Learning Plans on Demand - The Royal Treatment

Ken Royal of Scholastic Administrator magazine wrote a nice post on his excellent blog, The Royal Treatment, about my client's product: Learning Plans on Demand.
http://blogs.scholastic.com/royaltreatment/2008/12/learning-plans.html
I've always enjoyed Ken's articles and since he started blogging, first at DA mag and now with Scholastic Administrator, I am having more chance to interact with him. You'll find he has a nice way of bringing his long teaching history into his product reviews--very helpful to all of us!

Historical notes -- Learning Plans on Demand is the next generation of Rapid Resources (additional posts about RR can be found in this blog.) LPOD includes all the great tools from Rapid Resources but then adds reporting and analysis tools that make it valuable as a district-wide resource.

Rapid Resources Captures Education Award

http://www.internationallearningcorporation.com/Media/Nov13.html or http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1608534.htm

Rapid Resources won a 2008 Awards of Excellence from Technology & Learning magazine. Congratulations to Bill Tudor and his team for such excellent work. I have spoken to a few teachers who are using Rapid Resources and they are astounded that such a simple online resource can be so helpful to them.

Rapid Resources creates individualized learning plans for grades K-12 in math, language arts, reading and science - even for high school exit exams. Teachers can choose accelerated activities or to fill in the knowledge gaps with remediation activities. There is an integrated assessment tool that the teacher can use to quickly determine which skill a student is missing. She merely checks off boxes when a student misses a skill and then BINGO, out pops a list of activities just for that student.

I've heard of teachers sending these activities sheet home for homework with their parent. They also use them in class or can give them to classroom aides (parent volunteers in my son's school). Stop in a take a look and sign up for a 30-day trial at http://www.rapidresources.com/.

News Release - NEA's Member Benefits Corporation Selects Rapid Resources

Just out on PRWeb...

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) October 19, 2008 -- Members of the National Education Association (NEA) (www.nea.org) now have a special opportunity to purchase Rapid Resources - a proven, easy-to-use online tool for educators to build individualized learning plans. The NEA's Member Benefits Corporation (NEA MB), in partnership with International Learning Corporation, today announced that NEA MB has secured special members-only pricing that saves over fifty (50%) percent off the annual subscription rate of Rapid Resources. NEA MB has also secured a free 30-day trial use of Rapid Resources (www.rapidresources.com/nea) to test drive this unique software product. (more)


Go to this link for the full text, graphics and a 5-minute podcast (in various formats).
http://www.prweb.com/releases/rapidresources/nea/prweb1485774.htm

Also visit my site for the release, the mp3 file and link to PR Web http://www.jharrisonpr.com/clientNews.html