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- Spelling Depot (exe)
- Spelling Depot is the student and educator's one-stop solution for the practice, assessment, and mastery of spelling lists. Lists can be generated within the program or imported from a text document. Each word can include its definition. After taking a spelling test within the program, words missed by the student...
- Tags: Student, Spelling Depot, Tools & Techniques, Games, Financial Services, Management, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Learn Chinese 2008 (exe)
- Learn Chinese 2008 is a full-featured tool box for Chinese learning students and is used successfully in an educational environment. It provides direct access to information in a comprehensive manner. It allows students to overcome the initial difficulties of the Chinese language by allowing them a rapid access to reading...
- Tags: Student, Tool, Lchinese, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- SynchronEyes Classroom Management (exe)
- SynchronEyes classroom management software connects a teacher's computer with every computer in a networked classroom. SynchronEyes software is easy to use and offers a variety of features that enable you to keep students focused on learning and redirect their attention if they go off track. You can communicate, monitor or...
- Tags: Student, Computer, SMART Technologies, SynchronEyes Classroom Management Software, SynchronEyes Software, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- SMART Ideas Concept-Mapping Software (exe)
- SMART Ideas software brings the power of visual learning to your classroom. Students can better analyze and understand complex ideas by building multilevel interactive maps in this fun, colorful software. Multilevel maps take students through concepts one level at a time for greater clarity, and easily convert into a multipage...
- Tags: Map, Student, SMART Technologies, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Management, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Polytechnic Institute Improves Productivity and Communication With Instant Messaging
- Republic Polytechnic of Singapore provides students with courses in engineering, information and communications technology, applied science, and technology for the arts. Since the institute's inception, management wanted students, faculty, and staff to be able to communicate more easily with each other to enhance learning. Because students in most educational settings...
- Tags: IM, Student, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- University Supports Remote Students With Web Conferencing Solution
- Faculty and administrators designed Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus CMU West with remote students in mind. Commuting is not a viable option for nearly half of the university's students, given their geographic location, and many of the local students are working professionals who attend class remotely to accommodate their...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Student, Web Conferencing, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- University Streamlines Access to Student Services With Improved E-Learning Portal
- Napier University makes extensive use of Information and Communications Technology ICT to support teaching and learning. Historically, a learning portal has brought together several different systems to give students key information, whenever and wherever required. However, a review of the existing solution showed there was scope for improvement. Students, for...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, University, Student, Portals, E-mail, Web Technology, E-learning, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Law Students Use Digital Note-Taking Program to Develop Law Practice Skills
- In the past, professors who teach negotiation and legal counseling skills at the Brigham Young University BYU law school did not have a good way to provide students with feedback on in-class exercises - a critical part of helping students to learn. Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 enables students to record...
- Tags: Professor, Student, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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- Technical University Delivers New Opportunities for Online Learning
- Astrakhan State Technical University ASTU offers professional training programmes to 10,000 graduate and post-graduate students in Astrakhan, Russia. During the last few years, the university has developed online learning resources, but these could no longer meet the requirements of professors or students effectively. Using the previous system, it was difficult...
- Tags: Monitor, Online Learning, University, Student, E-learning, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components
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- Northern Lights Public School Builds an Award-Winning Learning Environment
- Aurora, Ontario-based Northern Lights Public School oversees the education of 458 students in primary grades. The award-winning school is a technology hub - where students across all grades work closely with the latest technology tools. In 2003, the school introduced wireless-enabled Tablet PCs, running on Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC...
- Tags: School, Environment, Student, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Productivity, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
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- Tyneside College Achieves 'Holy Grail' in Teaching by Personalising Education for Every Student
- Monkseaton Language College wanted new technology to link student records with other IT systems in the school and secure access to its servers from thousands of external users to achieve the following: Integration of all systems and information about students into a dynamic database; To use that integrated data for...
- Tags: Education, Holy Grail, Student, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Directory Services, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software
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- Exceptional-Teaching Approach Results in International Certification for Papakura High School Students
- Papakura High School Information and Communication Technology ICT courses offer students a world of opportunity in at least three critical areas: they earn the internationally recognized Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3) credential, they qualify for credits required to move to the next grade level, and they earn New...
- Tags: Certification, Student, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- Haskayne School of Business Provides New Learning Opportunities for Students
- The Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary has a Bachelor of Commerce program that includes one required course in Management Information Systems MIS. A main objective for the required MIS course is to show students how IT can be applied successfully in various business environments. After using...
- Tags: Student, MIS, Microsoft Corp., MapPoint, GIS, Software
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- Bringing Best in Class Training to Dispersed Students
- SetFocus firmly believes that hands-on involvement and the classroom interaction - student to student and instructor to student - enhances the training experience by maintaining attention and reducing attrition. SetFocus was also looking for more than just a product provider. Given the risks of a poorly developed solution - student...
- Tags: Student, Training, Workforce Management, Business Structures, Human Resources, Finance
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- Student Loans Company Handles 700,000 Transactions Daily With Faster Response Times Than Leading Banks
- The Student Loans Company was set up in 1990 by the U.K. government to administer the granting and repaying of student loans in England and Wales. The company wanted to centralize and Web enable student loan processing to ensure service consistency throughout England and Wales. The challenge was to enable...
- Tags: Bank, Oracle Corp., Student, Portals, Government, Application Servers, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Databases, Internet, Software, Data Management
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- Collaboration Tools Teach Business Students the Practice and Power of Global Teamwork
- In a project designed to teach business students about collaboration, the Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst had powerful software tools at its disposal. But reliance on e-mail for communications and file sharing stalled the project when a newly installed server misrouted students'...
- Tags: Teamwork, Collaboration, Student, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, E-mail, Productivity, Groupware, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites
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- High School Student Readies for Technical Career
- The Sequoia Information Technology program at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California, provides students with advanced training and industry- recognized certification in the field of information technology. Matt Rigdon is a 16-year old student at Sequoia, and is enrolled in the Cisco Networking Academy Program offered at this school....
- Tags: Career, Student, Cisco Systems Inc., School Student, Matt
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- Department of Continuing Education Implements IC3
- Established in 1946, Lake Michigan College is a two-year comprehensive community college located in the southwest corner of Michigan. The Department of Continuing Education at Lake Michigan College concluded its pilot IC3 course and began in the fall of 2002 to offer the certification to high school students, businesses, and...
- Tags: Education, Certification, Student, Quality, Business Operations
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- Training Students to Become Business Problem Solvers
- Tokyo Metropolitan Dainishougyou High School, located in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, aims to train its students in how to solve business problems and challenges using the Internet and computing skills in an actual business environment. In 2003, the high school introduced the Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3)...
- Tags: Student, Training, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Quality, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations
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- IC3 Certification Boosts Potential and Opportunities for Students, Teachers, and Parents at Northern Arizona Junior High School
- In 2005, the Holbrook Unified District School Board instituted new computer literacy requirements for 8th graders at Holbrook Junior High School. Students are now required to pass a basic computer literacy course and have consequences for not passing the Key Applications module of the Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification...
- Tags: Certification, Student, Teacher, Productivity, Quality, Business Operations
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