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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 »
Lightspeed Systems Announces Next-Generation Web Filtering and Reporting Solution
Lightspeed Systems — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Lightspeed Systems has released an update to its award-winning Web Filter for K12 schools. This next-generation solution boasts an easy, streamlined interface; a powerful UNIX-based platform running on a Rocket appliance; support for mobile devices; and an integrated social learning platform. Read More »
“Flight to Freedom” Immerses Middle School Students in a New Virtual Experience
THIRTEEN/WNET — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
THIRTEEN announces the launch of Mission US: “Flight to Freedom,” the second in a series of innovative role-playing games developed to transform the way middle school students learn U.S. history. “Flight to Freedom” immerses learners in the experiences of a runaway slave in the years before the Civil War. Read More »
MetaMetrics' Lexile Analyzer Tops 100,000 Registered Users
MetaMetrics — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
MetaMetrics®, developer of the widely adopted Lexile® Framework for Reading, is pleased to announce that more than 100,000 educators and other individuals have registered to use its free Lexile Analyzer® to determine the Lexile measure of various classroom and personal texts. Read More »
PBS TeacherLine® Unveils Course on Virtual Teaching
PBS TeacherLine — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
PBS TeacherLine is launching “TECH570: Fundamentals of Virtual K-12 Teaching” to fulfill the need for highly effective virtual educators and to help districts prepare for this revolutionary transition in education. Read More »
Pearson’s Dash Reinvents Teacher Support
Pearson — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dash, Pearson’s award-winning app that reinvents teacher support on iPad, is now among the hundreds of Pearson offerings available on the App Store. The debut titles are Pearson’s premier social studies programs: myWorld History Dash and myWorld Geography Dash. Read More »
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