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3D equipment helps school lessons take on a whole new dimension
Vera Johnson's fifth-graders barely noticed as visitors walked into their classroom this week, reports the Dallas Morning News: They were far too focused on the disembodied head that seemed to float in the front of the room. ...

Ninth Graders Only to Attend First Day of High School September 7th District Implements “Transition Day” Initiative Aimed at Increasing High School Graduation
MINNEAPOLIS (September 01, 2010) – Keeping kids in school and engaged as active learners is the number one priority for Big Lake School District in Minnesota. The first day of the 2010-2011 school year is dedicated to Ninth Graders only and the “Transition Day” Initiative Aimed at Increasing High School Graduation. The juniors and seniors [...]...

IETF: AT&T’s net neutrality claim is ‘misleading’
The head of the internet's leading standards body said Sept. 2 that it is "misleading" for AT&T to claim that its push to charge customers for high-priority service is technically justified, CNET reports....

N-able Technologies Dives Deeper Into Education with N-central Remote Network and Systems Management Software
Industry Innovator Joins EDUCAUSE to Accelerate Education Market Growth Ottawa, Canada — Proven to save businesses thousands of dollars in IT costs, N-able Technologies, the global leader in remote network and systems management (NSM) software for IT departments and managed service providers (MSPs), today announced its N-central NSM software toolset is gaining mind and market share [...]...

Glenwood Students Become Better Learners and Thinkers with BrainWare Safari Software
Glenwood School Students Become Better Learners and Thinkers with BrainWare Safari Software Study First Ever to Show Impact of Broad-based Cognitive Skills Development on Academics GLENWOOD, IL (September 2, 2010) – Glenwood School for Boys and Girls first introduced BrainWare® Safari, an engaging software solution that builds the mind’s capacity to learn, as part of the 2008-2009 [...]...

X2 Development Corporation Comes to the Rescue of Mansfield Public Schools
Media Contact: Suzanne Holmquest X2 Development Corporation Phone: +1 (781) 740-2679 x 297 Email: sholmquest@x2dev.com For Immediate Release X2 Development Corporation Comes to the Rescue of Mansfield Public Schools Changes in state reporting leave Mansfield Massachusetts’ schools high and dry Hingham, Massachusetts, September 2, 2010 –X2 Development Corporation (X2) announced today that Mansfield, Massachusetts School District has selected Aspen as their student [...]...

Montessori in the 21st Century, an ipad application to learn how to count!
« Tam & Tao in Numberland»: Learn to count and have fun on iPad ! THE new iPad application for children aged 2 to 6 – made for kids, loved by parents: at last an intelligent alternative to video games! Tam&Tao in Numberland is Les Trois Elles Interactive’s first application. This new French company was set up [...]...

Text to speech software Panopreter Plus makes your PC speak and converts text to mp3
Milpitas, CA (September 3, 2010)- Panopreter.com, the innovative software provider has released Panopreter Plus 3.3.1, the powerful and versatile text-to-speech software for Windows users. It’s popular with business people, educators, writers, students, language learners and those with visual or vocal impairment, or learning disabilities. As an easy-to-use and powerful text to speech software program, Panopreter Plus [...]...

Ken-A-Vision Wins a 2010 I.D. Magazine Design Award for the kena™ Digital Microscope
Kansas City – August 27, 2010 – Ken-A-Vision, a leading manufacturer of digital presentation solutions,document cameras, microscopes and applications software to the educational market, today announced winning the 2010 Design Distinction Award for the kena™ Digital Microscope in the Equipment Category of the 2010 I.D. Annual Design Review. The competition is sponsored by F+W Media Design [...]...

Are open textbooks gaining momentum in higher ed?
Officials from open-license textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge say more than 1,300 instructors at 800 colleges and universities will use their books this fall semester—doubling the 400 institutions that used Flat World texts a year ago....