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eMINTS and CDW-G Chart a New Course for Ed Tech PD
CDW Government LLC — Monday, January 30, 2012
A three-year study of 58 school districts in Missouri plans to provide a roadmap on how technology and professional development can improve student performance. The research is a collaboration between the eMINTS National Center, the American Institutes for Research and private-sector partners, led by CDW Government LLC . Read More »
HMH Enhances Online Content with Texthelp Systems' SpeechStream
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Texthelp System — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s HMH Social Studies Series is now speech-enabled with Texthelp System's web based literacy and language support technology, SpeechStream. With SpeechStream, HMH provides a personalized online learning environment to help readers improve reading and comprehension skills and increase the alignment of Social Studies 2012 with Common Core Standards. Read More »
Announcing Read&Write 5 GOLD for Mac!
Texthelp Systems Inc. — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Read&Write 5 GOLD for Mac is an easy-to-use customizable toolbar that integrates with common applications, including Microsoft® Word, Apple® Pages®, Apple Safari®, and Adobe® Reader and provides students of all ages, especially those with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities, and English Language Learners, with the support tools they need to be successful. Read More »
Virtual Nerd™ Launches School Edition
Virtual Nerd — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Virtual Nerd today announced the release of its new School Edition to help middle school and high school teachers develop customized lesson plans in math. Virtual Nerd School Edition works as a teaching supplement that allows teachers to create and offer more personalized assignments to gauge student performance and engagement, and measure improvements in real-time. Read More »
Gaggle's Monitoring Service Protects Students
Gaggle — Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Human Monitoring Service puts the monitoring of blocked messages in Gaggle's hands, eliminating the need for teachers to review questionable communications so they can concentrate on classroom instruction. The Human Monitoring Service greatly improves the safety and security of students, both online and in the real world. Read More »
Inspiration® Diagrams for iPad
Inspiration® Software, Inc — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Inspiration® Software, Inc., brings visual mapping and outlining to iPad™ with today’s announcement of Inspiration® Diagrams. This spring, Inspiration Diagrams will join the company’s award-winning family of tools based on proven learning methodologies that help students and educators think, learn, brainstorm, analyze and write. Read More »
FableVision Unveils Animation-ish Mobile
FableVision Learning, LLC — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Creativity champ and NY Times best-selling author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds informed the audience that his educational media and software company, FableVision Learning, and development partner, Montreal-based Toon Boom Animation, Inc., are releasing their best-selling Animation-ish™ software as an iPad app. Read More »
Improv™: New Augmentative Communication Software
Don Johnston Incorporated — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Improv gives AAC users new options to engage in faster, impromptu and more meaningful conversations. The technology brings a whole new approach to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and is designed for individuals who are non-verbal, but have some literacy skills and beginning concepts of letters. Read More »
GlobalScholar’s Scantron Brand Aligns with Turning Technologies
GlobalScholar — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
GlobalScholar today announced that its Scantron brand has entered into a distribution agreement with Turning Technologies. In early 2012, Scantron will begin reselling Turning’s award-winning student response system, initially offering it to the K-12 market with Scantron’s own comprehensive educational assessment solution. Read More »
Hatch’s New WePlaySmart Solution for SMART Tables
Hatch — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Hatch®, a leading provider of technology for early learning, unveiled today WePlaySmart™, a research-based content solution for the multi-touch SMART Table™ that provides early learners with an engaging environment to build crucial social and emotional skills against a backdrop of cognition. Read More »
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