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Tormach Launches New Web Resource for STEM Education
Tormach LLC — Thursday, May 03, 2012
Tormach LLC, a premier manufacturer of affordable CNC mills and accessories, announces the launch of TeachSTEMNow.com, an online resource that promotes Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in education. TeachSTEMNow.com places an emphasis on manufacturing technologies and real-world shop skills. Read More »
500,000 Kids Connect via “Friends” on Poptropica
Poptropica — Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Yesterday, Poptropica® quietly released “Friends” – the virtual world’s new social network offering – and within 12 hours more than 500,000 kids from across the globe connected. With the new Poptropica Friends feature, players can now "friend" other Poptropicans and find out which of the site's 26 Islands they have solved, what country they’re from, funny tidbits about their personality, and what they are up to on the popular virtual world for kids. Read More »
HMH Loads NOOK® Readers Loaded with Content for Students
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced a ground breaking program aimed at utilizing technology to develop a love for learning. The partnership offers schools the opportunity to acquire award-winning HMH digital titles on pre-loaded Barnes & Noble NOOK Readers. Read More »
SchoolMessenger Awarded Patent
SchoolMessenger — Tuesday, May 01, 2012
SchoolMessenger has been awarded a patent (U.S. Pat. No. 8,131,269) for a voice message delivery system and method which uses a highly distributed architecture to deliver extremely large volumes of mass notifications originating from many locations nearly instantaneously. Read More »
Don Johnston Takes Reading to the Cloud
Don Johnston Incorporated — Monday, April 30, 2012
Don Johnston Incorporated today released Start-to-Finish Online Accessible Library. Company founder Don Johnston said, "Thanks to the power of cloud computing, struggling readers can now use their iPads, mobile devices and laptop computers to read some of the most important and powerful books ever written." .... Read More »
PaperDesk in Education
PaperDesk — Monday, April 30, 2012
With schools world-wide purchasing iPads to replace pen and paper, PaperDesk is quickly becoming a robust note taking solution for students using the iPad in the classroom. WebSpinner, LLC, the indie development team behind PaperDesk, have spent the past two years listening to educators, and tailoring the functions of the app to exactly what schools need. Read More »
Konica Minolta Offers Complete Solution for Managing Test Data
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. — Monday, April 30, 2012
Konica Minolta launched integration with Performance Matters, a web-based solution that provides an integrated platform for student assessment, data management and teacher effectiveness as part the Konica Minolta EnvisionIT Education Suite. Read More »
Atomic Learning Introduces New Workshops
Atomic Learning — Saturday, April 28, 2012
Atomic Learning has recently added new content to its training library. Included in this release are two new workshops on avoiding plagiarism and internet safety. Read More »
Computer Automation Systems Releases DSCtop Mobile
Computer Automation Systems — Saturday, April 28, 2012
Computer Automation Systems (CAS) announced the release of DSCtop Mobile; a mobile application that unites the advantages of the DSCtop encounter-capture system with convenience of an iPad, iPhone or any mobile device. Read More »
myMathUniverse, Free Site for Middle School Students
Pearson — Saturday, April 28, 2012
Middle school students everywhere will think math is out of this world when they visit myMathUniverse, a new, free site featuring math expert and actress Danica McKellar debuting today at the 2012 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference... Read More »
