Expo at OCM BOCES
I had a chance to go to Syracuse for an Expo of learning tools.
David Jakes Keynote was inspirational and simultaneously grounded.
Seeing a number of demonstrations of great tools left me reflecting on where we are headed in Ithaca. There are super options- that seem affordable-to remediate, differentiate, and excite students.
Planning needs to take place:
- how much hardware is needed to provide enough resource for students?
- what should students should be doing?
- what to pilot and what to make universal?, and
- who makes these decisions?
Here are some of the vendors/products we saw:
1 FastForWord http://www.scilearn.com 15K/school… looks good though. Fast ForWord offers support for special needs students.
2 READ180 http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/ I got kit
3 Achieve3000 http://www.achieve3000.com/
4 Blackboard http://blackboard.com
5 Learning Objects http://www.learningobjects.com/campuspack.jsp
6 Tactus http://www/tactustech.com
7 RMEducation http://www.rmeducation.com
8 ExploreLearning http://www.explorelearning.com/ Gizmos has some good 3-5 modules. (20 and 20 to go)
9 CarnegieLearning http://www.carnegielearning.com/index.cfm
10 McGraw Hill Acuity http://www2.ctb.com/acuity/aboutAcuity.shtml
11 Performance Pathways http://www.techpaths.com
12 SchoolWorld http://www.schoolworld.com/
13 WebGrader http://www.clihome.com/wg/home.asp
14 Curriculum Mapper http://www.clihome.com/cm/
15 Pearson ELLis http://www.pearsondigital.com/ellis/
