Edline discussed how its self-titled online web site and gradebook solution for grades K-12 makes it easy to communicate information that parents need to guide their children, helping them become partners in raising student achievement. Edline can host a school home page or supplement an existing school web site with class, team, and club home pages. In its first full year of using Edline, Alabama’s Bayside Academy has seen its annual mailing and labor costs to the 550 families it serves decrease by almost $10,000, according to the company.
For the past six months, EducationCity.com has conducted a pilot program with more than 50 schools to review the company’s Learn English module for English-language learners; the results were released at T+L, finding that 77 percent of teachers saw improvements in their students’ English confidence. Developed for third through fifth grade students, Learn English is available for $375 for a one-year subscription. It’s one of many products from the company, which offers online learning games and activities for students and interactive whiteboard activities for teachers. EducationCity.com provides math, language arts, science, and math curriculum and assessment content for grades K-6 in more than 14,000 schools. Free trial versions are available.
ExploreLearning demonstrated its Gizmos, which are interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12. Students can use Gizmos to interact with and explore hundreds of math and science topics, ranging from heredity to trigonometry, and teachers can use these virtual manipulatives as “what-if” tools to help student move beyond memorizing to understanding, the company says. The Gizmos include inquiry-based lessons, assessments, and reporting tools, and they are correlated with state standards and more than 200 textbooks.
Follett Software announced that Rockford Public School District 205, the second largest K-12 district in Illinois, has adopted the company’s Destiny Library Manager and Destiny Textbook Manager products. During the 2009‐10 school year, the district was seeking library and textbook management resources as part of what Chris Taskey, information services coordinator for Rockford, described as a “technology systems overhaul” that also included a new student information system. Rockford purchased the two Destiny browser‐based solutions last spring—the library product replacing the district’s outdated library management system, and the textbook product representing a conversion from an inventory maintained in a spreadsheet. Destiny Library Manager, which helps libraries work more efficiently, is now fully implemented throughout the district’s 52 libraries, and Taskey confirmed that Rockford’s librarians are “very happy with the new system.” Following a complete textbook inventory over the summer, the implementation of Destiny Textbook Manager is well underway, and district officials expect to save money by keeping better track of books. Follett, which recently acquired student information system provider X2 Development Corp., will hold its next user conference March 9-11 in Chicago.
Infinite Campus, an SIS provider, said it received a “Strong Positive” rating in Gartner’s report: “MarketScope for K-12 Student Information Systems in the U.S., 2010.” The company’s customer base includes more than 10 percent of the nation’s 500 largest public school districts, four state-edition clients, and the Bureau of Indian Education.
Kramer Control Systems, a provider of audio-visual solutions, introduced the Kramer Konfigurator, an application that maintains control driver libraries, creates room control macros and protocols, and automatically generates HTML files where applicable. Kramer also highlighted its Site-CTRL product, which offers real-time network monitoring and control of all Kramer master room controllers and the AV equipment connected to them, according to the company. A downloadable version can monitor and control up to 100 Kramer master room controllers.
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