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5/4/2011

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Elementary iPads
A North Carolina elementary school is starting its students on iPads at the tender age of seven.
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Ed Tech News

Desire2Learn Acquires ePresence, Launches Capture Suite
Ed tech developer Desire2Learn, best known for a learning management system by the same name, has purchased Captual Technologies, which develops a lecture capture suite called ePresence.
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Adobe Ships Creative Suite 5.5
Adobe has released Creative Suite 5.5, a major mid-cycle update to its flagship digital media production suite. For educators and students, Adobe is supporting the new version with professional development, learning resources, and educational pricing.
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Quark Gives Teachers a Free Ride
Quark is making its recently released QuarkXPress 9 available to faculty members free for a limited time.
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Ergotron To Release 48-Tablet Mobile Cart
Ergotron will release the TeachWell Tablet Management Cart this summer. It will be the company's first mobile AV cart designed specifically for handheld tablets like the iPad.
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NI To Offer High School Edition of LabVIEW for Lego Mindstorms
Lego Education and National Instruments will shortly launch an edition of LabVIEW software specifically for high school students to use with Lego robotic products.
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Report: 6 Blended Learning Models Emerge
Even as it "disruptively" transforms American education, blended learning is itself being slowly reshaped into new and distinctive forms.
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Electric Company, Verizon Foundation Partner To Provide Free Resources
The Electric Company and Verizon have partnered to provide free educational games, printable activities, and videos for students and educators through Thinkfinity.org.
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New Tech-Laden Lectern Promotes Simplicity
A maker of high-tech lecterns has introduced one that doesn't require the instructor to set up a laptop computer to make presentations.
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