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TURNITIN REVISION
ASSISTANT HISTORICAL
ANALYSIS PROMPTS
(turnitin.com/en_us/what-we-offer/
revision-assistant)
New historical
analysis writing
prompts for
Turnitin Revision Assistant support
writing instruction in content areas beyond
English/Language Arts. A new historical
analysis genre and new historical analysis
prompts will be available in December
2017 and more will be released in 2018.
Historical analysis prompts in Revision
Assistant align with disciplinary literacy
state standards including the Common
Core, as well as the College, Career, and
Civic Life Framework for Social Studies.TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!
FOR GRADES K-5
(www.teachtci.com)
TCI unveiled the
first components
of Bring Science
Alive! for middle school. Each unit in
Bring Science Alive! for middle school has
students engage in the engineering process
to think like an engineer as they solve real-
world problems related to the phenomena
addressed in each unit. In addition,
each lesson includes an assessment that
addresses all three dimensions, uses diverse
stimuli and allows students to express
understanding in multiple formats.TEAMDYNAMIX V10
(www.teamdynamix.com)
TeamDynamix has recently announced
V10 this October. This release focuses on
data protection for sensitive information
housed in the service management
platform. V10 addresses IT security
requirements often required for service
requests in IT, human resources,
healthcare, security risk management, andhelps reduce
HIPAA violation
risk without
significant cost
by ensuring that ePHI is only visible to
authorized personnel and ePHI access
activity can be thoroughly audited.WEST SCHOOLMESSENGER
CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM
INTERVENTION PROGRAM
(www.schoolmessenger.com)
West’s SchoolMessenger
solutions launched its
Chronic Absenteeism
Intervention Program
(CAIP). CAIP
combines elements of SchoolMessenger
Communicate and SafeArrival with a set of
professional services that support schools
as they plan and implement a program to
reduce chronic absenteeism. West also
partnered with nonprofit Attendance
Works to host a webinar in September on
“Preventing and Reducing Chronic Student
Absences,” to educate school districts
about the new ESSA accountability
guidance and share resources to help
reduce absenteeism.ZSPACE ADDENUM TO
UNITY EDUCATOR TOOLKIT
(www.zSpace.com)
zSpace has
released the
Addendum to the
Unity Educator Toolkit, which supplements
the Unity Curricular Framework. In
the zSpace supplement, learners will
be introduced to zSpace components,
terminology and core concepts. Learners
will also study zSpace interactions, including
how a user can manipulate objects in
stereoscopic 3D. They will discover the
factors involved with rendering objects in
stereoscopic 3D and how to present the
stylus pointer and beam in an application.ON DEMAND
Check out the following resources from
our partner sites:
WEBINARS
Back to School: Putting Lessons
Learned from ISTE Into Practice
Sponsored by: itslearning
The Journey to Data Interoperability:
How Lawrence Public Schools
Simplified and Centralized Data to
Inspire District Success
Sponsored by: BrightBytes
IT Infrastructure & the 21st Century
Classroom: Ensuring Technology
Availability
Sponsored by: Schneider Electric
Empower Teachers with Quick and Easy
Assessments
Sponsored by: GradeCam
Create Conditions that Inspire
Brilliance: Optimizing Adaptive
Learning
Sponsored by: Voyager Sopris Learning
Check techlearning.com for updates
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