Learning Apps/Tools

New Mexico District Deploys High-Speed Network

9/4/2008

Gallup-McKinley County Schools in New Mexico has signed a five-year, $7.4 million contract with Qwest Communications to roll out high-speed services throughout several locations within the rural district. Read More

Somatic Digital Offers Free Evaluation Version Of eTouchBook Suite

9/3/2008

Somatic Digital has announced an evaluation version of their eTouchBook Suite, giving publishers, OEMs, and others an opportunity to test the platform's capabilities before making the decision to buy. Read More

Electronic Learning Products Forms Alliance with KeyStep

9/2/2008

Electronic Learning Products (ELP) has announced a strategic partnership with KeyStep LLC, intended to help ELP grow nationally, as well as expand its current relationships with education publishers. Read More

McGill U Library Scanning Rare Books with Kirtas

8/28/2008

McGill University Library in Montreal will be using a Kirtas Technologies APT BookScan 2400RA to digitize its collections. The company says that the 2400RA is capable of acquiring page images at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour. The library will be working with Ristech, a Canadian reseller, to implement the digitization solution. Read More

Texas District Virtualizes Servers on VMware, Dell

8/26/2008

Tyler Independent School District in Texas said it has recently moved its servers to a virtualized infrastructure, consolidating 114 older servers onto seven new ones. The district is running VMware ESX Server software on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. Read More

Curriki Partners with Somatic for eTouchBook Suite

8/25/2008

Curriki and Somatic Digital have confirmed a distribution partnership that will make educational materials hosted on the Curriki platform available with Somatic Digital's eTouchBook Suite. Read More

Utah Expands Online Writing Program

8/21/2008

Utah districts are expanding their use of MY Access!, an online writing program from Vantage Learning. According to Vantage, more than 400,000 essays were submitted to MY Access! by Utah students within one school year. Read More

Custom Math Curricula Net Carnegie Learning $5 Million in Georgia

8/18/2008

Carnegie Learning recently announced it has reached sales in excess of $5 million for it's newly released Georgia Mathematics 1 and 2 curricula. The customized solutions, designed specifically to meet new high school math requirements being implemented this fall, has been adopted by more than 130 middle and high schools across the state. Read More

Tegrity Named Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

8/15/2008

Tegrity said that it has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, with competencies in ISV/Software Solutions. The new status recognizes Tegrity's high level of expertise with Microsoft's solutions and opens the company up to a variety of Microsoft resources. Read More

Utah Signs On for Technology-Based K-5 Reading Programs

8/5/2008

The Utah State Board of Education has signed a five-year contract with Scientific Learning to deploy that company's Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant lines of technology-assisted reading programs. Read More