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“Continuous professional development and knowledge sharing through reputation based peer interaction.”
Classroom Sense takes complicated district data and makes it practical for principals to use. Principals must make daily decisions around student attendance, teacher development, and school budget on a continuously evolving basis. Districts already collect data about students, staff, and school, largely to comply with state reporting requirements, but it’s inaccessible, unprioritized, and unusable. We make that data smart so that principals are empowered to act on issues ranging from budget approval to prioritizing teacher observations.
We want TheCoursebook to be the place you think of when you think of quality online education. We want to do for educational content what Yelp did for restaurants and what Amazon did for consumer products.”
Practisimo
Practisimo is Chatroulette for online language practice. Practisimo lets you talk, when you want, with a native speaker from the comfort of your own computer or mobile phone. It’s easy, convenient, social, and free*. Sign up today to keep your language skills alive or perfect your second tongue. With Practisimo, a little practice makes a world of difference.
*Premiums members can schedule lessons with highly rated native speakers.
LeanTechTraining.com provides online technician training for robotics, solar energy, and other electronics courses for the junior college and high school market. Providing training for new service jobs that can’t be shipped overseas. Solving the problem of how to teach electronics courses online that currently require expensive hands-on labs by providing affordable electronics devices, curriculum, software, and training packages.
SproutWorlds is an online gaming platform for math homework. Teachers choose the problems, and students do their homework online while earning points and virtual goods. SproutWorlds will provide an extra incentive for students to spend time learning math after school by using game mechanics that have engaged millions on Facebook games. The program will individually tailor questions, and will provide teachers with custom reports on the progress of each student.”
E3 – Exceptional Education Ecosystem
SchoolDom
Ning Meets Yammer in an online social network for kids under 13. We provide a safe space for children to engage in social networking on line.













