controlling access to the internet during important lessons and discussions with Surf-Lock. If you have not used App-Control yet, you will get a chance to see how you can control which applications students are able to run during class. Whether you are a new user of Vision, or are simply interested in exploring how classroom management software can enhance your teaching environment, this online seminar is a perfect starting point.
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App-Control Success
Teachers capture student attention
The reports from teachers using App-Control in their classrooms since its release last month have been remarkable. App-Control is a new plug-in for Vision6 that helps instructors focus student attention by confining computer work to only teacher-selected applications during lesson time. Imagine being able to send out a test and know that the students can only work in the chosen application until they are finished. App-Control helps teachers remove the distractions of surfing, email, games and chat during important class assignments. Just to keep you updated, we want to show you a few of the features that teachers have been talking about…
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Confidential Printing in Your School
Print-Limit Pro new feature
How many times have you seen someone running down the hall, dodging people like a quarterback to catch a confidential print job on a public printer? Have you ever needed to post a sentry at a printer to catch a special document? Or maybe you are just one of the educators that have to wait until everyone is out of your building before you print important papers. Schools are responsible for managing some of the most important and sensitive information - grades, student and staff evaluations, student records, disciplinary reports, personnel records, financial information (the list goes on) and yet a school is one of the most public environments to work in.
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Winners Announced:
2006 Chocolate Challenge Best Year Ever!
We want to express our sincere thanks to all of the teachers who entered the GenevaLogic Chocolate Challenge this year. Choosing the winners becomes harder every year with all of the great things you send in about using Vision Classroom Management Software to help you manage and teach with computers in your classroom. We appreciate each and every entry. Watch our website over the next few weeks as we post your wonderful tips and examples. Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner, Daniel Gould from Whitefish Public Schools – Whitefish, Montana
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Did You Know You Can Chat with Vision?
Vision lets you chat with students plus a whole lot more.

• How Do I Chat?
• Sending a File to the Class
• Collecting Assignments
• Collecting Files on a timer

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All About Chocolate

1. Where was chocolate first discovered?

B. Yucatan Peninsula – The earliest known record of chocolate consumption was by the ancient Mayans over 2,600 years ago.

2. Which country was famous for having a state monopoly on chocolate and only allowing it to be consumed by royalty?

A. France

3. Where was milk chocolate invented?

C. Switzerland – In 1875 by Daniel Peter, a Swiss candle maker.

Bonus Trivia: Did you know that until 1847 there was no such thing as a chocolate bar? Chocolate was only consumed in liquid form until the late 1800s.