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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 »
Groton Schools Partners with PresenceLearning
PresenceLearning — Wednesday, November 28, 2012
To better serve a portion of the district's special needs student population, Groton Public Schools has partnered with PresenceLearning, the leader in online speech therapy services for K-12 students. Through this adoption, students in grades 1-5 receive web-based speech-language therapy services from a highly qualified, certified speech-language pathologist (SLP). Read More »
Teachers College, WNET To Develop Mobile Games
Teachers College, WNET — Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Teachers College and WNET have received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop prototypical mobile games to teach fractions to children ages 8-11 years old. The mobile apps will incorporate the stories, characters, math content and research of Cyberchase, WNET's math television series and multimedia project, into Teacher College's research on embodied cognition theory and gesture-based simulation games. Read More »
Technology Use in Nation's School Districts
MCH Strategic Data — Wednesday, November 28, 2012
MCH Strategic Data announced the results of a detailed survey recently completed regarding the use of technology in the nation's school districts. The data was obtained during detailed telephone interviews with 5,146 public school districts, 33.5% of all U.S. school districts representing 33.9% of public school students. Read More »
Pearson and Non-Profit Flipped Learning Network Partner on PD
Pearson, Flipped Learning Network — Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Pearson and the Flipped Learning Network today announced a joint venture to offer a comprehensive professional development course for the rapidly increasing number of educators looking to switch to the new "flipped learning" teaching model. Read More »
Schoolwires® Partners with Flipped Learning Network
Flipped Learning Network, Schoolwires, Inc — Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Schoolwires is partnering with the Flipped Learning Network™ to deliver a series of content about implementing and supporting a flipped classroom. The first article, "How Administrators Can Support Flipped Learning", is available now on the Schoolwires' website. Read More »
1 in 5 Adults To Own an iPad in 2013
Simba Information — Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Simba Information has released a new report on the popular tablet and its user, The iPad and Its Owner 2013. After tracking U.S. iPad ownership trends since the tablet's birth in 2010, Simba estimates that within a few short weeks, one in every five adults in the U.S. will own at least one iPad. Read More »
James Madison Online High School Offers Easy Credit Recovery
James Madison High School — Tuesday, November 27, 2012
James Madison High School, a leading provider of accredited online high school diploma courses, is now making its online high school algebra courses available as a single course option to those seeking credit recovery options. Students needing to fulfill these math requirements can choose from pre-algebra, algebra I, or algebra II. Read More »
Harrison District 2 Combines Online and On-Site Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning — Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs has partnered with PresenceLearning to help relieve the district's speech-language pathologist (SLP) shortage. As part of this partnership, the district's speech-language pathologist assistants (SLPAs) work collaboratively with PresenceLearning's certified therapists to provide more than 120 students with a combination of virtual and on-site support. Read More »
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