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- BlueSmart Premiere 3.50 (Windows)
- BlueSmart allows you to manage all types of schools and studios. The interface features different tools you can use to run your school efficiently. Major features: student records & attendance, scheduling, test/event organization, financial reports, form letters, inventory management, gradebook, custom data creation, tuition, and in-house EFTs.
- Tags: School, Financial, Microsoft Windows, BlueSparx, BlueSmart, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-10-25
- More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?
- I noticed an article this morning out of The Oregonion, not for any particular nostalgia for my days growing up in the Pacific Northwest, but because the headline in my RSS feed caught my eye: "Schools use Facebook, Twitter to get out their message." Well sure they...
- Tags: School, Twitter Inc., School District, Social Media, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What do Google and Microsoft gain from student cloud services?
- With Google providing Apps to schools for free, and Microsoft competing to provide Live@edu to schools equally for free, what's in it for the companies? Well, I found out. Article by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Google Inc., School, Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Not your father's tech school
- Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...
- Tags: School, Clinical Trial, Tech School, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- EPA to schools: Cut energy costs, have more budget for education
- Now that school is back in session across most of the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is challenging administrators to address energy efficiency as part of its Energy Star Challenge pledge. The agency estimates the annual cost of electricity for primary and secondary schools at $8 billion. Wouldn't...
- Tags: Education, School, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- TanzProfi 3.0.0 (Mac)
- TanzProfi is the brand new dance studio management software. Using TanzProfi you can record your customer data, manage your dance courses and events, choose rooms for your courses and set up the time table for your dance school automatically. TanzProfi has been developed for Mac OS X, uses the integrated...
- Tags: School, Apple Macintosh, Thomas Dingler, TanzProfi, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
- Edvision 5.1 (Windows)
- Welcome to Edvision, the Education Center Management System. Edvision is a software application designed to address all aspects of non-traditional and traditional education. Edvision is used by training center, tuition center, language center, institutes, colleges, associations, Montessori, private school, pre-school, martial arts school, dancing school, music school, acting school, art...
- Tags: School, Microsoft Windows, Infobina, Edvision 5.1, E-learning, Training And Certification, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-08-17
- Back-to-school tech for students
- A look over 10 bits of technology a back-to-school student will need to get them through their next academic year. These are well thought out and recommended by ZDNet's resident student. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Student, iGeneration, School, Technology, Vaio, Storage, Drobo, Skype, Zack Whittaker, iPhone
- Image galleries 2009-08-07
- Tech which back-to-school students should avoid
- These 10 bits of technology are for the back-to-school student to avoid at all cost. They're either pointless, economically unviable, or have a fatal flaw. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Student, Security, iGeneration, School, Technology, Kindle, Backup, Portable, Zack Whittaker, Pointless, Wireless
- Image galleries 2009-08-07
- Greek School Increases Student Engagement and Creates a Digital Community
- Administrators at the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation HAEF, including Athens College and Psychico College, wanted to expand the school's use of technology and link two campuses with an online resource that would extend learning opportunities beyond the classroom. They created a Learning Gateway on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition....
- Tags: School, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-23
- QuickMathFacts Math Facts Teacher 0626 1.0 (Windows)
- If you are a parent and like the opportunity QuickMathFacts presents to help all the children achieve success in math, please let your school know about the program and our licensing arrangement. If you prefer, you may also contact us with your school's name, address, and the name of a...
- Tags: School, Microsoft Windows, QuickReckoning, QuickMathFacts, Productivity, Internet, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-07-22
- Learn to Read 1.7 (Mobile)
- Learn to Read is a flash card deck of sight words, used in elementary schools across the United States to help children learn the building blocks of reading. Practice makes perfect, so help your child develop their reading skills and excel in school by using Learn to Read and keep...
- Tags: School, Mobile, NexStudios, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-07-20
- SharePoint-Based Learning Platform Delivers on Collaborative School Learning Vision
- John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School is an independent school that places a special emphasis on helping students develop relationships within the school and the wider community. The school wanted to extend its education and school management into the digital realm, delivering rich media resources, providing collaboration tools for project...
- Tags: School, Microsoft SharePoint, Vision, Microsoft Corp., John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Student Information System Helps Schools Streamline Day-to-Day Operations
- Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Los Mochis, Mexico, Éxito Software develops software solutions for school management and e-learning. ServoEscolar and SesWEB solutions from Éxito Software build on the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework to streamline schools' day-to-day operations. More than 900 educational institutions in Mexico and Central America have used...
- Tags: School, Information System, Streamline, Microsoft Corp., Mexico, E-learning, Operational Planning, Training And Certification, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Is 'Universal Cloud Computing' the answer to H1N1?
- My youngest son has been out of school for 5 days now with a weekend thrown in there for good measure. He's finally feeling better, but still needs Motrin to keep his fever down, Benadryl to fight the cough, and he has 5 more days to go on a course...
- Tags: School, Cloud Computing, H1N1 Flu, SIMtone Online, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Now this is stimulus
- As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps...
- Tags: School, Australia, 6MBps, E-learning, Training And Certification, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- The Bad HR software demo
- Am I too sensitive? The other day I took a demo from an HR vendor â€" and â€" one aspect of that demo really bothered me. When we got to this point in the demo where a user could craft the requirements for a new hire, I...
- Tags: Software, School, Firm, Software Executive, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Swine flu and beyond: keeping people informed
- Schools, particularly primary and secondary institutions, are seen as important community resources, sources of information, and have easy communication vehicles with many members of the community. While kids' backpacks are a fine way of getting information to a large subset of people in a town or city (and have...
- Tags: School, Flu, Channel Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Public Relations, Marketing, Human Resources, Internet, Corporate Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Will XP mode speed Windows 7 adoption in schools?
- Adoption of Windows Vista has been mixed in schools. Quite a few universities have made the move; we, like many K-12 groups have purchased new machines running Vista, while others have completed full-blown migrations. In academics, as in business, however, plenty of schools have simply stuck with XP,...
- Tags: School, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Special Needs School at the Forefront of Building Schools for the Future Initiative
- Charlton School in London needed to update its Information and Communications Technology ICT infrastructure to better serve its community of special needs students with moderate to severe learning difficulties. Working with Microsoft Premier Field Engineering, the school built an infrastructure using Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, part of the Microsoft...
- Tags: School, London, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Strategy, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
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