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Made, a new storytelling toolkit providing templates for customizing Instagram Stories, has launched on the Apple App Store. According to a media release, the app is designed specifically to generate [...]

Continuing to recognize the best of the best, the editors of District Administration magazine are proud to present this year's 2014 Readers' Choice Top 100 Products, which were selected from [...]

ENGINEERING: Mechanics PHYSICS: Electronics LEGO's colorful plastic bricks can snap together to make almost anything you can imagine. But a printer for the blind? That's what 12-year-old Shubham Banerjee built [...]

A startup that markets augmented-reality-powered, gamified learning sets to help kids understand STEM has signed a key deal to distribute its MindLabs brand. West Lafayette-based Explore Interactive, which launched with [...]

The Notable Children's Videos/DVDs, Recordings, and Computer Software lists are compiled annually by committees of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association [...]

Your school has just eliminated the gifted and talented pull-out program due to budgetary constraints. Therefore, all gifted and talented students will now be taught in the general education classroom. [...]

Collecting data to support experimental questions, the basis of scientific inquiry, gives kids a valuable hands-on experience with science. While in the past data collection could involve hours of tedious […]

Abstract. A computerized program, Headsprout, was investigated as an intervention for beginning reading instruction with 3 students identified with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A multiple-baseline design, across subjects, was implemented to [...]

While I wrote this column, there seemed to be a lull in new software announcements for education and educators. Perhaps it is reflective of the tightening of school budgets or […]

Labo Lado (labolado.com) apps offer children opportunities to create and play. Like their Labo Leaves and Labo's Pebble Art, the latest in the developer's transportation series, Brick Train (Labo Lado, [...]

A computer equipped with a talking word processor was added to a first grade classroom. The children were told that the computer could be used to help them 'read' words [...]

BEING A TEACHER IS A DIFFICULT job. You often have more than 25 students in your classroom and several different learning styles. In addition, it is your responsibility as a […]

In this column, I focus on 'software' that is Internet-related. All the products described here are online or provide support for online use. One of these products creates materials you […]

My goal as an educator is to lead my students to new ways of thinking, understanding, and communicating in a digital world. I know that if I teach my students [...]

Subject: Technology integration, planning, professional development, action research Audience: Teachers, administrators, teacher educators, technology coordinators Grade Level: K-12 (Ages 5-18) Standards: NETS*T II, III, V; NETS*A I-IV (www.iste.org/ standards) This […]

Subject: Language arts, ESL Audience: Teachers, teacher educators, technology coordinators, library/media specialists Grade Level: 3-12 (Ages 8-18) Technology: Internet, Flash, Logo Standards: NETS*S 3; NETS*T II (www.iste.org/standards). ELA 3, 4, […]

I am so pleased to be joining the ISTE family and to share with you the software I find to be useful and meaningful in educational settings. My background as […]

Publishers put reading first this fall with a strong lineup of literacy tools. Elementary and middle school math skill-building programs also acid to this season's back-to-basics trend. As always, digital […]

From calculators to skill-building software programs, computer-based technologies have long been popular additions to the math classroom. Today, both Web- and software-based programs give students and teachers access to entire […]

Special needs educators have long known that technology can come close to working miracles in bringing students with physical and learning disabilities into the general education curriculum. Assistive technologies such […]

Encarta Reference Suite 2000 Company: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052; Phone: 425/882-8080; Fax: 425/93-MS-FAX; Web: http://www.microsoft.com/. Price: $100--Windows only, consumer price with a $35 mail-in rebate available [...]

Algebra Assistant Company: Mathpert Software/Recognix, Inc., 2211 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Phone: 800/361-1001; Fax: 408/567-0659; E-mail: info@mathpert.com; Web: http://www. mathpert.com/. Price: $95--Windows 3.1/95/98, single user version; $499--10-user network [...]

Math Mysteries Company: Tom Synder Productions, 80 Coolidge Hill Road, Watertown, MA 02472; Phone: 800/342-0236; Fax: 888/TS-FAX5; Web: http://www.tom synder.com/. Price: $80--Mac/Win CD-ROM, single user version; lab packs (5 and [...]

TitleWatch lists recently released educational software products that relate to the K-12 curriculum. This list is primarily but not exclusively comprised of CD-ROM products; other formats (diskettes, videodiscs, and videos) [...]