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Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.

Exploration/Tinkering Exploratory play is about asking questions: "What happens when I do this?" "What if I did it this way?" Experimenting with materials and pushing their limits encourages us to consider a wide range of possibilities when problem-solving. Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution. Some inventors have a goal in mind and work persistently toward it. Others stumble across solutions to problems they weren't trying to solve.

"Time To Know's breakthrough solution, created for one-to-one computing classrooms, includes an interactive core curriculum aligned to your state's standards and a powerful digital teaching platform with robust teaching and learning tools. Time to Know's proven solution empowers students toward greater achievement and deeper learning."

Online Survey Software, Enterprise Survey Software for Enterprise Feedback Management and CRM solutions. Enables high-quality data collection, panel management and results analysis for Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Employee Surveys, etc. Perfect for market research or CRM solution (Customer Relationship Management) integration. Free trial and consultation. ##Home##

Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Teachers, do you... Not have enough time for grading? Want useful measurements on student performance? Need a free solution to help?

You don't have to be a genius either to see that this can be used as a formative assessment tool. ;-)

NOT Free Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Royalty Free Music supersedes Fair Use in that we fully license the music with unlimited rights for education and sign off that you are protected. Fair Use has limitations in use and states that you are liable should there be a claim. Soundzabound also provides the solutions for: * Education Approved Content in a searchable database * Artist branding rights not covered under Fair Use * User statistic reports * Web-based interface formatted for all your production purposes

OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents.

This is currently free for a limited time.

"Why use VideoLobby? Until now running a live webcast was complex and labour-some, VideoLobby provides a simple yet powerful web-based production solution that makes publishing a professional live show as easy as setting up a blog. "

Plagium is a service, now in beta test, of Septet Systems Inc. Septet Systems Inc. focuses on the development of innovative information search solutions for consumers, enterprises, government, academics, and healthcare. Much of our work is based on Septet's proprietary TX Miner engine, which employs advanced search technology for deep mining of documents on the public World Wide Web or within private repositories. The TX Miner engine is also the core technology behind Septet's patent-pending Personal Search Syndication, which enables anybody anywhere to build and post onto the World Wide Web customer search engines and Web directories (see www.k-sync.com).

This next-generation digital media service empowers PreK-16 educators to re-imagine classroom learning, transform teaching, and creatively engage students. It brings together the best of public media, produced specifically for educators, from PBS, WGBH, and 55+ public media partners. This flexible service includes high-quality content tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards. The service is freely available to educators as a basic service that can be enhanced with premium solutions for schools and districts-designed for seamless media integration and customization. The basic service offers: Unique access to best-in-class resources from PBS producers and partners and technology resources tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards A robust content library of thousands of digital core curriculum resources, designed with today's student in mind Carefully created, purpose-built media: videos, interactives, audios, lesson plans, multimedia, professional development, and more Ability for educators to search, save, share, and review content Cross-platform flexibility to display on classroom presentation tools to mobile devices

The question has to be raised that are there things in this list that APS is not doing properly? "She lists eight ways to keep your networks safe: * Don't assume a link is "safe" because it's from a friend. * Don't assume Twitter links are safe because Twitter is now scanning for malware. * Don't Assume Bit.ly Links are safe. * Use an up-to-date web browser. * Keep Windows up-to-date. * Keep Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash up-to-date. * Don't assume you're safe because you use a Mac. * Be wary of email messages from social networks (because email addresses can be "spoofed" by hackers). "

* Employees need to be educated and held accountable. * IT departments need to keep systems updated.

Luxor's Laptop & Chromebook Charging Cart offers a stylish solution for storing, charging and transporting equipment for the whole class. Two rack shelves feature rubber-coated dividers to organize and protect up to 24 laptops or tablets. Store accessories on the 4 1/2" high bottom shelf. Rear