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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 [...]



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 [...]



Nightly Business Report: Qwizdom at FETC

Jan 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, News, News Coverage, Video

One year ago, Qwizdom was featured on the Nightly Business Report as part of their coverage of the “Business of Education” in Orlando and Miami-Dade. With FETC just a week + away, we’re posting the video for reference.



CBS News Eye on Education: Qwizdom in New Orleans

Jan 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News, News Coverage, Video

WWL Ch. 4 News’ Rob Nelson visits Mary Bethune Elementary School in Jefferson Parish to see how technology is changing the face of education in throughout the region.
“Classrooms throughout the metro area are now officially in the Digital Age,” says Nelson. “Kids especially like Qwizdom…”



During FETC, Qwizdom to give and ‘tweet away’ over $30K in interactive classroom technology

Jan 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, Press Releases

Going to FETC? Click here to view our Media Focals.

Qwizdom will kick off the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) by giving and “tweeting away” over $30,000.00 in student response systems and software to educators attending FETC and across the nation. The company says it hopes to see the technology encourage teachers to ring in 2010 with interactive, [...]