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x2VOL, by intelliVOL, Picked as Top 100 Education Product for Third Year

DALLAS — December 4, 2014 —District Administration editors have again picked x2VOL as a Readers’ Choice Top 100 Product for 2014. Each December, the magazine highlights the top products enhancing learning in districts nationwide. x2VOL from intelliVOL was nominated by schools which use the product to make community service programs for service learning or student service easier to manage. Click to Tweet.

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Nepris Wins Teachers’ Choice Award for the Classroom from Learning Magazine

DALLAS – December 3, 2014 – Learning Magazine recently announced that Nepris is a winner of the Learning® Magazine 2015 Teachers’ Choice ℠Award for the Classroom. Nepris—a cloud-based platform connecting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professionals with teachers—manages the end-to-end process including matching professionals’ skills to teachers’ needs and hosting the interactive sessions that bring STEM relevancy to the classroom. Click to Tweet.

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Press release: Nepris Wins Awards of Excellence for “Outstanding Education Technology”

Recognizes Nepris for Connecting Teachers with STEM Professionals for Virtual Sessions

DALLAS – November 17, 2014 – Nepris has been named by Tech & Learning magazine as a top Click to Tweet.

education technology product for K-12 schools. Nepris is a cloud-based platform that virtually connects professionals to classrooms for online, interactive discussions covering the spectrum of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers.

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Article: Sacramento Edtech Firm Is Passionate About STEM Education (J Harrison Public Relations Group)

I appreciated this profile about my firm in our CBS Local edition on November 10, 2014

Jennifer Harrison owns her own thriving educational technologypublic relations firm, JHarrisonPR.com. Born and raised in Sacramento, CA, Harrison was part of the last graduating class
of La Sierra High School.

But what may have given Harrison a true edge, was her scientific background, or what is now being referred to in the field as STEM. STEM is an acronym for the following fields of study: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Article:San Juan USD Expands LMS Adoption To Support Digital Learning

By Joshua Bolkan
THE Journal 11/03/14

The San Juan Unified School District (SJUSD) has adopted the enterprise version of its existing learning management system (LMS) to integrate it with its student information system (SIS) and gain access to additional analytics and administrative features.
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Leveraging EdTech for Personalized Learning, San Juan USD Implements Schoology Districtwide

Carl Fahle of San Juan Unified School District shows a Will Rogers Middle School student how the Schoology learning management system is used for collaboration and personalized learning.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – October 30, 2014—In San Juan Unified School District, over 22,000 teachers, parents and students have been using the Schoology Learning Management System for everything from online book studies to web-enabled collaborative learning. With so many District users and educational applications already in place, San Juan USD made the decision to invest in the enterprise version of Schoology—which provides additional analytics, integration with the District’s student information system, and administrative features--to deploy throughout the District.

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