Friday, October 25, 2013

Celebration of Miracles Tickets Nearly Sold Out

FOLSOM, Calif - Oct. 25, 2013 -- The Celebration of Miracles tickets are nearly sold out. Over 200 people will come together on November 2, 2013 at the Lake Natoma Inn in Folsom, Calif. to raise money for Friends of NICU. The organization supports families with premature babies in the neonatal intensive care units in Sacramento and the capital region.

Free 60-day Trial of x2VOL Community Service System for Schools


DALLAS – October 21, 2013 – intelliVOL, creators of x2VOL, is offering schools a free 60-day trial of its award-winning x2VOL community service tracking and reporting platform. The free trial is available until the end of this year, which spans the time when students are most likely to volunteer.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Schoology Releases Resource Apps, Makes Third-Party Content More Effective for Students and Instructors

Integration Centralizes Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Khan Academy, SkyDrive Pro and More into LMS


LOS ANGELES – October 15, 2013—Higher education leaders attending the EDUCAUSE 2013 conference this week will get a first look at the newest innovation from Schoology: Resource Apps. Schoology released its App Center last summer, which enables third-party applications, such as Blackboard® Collaborate and Turnitin, to plug seamlessly into the platform. Resource Apps are a natural extension of the Schoology App Center. Now, rich content from third-party vendors like Google Drive™, Dropbox, Evernote®, Khan Academy®, and SkyDrive® Pro are universally available and readily integrated from within a single Schoology repository.