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Pearson Prentice Hall asked FableVision to create an engaging and innovative multimedia experience as a companion piece to their Citizenship Activity Pack (CAP) textbook curriculum. The CAP curriculum teaches high school students a wide range of civics activities, such as how to serve on a jury, how to analyze a TV news program, and how to evaluate leadership.

At ISTE, Mimio introduced a rechargeable interactive polling system, a document camera with two adjustable light sources, and a new portable device for writing on projected images. You can watch videos of the products in action here.

"In the same way that a garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce, today's emerging information landscape is an info-system, where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, re-mixed and re-published. To be a "master learner" -- to be a teacher -- today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate new knowledge and skills from a continual flow of information. This book is a guide for teachers who seek to model for their students the practices of lifelong learning. "