Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity

Recognizes the best software tool for students, educators or administrators in the K-12 or postsecondary markets for document creation, graphic design, workflow, organization, problem solving or web development.

Products nominated here are eligible for the Best K-12 Education Solution, Best Non-Traditional Education Solution and Best Postsecondary Education Solution supercategories.

RM Podium - RM Education Creating a podcast has never been easier. Teachers and students of any age can easily script, create, edit, and publish podcasts to their district or school website in minutes. RM Podium is podcasting software that is designed specifically for education. It includes tools that are not available in most generic retail podcasting software. Most importantly, it is easy to learn and easy to use. Go To RM Education's Web Site Go To Product Site
Schoolwires Centricity2: www.schoolwires.com/centricity2 - SchoolWires, Inc. Schoolwires provides the leading K-12 online platform that brings website and community management, communications and collaboration, and web-based applications and services together to enhance students’ learning experience. Today, more than 1,200 districts rely on Schoolwires to provide district-critical solutions ranging from managing multiple websites to integrating multiple applications, from enabling teaching effectiveness to increasing student engagement. With the strongest technology, the most district-informed product roadmap, and an incredibly passionate team of professionals, Schoolwires brings districts and their communities together around success. Centricity2 lets you create more engaging online experiences for your communities and key stakeholder groups. So you can more deeply and socially connect all members of your communities to help drive the district agenda and student success. So you can make your online environment a highly interactive and more personalized teaching and learning environment – where students, teachers and parents can all work together to do more, reach higher and achieve more. And so you can distinguish your district by making your online environment a beacon to attract families and high-quality educators. Centricity2 also provides a powerful, flexible and customizable foundation that lets your online environment grow and evolve as your district does – and as the education landscape demands. Backed by Schoolwires’ unparalleled track record of customer satisfaction and success, Centricity2 provides everything you need to make your online environment a strategic driver today…and for years to come. Through its many deep and long-term district relationships, Schoolwires works with an estimated 5 million users across the nation. Schoolwires also is recognized by Inc magazine as one of the top 20 fastest growing private education companies across the nation for four consecutive years. Schoolwires ranks in the Inc. 500|5000 as the 1,202nd fastest growing private companies after achieving Inc. 500 status overall for two consecutive years. Schoolwires Inc. (www.schoolwires.com) is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, USA. Go To SchoolWires, Inc.'s Web Site Go To Product Site
Juba (www.jubalearning.com) - Six Red Marbles Juba nurtures kids creativity and motivation to learn by immersing them in a world of multisensory discovery and story-telling. Juba is a web-based digital workspace full of opportunities for kids to explore real world content, creatively express themselves, and share the experience. Juba provides early learners with skills in reading/writing, mathematics, science, and social studies. Juba is accessible online 24/7 -- anywhere, anytime! Juba stimulates kids whole brain to foster original and expansive thinking. The open format inspires kids imagination and helps them build important connections. Juba is kid-driven, so personal passions and interests facilitate learning. Research shows that students learn and retain information about the real world better through visual and auditory stimuli based on it. In the Explore space, kids access over 2,000 real images from around the world enriched with words, sound, fun facts, and learning activities -- like classification, sequencing, color and shape identification, and numbers -- aligned to NAEYC, NCTM, ISTE NETS, Common Core State Standards, as well Head Start indicators. The Create space is a comprehensive forum for kids to further interact with subject matter -- developing ideas through story-telling, and completing teacher projects. Kids express their ideas using the toolkit to draw, paint, type, stamp, and even record audio while exploring or creating. Project-based learning within Juba builds motivation and focus. Creations stored in the students portfolios are easily shared through the Juba Home Connection. In the robust Dashboard, teachers and parents can review student portfolios as well as real-time reports on achievements against standards. Thus, teachers can easily tailor lesson plans to meet individual or whole class needs. Juba is versatile and can be used for small or whole group activities, with an interactive whiteboard, or independently by students. Juba is a robust example of inquiry-based and project learning. Research guided every aspect of the creation of Juba. Six Red Marbles Natural Learning Approach blends the latest neuroscientific research into Whole Brain Learning with a thing we like to call Tribal Pedagogy: learning by necessity, imitation and story-telling. Research informed the design of interactive visual displays in Juba, resulting in intuitive, simple, straightforward, and easy to use interfaces. All content is available in both English and Spanish. Jubas fully integrated language toggle allows kids to easily switch between languages. This unique feature provides two versions of Juba in one program -- eliminating the need for the purchase of separate versions. ELL students have the extra visual and auditory support they need while English speakers can learn a new language. Kid-driven or teacher guided, Juba nurtures kids natural desire to explore, create, share, and learn. We created Juba specifically for the next generation of learners -- digital natives who embrace technology in an intuitive and expansive way. Kids creatively and productively express themselves and learn important concepts that set them on a personal path to success. Fun ideas for serious learning. Go To Six Red Marbles' Web Site Go To Product Site
SMART Notebook collaborative learning software - SMART Technologies ULC SMART Notebook collaborative learning software is the standard for creating, delivering and managing interactive lessons within a single application. With its rich set of features and comprehensive library of digital resources, SMART Notebook helps teachers deliver high-impact lessons that bring learning to life. Used by educators in over 175 countries, it is essential for teachers worldwide. Go To SMART Technologies ULC's Web Site Go To Product Site
SoftChalk 6 - SoftChalk LLC SoftChalk software provides the ultimate solution for easily creating interactive online content for e-learning. Educators can transform static documents into lessons that will engage learners and reinforce learning with embedded media, interactive learning activities, comprehension questions and formatting features. SoftChalk makes it possible to construct lessons with built-in accessibility features, and support for metadata to aid search and discovery of SoftChalk content in learning object repositories. SoftChalk content is portable and can be delivered in almost any learning management system or content management system, or on a web-server or CD-ROM. SoftChalk lessons, courses and learning activities can also be shared in CONNECT, SoftChalk's online community and learning object repository. The content shared on CONNECT can be kept private, or made public via Creative Commons licensing, and can be linked or embedded in any website. Be sure to check out the SoftChalk website and the SoftChalk CONNECT repository for more information. Go To SoftChalk LLC's Web Site Go To Product Site
Snagit 10.0 - TechSmith Corporation Snagit | The ultimate screen capture tool With Snagit�s capture, edit, organize and share technology� it�s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you. Use Snagit to capture any image you want straight off your computer screen. Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Go To TechSmith Corporation's Web Site Go To Product Site

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