AOL@SCHOOL Ends Momentous Year With New Content Alliances With System80, WGBH and sitesALIVE!Business Editors, Technology Writers DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2002 2002 Highlights Include Launching New Design; Achieving 36% Reach in K-12 Schools; New State and District Partnerships As Well As Key Content Alliances With Leading Online Education Providers America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced that AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. @SCHOOL, its free online learning service, has secured new content alliances with three leading online education companies that will enhance its educational offerings and expand its resources. System80, WGBH and sitesALIVE! will provide AOL@SCHOOL's users with expanded reading resources, new ways to research and problem solve and increased access to exciting live adventures. AOL@SCHOOL made the announcement at the 16th annual National School Boards Association's Technology + Learning Conference in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. . "It's been an incredible year for AOL@SCHOOL," said Mark Nixon, AOL's Executive Director, AOL@SCHOOL. "In just two and a half years, what started out as a small endeavor has now touched students, parents and teachers in every US State and several countries around the world. This year brought new partnerships with leading content providers, a state endorsement from Mississippi and our first-ever district partnership with the city of Detroit. We're proud to be the leading provider of free education resources to K-12 schools, and look forward to another year of connecting students to a world of learning opportunities." AOL@SCHOOL is a free online service built around six age-appropriate learning portals. It provides the Internet's best educational content and communication tools designed to extend the effectiveness of classroom lessons, along with special safety tools that protect students from inappropriate content. All of the online content available for students through AOL@SCHOOL has been selected by educational experts and each of AOL@SCHOOL's six portals will have their own Focus window that can be programmed by education officials. In the past year, AOL@SCHOOL has achieved several important milestones including launching a new version of its online service, reaching 36% of K-12 schools and having a presence in all 50 states, partnering with new online education providers, announcing its first district partnership as well as expanding its state partnerships. AOL@SCHOOL is now endorsed by seven states. New Alliances to Provide Enhanced Content for Specialized Learning Portals The new offerings that will be added to AOL@SCHOOL's premier educational resources as a result of the alliances announced today include: System80 -- Providing encouragement and rewards to its users, the System80 reading system, geared toward younger students, will provide AOL@SCHOOL's primary portal with 14 free lessons on phonics and basic reading concepts. Students will learn through interactive audio and video, pointing and clicking their way through shapes, colors and words. AOL@SCHOOL's partnership with System80 will also include teacher worksheets which provide simple and reliable ways to use System80 to help instruct students. WGBH -- AOL@SCHOOL's users will be provided with a special free Mission of the Month from the FFFBI FFFBI Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation (National Geographic Society) (Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation). The FFFBI encourages students to research online and use their investigative skills to learn, participate and enjoy nuts-and-bolts crime fighting Crime Fighting See also Sleuthing. Batman devotes his life to fighting Gotham City’s criminals. [Comics: Berger, 160] Canadian Mounties and problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. . Students will become secret agents of the FFFBI, going undercover to fight crime by using the AOL@SCHOOL search feature to research different world cultures, technology, events and much more. sitesALIVE! -- Ocean Challenge, Inc's sitesALIVE! links students to fascinating interactive learning adventures and expeditions around the world. AOL@SCHOOL users will have access to their live adventures which include sailing trips across the globe, traveling through the rainforest and other cross-curricular activities in subjects like mathematics, science, social studies, geography, history and music. Teachers will also be able to incorporate worksheets and lessons tailored to each adventure into daily classroom activity. Other leading education companies providing content for AOL@SCHOOL include Apex Learning Apex Learning, Inc. is a privately-held provider of e-Learning solutions for K-12 education, offering online courses in mathematics, science, English studies, social studies, Romance languages, and Advanced Placement. , APTE APTE Automatic Programmed Test Equipment APTE Alternating-Projection Timing Estimator , Inc., Artsonia, Bartleby.com, Boxer Learning, Inc., BrainPOP, childrenselibrary, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Student News, CountryWatch.com, Dell, Education World, EdVISION, ePALS Classroom Exchange, GoalView, KidsEdge, Merriam-Webster, PC Teach It, Peterson's, Princeton Review, Purdue Pharma Purdue Pharma L.P., is privately-held pharmaceutical company founded by physicians. It is located in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue is best known for painkillers, but they have also branched into other areas such as oncology and nutraceuticals. , Renaissance Learning, Riverdeep, Standard Deviants/Cerebellum, TestU, ThinkWave, TIME For Kids, Tom Snyder Tom Snyder (May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the late 1970s and '80s, and The Late Late Show Productions, Tritone tri·tone n. Music An interval composed of three whole tones. [Medieval Latin tritonus, from Greek tritonos, having three tones : tri-, three; see Music, Warner Brothers Warner Brothers (b. Eichelbaums) movie executives; Harry (Morris) (1881–1958), born in Krasnashiltz, Poland; Albert (1884–1967), born in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel (1887–1927), born in Baltimore, Md. Publications and Western Governors University. To participate in a demonstration of AOL@SCHOOL, please visit booth #1215 at the National School Boards Association's Technology + Learning Conference in Dallas through Friday, November 15. About AOL@SCHOOL AOL@SCHOOL is a free online learning service that America Online launched in May, 2000. Designed to help schools make the interactive medium a more effective part of the classroom experience, AOL@SCHOOL provides safe, age-appropriate learning portals with the leading online educational material selected by educational experts. The service offers AOL's unique safety controls to protect kids from inappropriate content, optional features such as e-mail and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or for students and special resource portals for teachers and administrators. AOL@SCHOOL has been endorsed by seven states including Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Georgia and Mississippi as well as the city of Detroit as the premier online learning tool for K-12 students, and the program is being widely used in schools across the country. The AOL@SCHOOL software is available free to schools by calling 888-339-0767. The AOL@SCHOOL portals can also be accessed over the Internet at http://www.aolatschool.com, so that students, teachers, administrators and parents can view the content included as part of this learning tool from home. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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