THE Journal — eLearning/Web
FETC 2009 Presenter Profile: Leslie Fisher
Leslie Fisher's interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California, where she quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. Fisher grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet, and started looking for music resources.
(1/8/2009)
Creative Learning Systems Launches Hands-on Science Learning Lab
A new custom laboratory has been launched with the aim of helping K-12 students learn first hand how to prepare for a green technology future. The Alternative Energy SmartLab, from Longmont, CO-based Creative Learning Systems, offers hands-on teaching and learning tools to educate students in energy and environmentally friendly technology, as well as the materials to apply what they've learned in order to use and even build their own "green" devices.
(1/8/2009)
Florida County Adopts Imagine It! K-5 Reading Curriculum
Leon County Schools in Florida has recently announced the adoption of SRA/McGraw-Hill's Imagine It! reading program for grades K-5. The deployment is aimed at helping the district meet state and federal assessment standards.
(1/7/2009)
EIN Makes News Content Free for Academic Use
EIN News has recently announced that it will make its entire library of news feeds available for free to members of the academic community.
(1/6/2009)
SAS Provides Curriculum Pathways Free to U.S. Educators
SAS has recently announced that it will offer its Curriculum Pathways platform free to educators in the United States. According to the company, the move is aimed at providing teachers additional resources to engage students in an effort to increase national graduation rates.
(1/6/2009)
Program To Award Wireless Lab Grants, Digital Media Gear
Discovery Education and CDW Government (CDW-G) have opened their 2009 Win a Wireless Lab sweepstakes for K-12 schools. The program will award five technology bundles valued at about $45,000 each, along with several smaller classroom technology awards.
(1/6/2009)
School Video Production Made Easier
It used to take Alex Wolf 40 minutes to record Loch Raven Academy's morning show so that teachers and other individuals could watch it at a later date. That's because once the show was recorded, it had to be re-imported back into a computer and readied for upload to the school's Safari Montage system.
(1/5/2009)
Wyoming Uses Lexile and Quantile Measures To Gauge Student Achievement
The state of Wyoming has recently announced the adoption of the Lexile and Quantile measures and their associated Frameworks, aimed at improving student math and reading performance.
(1/5/2009)
Pearson Releases PowerTeacher 1.5 Online Gradebook
Pearson has released the latest version of its PowerTeacher online gradebook for K-12 educators. PowerTeacher 1.5 offers several enhancements including integration with Pearson's student information system, Chancery SMS.
(1/5/2009)
Memphis District Deploys Web-based Early Reading Program
Memphis City Schools has announced the adoption of the Headsprout Early Reading program aimed at enhancing district literacy programs for more than 8,700 first-grade students.
(1/5/2009)
Pearson Longman Debuts Interactive Professional Development For EL Teachers
Pearson Longman has announced the availability of its Teacher Development Interactive program, an online professional development resource for English Language teachers.
(12/11/2008)
Pulaski County Schools Deploys WAN To Support eLearning
Pulaski County Public Schools in Virginia has recently implemented a wide area network aimed at providing enhanced access to a range of district resources including video security, distance learning tools, and other Web-based services.
(12/11/2008)
K-12 Schools Win $25,000 Classroom Makeovers
eInstruction has announced the winners of its second-annual Classroom Makeover Contest. The K-12 competition called on educators to create short music videos demonstrating how classroom technologies can be used to enhance instruction. Winners each received $25,000 in hardware, software, and support.
(12/11/2008)
John Kuglin: 21st Century Learning and the 'Youth Media Culture'
John Kuglin's background is as eclectic as the 21st century learning skillset he advocates. He's been an educator since 1971. He's worked with NASA by way of the Earth Observing System project at the University of Montana. He's been a vice president at a digital media authoring and production studio. And now, as CIO of Eagle County Schools in Colorado, he's at the forefront of developing technology-infused learning environments that will help prepare today's kids for the new realities of the 21st century.
(12/11/2008)
Growth of Market for Videoconferencing, Streaming, and Lecture Capture Driven by On-campus Students and Worried Workers
A new study concludes that real-time videoconferencing, streaming, and lecture capture solutions for distance education and e-learning markets is growing not to address the needs of remote students but to accommodate demand from campus-based users who want the ability to attend class whenever and however they wish.
(12/10/2008)
U.S. Math Scores Improve Marginally as Science Scores Stagnate
Fourth- and eighth-grade students in the United States, on the whole, have improved their math scores marginally since 1995, up about 2.12 percent for fourth-graders and 3.25 percent for eighth-graders, according to data from the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, released this week by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Science scores for these students were unchanged.
(12/10/2008)
PA Charter School To Deploy 1,400 OLPC XO Laptops
Chester Community Charter School in Pennsylvania is deploying 1,400 XO laptops to students, one of the larger deployments of laptops from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in the United States. The initial rollout will begin this week.
(12/9/2008)
ePals To Provide Educational Documentaries to ePals Community
ePals has entered into an agreement with SnagFilms aimed at providing access to a range of educational documentaries to members of the ePals Global Community.
(12/8/2008)
FETC 2009 Presenter Profile: Chris Dede Talks Emerging Interactive Media
Chris Dede knows a thing or two about emerging interactive media, immersive interfaces and the impact that both concepts are having on the educational field. Dede, who is presenting his views on both topics at the upcoming FETC 2009 conference in Florida, gives a preview of what attendees can expect from the sessions.
(12/4/2008)
Greendale SD Implements Web-based Formative Assessments District-wide
Greendale School District in Wisconsin is revamping its student data and testing systems with the deployment of Pearson Benchmark, a Web-based testing and reporting system designed to monitor student progress and provide analytics to help "manage and maximize student achievement."
(12/4/2008)
Georgia Approves Fast ForWord, Reading Assistant for K-8 Instruction
The Georgia Department of Education has recently approved Scientific Learning's Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant family of programs for use in K-8 Language Arts and Reading instruction.
(12/3/2008)
PA Online Schools Contract with EdisonLearning, Provost Systems
EdisonLearning has announced significant market share for its educational technology in Pennsylvania. According to the company, roughly 12,000 Pennsylvania students currently enrolled in online charter schools are using technology provided through EdisonLearning's wholly owned subsidiary Provost Systems.
(12/3/2008)
AEC Expands A+nyWhere Learning System for Early Reading
American Education Corp. (AEC) has released two new titles for its A+nyWhere Learning System (A+LS), both focused on early reading.
(12/2/2008)
Lexia Releases Updated PreK-12 Reading Software
Lexia Learning Systems recently released a new version of its Lexia Reading software. The updated version includes a range of improvements over the previous release, including performance gains, new teacher resources, and added functionality.
(12/2/2008)
iKnow Social Learning Platform Expands Language Support
Cerego has released new content creation tools for its iKnow social learning platform, adding support for creating learning modules in any of 188 languages. The company has also expanded language support for the text-to-speech technology used in the iKnow platform.
(12/1/2008)
