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Students Create and Study Flashcards with Free StudyBlue Mobile App
StudyBlue — Tuesday, November 15, 2011
StudyBlue®, a mobile and online study service for students, announces the launch of the new and improved StudyBlue app for iPhone® and Android™ devices. Students can now create flashcards on their smartphones with the free app, which offers the ability to snap and insert photos, as well as transcribe speech to text directly into their flashcards. Read More »
Schoolwires® Introduces Nimbus™
lwires, Inc. — Monday, November 14, 2011
Schoolwires is launching Nimbus, a safe social learning environment that is designed to foster student engagement so that districts can extend participatory learning in and beyond the traditional classroom in support of student success and 21st century learning skills. Read More »
PBS KIDS Launches Its First Educational Augmented Reality App
PBS KIDS — Monday, November 14, 2011
PBS KIDS today announced its first augmented reality app for iPhone and iPod touch, FETCH! Lunch Rush, which is now available on the App Store. Available for free, the app uses the camera on iPhone or iPod touch to overlay computer-generated graphics on top of the physical, real-world environment. Read More »
NeoLithix Announces Call for Educators To Earn Royalties
NeoLithix — Saturday, November 12, 2011
NeoLithix, creators of the Space Board App, announce the kick-off of their Teacher-Author Program - an innovative, patent-pending system to publish learning content -- created by classroom teachers -- as iPad apps. NeoLithix currently has hundreds of in-house developed digital workbooks, which are sold around the globe on Apple’s iTunes App Store. Read More »
Higley Unified School District Improves Communications While Reducing Costs with Schoolwires Centricity2
Schoolwires, Inc. — Saturday, November 12, 2011
By implementing Schoolwires Centricity2, Higley Unified School District has greatly improved communication with its community while significantly reducing costs. Schoolwires Centricity2 is designed to be a transformational and unifying platform that goes beyond website and community management to address some of the most pressing challenges facing K-12 education today. Read More »
ePals Enables SchoolSafe® Access to Third-Party Applications
ePals Corporation — Thursday, November 10, 2011
ePals announced that its LearningSpace® 2.0 social learning platform now provides embedded access to third-party applications -- starting with Microsoft Office Web Apps and Google Docs. Enabled by ePals' innovative SchoolSafe functionality, schools and districts gain the ability to extend LearningSpace 2.0's enterprise-grade platform ... Read More »
Bellwether Media Joins Mackin’s Extensive Collection of Ebooks
Mackin Educational Resources — Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Mackin Educational Resources has added Bellwether ebooks to their ever-widening collection of nearly 20,000 ebooks from respected publishers. Highly acclaimed for presenting complicated information in a manner that’s easy to understand, Bellwether publishes engaging reading materials to captivate and educate both beginning and reluctant readers. Read More »
eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® Selected by TEA
eScholar — Wednesday, November 09, 2011
eScholar, a leader in driving the application of research and data to personalize education, today announced that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has selected eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 (CDW PK-12) to provide a statewide, district-facing warehouse available to every district in the state. Read More »
NAESP Enrolls in PD 360
School Improvement Network — Tuesday, November 08, 2011
In order to provide the best training to the most administrators, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) has partnered with School Improvement Network and PD 360. Members of NAESP will be able to collaborate on the on-demand PD platform that more and more educators around the world are finding indispensable. Read More »
New Look NoveList® Website and Facebook Page Provide More Resources for Libraries
EBSCO Publishing — Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Librarians looking for information to help patrons and to publicize their programs have more tools at their disposal thanks to the experts at NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing. ... Now the NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services. Read More »
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