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Best Educational Use of a Technology Device

Awards the best educational software solution, either curriculum or administrative, designed for technology hardware devices, including handhelds, PDAs, tablets, laptops, interactive white board or integrated hardware/software solutions. This solution may be designed for preK-12 or postsecondary.

GradeGuru.com, McGraw-Hill Education

GradeGuru is a free knowledge sharing network where college students can share their study materials, engage in collaborative learning and get peer-feedback while building their online academic profiles for internships and career opportunities. GradeGuru’s university/class specific communities provide relevant and intuitive social learning environments for thousands of students from over 300 universities.

GradeGuru features a unique peer-recognition points system, rewarding students for contributing great study materials to help others. By sharing students increase their community status to Bronze, Silver or Gold Guru. "Gurus" receive special privileges like career opportunities through recruiting partners.

GradeGuru.com/tools, is a digital lab where students and professors can download free apps. Examples include Citation Manager, which automates creation of online bibliographies, and Link List, which helps instructors and students share annotated online resources with a single short-url.

“Digital note sharing creates bonds between students and allows them to build on each other’s strengths while leveraging the digital mediums they are accustomed to learning in. For it to be effective the method must be intuitive, user-friendly and designed with students in mind. The enhanced GradeGuru site hits all these notes and makes it easy for students to connect and learn from one another.”

~ Professor David Parr, University of Texas

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    SPARKvue, PASCO Scientific

    SPARKvue software allows students to use sensors to collect and analyze data so they can have a hands-on science learning experience. SPARKvue was designed to be a solution for science students of all levels -- simple enough for elementary-level learners but with the features to suit the needs of advanced physics, chemistry, biology or environmental science students.

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    SMART Notebook software, SMART Technologies ULC

    SMART Notebook software sets the global standard for creating, delivering and managing interactive lessons within a single application. With its rich set of design and delivery features and a multitude digital resources, SMART Notebook software helps educators deliver high impact lessons that bring learning to life and connects them to a full ecosystem of content, tools and support.

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