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Qwizdom Announces Tweetaway Competition

Jun 8th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, Press Releases

Qwizdom to tweetaway over $2700 in education technology over the following 5 weeks
May 10, 2010 – (PUYALLUP, WA)– Beginning today, May 10, through June 11, Qwizdom will be giving away over $2700 in interactive learning systems, curriculum and software across the nation through a Twitter Promotion, or “Tweetaway.” The company says it hopes to see [...]



Meet Our Tweetaway Winners: Gordon and Kathleen

Jun 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: News Coverage, Uncategorized

So far educators in Washington, North Carolina, and Tennessee have taken home educational technology prizes as a part of our Q6 Tweetaway Contest.
Gordon Lampley is Qwizdom’s Week 2 Tweetaway winner.  However, he does not want to keep the prize,  a copy of Qwizdom’s Connect software and access to Premium Services.  Gordon retired from teaching last [...]



Orange County Register: School uses hand-held technology to improve test scores

May 28th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News, News Coverage

By JAIMEE LYNN FLETCHER
LOS ALAMITOS–Oak Middle School has seen a significant jump in its state test scores since the introduction of a new learning technology that forces students to participate in classroom lessons and helps teachers better tailor their lectures, officials said.
Social Studies teacher Todd Schmidt acted as the guinea pig for the Los Alamitos [...]



THE Journal: Qwizdom To Ship Large-Screen Classroom Clicker

Mar 29th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News

By David Nagel
3/26/2010
Ed tech developer Qwizdom will launch a new wireless student response system next month, one that offers a 2.3-inch (diagonal) LCD screen and cell phone-style keypad for student interaction and formative testing on the fly.
The system, the Q6, is the latest in Qwizdom’s line of student response technologies, which also includes the entry-level [...]



Bronx Times Reporter: Hand-held computers engage students at Archimedes

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By admin | Category: News

By Patrick Rocchio
Monday, March 22, 2010 9:09 PM EDT
New state-of-the-art technology makes learning easier and grading more reliable at Archimedes Academy for Math, Science, and Technology, its principal said.
The school is using new computerized technology that includes a hand-held device called “Quizdom” for the children in the charter middle and high school charter located at [...]



Meet Gil Garcia: Austin Teacher, Techie and TCEA Tweetaway Winner

Feb 16th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News

Austin High School teacher, Gil Garcia (@giltron on Twitter) won over $2,000 in education technology for his multimedia film-making classroom. Garcia and his 11th and 12th grade students were “in the field” at the Texas Computer Education Association Conference, shooting their own news segments, when he found out he had won. As the first educator to correctly answer a trivia question posted to Twitter, Garcia and his budding reporters headed back to school (just down the road) with a full suite of classroom technology.



NBC Pittsburgh visits New Brighton Middle School

Feb 9th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News Coverage

By: Jessica Fera, WPXI.com
[click here to watch the feature story at wpxi.com]
NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. – Technology is not only changing the way millions of Americans live, work and play, it’s changing the way students are learning in one Beaver County School District.
“Little New Brighton is on its way to being a premiere district in Beaver County. [...]



TCEA Launch Video Preview: Check out the Q6 by Qwizdom

Feb 9th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News

02.08.2010 – AUSTIN, Texas – Most American educators are familiar with Qwizdom’s interactive classroom technology, but only those attending the Texas Computer Education Association Conference this February will have the unique opportunity to squeeze in hands-on time with the company’s newest hardware release – the Q6 student response system.
Available for pre-order in late march of [...]



Qwizdom to go big in Texas, giving away over $30K in interactive classroom technology at TCEA

Feb 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Press Releases

February 2, 2010 — AUSTIN,Texas – Qwizdom is kicking off the Texas Computer Education Association Conference (TCEA) by giving and “tweeting away” over $30,000.00 in interactive learning systems, curriculum and software to educators at the conference and across the nation. The company says it hopes to see the technology encourage teachers/administrators to create engaging classroom [...]



Qwizdom teacher disrupts class at FETC

Jan 21st, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News

Carleton Lyon was sitting in a quiet FETC session on SMS in schools when he let out an unexpected yell. Turning to the Qwizdom representative in the room, he yelled again. “I won the tweetaway!”  As the first educator to correctly answer a trivia question posted to Twitter, Lyon had just learned he would be [...]