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Inspiration Maps Now Available on the App Store
Inspiration Software, Inc. — Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Inspiration Maps™, the app that brings visual thinking and learning to iPad®, is now available on the App Store. Created by Inspiration® Software, Inc., the leader in visual thinking and learning, Inspiration Maps allows all types of learners to capture their ideas, work smarter and build knowledge. Read More »
Intel's Studybook Tablet
Intel Corporation — Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Intel Corporation today introduced an Intel® studybook, a tablet that is part of the Intel Learning Series family and features unique classroom-ready features and capabilities including an ultra rugged design and specialized educational software. Read More »
Polycom Helps Southeast KS ESC Bring Distance Learning to Rural Communities
Polycom, Inc. — Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Polycom, Inc. announced that the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center at Greenbush has equipped 110 classrooms with Polycom® RealPresence® video as an innovative way to enhance the educational experience of more than 55,000 students, staff, administrators, and lifelong learners in Kansas and three other states. Read More »
Study Shows HMH Fuse™ iPad® App Can Dramatically Improve Student Achievement
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A study of HMH Fuse™: Algebra 1 app released today by research firm Empirical Education Inc. identifies implementation as a key factor in the success of mobile technology. The 2010-2011 study was a pilot of a new educational app that re-imagines the conventional textbook to fully deploy interactive features of the mobile device. Read More »
Survey Seeks To Gauge Educators' Satisfaction with Internet Search
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative — Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Aiming to gauge the experiences of educators looking for learning resources on the Internet, Learning Resource Metadata Initiativewill use data collected from the survey to help move LRMI to widespread adoption by educational content developers. Read More »
Classrooms of the Future Coming to Jerseyville
— Monday, April 09, 2012
Committed to preparing students for success from home room to the board room, Jerseyville schools Superintendent Ed Settles today announced a major partnership with Pearson’s 1:1 Learning that will overhaul the traditional classroom. This solution brings effective personalized and connected learning to scale for all students and educators in Jerseyville. Read More »
SpeechStream Now Embedded in NovaNET Courseware
elp Systems Inc.,Pearson — Monday, April 09, 2012
NovaNET Courseware is now speech-enabled with Texthelp Systems' SpeechStream, an intuitive text-to-speech toolbar that gives students the ability to read while hearing text read aloud by a high-quality, digitized human voice. This research-proven method helps improve word recognition, vocabulary and comprehension. Read More »
PrepU Launches Adaptive Quizzing for AP Exams
Prep-U — Thursday, April 05, 2012
PrepU, the online adaptive assessment platform built by educators, announced today the availability of a web-based application that provides students with personalized, adaptive quizzes for the Advanced Placement (AP) US History, Psychology, and Chemistry courses. iPhone and Android applications are coming this month. Read More »
Ivey Publishing Embraces iThenticate
iParadigms — Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Turnitin has proved instrumental to Ivey Publishing, the publishing division of The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, in ensuring that all of their business case studies contain original writing. To ensure optimal quality of work, Ivey Publishing checks all submitted case studies against the iThenticate database of published content. Read More »
Missouri School Boards' Association Partners with eBOARDsolutions
eBOARDsolutions — Monday, April 02, 2012
The Missouri School Boards' Association has partnered with eBOARDsolutions, the provider of a unique suite of web-based tools that helps school leadership teams streamline and align their governance and leadership work. Unlike other tools that only work at the board level, eBOARD can be used at ALL levels and departments within a school district. Read More »
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