A Dynamic LearnSpace.

JEFF MAO, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY coordinator for the state of Maine, has made a safe, educationally collaborative online place called Studywiz Spark by Etech available to students, teachers and parents. "No longer do our teachers need to patch together 21st-century online technology solutions--they are able to incorporate RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, podcasting, real-time polling and other multimedia components into their teaching, with one place to organize it," says Kathleen Alessandro, technology committee member for the Southgate Community Schools, Mich., which uses Studywiz Spark. It also provides iPod synchronization, e-Lockers, e-Bulletins, multimedia galleries, messaging, chat, discussion, and even testing and reporting. While Studywiz is new (November 2007) to the United States, it is already known in 15 countries, including Great Britain, Australia and China. Etech calls it "the first and only Dynamic LearnSpace for K-12 education."

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