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AccessNow & TestNav 7.5 with Chromebooks

(www.ericom.com)

Ericom Software has announced that its AccessNow & TestNav 7.5 withChromebooks has become the first certified on-premise virtualization solution forGoogle Chromebooks in Pearson’s TestNav Qualified program. AccessNow turnsHTML5-compatible browsers and devices, such as Chromebooks, iPads, Androiddevices, PCs, Macs, Linux devices, and locked-down workstations, into enhanced remote access forconnecting to Windows and Web-based resources.

Ardusat Platform and Curriculum

(www.ardusat.com)

Ardusat has released a technology platform and curriculum that will enable K-12students and teachers to conduct multidisciplinary experiments in space. Thesignature feature is the ability to control experiments conducted on small satellitescalled “cubesats,” which contain sensors built to collect scientific data. Any classthat purchases the Ardusat classroom package will be able to access data from the satellites. Ardusatwill also produce curriculum based on its cubesat experiments that will be free for any teacher to use inthe classroom.

Boardmaker Online

(www.dynavoxtech.com)

DynaVox Systems has introduced Boardmaker Online, a comprehensive online solution for creating andmanaging symbol-based special education instruction. Teachers can find, create, organize, and delivereducational materials through one platform. The personalized learning tool also provides integrated datatracking, allowing educators to measure their students’ progress toward academic, language, social, andbehavioral goals.

Casper Suite

(www.jamfsoftware.com)

JAMF Software has announced a new release of its flagshipsolution, the Casper Suite. This latest version gives ITprofessionals a simple way to manage BYOD programs,while respecting employee privacy. Designed specifically for iOS and Android devices, the Casper Suiteoffers security compliance without changing the native experience on the user’s device.

Census Pop Quiz

(www.census.gov/mobile/censuspopquiz/)

The U.S. Census Bureau has released a free mobile app that challenges users’knowledge of demographic facts for the states and D.C. The app features badges toshare with social media connections, and is available for both iPhone and Androidsmartphones and tablets.

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Channel One News has launched the Video Library, a user-friendly, searchabledatabase of nonfiction videos and interactive activities tied to current events. Thelibrary includes 2,200 Channel One News video segments, searchable by grade,subject area, and keywords, supplemented by 1,200 video transcripts. The VideoLibrary also offers interactive, standards-aligned content, including slideshows,timelines, discussion questions, writing prompts, and quizzes tied to specific videosegments.

Common Core Coach

(www.triumphlearning.com)

New evaluations of Triumph Learning’s Common Core Coach, an inclusive learningprogram that adds depth, understanding, and practice to Common Core standardsand skills instruction, find the program creates a comprehensive instructionalprogram for math and English language arts (ELA) classes. Common Core Coachfor Math and Common Core Coach ELA enable meaningful instruction and practice through tools thatsupport student assessment in grades three through eight.

Cool School

(www.coolschoolcentral.com)

The Language Express has announced Cool School, a unique animated andinteractive bullying prevention program that offers elementary schools an easy-to-use tool to modify anti-social behavior by promoting pro-social interactions. Theprogram was written by a team of psychologists and is available as a desktop application.

Discovery Education Adds Network Content

(www.discoveryeducation.com)

Discovery Education has added 38 exclusive videos from DiscoveryCommunications’ family of networks to its suite of digital resources. Educators can now integratepopular series from Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, and American Heroes Channelinto classroom instruction through Discovery Education’s suite of digital education services, includingDiscovery Education Streaming, Streaming Plus, and Discovery Education Techbook series.

Early Warning Indicator System for Kickboard

(www.kickboardforteachers.com)

With the Kickboard instructional management solution’s new Early Warning Indicator System (EWIS),educators can easily see how many, and which, students are off track for future academic success,enabling early intervention. Kickboard is a central hub of classroom data where teachers can collect,analyze, and share academic and behavioral information. Using the EWIS, schools can set up earlywarning indicators that act as “triggers” to instantly alert educators to potential problems in generaleducation, Response to Intervention (RTI), and special education programs.

Fuel Education and LearnBop

(www.learnbop.com)

Fuel Education is partnering with LearnBop, provider of an automatedmath tutoring and assessment tool for students in grades 5-9, to deliverrobust options for personalizing learning to schools and districts.LearnBop simulates a one-to-one tutoring experience by guidingstudents through problems so they can learn fundamental math concepts at their own pace. As studentscomplete problems, teachers use dashboards to analyze learning behavior by concept and by student.

itslearning

(www.itslearning.net)

itslearning has announced enhanced access options, more streamlinedprocesses, and other upgrades for its K-12 digital learning platform, justin time for the 2014-2015 school year. The simplified login page gives students easy access tocoursework and instructional materials on tablets, mobile devices, and laptops. The new “My Page” givesstudents quicker access to tasks, notifications, messages, personal files, ePortfolios, and IndividualLearning plans. Also, parents will now be able to access their children’s calendars, in addition to the dailylesson planner, via the Parent Portal.

Jupiter iO Anonymous Hotline

(www.jupitered.com)

Jupiter Ed has announced the addition of an Anonymous Hotline feature to their Jupiter iO all-in-onegradebook, LMS, analytics, and SIS solution. The Anonymous Hotline lets students send anonymousmessages to their counselor, teacher, or any trusted school official, via their smartphone, tablet, orcomputer. Students can include videos, photos, and screenshots. School staff can write back to giveguidance to the student while maintaining their anonymity.

Learning Bird 3.0

(www.learningbird.com)

Learning Bird has released a new 3.0version designed to improve the userexperience for teachers, students, andparents. The update features enhanced homepages, including the debut ofa “Popular Lessons” section that showcases lessons users have ratedpositively. The new version will allow teachers to upload lessons and viewtheir stats directly from their personal Learning Bird homepage. This viewalso shows a teacher’s most recently uploaded lessons along with statisticsfor views/likes for all lessons.

LearnZillion Lesson Plans

(www.learnzillion.com)

LearnZillion has released over 750 free, standards-aligned lesson plans in math and English languagearts, created by top teachers from 42 states. Builtdirectly from the Common Core State Standards, the lesson plans are designed for use on any Web-connected device, and feature a digital display mode that can save on printing and copying costs, whilealso being compatible with paper-based classrooms.

NEC DisplayNote

(www.necdisplay.com)

NEC Display Solutions of America has announced the availability of DisplayNoteSoftware through the cloud. The tool lets educators, students, and professionalspresent and share content, and collaborate across any device using Windows, IOS, and Androidoperating systems. NEC DisplayNote Software works with existing projectors, screens, and educationalsoftware platforms, and eliminates the need for additional hardware.

Odysseyware Courses for HTML5

(www.odysseyware.com)

Odysseyware has converted its 60 most popular online courses to HTML5. Theconversion from Flash to HTML5 makes these courses compatible with all tablets, touchscreens, andhandheld devices, as well as easier to access on standard computers. Odysseyware has also created itsnew virtual labs on the HTML5 platform. Students can experience traditional labs, such as frogdissections and light wave experiments, in a safe, engaging way.

OpenStax Free Textbooks

(www.openstaxcollege.org)

Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax has announced a $9 million effort to develop free digitaltextbooks capable of delivering personalized lessons to high school students. The K-12 education projectwill use the same kind of technology that Google, Amazon, and Netflix rely upon to deliver personalizedsearch, retail, and entertainment choices.

PaintShop Pro X7

(www.paintshoppro.com)

Corel recently released PaintShop Pro X7 and PaintShop Pro X7 Ultimate, the latesteditions of its professional quality photo editing and design software. Enhancementsinclude the content-aware Magic Fill, extensive user interface improvements, andbrushes that offer a 30% performance boost. PaintShop Pro X7 Ultimate includes add-ons such as an enhanced creative collection, featuring dozens of brushes, textures, andover 100 royalty-free backgrounds.

Print and Learn

(www.lantronix.com/PAL)

Lantronix has launched a new program called Print and Learn (PAL) to help K-12schools and higher education institutions maximize their existing resources to provide students with thetools they need to be successful in the digital environment. The program consists of product discounts,idea sharing on social media, a year-long photo contest, and professional services.

SOLIDWORKS Education Edition

(www.solidworks.com)

Dassault Systèmes has announced the SOLIDWORKS Education Edition 2014- 2015.Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, this latest version includes new tools andenhancements to improve teacher efficiency, shorten student design processes, increaseteam collaboration, and enable educational productivity across numerous areas, including3D CAD, simulation, product data management, technical communication, and electrical design.

Success Maker

(www.pearsonschool.com)

Pearson has released updates to SuccessMaker, its research-based, personalized digital math andreading curriculum for grades K-8. The program now offers comprehensive content alignment to statestandards, and enhanced interactivity that focuses on building close reading skills and deep conceptualunderstanding in math. In addition to new teacher-driven course and reporting options, teachers nowhave access to over 12,000 new learning resources in reading, math, science, and social studies.

Synergyse Training for Google Apps Admin Console

(www.synergyse.com)

Synergyse Training has expanded its Google Apps training suite to offer free Google Apps AdminConsole lessons. Synergyse interactive training is layered on top of the Google Apps Admin Consoleinterface, and is accompanied by audio, text, and visual cues. The training covers Users, Organizations,Services, Device and Mobile Management, and more.

TabPilot Tablet Manager

(www.tabpilot.com)

TabPilot Learning Systems released an update to TabPilot Tablet Manager that brings anenhanced feature set to select Samsung tablets. The update supports most Samsungtablets running Android 4.2 or higher, including the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4Education. One feature allows apps to install silently in the background on tablets after the teacher oradministrator pushes them out to the tablets from the cloud-based console. Other features include theability to view live thumbnails of student screens via the console or monitor an individual student screenwith the full-size view.

TeacherMatch

(www.teachermatch.org)

TeacherMatch has added a Professional Development Profile (PDP) summary reportingfeature to its platform. The reporting function allows for a summary of the overall strengths andweaknesses of recently hired employees, giving administrators the ability to design comprehensivedevelopment plans for their new employees at the point of hire. The report provides a template withguidelines for preparing a customized, individual plan to target opportunities for improvement.

WonderGrove Learn

(www.wondergrovelearn.com)

WonderGrove Learn uses instructional animations with engaging characters to teach young studentsabout good behavior inside and outside the classroom, from raising your hand to paying attention whilethe teacher is talking. The videos are geared towards helping teachers with classroom management andSEL, and include Common Core-aligned lesson plans, including worksheets that feature encouragementfrom the characters.

Woodcock-Johnson IV

(www.hmhco.com)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt-Riverside has launched the next generation ofthe Woodcock- Johnson Assessment Suite. Updates include enhancedonline scoring and reporting features, such as a Roster Report thatprovides multiple options to select subjects by demographic or subgroupin order to view a variety of scores across tests and clusters. A ParentReport, available in English or Spanish, offers a graphical representationand a qualitative description of a child’s scores and is designed to beeasy for families to understand. Woodcock-Johnson IV offers three independent and co-normedbatteries that provide psychologists, teachers, and speech language pathologists with the appropriateinformation to measure students’ cognitive abilities, achievement, and oral language skills.

apps

Canvas Network MOOCs and Minecraft App

(www.instructure.com)

Instructure, creator of the Canvas learning management system for K-12 andhigher education, has unveiled a suite of over 15 MOOCs for teachers, students,and parents on its Canvas Network platform. The suite includes two Minecraftcourses that aim to help teachers to leverage gamification best practices in the classroom. Instructure isalso releasing a Minecraft app, which allows students to link their Minecraft accounts to Canvas and usein-game actions to submit assignments.

Front Row

(www.frontrowed.com)

The free Front Row app, available for iPads, Android tablets, and computers, helps teachers assess theirstudents on an individual level while teaching the entire class. The program grows with the students

each year and collects data on student progress, sharing it with the educator.Teachers sign up and set up class rosters, and then students take a baselineassessment to identify what they know and don’t know. The program then tailorsto each student’s individual need to practice and challenge what is relevant tothem.

Maya Quiz

(www.dig-itgames.com)

Dig-It! Games has released Maya Quiz, an iPad app thatcomplements the company’s Mayan Mysteries series. The appoffers historically accurate information about Maya archaeology,history, and culture. The game features more than 100 factual, randomized trivia questions. Playersmust answer 10 questions in five categories per round of untimed play to prove their mastery of Mayaculture.

News-2-You Version 2.0

(n2y.com)

n2y, developers of special education curriculum Unique Learning System, as wellas SymbolStix and the News-2-you Newspaper, has launched an update to itsNews-2- You iPad app to help support kids of all ages and reading levels. Theupdate is available free to all existing users, while annual subscriptions andsingle editions are available for purchase within the app. News-2-You is asymbol-supported newspaper for beginning readers and special needs students.It is designed for teaching and expanding literacy skills from basic awareness ofsymbols and print to reading fluently with comprehension. Version 2.0 includes four different readingskill levels.

Story Bug

(www.cricketmedia.com)

Cricket Media has released Story Bug, a collaborative reading app, for the iPad andiPhone. The app combines video chat with an interactive reader, enabling users indifferent locations to socialize and bond while reading selections drawn from CricketMedia’s portfolio of children’s magazines. Users also share controls for turning pagesand interacting with the content, ensuring simultaneous page turns on all devices.

hardware

Crestron (www.crestron.com) has announced the TSCW-730 Touch Screen Control System, a complete, space-saving control solution in one wall mount device. Theintegrated 3-Series control system makes it easy to designand install Crestron systems on a single high-speedplatform.

Elite PrimeVision (www.elitescreens.com) has released the PolarStar-eFinity projection screen, whichfeatures an internal aluminum framework that is enclosed in a wrap-around material design to create an“edge-free” effect. The frame includes a detachable LED backlighting kit that has sixteen color optionsand four mode settings, along with remote control and optional anodized 10mm bezel.

NComputing (www.ncomputing.com/solutions/education)has updated its N-series line of Certified Citrix-Ready HDXVerified thin clients. N-series 2.0 includes a number of keyenhancements which broaden support to the latest Citrixvirtual desktop environments, including integration of CitrixReceiver for Linux 13.0 and support for XenApp andXenDesktop 7.1 and 7.5, VDI-in-a-Box 5.4, as well as selectStoreFront and NetScaler configurations.

Acer (www.acer.com) has announced its new ChromeboxCXI line, ideal for educators who want to leverage theaffordability and security of the Google Chrome ecosystem.The CXI boots up in about 8 seconds and resumes nearly instantly from sleep mode, thanks to the 16GBSolid State Drive. Housed in a compact .6 liter (6.51 x 5.12 x 1.3-inches) chassis that stands upright and

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is VESA mountable, the Acer Chromebox CXI maximizes space. Thefirst two models are the CXI-2GKM with 2GB memory and the CXI-4GKM with 4GB memory.

BenQ America Corp.(www.benq.us) hasintroduced the SH963and TH963 professionalprojectors. Featuring6,000 lumens of duallamp brightness, full HD1080p picture quality,flexible installationfeatures, HollywoodQuality Video (HQV),

and optional long-and short-throw lenses (TH963), these projectorsare specifically designed to facilitate professional installations in largevenue applications.

AVer

Information (www.averusa.com) has completed integration with additional VMS software solutions,including Milestone, ONSSI, and Wavestore, to expand the capabilities, features, and functions of AVerIP cameras across multiple platforms. Specific features designed to enhance campus security andsurveillance built within AVer IP Cameras can now be seamlessly accessed and used through integratedVMS software.

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