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How Do You Q Winner Announced!

Dec 9th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, Press Releases

12/10/10– (PUYALLUP, WA) — Qwizdom, the leader in audience response systems, announces the winners of the fall social media contest, How Do You Q? Educators were invited to blog about how they would and or do use Qwizdom’s Student Response System in their classroom via video, images, or words. Qwizdom selected one winner from each [...]



Panama City News Herald: High-tech tools transform Wewahitchka Middle School

Nov 30th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

WEWAHITCHKA — Students at Wewahitchka Middle School have traded in their pencils and paper for laptops and interactive equipment to boost them into the new millennium. Thanks to a sizable state Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant and the dedication of teachers and administration, the middle school has become transformed into high-tech classrooms. Instead of [...]



Tech & Learning has announced the winners of the 23rd annual Leader of the Year program

Nov 29th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

Please join us in congratulating the three winners chosen as the top education technology leaders in the country. Look for detailed profiles of each person in the December issue of Tech & Learning. Click here to read the press release. Brian Mannix, Seventh-grade social studies teacher, Great Neck South (NY) Middle School Never doubt your students or their [...]



Have You Entered How do you Q?

Nov 29th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

It’s the last week to enter to win a set of Q6 Student Response System, Q7 Presenter Tablet, Document Camera, Qwizdom Connect Software, WizTeach Tools and 1 year of Premium Service. This adds up to a total of over $4ooo in gear! Submit your entry by creating a blog post, photos, or video about how [...]



NBC-Panama City: Students at Wewahitchka Middle learn with technology

Nov 11th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

Wewahitchka– Students at Wewahitchka Middle School are getting their education in a 21st century classroom. A classroom many adults would find confusing. Chalkboards, paper handouts and pencils are being replaced by hand-held remotes, wireless tablets and laptops. The Gulf county school district is paying for this classroom retrofitting at Wewahitchka Middle School with a government grant. “Gulf [...]



NBC Austin: Chalkboards, desks becoming old school

Oct 19th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Teachers at Bowie High School are feeding information to students in a way they can relate. Chalkboards, traditional desks and worksheets are out. Remote controls, digital screens and texting is in. Well, sort of. In the education circle, these new high-tech classrooms are part of a fresh concept called “project-based” learning that is [...]



Austin Times: Bowie High School demonstrates revolutionized instruction

Oct 18th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News, News Coverage

Teachers at James Bowie High School demonstrated how the use of technology can be used to increase student participation, engagement, and monitor individual progress. Students are using hand-held remotes, innovation stations, computers, and giant digital screens in an interactive classroom. The technology uses concepts that students can relate to like texting through wireless keyboard and [...]



NBC Austin: Chalkboards, desks becoming old school

Oct 6th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News, News Coverage

Teachers tapping into classroom technology AUSTIN (KXAN) – Teachers at Bowie High School are feeding information to students in a way they can relate. Chalkboards, traditional desks and worksheets are out. Remote controls, digital screens and texting is in. Well, sort of. In the education circle, these new high-tech classrooms are part of a fresh [...]



NBC New Orleans Checks Out Student Hand Held Remotes

Sep 30th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News, News Coverage, Video

NBC New Orleans stopped by two local New Orleans schools to check out how they are using Qwizdom’s hand held remotes in the classroom to raise academic achievement. “Today two New Orleans schools showed off new technology in their classroom… Parents and members of the community got a glimpse of how students are using hand [...]



New AES formal training unit to open at Pope AFB next month

Sep 29th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage

by Senior Airman Peter R. Miller 440th Airlift Wing 9/24/2010 - Pope Air Force Base, N.C.- Sept. 11, 2010 – Twenty aeromedical evacuation crewmembers (AECM) from around the globe are scheduled to begin Basic Aircrew Qualification (BAQ) training at Air Force Reserve Command’s (AFRC) new Aeromedical Evacuation Formal Training Unit (AE FTU) located at Pope Air Force Base, [...]