July 30,2009
Certification Map, an online resource which consolidates the teacher certification information for all 50 states into one site, has announced a contest to locate the best non profits that focus on education. The winner will be awarded a $500 donation
Northcentral University
(www.ncu.edu) today announced that its undergraduate business programs
have been rated a “2009 Best Buy” by Get.Educated.com
(www.geteducated.com), a 20-year old national consumer group that
evaluates and ranks online colleges for cost and credibility.
Nearly 2,000 students and
faculty from more than 200 universities from 40 countries took part in
the Jam along with top IBM personnel, clients and business partners.
Recent studies have
confirmed what many educators, politicians and concerned citizens have
known for decades: that public education in the United States is
generally inadequate when compared to other countries and is downright
appalling in our inner cities.
The Games in Education Symposium is free to
educators from early childhood to post secondary education interested
in the use of games and technology to promote learning in the 21st
century.
The Association of
Educational Publishers just released a podcast from the AEP Summit 09
titled "Learning Platforms for the 21st Century and Beyond" in which
representatives form Google Apps, Amazon Kindle Books and and the
Rochester Institute of Technology's Open Publishing Lab discuss the
impact of technology on today's classroom - now and in the future.
Sometimes you make a plan because you want to learn something new, other times you make a plan and when you learn how much you didn't know you are so glad you followed through Well, on June 13, 2009, Alice
ELMO USA Corporation announces the release of its new, affordable document camera, model TT-02RX.
School may be out for
summer vacation, but school administrators across the nation have been
busy sharing their thoughts and opinions on some of the hottest topics
in education today.