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New EdTech Resource | Sentopiary: Bring Sentence Silliness to Grammar Practice

3/29/2015

Author: Sentopiary Staff

The new sentence-building app Sentopiary has been released for iPads, with a special Sentopiary Lite version available for free. Aimed at elementary and middle school students, the app takes a playful attitude to breaking sentences down into their core components: a key task in understanding how to communicate ideas successfully.

In a colorful, engaging design interface, students can work through various levels of difficulty to create sentences or can challenge themselves with a series of increasingly difficult test sentences. Sentopiary was designed with the U.S. core curriculum standards in mind and aligns well with vocabulary and grammar objectives at each grade level.

STI Is Now Chalkable!

3/29/2015

Chalkable Offers K-12 Market a Comprehensive Student Achievement Solution

MOBILE, Ala.—March 25, 2015--STI, a leading provider of education data management, student achievement and professional learning solutions to the K-12 public and private school market, today announced the rebranding of the company to Chalkable.

The company unveiled its new brand following a dynamic period of growth, including strategic management hires, company acquisitions and aggressive product development and innovation.

BeNative Business English Completes $3M Investment Round

3/24/2015

SMATOOS continues its international expansion into the
business education markets of China, Japan, and Taiwan.

SEOUL, South Korea—March 23, 2015--SMATOOS Inc. today announced it had raised nearly $3 million USD (3 billion Korean won) in the latest round of investments for its BeNative business English learning service. The service, which centers on video samples featuring entrepreneurs from the U.S., provides web-based learning tools using materials developed through unique data mining techniques.

New EdTech Resource | 50 Free Embeddable Interactives for your Website or Classroom!

3/20/2015

Author: Gynzy Team

Looking for a fun digital interactive? Gynzy offers 50 of them for free! These interactive tools for Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies can be embedded in any webpage and can be used on any Interactive Whiteboard or other digital system. All you have to do is go here and copy the embed code of the tool you like!

Guest Post | Online Education: 10 Reasons It’s More Popular Now

3/20/2015

Author: David Miller

Distance learning has been around for more than 30 years, in one form or another. In the past few years, though, it’s really taken off in the form of online education. More and more students are enrolling in online universities and earning their degrees. In fact, online education no longer has the stigma it once did and is now a respectable way of earning your degree. So why has it become more popular and what is it offering students that you should know about?

Guest Post: SXSWedu in Review | Maker Education is Redefining “College and Career Readiness”

3/20/2015

Author: Michelle Manno of Teach.com and USC Rossier Online

When you think about hands-on learning in the classroom, what’s the first thing you think of? If you had images of finger-paint and cutting and pasting, you’re not wrong. If you had images of building machines in your middle school technology class, you’re not wrong either. All of these classroom activities are hands-on learning.

However, there is a new wave of hands-on learning taking on today’s classroom: maker education. It’s no secret that today’s educational climate is heavily focused on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and student assessment. Maker Education understands that need, but also understands students need to make, play and create.

Guest Post: SXSWedu in Review

3/15/2015

Author: Emily Schu

Teachers, administrators, technologists, and EdTech industry experts gathered this past week at the annual SXSWedu conference in Austin, TX to discuss a variety of technology and innovation trends and issues within the education space. Here at Words from Propagate, we’ve outlined some of the top trends and exciting highlights that we’ve absorbed from the panels and discussions over the course of the week.

New EdTech Resource | Arloon: Learning through Augmented Reality

3/13/2015

Author: Arloon Staff

Arloon™ creates K-6 to K-12 applications that revolutionise the way that children are educated. Before mobile devices, schools and teachers used books and chalkboards as a tool to teach the students their curricular content. Since the technological revolution, the youth diverted their interests from playing outside and reading books to technological devices as a way of entertainment.

New EdTech Resource | WhatsDue: Keep Parents and Students Up-To-Date

3/13/2015

Author: WhatsDue Staff

WhatsDue makes life easier for students, parents and teachers - without collecting any personally identifiable information about students. Using our clean and simple web app, teachers can add all of their classes and assignments. Students or parents then subscribe to their courses in the app (iPhone and Android), and get all their due dates in a neat and easy to use to-do list.

iStoryBooks App to Provide Teachers Free Premium Children’s eBooks Subscriptions

3/13/2015

With More Than Six Million Downloads, the iStoryBooks App Encourages Interactive Reading in the Classroom; App Also Updated with Five New eBooks and UI Enhancements

FREMONT, Calif. – March. 9, 2015 – The iStoryBooks app that provides interactive children’s eBooks and has more than six million downloads is now offering free premium subscriptions to teachers to further encourage interactive classroom reading with children. Available for Android, iOS and Windows, the app was also recently updated with five new eBooks and user interface enhancements.