K12 Schools Must Fill Need For Digital Media Skills
There is a new urgency to teach digital media literacy as a study finds students are taking online information for granted
Software, Base retail price for 250 user objects is $2,158 (special educational pricing available)
This management, reporting, and security tool will help streamline new user imports to the system by allowing bulk additions, assist in refining helpdesk activities, help control and verify access to various system, and assist with regulatory compliance for privacy policies. Assigning group membership, managing user passwords, and deleting user accounts are additional tasks that can be handled. The technology is flexible and can be modified to meet the user's need, either in-house or by Visual Click. Product support includes free one-on-one training, unlimited tech support, and upgrades.
The company has partnered with the developers of The 30,000-Foot View to help educate school districts on how the software helps users analyze multi-year budget projections. The management level, data-driven, financial decision-making tool gives users the ability to instantly change a variety of variables and analyze a wide array of budgetary scenarios. By using Microsoft Excel and a SMART Board, an analysis can also be made during actual meetings, eliminating the need for administrators to return to their office to crunch numbers, then report or re-evaluate them at a later date.
The technology was designed to help students who struggle with literacy. It translates text on the fly into eight different languages: French, Spanish, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. Press CTRL + F6 and it grabs the text, translates it into the desired language and starts reading it. Users can also point the Talking Pointer at any text on a screen, Web page, desktop icon, HELP or menu to instantly translate. The technology is integrated into the E-Text Reader-priced at $79.95-which translates partial or entire documents. The translation pack, which contains both, costs $99.95.
Developed for students in grades 6-12, this product provides online assessment and regular practice throughout the school year to measure student progress and improve writing performance. Its automated evaluation tool examines student writing in context, not simply grammatical correctness, spelling or other surface elements, and provides scoring that aligns with many state rubrics. Other features include rapid online reporting and easy-to-understand visual feedback to connect classroom instruction to student achievement.
This video streaming and multimedia solution helps empower educational institutions to deliver presentations easily and economically, via existing IP networks or the public internet. It provides live video of presenters interwoven with multimedia slides and web content, along with interactive audience polling and Q&A capabilities. The solution includes a video camera; a VBrick WM appliance to stream live audio and video/multimedia; and VBPresenter, which provides seamless PowerPoint and related multimedia content. It also simplifies live presentation recording and archiving.
Web-based software, $95 for individual license to $2,495 for a site license
Teachers spend a lot of time writing comments on student papers. This new Web-based software program allows them to create and save standard comments and criteria, which they then select and print from their computer. Additional comments can be added ad hoc and users can also access RubiStar, a library of over 100,000 rubrics created by teachers. The software saves the comments so a student's writing progress can be tracked over the course of the year, or their entire career, and a variety of reports are available. Waypoint can also integrate with Blackboard Building Block to authenticate teachers and students and log them in, synchronize the class roster, and return feedback and grades to the Blackboard gradebook.
