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Easiest Way To Share Web-Based Educational Content in the Classroom
19Pencils — Monday, October 03, 2011
19Pencils.com allowing teachers to actively use the internet to enhance learning with their own homepage of hand-chosen educational websites. Teachers can search through hundreds of websites for content or provide their own unique sites and share that content with other subscribers Read More »
eChalk Mobile App Puts Key to Student Achievement in Parents’ Hands
eChalk — Monday, October 03, 2011
A new mobile app launched by eChalk extends its school communication and instruction management software to more computing devices, giving students, parents and teachers another way to stay connected. With versions for iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, and Android® devices, the app helps school communities foster greater parental involvement.... Read More »
CCC! Achieves Compatibility with Android, Apple Devices
New Dimension Media — Thursday, September 29, 2011
New Dimension Media has announced that its CCC! streaming media service-which gives educators and students access to award-winning educational media from providers like Disney Educational Productions, National Geographic Education, BBC Motion Gallery, and more-will be compatible with Android and Apple devices. Read More »
Ohio SD Selects ‘PresenceLearning’ for Online Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning — Wednesday, September 28, 2011
PresenceLearning has been selected by Clinton-Massie Local Schools to deliver services to its special education students. PresenceLearning’s unique videoconferencing platform and nationwide network of fully-qualified speech language pathologists (SLPs) helps districts improve overall outcomes for speech/language therapy students while saving 10% or more on costs. Read More »
ePals Introduces LearningSpace 2.0
ePals Corporation — Tuesday, September 27, 2011
ePals Corporation announced the launch of LearningSpace 2.0, the next generation of its social learning platform. ePals' LearningSpace 2.0 combines the best features of consumer collaboration and social networking platforms - such as Google +, Facebook, and Twitter - with SchoolSafe™ technology-enabled safety and privacy controls to manage online social interaction. Read More »
Kids Learn Geometry with Sokikom’s New Shapescape Game
Sokikom — Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sokikom, the award-winning massively multiplayer online math social learning game site, today launched its fourth game – Shapescape. Appropriately named, the new game will help kids in grades 1-6 build an understanding of geometry. Read More »
STI Helps Educators Transform Classroom Practice
STI — Tuesday, September 27, 2011
STI, a leading provider of education data management solutions, is offering i21 Zone, a new professional development service designed to help schools more effectively integrate their existing technologies into daily instructional practices to improve student engagement and achievement. Read More »
SGL Launches Adaptive Learning Management System New Cloud & Mobile Services
Synaptic Global Learning — Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The next generation of the Adaptive Learning Management System (ALMS), that supports classroom and online instruction with incredible success by increasing student online course completion rates, is being adopted by national and international K-12 and university practitioners. Read More »
Blackboard Launches Collaboration Platform Built for Education
Blackboard Inc. — Monday, September 26, 2011
Blackboard Inc. announced today the launch of Blackboard Collaborate(TM), the only education-focused platform for real-time collaboration that helps institutions shift more learning, networking, and communication online to improve education quality while reducing the cost of academic operations. Read More »
"Teacher Wall"-- A Video Network for Teachers- Launches
Scholastic, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DonorsChoose.org — Monday, September 26, 2011
Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with DonorsChoose.org, announce the launch of the Teacher Wall, a social network for teachers to share best practices, thoughts on education and ideas for education reform. The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them ... Read More »
