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new tool called Xtranormal for creating text to speech animated movies.
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This new solution, based upon the company's proven mCLASS handheld computer-to-Web assessment and reporting system, enables educators to implement a Response to Intervention (RtI) program that makes early intervention efforts with at-risk students successful, improving achievement and ensuring accurate identification of students who need special education.
The new Publish V2, also introduced Tuesday, will allow users to convert Live recordings into "rich video podcasts, which capture shared applications, whiteboard content, chat transcripts, closed captioning, and all audio, including telephony,"
McFarlin found that final student grades were 9.9 percent higher (an increase of one letter grade on a standard grading scale) when the course was administered in a hyrid format
Harvard University?s Interactive Media Group will host a half-day Immersive Education event, on December 8th 2007 from 2-5pm, that is open to the public and free to attend. From the article: "Educators, researchers and administrators from Harvard University, Boston College, MIT Media Lab, Amherst College and the United States Department of Education will give a series of presentations and demonstrations to provide attendees with an overview of Immersive Education and how virtual world and game-based learning technologies are used in and out of the classroom today. Immersive Education Day at Harvard is a precursor to the Immersive Education event at Boston?s Digital Media Summit in January, 2008.
Teaching Educational Games Resources
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Readings - A list of the writings you use in teaching about educational games
Multi-media Materials - A list of the games and other multimedia materials you use in teaching about educational games
Technical Resources - A list of technical resources (software, games, game engines, etc.) that have been used in teaching about educational games
The Center for Evaluation and Education Policy in the Indiana University School of Education will partner with a Washington, D.C.-area company for a first-of-its kind, $3.1 million project examining how current and emerging technologies are being used in classrooms and how to prepare new teachers to best use these tools.