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Tribal Nova launches “i Learn With” App Series on NOOK® Tablets
Tribal Nova, Inc. — Monday, March 11, 2013
Tribal Nova, the developers behind the award-winning PBS KIDS PLAY! and CBC WONDERWORLD online educational programs, today announced that “i Learn With,” their suite of early childhood learning apps, is now available for the Android market exclusively on NOOK’s family of tablets, including NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. Read More »
Wowzers® Introduces New Sound Enhancements
Wowzers — Monday, March 11, 2013
Students using the award-winning digital learning solution Wowzers® will soon enjoy an even more engaging experience, as the company unveils several new sound features at this year's ASCD Annual Conference & Exhibit in Chicago. The upgrades, highlighted at Wowzers' booth 209, will further enrich student engagement and provide a more realistic, immersive experience. Read More »
Carson-Dellosa Enhances Website with Online Customer Rating and Review Option
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, LLC — Saturday, March 09, 2013
The majority of teachers and parents making purchases online rely on product reviews and online research before buying items, according to a recent online survey of 900 customers by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. With this understanding, Carson-Dellosa has launched an online rating and review option on carsondellosa.com. The new functionality enables customers to review, rate and share their feedback on a wide variety of educational products... Read More »
Educators Choose Dell Latitude 10 Tablets To Help Personalize Learning
Dell Inc. — Saturday, March 09, 2013
Dell today reports that schools are already deploying recently announced Dell Latitude 10 tablets designed to address the costly and time consuming device management challenges faced by schools undertaking large deployments of tablets. Fargo Public Schools, Southern Illinois University, Spartanburg School District 3 and Westwood Independent Schools have selected the enterprise-ready Windows 8 tablets for their compelling touch experience, reliability, security and ease of management. Read More »
NY DOE Selects Ingram's Vital Source for CCSS Video Project
Ingram Content Group Inc. — Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced that the New York State Education Department has selected Vital Source Technologies, Inc., in collaboration with SchoolWorks® LLC., to develop a comprehensive library of professional development videos to support the implementation of Common Core Learning Standards throughout New York State. Read More »
Amplify Education Unveils Tablet for the Classroom
Amplify Education — Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Amplify Education unveiled the first open, tabletbased learning platform designed specifically for K12 education. The platform, which runs on a 10inch Android™ tablet made by world class manufacturers, offers states, districts and schools a onetoone personalized learning solution that includes customer care, professional development and schoollevel device management. Read More »
PBS KIDS Announces “It All Adds Up”
PBS KIDS — Wednesday, March 06, 2013
PBS KIDS, in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), announced “It All Adds Up,” an effort that aims to boost math learning at home – and everywhere – by providing resources for parents. “It All Adds Up” is an awareness effort designed to expand the impact of Ready To Learn to support the development of early math and literacy skills in children ages 2-8 from low-income families. Read More »
Oxford University Press Redsources Now Searchable to EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users;
EBSCO Publishing — Tuesday, March 05, 2013
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Oxford University Press (OUP) have extended their partnership enabling two additional authoritative resources from OUP, University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to be searchable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Read More »
ASCD's PD E-books Available Through Kobo
ASCD — Tuesday, March 05, 2013
ASCD is pleased to announce that its e-books are now available through Kobo, a global leader in e-reading. More than 80 of ASCD's professional development e-books are now available at www.kobo.com to educators in 200 countries, and counting. Read More »
BenQ Combines Performance and Affordability in New Projectors
BenQ America Corp. — Tuesday, March 05, 2013
BenQ America Corp. introduced its new M6 Series of advanced business, education and home projectors. The product line comprised of the MS616ST, MX618ST, MX662, and MW663 models feature superior contrast ratios of 13000:1, up to 3,500 ANSI lumens of brightness, and BenQ's world-leading SmartEco™ technology to cut energy consumption by up to 70 percent. Read More »
