Agilix Labs Demonstrates BrainHoney at Virtual School Symposium.BrainHoney to Offer Schools the Opportunity to Create Virtual Classrooms - On the Spot AUSTIN, Texas -- Virtual School Symposium BOOTH #7 Agilix Labs, Inc. will be providing demonstrations of its newly released BrainHoney - an online learning platform designed for traditional, hybrid or virtual schools. During the 2009, Virtual School Symposium (VSS See Vcc. ), held November 15 through 17, BrainHoney will give teachers and administrators a chance to set up their own virtual high school for free in just five minutes. "We want to show people how easy it is for any school to integrate 21(st) century technology into the traditional classroom," said Dr. Mark Luetzelschwab, senior vice president of Agilix. "We also want to show teachers and administrators a more efficient, engaging and less-expensive alternative to an LMS." As the VSS grows in scale each year, so too does the number of K-12 students taking online courses. "Two million K-12 students are currently enrolled in some kind of online course," said Dr. Luetzelschwab. "And that number is only going to increase over the next decade. The beauty of BrainHoney is that it gives teachers and administrators the ability to easily run an entire class or just portions of it online. That's the future of education." BrainHoney was built with both teachers and students in mind. Teachers can easily assess individual student progress in real-time using an online gradebook, state-standards alignment, curriculum mapping Curriculum Mapping is a procedure for reviewing the operational curriculum as it is entered into an electronic data base at any education setting. It is based largely on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs in Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12 , formative assessment Formative assessment is a self-reflective process that intends to promote student attainment [1]. Cowie and Bell [2] define it as the bidirectional process between teacher and student to enhance, recognise and respond to the learning. and objective mastery charts, and assignment tracking. Students can participate in online classroom discussions, access class and supplemental materials, complete online individual or group assignments and monitor their own progress. In addition to providing a robust set of tools to enhance the learning experience, BrainHoney affords teachers and students an unparalleled degree of transparency throughout the learning process. Students can monitor their own progress online, while teachers provide individualized instruction Individualized instruction is a method of instruction in which content, instructional materials, instructional media, and pace of learning are based upon the abilities and interests of each individual learner. to students who need it most. "BrainHoney helps teachers know exactly how well each student is doing in each individual subject," said Rebekah Richards, Principal and Chief Academic Officer of the American Academy - one of the most successful accredited virtual high schools in the world. "BrainHoney provides transparency into what's really going on in a student's education so that teachers can make data-driven decisions. That's the Holy Grail of online education and of education in general." BrainHoney is free to all K-12 teachers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . After signing up, any individual educator can simply select their school, choose the grade level(s) and subject(s) that they teach, drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. state standards or learning objectives onto their schedules and build their curriculum maps for the semester. Schools and school districts can upgrade to the BrainHoney Suite, which offers schools a flexible and fully scalable solution to meet their unique educational and administrative needs. About BrainHoney Agilix Labs, Inc. is transforming education through BrainHoney, its personalized learning platform. It is the latest offering from the creative team that has delivered innovative educational solutions for nearly a decade, providing student-centered, objective-aligned learning that improves student achievement, increases teacher productivity, delivers administrative insight, and enables parental involvement. Based on an open technology architecture, BrainHoney is the only learning solution that works seamlessly across classroom, hybrid, and online environments. Agilix delivers its software applications to hundreds of thousands of users in countries worldwide. Founded in 2001 by the team that created Folio and MyFamily.com, Agilix is based in Orem, Utah Orem is an incorporated town in the north-central part of the state of Utah in Utah County. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 84,324. , USA. For more information please visit http://www.agilix.com. |
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