GradeMark Common Core Grading Rubrics

(www.turnitin.com)

Turnitin has added Common Core grading rubrics to its cloud-based grading service, GradeMark. Teachers can now attach a standard CCSS rubric to any writing assignment, assess submitted work, and track student progress.

Schoolwires Centricity2 MyView

(www.schoolwires.com)

The new MyView feature within the Schoolwires Centricity2 content management system acts as a personal portal, letting students, teachers and parents select the district and school Web site content they want to view. Gadgets collect and display the requested...

Tales2Go Unveils

Desktop Version Tales2Go, a provider of streaming audio books for kids, released a desktop version of its award-winning subscription service and mobile app. Educators and students alike will now have the flexibility to access thousands of audio books and stories on desktops and laptops in addition to Apple mobile devices such as iPads, iPod Touches, and iPhones. The new desktop ve...

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iStopMotion for the Mac

(http://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac)

iStopMotion for the Mac makes it possible for users of all skill and age levels to create stop motion animations. The latest release turns iPhones, iPads or iPod touches into versatile HD cameras using its free iStopMotion Rem...

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Lexile Measures in i-Ready Diagnostic

(www.i-ready.com/empower)

MetaMetrics, developer of The Lexile Framework for Reading, has partnered with Curriculum Associates to include Lexile measures in Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Diagnostic assessment program. i-Ready Diagnostic assesses students, provides ...

Migrator for Google Apps

(www.migrationapp.com)

Backupify has launched Migrator for Google Apps, an easy-to-use cloud migration tool that allows administrators to move data from one Google Apps user account to another in the same domain or across different domains. Migrator transfers all Gmail, Google ...

Modern Teacher’s Dictionary Project

(www.penreader.com)

Paragon Software Group has launched a free, educational program to introduce teachers in Russia and the CIS, as well as schools that include Russian as a foreign language, to methods of foreign language instruction that use information technology. The “Moder...

Pano System for Cloud/ Terminal Services 2.0

(www.panologic.com)

Pano Logic has announced a new software release that links modern, cloud-based computing with legacy terminal services resources, making it easier to migrate to the cloud. Pano Logic’s core technology now enables Pano Zero Clients to function as endpoints fo...

Quick Question Classroom Response System

(www.naiku.net/quick-question)

Naiku’s solution for BYOD initiatives, Quick Question, works on any Webenabled device and allows teachers to get immediate responses to Yes/No, True/False, Multiple Choice, and Free Response questions as well as Exit Tags. Qu...

Schoolzilla Assessment Explorer

(www.aspirepublicschools.org)

Aspire Public Schools, a California-based charter management organization, is now offering its student performance analysis application to all schools across the country for free. The Schoolzilla Assessment Explorer helps administrato...

StudyBlue iPad App

(www.studyblue.com)

The StudyBlue app is now available for the iPad. Students can use the free app to search, create, and study flashcards and notes with their iPads. The app also allows students to re-study concepts, using Study Filters to personalize the process.

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ACCUPLACER Study App

(www.collegeboard.org)

The Official ACCUPLACER study app, designed by the College Board, helps students prepare for the ACCUPLACER test from the convenience of their iPhones. Subjects include Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, College-Level Math, Reading Comprehension, and Sentenc...

Alloy Navigator Express 6 Suite

(www.alloy-software.com)

The latest version of Alloy Navigator Express includes several enhancements to the help desk and asset management solution. Administrators can take advantage of business process automation, announcements, changing history alerts, and automatic ticke...

Awesome Upstanders!

(www.awesomeupstanders.com)

Awesome Upstanders! is the first, all-ages, anti-bullying game. It teaches kids how to respect and protect others, and how to intervene in a bullying situation, with fun graphics and game play. Players race through their school to rescue a ...

Concussion Vital Signs

(www.concussionvitalsigns.com)

Pearson has released Concussion Vital Signs, a comprehensive, online concussion management platform that allows for testing, reporting, and athlete roster management. The tool offers schools and coaches a way to ensure player safet...

DreamBox Learning Math

(www.dreambox.com)

DreamBox Learning Math has expanded its Common Core State Standardsaligned K-5 math curriculum, adding 120 lessons for grades 4-5. The program now includes more than 720 lessons that provide instruction, assessment, and practice using interactive virtual manipulative...

EduCore for ASCD

(www.educore.ascd.org)

The new, free, EduCore digital tool helps teachers implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and literacy. The tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help schools transition to the CCSS. It ...

FundingFactory Goal- Tracking and Reporting Features

(www.fundingfactory.com)

With FundingFactory’s new online goaltracking and reporting features, K-12 and higher education institutions can set objectives for fundraising and sustainability, and share with parents, community members and businesses to garner more support...

K12DigitalDecisions Web site

(www.k12digitaldecisions.com)

Follett has sponsored a new Web site, K12DigitalDecisions. com. The resource helps educators and districts navigate the eReader highway, and is designed to helps school administrators find the information that will help them create th...

LearnSmart Digital Tutor

(www.mhlearnsmart.com)

McGraw-Hill Higher Education has created an “academic personal tutor,” McGraw- Hill LearnSmart, which helps students study “smarter.” The program uses a Netflix-like recommendation engine to tailor studying based on a student’...

Mobile Device Management

(www.lightspeedsystems.com)

Following Apple’s announcement of the new iOS6, Lightspeed Systems has released an update to the company’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution. The updated MDM will be compatible and support all the new features in iOS6. Upd...

NetTrekker Search

(www.nettrekker.com)

Knovation’s latest version of netTrekker Search streamlines the ease of accessability to use CCSSaligned digital resources, helping teachers differentiate search results and choose the best resources to address a variety of student needs. Additionally, th...

Adobe Revel 1.5

(www.adobe.com)

The latest version of Adobe Revel is now available. The photography app combines powerful and intuitive organizing and editing tools with a cloud technology designed for photos. New features include the ability to sync albums between devices, sharing albums on the Web, the ab...

Aplia’s Analyzing Elections Modules

(www.cengage.com) Cengage Learning has announced that its Analyzing Elections modules are now available through Aplia, a course management and student engagement solution. The modules help students explore presidential elections and connect course concepts with events surrounding the U.S. election. The modules...

Brain Hive On-Demand eBook Service

(www.brainhive.com)

Brain Hive, LLC, has announced that its ondemand eBook lending service is now available online, with unlimited access. Students and educators may check out eBooks from Brain Hive on demand, while the school pays just $1 for each book circulated.

Curriki Algebra 1

(www.curriki.org)

Curriki, a K-12 global community for creating, sharing, and finding open learning resources, launched its free Algebra 1 course, which addresses each of the Algebra 1 Common Core State Standards. The projectbased modular course engages students through real-world exampl...

Hitachi Projector Quick Connection iPad App

(www.hitachi-america.us/digitalmedia)

Hitachi America’s new Projector Quick Connection iPad app enables users to monitor and control multiple Hitachi projectors from a single iPad. Selecting the Projector page brings up an icon for every Hita...

Houghton Mifflin and Kno Interactive Textbooks

(www.hmhco.com)
(www.kno.com)

HMH and Kno have teamed up to release enhanced K-12 digital textbooks, available for the iPad, Web, Android, and Windows 7. The partnership aligns Houghton Mifflin’s educational con...

“Get Out the Vote” Lesson Plans

(www.mimio.com)

Mimio has released “Get Out the Vote,” a series of teachercreated, K-12 lesson ideas hosted at the MimioConnect Web site. The lesson plans cover social studies topics like citizenship, government characteristics, civic participation, and democracy. Each lesson has...

Odysseyware CTE Courses

(www.odysseyware.com)

Odysseyware has added 23 new Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses to its online 2012-13 curriculum. The courses are tied to national career pathway standards, and support the acquisition of core academic skills, employability skills, and job-specific...

PBS KIDS PLAY !

(http://classroom.pbskidsplay.org)

Tribal Nova, in collaboration with PBS, has added new lessons and administrative tools to the PBS KIDS PLAY! Classroom Edition. PBS KIDS PLAY! is an adaptive, online learning program that uses interactive games and content to ...

Shmoop Learning Guides & Test Prep Materials

(www.shmoop.com)

Shmoop’s free Learning Guides get students into back-to-school-mode by covering a wide variety of subjects such as literature, economics, biology, and algebra. For students who are preparing for college, Shmoop offers test prep diagnostics for the reading, writing, a...

Study Island

(www.archipelagolearning.com)

Archipelago Learning, a PLATO Learning company, has launched a new Web site and user interface for Study Island, a Web-based instruction, practice, and learning program built from individual state and Common Core standards. The new pu...

Tyler Incident Management

(www.tylertech.com)

Tyler Technologies, Inc. has released Tyler Incident Management, a software solution that helps school and transportation officials record and manage school and bus incidents. The Web-based solution can be installed in accordance with school districts’ polic...

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