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NBC Learn Videos Now Available in My Big Campus

Lightspeed Systems — Wednesday, January 09, 2013

My Big Campus announced that the entire collection of K-12 resources from NBC Learn is now available for educators and students to view and share. For more than 80 years, NBC News has been documenting the people, places, and events that have shaped our world. And now, My Big Campus is honored to partner with NBC Learn to make these resources available to educators, parents, and students. Read More »

Promethean's New Multi-Touch, Multi-User ActivTable

Promethean — Tuesday, January 08, 2013

The newest innovation, the ActivTable, from Promethean is leading yet another wave of change in the classroom. This multi-touch surface technology allows educators to create collaborative learning environments where up to six students can simultaneously work together and take an active role in their own learning. Read More »

LEGO Evolves STEM Learning with the Next Generation LEGO MINDSTORMS

LEGO® Education — Monday, January 07, 2013

LEGO® Education announced the LEGO MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 platform, the next generation of robotics for the classroom, continuing 15 years of MINDSTORMS robotics technology for education. Based on feedback the platform provides relevant robotics curriculum and technology for teaching computer science, science, technology, engineering, and math through a hands-on experience with sensors, motors, programming, and the programmable EV3 Brick. Read More »

WIN Learning Launches WIN Soft Skills

WIN Learning — Monday, January 07, 2013

WIN Learning has launched, WIN Soft Skills Series®, a first-of-its-kind program which builds skills mastery around the behavioral, attitudinal, social, and readiness skills employers and post-secondary programs demand. As the only web-based soft skills curriculum on the market today, WIN Soft Skills provides educators with an exclusive curricular framework ... Read More »

Polaroid Introduces Tablet Designed for Kids

Polaroid — Saturday, January 05, 2013

Polaroid is pleased to introduce a tablet specifically designed for children—a 7.0” kids tablet. Featuring the Android 4.0 OS, the tablet combines all the fun and entertainment kids love with the security, durability and educational content that provides parents with peace of mind. Read More »

Atomic Learning Adds New Tech Integration Projects to Online Training Library

Atomic Learning — Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Atomic Learning recently added four new tech integration projects featuring both Microsoft® Excel and Powerpoint® 2010 software. The online training library offers over 120 of these classroom-ready projects for educators. These projects can be used as-is to quickly integrate technology into the classroom, or easily adapted to a particular subject-area or skill level. Read More »

Kendall Hunt's Game App Supports Math Instruction

Kendall Hunt Publishing Company — Thursday, December 27, 2012

To provide additional support for students, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company has announced the availability of a new educational game app designed to help students build their mathematical vocabulary in the classroom and at home.. Read More »

Public Libraries Generate Record eBook Traffic on Christmas

OverDrive — Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Public libraries utilizing OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of eBook, audiobook, music and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day. The most dramatic growth occurred among users of iPad, Kindle Fire and Android devices. Read More »

INTELECOM's Academic Video Collections Comes to EBSCOhost

EBSCO Publishing, INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications — Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Online academic video collections from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications will be available from EBSCO Publishing. The agreement will give users access to INTELECOM's library of core curriculum video collections through EBSCOhost®, while other videos will be included in subject-specific EBSCOhost databases. Read More »