PreK-12 Market Headlines
New Dimension Media Adds BBC Motion Gallery to Educational Content Library
New Dimension Media — Saturday, February 20, 2010
New Dimension Media's CCC! Video on Demand users will now have access to ten titles from the BBC's "Changing World" series, as well as 30 other science and nature titles produced by the BBC. Read More »
Medallion Reading Program Saves Districts over $50 Million; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Meeting Schools’ Needs During Historically Difficult Budget Times
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Saturday, February 20, 2010
Mifflin Harcourt has worked aggressively to help school districts provide the latest instructional materials at about one third of the cost. The Medallion program provides schools with updated curriculum at about one third of the cost of a new program. Read More »
Compton’s by Britannica Publishes “Native Peoples of the Americas”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. — Thursday, February 18, 2010
Students interested in the indigenous peoples and cultures of North, South and Central America now have a handy, attractive and up-to-date source for the subject in “Native Peoples of the Americas,” a new book published under the Compton’s by Britannica imprint of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. The 128-page volume, aligned to the school curriculum for grades 6-12... Read More »
Discovery Education Adds New Content from Scholastic Media, the Smithsonian Institution and Other Leading Publishers to Digital Services
Discovery Education — Thursday, February 18, 2010
Discovery Education has expanded its library to more than 150,000 digital assets through new agreements with Scholastic Media, the Smithsonian Institution, and other top content providers and forward-thinking school systems. Read More »
Math Solutions To Develop a Web-based Tool for Classroom Math Assessment
Math Solutions — Thursday, February 18, 2010
Math Solutions today announced a $2.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a web-based diagnostic/formative assessment tool uniquely designed to support face-to-face interaction between teacher and student. Read More »
Teachscape Offers Free ‘Teachscape XL’ Professional Development Content with ‘Module of the Month Club’
Teachscape — Thursday, February 18, 2010
Teachscape's Module of the Month Club series offerins teachers, administrators, and instructional leaders access to free professional development content. Each month registered members will have unlimited access to one selected module from the Teachscape XL library. Read More »
Summer School Programs Turning To Educational Video Games from Tabula Digita
Tabula Digita — Thursday, February 18, 2010
Janet Boatman, middle school math supervisor for Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, immediately saw the appeal and incorporated the immersive video games, which are aligned to state standards and those of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, into an eight-week summer enrichment program at three school sites. Read More »
Alabama Selects Learning.com for Technology Education Adoption
Learning.com — Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Named to the Alabama State Department of Education's 2009-10 Technology Education Textbook Adoption are EasyTech, a technology literacy curriculum, and 21st Century Skills Assessment, which provides data on how well students grasp 21st century skills. Read More »
Integrating Assistive Technology in General Education: FREE ebook from Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning, Inc. — Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Atomic Learning has recently released an ebook for all K12 educators. Entitled “Integrate Assistive Technology in General Education: A Quick Reference Guide”, this resource is intended for any teacher or administrator seeking to level their classrooms for all students. Read More »
Cornwall-Lebanon School District Uses Panopto To Redefine Lecture Capture
Panopto, Inc. — Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Panopto, Inc. announced that the Cornwall-Lebanon School District has deployed CourseCast across its district to bring lecture capture functionality to all students in grades K-12. Currently more than 55 classrooms throughout the district are using Panopto to create rich media recordings that include audio, video and screen capture components. Read More »
