alio 10.0 will include new
business intelligence tools, through Weidenhammer’s alio Intelligence
software, and will have enhancements to its reporting and human
resources functions.
A six-week summer work program at Intermediate School District 287 in Plymouth, Minnesota trained students with disabilities in document imaging tasks, and was so successful that the district has decided to make it a regular part of its training opportunities starting this fall.
Certification Map, an online resource which consolidates the teacher certification information for all 50 states into one site, has announced a contest to locate the best non profits that focus on education. The winner will be awarded a $500 donation
Northcentral University
(www.ncu.edu) today announced that its undergraduate business programs
have been rated a “2009 Best Buy” by Get.Educated.com
(www.geteducated.com), a 20-year old national consumer group that
evaluates and ranks online colleges for cost and credibility.
Nearly 2,000 students and
faculty from more than 200 universities from 40 countries took part in
the Jam along with top IBM personnel, clients and business partners.
KnowledgeWorks and New Technology Foundation (New Tech) today announced plans to combine the two organizations
Recent studies have
confirmed what many educators, politicians and concerned citizens have
known for decades: that public education in the United States is
generally inadequate when compared to other countries and is downright
appalling in our inner cities.
The Games in Education Symposium is free to
educators from early childhood to post secondary education interested
in the use of games and technology to promote learning in the 21st
century.
The Association of
Educational Publishers just released a podcast from the AEP Summit 09
titled "Learning Platforms for the 21st Century and Beyond" in which
representatives form Google Apps, Amazon Kindle Books and and the
Rochester Institute of Technology's Open Publishing Lab discuss the
impact of technology on today's classroom - now and in the future.
ELMO USA Corporation announces the release of its new, affordable document camera, model TT-02RX.
by
Tech Learning Blog Staff
School may be out for
summer vacation, but school administrators across the nation have been
busy sharing their thoughts and opinions on some of the hottest topics
in education today.
AVerMedia® Information,
Inc., provider of presentation and surveillance technology, has
announced a Buy 8 Get 1 Free promotion on the AVerVision CP300
Interactive Document Camera through September 30, 2009.
Califone International,
Inc., has partnered with Twin Sisters Productions, LLC to offer educators, reading specialists,
speech pathologists, and students with access to award-winning
children's songs by preloading them on the Califone MP3 Player.
AbleNet, Inc. is partnering with the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) to offer the first “AbleNet – ISAAC Remarkable Achievements Award.”
Wirefly, retailer of cell
phones and wireless plans, today announces its annual Top 10 cell
phones for students heading back to school.
The educators of the
Lovejoy ISD High School in Texas talk about the benefits of using the
Hitachi Starboard interactive whiteboard as an integral part of their
students' instruction. Included are scenes from the classroom.
The Live Services Plug-In
for Moodle integrates Microsoft Live@edu services such as email,
calendar, instant messaging, and search directly within the Moodle
environment for the classroom using a single sign-on.
Integration of Elluminate
technology enables Desire2Learn users to easily add synchronous
distance learning and collaboration to course work using the Elluminate
Live! real-time virtual classroom.
Hands-on workshops in more than 40 cities show educators how to integrate data collection into the curriculum using the ‘LabQuest’ handheld.
The writers of the top
three essays will receive a $300 savings bond and become paid
Yoursphere.com contributing writers as well as receive a one year free
membership to Yoursphere.com.
Chemistry teacher Susan
Matthews of McArthur High School in Decatur, IL, has created
instructional videos and recorded her smartboard lessons for students
to review.
The Realize Science
Technology Grant has awarded $10,000 worth of science education
equipment and curriculum tools to teachers across the country who
submitted the most creative, innovative and educationally valuable uses
of hand-held video microscopes.
The Google Apps Education team has launched a few new ways to make it easier for K-12 schools to use Google Apps
Bookshare members will be able to download and read tens of thousands of accessible books and periodicals on the new PLEXTALK™ pocket portable digital DAISY player and recorder.
School library media specialists in Kansas and Louisiana have been named the two winners of this year’s American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Information Technology Pathfinder Award, sponsored by Follett Software Company.
Casio America, Inc. in
partnership with TutorJam®, announces that with the purchase of any
Casio calculator students will receive 45 minutes of online tutoring
from K-12 and college educators.
Individuals with print
disabilities can now choose new, low-cost mobile technologies to read
more than 50,000 digital books and periodicals.
Today, Discovery Education
and 3M announced the top 50 middle school students from around the
nation as semifinalists in the 11th annual Discovery Education 3M Young
Scientist Challenge.
School Town's learning
environment engages students, parents and teachers in personalized
learning and is now fully integrated with netTrekker's database of over
300,000 educator-selected digital resources.
The first 100 K12 schools
to register at www.DyKnow.com/K12/freeclassroom will receive a free
DyKnow Classroom, which includes the following:
YouTube is the third most popular site on the Web, yet many school districts block it due to safety and security risks.
Promethean announced a planned donation of thirty ActivClassrooms to Washington, DC-area schools.
MySpeed allows users for the first time to adjust the playback speed of the video while maintaining natural-sounding audio.
LG's new "SmartVine"
network monitors, Network Attached Storage and digital display
solutions - introduced here this week at the 2009 National Education and Computing Conference - help schools display, store and share information.
Lumens Integration, Inc. today announced the availability of the Lumens DC265, the first portable visual presenter with the power of a desktop model designed for use in K-12 education.
Serif worked with Educational Resources, resellers of academic software, hardware, accessories, and supplemental products, to attain the designation which will enable schools to purchase Serif products using federal grant money.
KidsWrite, publishing company and community for kids, today announced the launch of their new environment where students of all ages are able to publish their writings and art.
Atomic Learning’s new 21st Century Skills PD and Tech Integration solution provides professional development resources and curriculum materials that empower educators to infuse 21st century skills into the classroom.
Century Consultants, Ltd., an ASM Research Company, (Century) is pleased to announce the addition of an ASP solution as an option for its Star_Base School Suite®, an integrated, web-based student information management system.
News from the National Educational Computing Conference Oncourse Systems released a new web based Discipline System that enables educators to document, track, and report disciplinary incidents. Turning Technologies announces social learning community and new releases of interactive polling products, including
Panasonic
Communications Company of North America (PCCNA) today announced the
release of three new-generation electronic Panaboards™ merging an
integrated stereo sound system, advanced text and graphic capabilities,
and a rugged enamel hard-surface anti-reflective screen, scratch- and
shock- resistant.
Curriculum Associates’ new BRIGANCE Head Start System, launched at the Head Start National Association Conference this spring, is now available.
Curriculum Associates
announced the launch of the new BRIGANCE Early Childhood System, which
helps in identifying preschool children’s developmental strengths and
weaknesses.
To provide intensive instruction in specific skill areas, Curriculum Advantage Inc. today introduces Response to Intervention (RtI) Practice and Review bundles.
CompassLearning, provider of K–12 education software, announced today an update to their Odyssey software. With this update, Odyssey High School introduces eight new high school courses.
Schoolwires is offering
significant savings on its premier suite of solutions and services
designed to help districts realize the value of the strong, safe and
effective website and community management solutions, the company
announced today.
mimio introduced the new generation of Studio 6 interactive teaching technology software for Mac and Linux, allowing the same level of mimio software for the three most popular operating systems available
it’s learning AS, a Bergen, Norway-based company and global learning
platform provider, brings its individualized learning system and
training services to United States schools and universities through its
new subsidiary, it’s learning, inc.
Teachscape has expanded its web-based Teachscape XL professional learning platform.
HP today announced the immediate availability of AMD’s Six-Core Opteron 2400 Series processor on the powerful HP xw9400 Workstation, the first professional workstation to provide up to 12 cores.
Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., today introduced the CP-D10 3LCD projector that delivers a new level of affordability for a short-throw projector.
In an effort that addresses the needs of Mac users in the educational community, Hitachi Software has released StarBoard Software 9.0.
At slightly more than 2.5 pounds, the HP Mini 5101
offers a fully integrated 2-megapixel webcam as well as the ability to
participate in web conferencing and video-enhanced instant messaging
with classmates.
HP and KNS (Knowledge Network Solutions) have teamed to expand the portfolio of professional development courses offered by HP.
HP today announced that the North Kansas City (Mo.) school district has deployed 6,000 HP Mini 2140 Notebook PCs to its K-12 students.
Today, in her keynote
presentation at the National Educational Computing Conference, Erin
Gruwell, founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, will share the
supporting, yet critical role, that technology played in easing the
teacher/author collaboration and relationship building.
eInstruction™, a global
provider of learning technology, today announced its next-generation
student response technology -- vClicker Mobile Edition and the CPS
Pulse.
Key Curriculum Press® announces the latest version of Sketchpad today at the National Educational Computing Conference.
HP Innovations in Education
grant initiative awards recipients have been announced. Each of the
selected 25 school districts will receive a grant of equipment and cash
valued at more than $270,000.
Promethean today announced Promethean Planet 2.0. Promethean Planet is the world’s fastest growing online interactive whiteboard community.
Promethean today unveils the redesign of its collaborative classroom learning solution: the ActivClassroom for Everyone.