| ProductS & ServiceS
Realityworks has released a series of business education simulations for high school students. The simulations
apply key business concepts taught in class to a series of
three online games to test students’ knowledge of successful business
strategies.
Students create their own
products and
companies,
and then they
participate in simulations, including The Business Game,
The Entrepreneurship Game, and The Finance Game. Some
simulations can be completed in as little as 45 minutes, and
others can be spread over an entire semester.
MORE INFO: www.businessedsims.com
Knewton has
released a new
online SAT
preparation
course that
uses adaptive
learning tech-
nology to create personalized practice questions. The course
includes 25 hours of live instruction, weekly virtual office
hours, and thousands of practice questions. The new course
costs $290 and comes with a guarantee to raise scores by
at least 150 points.
MORE INFO: www.knewton.com/sat
Through an expanded partnership with
Scholastic Media, Discovery Education
Streaming users now have access to
children’s television programs Maya
and Miguel and WordGirl. In addition,
Discovery has added more than 100 full-length audio books from Scholastic Audio
to augment elementary language arts
lessons. Popular series, such as Goosebumps and Clifford
the Big Red Dog, and children’s literature classics, such as
The Velveteen Rabbit and The Night Before Christmas,
are available for instructional use.
MORE INFO: www.discoveryeducation.com/products/streaming/
streaming.cfm
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Study Island, a producer of Web-based standards mastery
materials, has released a series of Advanced Placement
products designed to help students succeed on AP exams.
The program is simultaneously accessible to all students
and can be used on any computer with an Internet connection. The package costs $15 per student (15-student
minimum) and includes one full-length practice test, free-response question prompts, and
rigorous content
that is customized to College
Board specifications. The test
preparation materials are available for U.S. history, English
literature and composition, English language and composition, calculus AB, and calculus BC.
MORE INFO: www.studyisland.com
Teacher Created Resources has introduced a two-book
series called Internet Literacy. Written by middle school
teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron, the
books use a simple common-sense ap-
proach and humor to address the new
Internet literacy skills that today’s students
must learn. Internet Literacy, Grades 3–5,
and Internet Literacy, Grades 6–8 sell for
$13.99 each.
MORE INFO: www.teachercreated.com
STI’s InformationNOW has added new “Go Green” features
to its education data management software. The new
features provide a paperless communication platform for
teachers and parents. Customizable portals offer quick access to a wide range of student data. Parents can choose
to have report cards, school notices, and other communications pushed to their own InformationNow portal page. Go
Green supports RSS feeds, making it easy for parents to
integrate school notices into their existing tools. InformationNow is a Web-based integrated system offering student data
collection and analysis.
