x2VOL Video Contest

DALLAS- August 29, 2011 -- High school students can win a $1,000 scholarship for creating a short video explaining why community service is important. The x2VOL Video Contest, sponsored by Texas-based intelliVOL—which developed the x2VOL volunteer tracking and reporting system for high schools—runs through September 30, 2011.

What: x2VOL Video Contest
Prizes: One $1,000 scholarship and two $500 scholarships
Who: U.S. students in grades 9-12 in any public, private or home school
Guidelines: Submit a 2-minute video explaining why community service is important
When: Videos must be posted to YouTube by midnight on Friday, Sept 30, 2011. Be sure to follow these simple guidelines intellivol.com/videocontest.

School Webmasters and eBackpack Partnership

PHOENIX and DALLAS — JULY 12, 2011 — eBackpack (eBackpack.com)—a secure, cloud-based location for teachers to store files, distribute assignments, and collaborate with students and colleagues—has partnered with School Webmasters (SchoolWebmasters.com), which builds and maintains highly professional websites for schools and also offers hosting and content management.

Read More

Brainchild Offers Professional Development for Tablets

PHILADELPHIA — June 27, 2011 — Brainchild is offering new professional development options to K-12 schools implementing Kineo® tablet-based learning solutions. The PD offerings help schools successfully use tablets to deliver individualized, data-driven instruction.

Texas School Gives 35,000 Volunteer Hours Via x2VOL

HOUSTON and Katy, Texas—May 12, 2011 — Seven Lakes High School students in the “Spartans Out Serving” or SOS club, gave nearly 35,000 hours to serving the local community this school year. Over 1,500 students belong to the voluntary club, which tracks hours and connects with local service organizations via x2VOL —an online system developed by a Texas-based company, intelliVOL (intelliVOL.com).

Read MORE on BusinessWire.

Brainchild Kineo Tablet With GlobalSYNC™, Just for Schools,

NAPLES, Florida— May 16, 2011 —Kineo, the seven-inch tablet and eBook Reader from Brainchild, has been shipped to ten states since being introduced at the Florida Educational Technology Conference in February. The Kineos being deployed are all equipped with Brainchild’s standards-based curriculum, Achiever!, and GlobalSYNC™ technology.

Read MORE on BusinessWire.

USF Researcher Finds Significant Improvement with TUNEin to READING

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Susan Homan, distinguished researcher on adolescent literacy from the University of South Florida, released a fifth and sixth year of research data reporting impressive literacy gains for struggling readers who used TUNEin™ to READING. Dr. Homan found that over a six-year period, struggling readers using TUNEin to READING — from Electronic Learning Products (www.elpcorp.com) — significantly outperformed their peers (who were using other reading intervention programs) on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test). The year-over-year gains ranged from 27% to 214%.

Read More on BusinessWire.
Link to study here.

Learning Plans on Demand Named to Top 100 Education Products

STUART, Florida – December 10, 2010 – Learning Plans on Demand™ is among the Top 100 Products for 2010 recognized by the long-standing educational leader’s magazine, District Administration. Learning Plans on Demand (http://www.learningplansondemand.com/) is a powerful vertical assessment and instruction tool that determines 1) what concepts a student has missed in earlier grades and 2) provides the instructional materials needed to fill in the student’s knowledge gaps. Its companion-product, Skills Pointer™ (http://www.skillspointer.com/), is a computer-adaptive assessment resource that is also used to inform and individualize instruction.

Read more

Struggling Readers Sing Their Way to Reading Success with TUNEin™ to READING Version 5.0

Struggling Readers Sing Their Way to Reading Success with TUNEin™ to READING Version 5.0
Patented Method Engages Both Sides of the Brain and Leads to Reading Gains

TAMPA, Florida – December 8, 2010—In classrooms around the country, students are singing through their reading lessons with TUNEin™ to READING and they are loving it. Electronic Learning Products (www.elpcorp.com), the publishers of TUNEin™ to READING, today launched version 5.0 of their award-winning reading intervention program that uses music to help struggling readers in grades 3-12. Students who have been frustrated with reading are now learning to love reading because of TUNEin to READING.

Read more

Florida’s Best Teachers Receive TUNEin™ to READING

TAMPA, Florida – November 1, 2010 — Last weekend, Florida’s 100 best teachers received special recognition from the Foundation for Excellence in Education, an organization founded by former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush. All of the exemplary teachers received TUNEin™ to READING (
http://www.elpcorp.com/)—a reading intervention program that uses music to help struggling students.

Read more on BusinessWire.

ECO:LOGIC Develops iPad Application for Wastewater Treatment Plants

ROCKLIN, Calif. — July 15, 2010 – Wastewater treatment plants and sewage systems cost millions of dollars to design and build so maintenance is important not only for preserving public and environmental health but also for sound fiscal stewardship of expensive and critical public resources. ECO:LOGIC Engineering (www.ecologic-eng.com) an engineering firm located in Northern California—has developed an Interactive Operations Manual (IOM) for the iPad™ mobile digital device that helps keep plants online and operating efficiently. (VIDEO link)

“This is just what we needed. If we discover that a piece of equipment needs an oil change every two months instead of four, we can log that here and turn it into a work order.”--

Steve Schimp, district manager and plant operator at San Andreas Sanitary District where the first IOM is in use.

Read more

Brainchild Achiever! Selected as a Top Assessment Product for Helping Students Learn Essential Skills

June 02, 2010 10:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time via BusinessWire

DALLAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) selected Achiever! from Brainchild (www.Brainchild.com) as a finalist in the Distinguished Achievement Awards for K-5 assessment and instructional products. Achiever! assesses standards-based performance in school and then delivers targeted learning tutorials that help students improve their performance on state assessments. (Read more)

Haitian Students in FL Schools Have Help with Brainchild

MIAMI, Florida -- March 23, 2010 - Florida schools are seeing significant numbers of Haitian students file through their doors and some of the schools, like Miami-Killian High School in Miami are better equipped to help those students than others.

Miami-Killian High School has resources on hand to help Haitian students feel some sense of control despite the upheaval in their lives and the language barrier that exists in a new country. The school has dozens of Study Buddy hand-held learning devices on hand which are manufactured by a Florida-based company called Brainchild (www.Brainchild.com). Study Buddies look like small game devices but they are used by students to reinforce instruction in mathematics, language arts, math and science. And, for the Haitian students, Study Buddies already come with content in their native language, Haitian Creole.

more: BusinessWire or PitchEngine (with photos)

News Release - Brainchild Academy Concept Employs Multimodal, Data-driven Instruction for Struggling Students

ORLANDO, Florida — January 13, 2010 — With 24-30 students or more in the typical classroom, it is tough for teachers to give students individual attention, especially struggling students. Brainchild (www.brainchild.com)—an educational publisher of assessment and intervention programs— today launched the Brainchild Academy Concept, which combines its technology resources with direct teacher observation into a three-station instructional plan.

Related case study
Full-text of release on BusinessWire

See Brainchild in booth 323 at the Florida Educational Technology Conference this week.

News Release - Brainchild Achiever! Habla Espanol

ORLANDO, Florida — January 12, 2010 — Brainchild (www.brainchild.com) announced today that Achiever! —an online assessment and instruction program used to evaluate student performance on state standards—now offers test questions and tutorials in Spanish or English. Students may change the text on their screen or select audio narrations in either Spanish or English and then may toggle between to the two as needed.

“If we hand a teacher a report that tells what each student needs to work on, she might be able to differentiate instruction for one or two students but an RTI program is about doing this for every student. It is only possible to do this with a total package like Achiever! where the assessment automatically jumps the student into the activities they need.” Dr. Geeta McMillan, Cassville Elementary School, TN

Read more on BusinessWire.
See Brainchild in booth 323 at the Florida Educational Technology Conference this week in Orlando.

Learning Plans on Demand Enhanced With Quick Diagnostic Assessmen

Learning Plans on Demand Enhanced With Quick Diagnostic Assessment

Assessment Helps Teachers Differentiate Instruction and Tie Into Embedded Tutorials

STUART, Florida – January 8, 2009 – Learning Plans on Demand™ (www.LearningPlansOnDemand.com) today announced the release of new diagnostic assessments that make the system easier to use and more helpful to teachers. With these new features, LPOD is a more powerful assessment tool that ties directly into hundreds of embedded tutorials for individualized learning.

Learning Plans on Demand (LPOD) is known by teachers for its ability to quickly make differentiated instructional plans based on individual student needs such as those required for “Response to Intervention” (RTI).

MORE