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Vernier Releases 'Mini GC Plus' Gas Chromatograph
Vernier Software & Technology — Thursday, December 06, 2012
Expanding on the functionality of its original gas chromatograph, Vernier Software & Technology has released the Mini GC Plus. Designed for high school and college science laboratories, the Mini GC Plus is a portable instrument for separating, analyzing and identifying substances contained in a volatile liquid or gaseous sample. Read More »
StarWalk Kids eBook Platform Opens Trials for Schools, Libraries and Universities
StarWalk Kids Media — Wednesday, December 05, 2012
StarWalk Kids Media, the eBook publishing startup co-founded by award-winning children’s science author Seymour Simon and Liz Nealon, the former Creative Director of Sesame Street, have announced that the new StarWalk Kids eBook platform is now live with 148 eBooks available in the streaming catalog. Read More »
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Joins myON reader Publishers Program
Capstone Digital — Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Capstone Digital, developer of personalized literacy environments for students, announces their myON™ reader platform will be augmented with the addition of 46 titles from Hachette Book Group's Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, publisher of bestselling picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for middle grade and young adult readers. Read More »
SunGard K-12 Education and Impulse Point To Suppory BYOD Security
SunGard K-12 Education, Impulse Point — Tuesday, December 04, 2012
As increasing numbers of teachers and students access educational resources via their own laptop, tablet, and smartphone, network security is of growing concern to school districts. A new alliance between SunGard K-12 Education, a leading provider of K-12 software, and Impulse Point, a respected provider of network access security solutions, is offering districts peace-of-mind. Read More »
Sixty New Publishers Add Content to Ingram's Vitalsource E-Textbook Platform
Vital Source Technologies, Inc. — Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group’s leading e-textbook solution for publishers, academic institutions, and students, today announced that sixty new publishers have added more than 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course materials to its VitalSource Bookshelf® platform. Read More »
Sunnyside USD's 1-to-1 Computing Program Partners with BLEgroup
BLEgroup — Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Sunnyside Unified School District Superintendent, Dr. Manuel Isquierdo, lives and practices the "it takes a village" philosophy. With a hugely at-risk population, including over 94% minority and 30% English language learner students, Dr. Isquierdo knew his district needed to access the best and brightest minds to develop a plan to give these students the building blocks they needed to succeed. Read More »
New MimioReading iPad App
Mimio — Monday, December 03, 2012
Mimio has created an iPad app that broadens the ways in which teachers and students can use the MimioReading™ comprehension suite in the classroom and beyond. Designed as a companion to the comprehension suite, the new app gives anytime, anywhere access to interactive, mastery lessons on the four primary components of comprehension... Read More »
PresenceLearning Takes Industry Leadership Role in Providing Online Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning — Monday, December 03, 2012
PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech therapy services to K-12 students, has achieved a major milestone by providing online speech therapy services to more than 2,500 public, charter and virtual school students nationwide. This number translates to more than 10,000 online therapy sessions per month. Read More »
eChalk Launches Custom Web Design Services
eChalk — Saturday, December 01, 2012
eChalk, a pioneer of school communication and instruction management software, has launched Custom Web Design services to help schools personalize their sites in ways that foster greater community involvement and boost their online curb appeal. Read More »
Microsoft Invests $250 Million in Partners in Learning
Microsoft Corp — Thursday, November 29, 2012
Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to education with a US$250 million, five-year renewal of Microsoft Partners in Learning, bringing Microsoft's total investment in the program to US$750 million over 15 years. Microsoft aims to grow the Partners in Learning community to 20 million of the 75 million teachers worldwide by 2018 with the renewal and to continue preparing students for the changing global workforce. Read More »
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