Sponsors of the School Technology Summit
Apple
October 5 Dinner/Performance Sponsor
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.
Words & Numbers
October 5 Reception Sponsor
Words & Numbers is a publishing services company offering a wide range of customized services in the development and delivery of print and technology products for educational publishers. Our staff of more than 65 editors and 200 writers has extensive experience creating student and teacher materials, ancillaries, and practice and test items. Our expertise is in early childhood through college-level materials for basal, supplemental, and assessment programs in Reading/Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Allied Health, and World Languages. Our excellence in customer service extends beyond editorial development. We also create full-service solutions that include product development, standards research, production reviews, and project management, to provide comprehensive solutions for a variety of project development needs.
SanDisk
October 5 Luncheon Sponsor
SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK) is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world leader in flash memory cards and USB flash drives. SanDisk has developed a secure content delivery infrastructure that enables students to download digital versions of textbooks, interactive learning materials, and multimedia to their USB flash drives for portable use on any PC, online or offline.
Texas Instruments
October 6 Breakfast Sponsor
The Quarasan Group, Inc.
October 5 Break Sponsor
Quarasan is a full service developer of content for publishers of educational materials and products. In a nutshell, we work with clients to create products that work-products that help kids learn and teachers teach.
Since 1982, we have provided content excellence through top development services for leading educational publishers. As a full-service product developer, we believe it is our job to create, capture, and deliver our clients' vision. Whether your vision is to develop and produce entire multi-component programs, multiple levels of a single, or single products for basal, supplemental, ancillary, niche and customized programs, Quarasan adds value to both the process and the results. We will partner with you or even manage the entire development process from concept to delivery of final files; or provide editorial, design, image, project management, or production services separately.
We are experienced in all disciplines within the K-12 market including reading, language arts, spelling, math, science, social studies, music, ESL/foreign language, and standardized testing and assessment. At Quarasan, we ask all the right questions, and we deliver the right results.
Texthelp Systems, Inc.
Welcoming Remarks Sponsor
Texthelp Systems, Inc. (http://www.texthelp.com) is an educational software company with offices in Antrim, Northern Ireland and Boston, MA. Specializing in the design of assistive technology to help individuals to improve their reading and writing abilities, the company has developed a range of awarding winning software products which are marketed worldwide. A 2006 CODIE Award winner, the company prides itself in its mission:
To be synonymous with the provision of high quality, innovative assistive technology, for any persons of any age or ability seeking to develop their language skills through the use of a computer.
The design philosophy of the company strongly supports the principles of Universal Design for Learning. The core design principle that underpins every piece of Texthelp technology is that a struggling student should be able to use the same lessons, curriculum materials and software productivity tools as all the other students in the classroom. Therefore, Texthelp designs technology that makes these instructional resources easier to use by struggling readers and writers.
A wide range of individuals with literacy and print difficulties from; Low Vision, Dyslexia, English Learners, At Risk or Learning Disabilities benefit from Texthelp solutions.
RedRock Reports
October 6 Break Sponsor
RedRock Reports is focused on meeting the strategic funding needs of the K-12 publishing, technology and services community through consulting, advisory, and research services. With a team of industry veterans who have a broad range of understanding from the classroom and district to high-tech marketing and product development, RedRock Reports can deliver strategic as well as tactical grant analysis and recommendations to help you create and capture additional revenue and sustain growth. Our experts can help you align your products with grant funds as well as find the funds for your customers to support your products.
Turning Technologies
Audience Response System
Conduct multiple assessments and increase student achievement with the help of Turning Technologies, LLC! Turning Technologies develops interactive student response systems utilizing the latest software and hardware tools available to build state of the art applications for classroom response. The company’s flagship product, TurningPoint® Software and Responsive Innovations ResponseCard® (Keypads), integrate with Microsoft’s PowerPoint® software providing the most advanced combination of knowledge and technology currently available in the field of learner assessment. Turning Technologies is commited is to offering of the industry's easiest, most powerful, fully interactive group response systems available. For more information, visit Turning Technologies at www.turningtechnologies.com
