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infosnap is well suited to partner with WSIPC because their powerful online admissions and enrollment (registration) solutions provide secure, customized online forms based on a district's existing processes. Austin, TX (PRWEB) February 22, 2013 infosnap, inc. is pleased to announce a partnership with the Washington School Information Processing Cooperative (WSIPC) to extend customized online registration and enrollment services to the nearly 280 WSIPC member districts across...
Funds from event headlined by Sammy Hagar, Taboo (Black Eyed Peas) and Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses) help make up $100,000+ donation of resources to the Bay Area schools SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, at least 25 San Francisco Bay Area teachers will receive music education training, curricula and instruments in a free, two-day workshop that will transform their schools' music program, and their students' lives. With budget cuts eliminating or reducing music...
MONTREAL, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Technology CEOs attending the prestigious CEO Vision event at Mont-Tremblant elected Daniel Handfield, Médiamed technologies as "2013 Investissement Québec CEO of the Year". The CEOs in attendance selected the winner by a secret ballot following presentations by the three finalists highlighting their entrepreneurial achievements for 2012. Organized by the Quebec Technology Association in conjunction with Investissement Québec, this honour...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced an agreement with the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system (ConnSCU), for a new, statewide platform for online and mobile learning to support ConnSCU's 17 institutions and 96,000 students. With the deal, each of the campuses will gain access to Blackboard Learn((TM)) and Blackboard Mobile Learn((TM)) for the next three...
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A retired teacher has created Apps With Curriculum (www.appswithcurriculum.com), an educational technology service to develop Common Core-aligned lesson plans for book app developers. Cyndie Sebourn, a retired Arkansas educator, founded Apps With Curriculum to make educational apps better suited for classroom use. All curriculum is downloadable and free to access. "Teachers are looking for quality educational apps that can...
DENVER, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FORTIS Online has launched a new instant messaging application that lets students and instructors see who's online, allowing them to quickly and easily communicate with each other via chat, voice, web conferencing, and more. Students also are able to immediately access such resources as career and student services, library resources, and financial aid using this application. The application is completely integrated into the online environment...
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the leader in originality checking and online grading, has made the interactive rubric designed to analyze and grade the academic quality of Internet sources used by students available free to educators through an open access license with Creative Commons. The license allows the standalone SEER (Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) to be shared and edited for non-commercial purposes. Instructors can register for the...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackboardPay(TM), a student-centric prepaid card program, has received a 2013 Paybefore Award in the Best Consumer Value category, the company announced today. The award is the most prestigious recognition of excellence in the worldwide prepaid and emerging payments industry. BlackboardPay previously won a Paybefore Award in 2011 in the Best Government Funded Prepaid Program category. This year's winners were selected from a record number...
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning education technology leader, SoftChalk, LLC (www.softchalk.com) today announced the launch of new features and enhancements to SoftChalk Cloud, its cross-platform learning object repository and content authoring platform that works with virtually any learning management system (LMS). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/PH58296LOGO ) "One of the things that educators really love about SoftChalk is the...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Logical Operations, the market leader in instructor-led training (ILT) materials in Information Technology and related business topics, is the first ILT publisher in the world to have earned ProCert Labs' prestigious Classroom Excellence Award. The ProCert Classroom Excellence Award program was launched in 2011 and centers around a rigorous live classroom test of educational materials by ProCert's senior educators. For the past 12...
