We're on the ground for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known to the world as E3. The festivities kicked off Monday morning with a barrage of press conferences prior to the opening of the main floor. With the PS4 and Xbox One finally on the market this year promised to be dull in terms of [...]
McREL EdTech NAESP Another company that we have been able to speak with leading up to National Association of Elementary School Principles 2014 conference later this week is McREL International. It is a bit of a mouthful, but McREL is a "private, nonprofit, nonpartisan education research and development corporation." Essentially, that means that they perform a [...]
Schools across the nation have been upgrading technology at a steady rate over the last five years. Laptops, Chromebooks and tablets are finding their way to seats in as many classrooms as they can. Even the school system in Los Angeles set out to deploy iPads for every seat in their system. The Los Angeles [...]
Have you ever gone to your son or daughter's school for a parent teacher conference and found their teacher on the Pinterest website? Before you worry that the teacher is more concerned with posting the latest wedding dresses, and neck tie fashions to the social network, they may actually be doing it for the class, [...]
So, it is no secret that schools collect an monitor a ton of data. Including, but not limited to attendance, grades, staff performance data, various student data and health records, state assessment records, special education data, among many others. Just collecting all of this data is a huge challenge, let alone managing it. However, one [...]
By viewing each school in totality, Edsby is able to keep all parties - students, teachers, administrators, and parents - informed and up to date. The robust education tools - for both students and teachers - though available from other sources, pair with the administration and parent tools to provide the most holistic view of a school possible.
More and more school systems are replacing transparencies and overhead projectors with document cameras. Document cameras are typically all in one mounted cameras that allow a variety of angles, zooms, and then projection via a computer to a smart board, projecor or a monitor. Document cameras bring a whole new level of interactivity to the [...]
We're at the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week and we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Book Systems. Book Systems is library and textbook/asset management software developer. They are used by more than 10,000 schools and libraries worldwide. We had a chance to ask the Book Systems team [...]
As we are gearing up to hit the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week, we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Curriculum Associates. Curriculum Associates offers educators research-based, classroom-proven materials that give every student the chance to succeed. We recently had a chance to ask Courtney Marsh, of Curriculum Associates, a few [...]
As we are gearing up to hit the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week, we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Lightspeed Technologies. Lightspeed has created a line of audio solutions that help "overcome classroom noise and provide crystal clear sound to all your students regardless of where they [...]
