California Educational Data Processing Association
	DataBus - Vol. 38, No. 3 April-May, 1998

Glenn Osako, Microsoft Corporation

Technology Solutions and E-Rate Planning and Preparation: A Seminar for Connecting Schools to $ and Solutions

There is money for your school and district technology plans and dreams on a first-come, first-served basis in 1998! So make time TODAY to attend this free seminar to learn more about Schools and Libraries Universal Service Program (E-Rate) federal funding. Also see the latest education technology and infrastructure solutions from four companies (Microsoft, Dell, Sprint & NCS) in one location. Start today to get your students wired! In this case, time really does = money! You can't afford to miss this free seminar on funding your schools' technology future! Lunch will be served! Prizes will be drawn, including a chance to win a Dell notebook computer! Take-home literature provided!

Who should attend:

K-12 administrators, district and site technology coordinators, information system managers

Date & Location

Thursday, April 30
9:00 A.M.-3:00 P.M.
Microsoft Santa Monica Office
1620 26th Street
Suite 350, South Tower

Santa Monica, CA 90404

Seminar content includes:

• Infrastructure - An overview of the technology building blocks for schools and guidance on planning technology infrastructure to support learning objectives. Receive Sprint's Education Tool Kit on Technology, a guide to simplifying education technology planning and preparing grant applications.
• Funding - Current E-Rate information and implementation strategies for schools.
• Hardware - Latest information and trends on hardware, developments on the Intel (industry-standard) platform, total cost of ownership and relation to educational environment, the dilemma of Apple vs. Windows®, and guidance on selecting a vendor.
• Software - Through the Connected Learning Community vision, learn about tools to connect schools, homes, and communities over local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), and the Internet. Student information management systems will be reviewed to help give you the student administrative infrastructure so critical in providing instructional support. Discover ways to save money on software products through reduced pricing and Microsoft Licensing Programs. Security and access policies also will be discussed.

Specific seminar location and driving directions provided upon registration confirmation. Please provide disability requirements at least two weeks before the seminar. For more information, call 1-888-236-6605.

Make your reservation for this FREE seminar by faxing to (206) 441-6369 or calling 8:00-5:00 PST 1-888-236-6605.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition Ships

Get the most out of your Macintosh with Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition-intelligent applications tightly integrated with the Mac OS that help you accomplish more with far less effort.

Work the way you want with Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, which brings together the world's best-selling business productivity applications in an environment tightly integrated with the Mac OS. Everything about it is designed to help you get better results with less effort, to communicate and collaborate easily, and to get the most out of your Mac.

Office 98 supports the platinum appearance defined by Apple and seen in Mac OS 8. In addition, extended support for Apple technologies makes it easier than ever to maximize all the resources of your Power Macintosh®.

Office 98 helps all users get great results faster and with less effort using innovative, time-saving features such as the Office Assistant, which can walk you through virtually any task in every application. The Microsoft Word Table Drawing Tool helps you effortlessly create tables the way you want them to look. The intuitive Spell It and Grammar Check features save you time by proofreading your spelling and use of grammar as you type so you can correct common mistakes on the fly. Common menus, toolbars, and commands across all Office applications mean that once you've learned the features in one application it's a snap to use other Office applications.

With Office 98 you don't have to work alone. Powerful communication and collaboration features enable you to share work with others across platforms (ex. same file format as Office97, Windows), across the office, and even over the Internet. Revolutionary new Web technology in Office 98 helps you quickly and easily author exciting multimedia pages directly from your Office 98 applications without having to learn HTML. Add hyperlinks to other Office documents for easy navigation from document to document-or to Web pages-on your hard disk, company intranet, or the Internet. Easily communicate, collaborate, and share Office documents with others-even Windows users-by using Microsoft Outlook Express. And take advantage of advanced workgroup features such as Document Versioning, Track Changes, and In-Place Comments in Word, and Shared Workbooks in Excel.

Office 98 Macintosh Edition is the suite that helps you get the most out of your Macintosh and create results as brilliant as your ideas. For more information, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice/.

Education pricing for Office98, Macintosh Edition:

Academic Estimated Retail Price for Office98, Macintosh Edition (Part #021-02195): $199

Academic Open License Estimated Retail Price for Office98, Macintosh Edition (Part #021-02244): $57

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