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Two More CA Districts Add MimioClassroom Interactive Teaching Technologies
Mimio — Monday, October 29, 2012
During the month of September alone, more than 70 classrooms at Home Gardens Academy and Cesar Chavez Academy in Corona-Norco Unified School District (USD) as well as Mission Hills Elementary and Cypress School of the Arts in Hesperia USD incorporated Mimio products into their teaching practices. Read More »
Atomic Learning Releases Windows 8 Training and More
Atomic Learning — Saturday, October 27, 2012
Atomic Learning has expanded its training collection to include a series of tutorials on Windows 8, as well as training on Captivate 6 for PC users, Flash and Photoshop CS6, Sakai 2.8 for Students and SMART Board Notebook 11 to the Atomic Integrate library. The most recent release of Microsoft® Windows® 8 confirms the major redesign for this newest version of Windows. Read More »
Brain Hive Expands On-Demand eBook Service for U.S. K-12 Schools
Brain Hive, LLC — Saturday, October 27, 2012
Brain Hive, LLC, a private Minneapolis-based education company, announced today that its on-demand eBook lending service for schools has expanded with highly acclaimed and award-winning children’s titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Annick Press, and August House. Students and educators check out eBooks from Brain Hive on demand, while the school pays just $1.00 for each book circulated—a Brain Hive Buck™. Read More »
Free iPad App Brings PD to Educators Anywhere
ASCD — Thursday, October 25, 2012
ASCD launched a new, free app for iPad bringing valuable professional development content to educators anywhere. With the new app, "ASCD for iPad," available exclusively on the App Store, educators who purchase ASCD e-books can easily access that content on their iPad. Read More »
TX ISD Uses Adaptive Curriculum's Concept Mastery Solution
Sebit Inc. — Thursday, October 25, 2012
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District is providing Adaptive Curriculum Science to all its high schools, to help students build a deep understanding of core concepts and skills and thereby pass the newly required state end of course (EOC) assessment in biology. Read More »
Spooky Stories Just in Time for Halloween
Tales2Go — Thursday, October 25, 2012
What better way to let your imagination run wild than to listen to a spooky story, well-told by a famous narrator or storyteller! Tales2Go Inc., the leading provider of streaming audio books and stories for kids, is celebrating Halloween by highlighting a list of top scary and silly stories, recently created in conjunction with Parents' Choice Foundation and published in USA Weekend Magazine. Read More »
Hatch Implements Mobile Tablets Developed for Pre-K with Chicago Public Schools
Hatch — Tuesday, October 23, 2012
With mobile technology rapidly becoming as common as pencils and paper in U.S. classrooms, early education researchers are debating what is appropriate for the youngest learners. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was awarded a grant that allows ten of its early childhood classrooms to launch a pilot program of Hatch iStartSmart Mobile devices. Read More »
Learning.com Welcomes Wowzers as 60th Provider in Growing Digital Content Library
Learning.com — Tuesday, October 23, 2012
In a continued effort to connect educators and students to the most high-quality digital content, Learning.com is proud to announce Wowzers as the 60th provider to join Marketplace, Learning.com's growing digital content library. Read More »
Students Lead the Way to Online Learning
Generation YES, Oba — Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Generation YES and Oba, a global cloud-based learning platform provider of the University of Oregon, announced a partnership that will teach students to lead online learning efforts in their schools, delivering a free interactive project-based online curriculum to train Student Technology Leaders (STLs) from grades 4-12 to lead and support technology efforts in their schools. Read More »
Poptropica Celebrates Creation of 500 Millionth Character
Family Education Network — Tuesday, October 23, 2012
If Poptropica, the popular virtual world for kids, were a country, it would be the third largest in the world (after China and India), thanks to the recent creation of its 500 millionth character. And it would make for a very diverse nation, with kids representing over 100 native languages and more than 130 countries visiting the site each month. Read More »
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