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VSS 2008 Diamond Sponsor Exhibitors
eClassroom - Booth 38, 39, 40
eClassroom, the K-12 division of eCollege, a Pearson company, supports school districts and states in providing complete virtual schools. The eClassroom solution consists of the five key components to create and support virtual school success, including planning, course creation and delivery, teacher development, administrator support and student support. Visit www.eCollege.com.
Insight Schools - Booth 33
The mission of Insight Schools® online public high schools is to serve today’s teens who are seeking a different kind of high school experience. Insight students have access to more than 120 courses and choose their own time, pace and place for their high school education. With eleven schools in ten states and growing, Insight Schools, Inc. operates the nation’s largest national network of full-time, diploma-granting online public high schools. Our schools are authorized and governed by local districts, state governments or community organizations. Insight Schools is a subsidiary of Apollo Group, Inc., operator of University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private, accredited university and the nation’s leader in online learning.
OdysseyWare - Booth 37
OdysseyWare® delivers online curriculum for grades 3-12 for the four core subjects plus electives. OdysseyWare gives you the flexibility to individualize instruction and manage student data while delivering the content in an engaging, multimedia format. Its flexible content base can be used as a core curriculum, for credit recovery, remediation, enrichment, alternative education, virtual schools and special education. For more information please visit www.odysseyware.com or call 877-795-8904.
Pearson - Booth 38, 39, 40
Pearson’s digital curriculum provides standards-based digital curriculum solutions to help all students-from early learners through high school graduates-reach their greatest potential: Waterford Early Learning™, individually paced curriculum for Pre K-2; SuccessMaker®, adaptive instruction for Pre K-8; ELLis®, comprehensive multimedia solution for English language learners; and NovaNET®, online courseware for grades 6-12.
VSS 2008 Emerald Sponsor Exhibitors
Advanced Academics - Booth 19
Advanced Academics, a division of DeVry, Inc., helps districts extend their reach by serving students at lower costs, improving at-risk student performance, expanding curriculum offerings, and improving student retention. Many districts use our program to help students make up credits or to reduce scheduling conflicts. Advanced Academics has been particularly successful assisting districts with drop-out reduction and recovery efforts.
Aventa Learning - Booth 32
Aventa Learning is a leading provider of online curriculum and instruction for high schools and middle schools. We offer over 100 courses including core, elective, foreign language, AP®, and AP® Exam Review. Additionally, our credit recovery courses are diagnostically driven, testing students at the start of each unit to ensure repetition only of the material the student did not master the first time through the course. Visit our booth today to learn about our high-quality, interactive curriculum.
Blackboard, Inc. - Booth 26
Blackboard Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. K-12 schools nationwide use Blackboard® software as a central online hub for teaching, learning and community development to enhance academic performance. Millions of learners make new connections and evolve education with the support of Blackboard solutions. Highly scalable, easy-to-use, and focused on student engagement and achievement, Blackboard’s learning management platform is used by K-12 institutions to prepare students for the 21st Century. Founded in 1997, Blackboard celebrates a decade of enabling educational innovations everywhere by connecting people with each other and technology. www.blackboard.com/k12.
K12 - Booth 28, 29
K12’s mission is to provide any child access to exceptional curriculum and tools that enable him or her to maximize his or her success in life, regardless of geographic, financial, or demographic circumstance. We are the nation’s leader in providing individualized, online learning solutions to students from kindergarten through high school. Our products are rooted in decades of educational research and specifically focused on unlocking the innate and unique potential in each child through a combination of exceptional and engaging content that makes learning come alive.
VSS 2008 Topaz Sponsor Exhibitors
Connections Academy - Booth 20, 21
Connections Academy is a leading provider of public virtual school curriculum, technology, and school management services for K-12 full-time and supplemental online learning programs. Serving tens of thousands of students across the nation, Connections Academy is CITA-accredited, and its courses and teachers meet NACOL standards. It is no wonder Connections Academy-affiliated schools consistently make AYP and achieve user satisfaction ratings above 90%!
DriversEd.com - Booth 22
DriversEd.com is the online drivers ed solution for Virtual Schools. As the largest online drivers education provider in the nation and the exclusive provider for the Florida Virtual School and the Texas Virtual School, DriversEd.com offers Virtual Schools a turnkey drivers education solution all online. Founded by drivers education professionals, DriversEd.com was the first to put drivers ed online and has helped more than 1,000,000 students earn their licenses.
EdTech /Boise State - Booth 30
Boise State University, one of the nation’s premiere educators of online teachers, offers an online graduate certificate and two master’s degrees that specialize in Online Teaching. Students focus on 2D and 3D media in a socially networked, project-based learning environment. Our graduates are in demand in all areas of online education, including teaching, curriculum design, and leadership, which is why EdTech at Boise State is Opportunity Realized. The Department of Educational Technology (EdTech) at Boise State University is a proud sponsor of VSS.
Kryterion - Booth 35
KRYTERION, Inc. developed Webassessor, an Online Secured Testing Solution that allows a student to test wherever they live, learn or work. Webassessor is a mature test administration and delivery system that supports innovative Online Proctoring, authenticates the test taker via biometrics and utilizes Real-Time Data Forensics to deter and detect cheating and protects your tests.
Find out how you can create an online testing program that is secure, affordable and convenient. Contact Scott Christian at schristian@kryteriononline.com or 801.599.1588 or visit us online at www.kryteriononline.com.
Penn Foster - Booth 36
Penn Foster has given students the flexibility and tutorial support to complete their studies via distance education for 118 years. We currently have more than 200,000 active students. Penn Foster Virtual High School offers a fully accredited high school curriculum with an extensive selection of optional career training electives. Penn Foster can help to decrease dropout rates and increase student graduations by offering solutions for credit recovery, career courses, and diploma completion.
Web Lessons - Booth 18a
WebLessons is an easy-to-use system that transforms the chaos of the Internet into a safe, structured learning environment for you and your students. Instead of a normal browser Window, WebLessons gives students an organized, step-by-step learning path complete with instructions, study questions, vocabulary, quizzes, and inquiry-based projects. Students stay focused and on task with engaging sites and relevant subject information. They can even turn in their work within WebLessons. Each lesson includes a comprehensive Instructor's Guide with additional Web resources and ideas for extension activities and DBQs. Best of all, there's nothing to configure, nothing to install. All you need is a current Web browser and plenty of curious minds.
Other VSS 2008 Exhibitors
Adaptive Curriculum - Booth 50a
Adaptive Curriculum provides a rich library of Math and Science Activity Objects aligned to standards enabling students to participate in virtual experiments, engaging simulations, scientific inquiry and problem-based learning. This flexible online learning environment helps teachers incorporate interactive content into their lesson plans and curriculum.
Aeon Curriculum Services - Booth 52
Aeon Curriculum Services is an innovative curriculum development company that writes curriculum for a variety of infrastructures, dependent upon client needs. Content is aligned to state standards and curriculum maps and assessments are included with each course developed. With 15 years of experience, Aeon uses state-of-the-art technology, the most current methodology and pedagogy in all disciplines 6th-12th grades, including Advanced Placement and career/technology courses. Courses development costs range from $5000 to $15,000 dependent upon course content and style. http://www.aeoncurriculum.com/
Agilix - Booth 17
Raise student-to-teacher ratios, provide equitable access all students, improve student satisfaction, significantly decrease production time, and maximize the use of instructor time. Agilix listened to the needs of virtual school providers, instructors and administrators and announces the latest version of GoCourse – optimized for virtual school instruction.
ALEKS Corp. (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) - Booth 58
ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system that uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs students on topics they are most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS offers 24-hour online access at www.aleks.com.
American Education Corporation - Booth 46
The American Education Corporation offers three exceptional curriculum and assessment solutions for whole districts, individual schools, classrooms, labs, as well as remote or virtual students. The A+nyWhere Learning System®, A+® LearningLink™, and A+® Classroom Student Response System™ are effective for use in K–12 public, private, and charter schools as well as after-school learning centers, centers of adult literacy, military education programs, and juvenile correctional facilities.
ANGEL Learning - Booth 24
A recognized innovator in the eLearning industry, ANGEL Learning focuses on the educational experience. ANGEL LMS teaching and learning tools exploit technology to help students, faculty and administrators achieve their objectives. Learn more about the Simple. Powerful. Open. ANGEL Learning Management Suite at our booth or register for a free demonstration account online www.angellearning.com.
APEX Learning - Booth 12
Apex Learning is the leading publisher of digital curriculum for K-12 education. The company’s standards-based online instructional materials in Math, Science, English, Social Studies, World Languages and Advanced Placement are successfully used for Credit Recovery, Remediation, Alternative schools, Distance Learning and Test Preparation. Apex Learning has served more than one million student enrollments from over 4,000 school districts.
Bedford, Freeman, & Worth (BFW) - Booth 1
Bedford, Freeman, & Worth (BFW) builds new media around an innovative approach to learning, teaching and technology. Our eBook format allows students to bookmark and highlight frequently-used sections and reference what they need when they need it. Our online learning spaces combine all of our other innovative multimedia resources into one
easy-to use-virtual space. To find out why so many virtual learning and laptop schools are using BFW new media, please contact 866.843.3715 or highschool@bfwpub.com.
BocaVox - Booth 25
BocaVox: Maestro SIS is a customizable web-based student information system designed by BocaVox to streamline the administration of online schools. BocaVox’s team of experts delivers outstanding solutions and provides professional service that consistently exceeds their customers’ expectations. By helping schools lower costs, increase efficiency and reduce administrative overhead, Maestro makes a positive impact on online education, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and track student progress. Contact us at 954-389-7198 or email us at info@bocavox.com to learn more.
BYU Independent Study - Booth 12a
BYU Independent Study offers distance learning courses that are truly for anyone, anytime, anywhere. We offer over 100 high school courses that can help students make up credit, graduate on time, or enhance curriculum. Students can sign up at anytime and have one year to complete each course, allowing them to work at their own pace. All courses are accredited and are generally transferable to other educational institutions. BYU Independent Study is known as an organization with integrity, and our primary goal is to help students receive a high-quality, affordable education.
Capella University - Booth 57
Capella University is an accredited, fully online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, psychology, public health, and public safety, and bachelor's degree programs in business, information technology, and public safety. Within those areas, Capella currently offers 109 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 15 certificate programs.
Carone Fitness - Booth 42
Carone Fitness provides online Health and Physical Education curriculum for grades 6-12. Carone Fitness is dedicated to providing credible health and fitness information to students of all backgrounds and fitness levels, empowering them to be fit & healthy for life. The Personal Fitness Suite offered by Carone Fitness includes 8 Physical Education courses and Credit Recovery PE, as well as courses in Health & Personal Wellness, Life Skills, Exercise Science, and Nutrition. www.caronefitness.com
Class.com - Booth 43
Class.com creates robust, media-rich, research-based online courses suitable for secondary students in a variety of environments. With a standards-aligned curriculum appropriate for alternative education, credit recovery, and virtual schooling, Class.com courses are designed to help teachers differentiate instruction for at-risk students. For both you and your students, success matters; Class.com helps you succeed.
Core Learning - Booth 44
Core Learning is an innovative K-12 publisher of educational software and a recent provider of K-12 online learning solutions. Key subject areas include math and language arts with an emphasis on development of fundamental skills . Current online courses are supplemental and align with K-8 curriculum. Core Learning’s main web site is at www.core-learning.com and its online learning portal is at www.corelearning.com. Core Learning has education market distribution partnerships with Intel, Crayola, Cambridge University Press and SMART Technologies.
Desire2Learn - Booth 41
Through extensive research and development Desire2Learn delivers an outstanding suite of products, coupled with exceptional professional services and client support. Client success is our number one priority. Desire2Learn technology is scalable to meet the needs of any eLearning program or institution. Our products are robust and fully-featured, yet are designed to be flexible and easy-to-use.
Discovery Education - Booth 6
Discovery Communications revolutionized television with the Discovery Channel and is now transforming classrooms through Discovery Education. Powered by the #1 non-fiction media company in the world, Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a dynamic user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Already, more than half of all U.S. schools access Discovery Education digital services. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.
ED MAP - Booth 18
ED MAP provides tools, support and services for the selection, development and distribution of print, customized or digital textbooks. As a distributor, we ensure your students receive the correct materials. As a partner, we analyze your goals and present solutions – then do the heavy lifting to help you achieve them.
Education 2020™ Booth 4
Education 2020™ is a comprehensive provider for CORE and ELECTIVE curriculum for grades 6-12. Our 34 courses are delivered through the unique Education 2020™ Virtual Classroom. The Education 2020™ Virtual Classroom blends traditional teaching methods with 21st Century on-line technology. Education 2020’s approach to on-line instructions is designed around the goal of helping high school students meet graduation requirement through an individualized approach. For more information on Education 2020™, visit www.education2020.com or e-mail us at sales@education2020.com.
eDynamic Curriculum - Booth 34
eDynamic Curriculum publishes online courses that provide an exciting and academically meaningful online student learning experience. Our expert team of curriculum writers and instructional designers work with schools to provide a low cost curriculum solution. We can custom design courses for your school or help redesign your current courses to meet your school's curricular needs. Additionally, schools may choose to license one of our existing courses from our growing course catalog. All our courses include next generation instructional design, professional audio narrations and engaging interactive activities. Schools across the country have discovered the eDynamic Curriculum difference and how we can help meet the individual learning needs of today's online student.
eLearningToolBox.com - Booth 1a
eLearningToolBox.com is a collection of distance learning solutions. In the tool box you will find information about the following tools: FacultyFinder.com, READI – Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (readi.info), PostCourse.com, QualityCourseRecognition.com, TestProctors.com, AudioAssessment.com and others. It takes the right tools to build a solid distance learning program. eLearningToolBox.com is provided by DECADE Consulting, LLC.
Elluminate, Inc. - Booth 60
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration for academic and corporate markets. The company's award-winning collaboration products feature high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality, and unique No User Left Behind? technology that works every time, regardless of computer platform or Internet connection speed.
eScience Labs, Inc. - Booth 11
eScience Labs, Inc., is the pioneer of 21st Century Hands-On lab kits. With a unique blend of hands-on activities coupled with online content, our kits provide interactive, safe and complete experimentation tools for the modern student at the middle school, high school and introductory college level. Designed to complement any curriculum or teaching style, the kits serve as supplemental course content and provide teaching aids that make scientific exploration both engaging and fun for online, distance and homeschooled learners. To learn more about eScience Labs and our products, please visit http://www.eScienceLabs.com.
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers - Booth 36a
Since 1979, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers has provided teachers and educators with practical, creative, and engaging PreK-6+ educational materials to support and enrich the curriculum. We strive to produce educational materials that are aligned with current standards and best educational practices, but that are also aligned with student interests and motivations. We pride ourselves on our ability to create products that not only build and reinforce basic and complex skills, but that build and reinforce a curiosity about the subjects in which those skills are taught—about reading, writing, math, science, the arts, social studies, and geography—products that help children learn. And, just as important, products that help children love learning.
ExploreLearning - Booth 59
ExploreLearning delivers the largest online library of interactive math and science simulations, called Gizmos, for grades 3-12. Gizmos helps teachers bring research-proven instructional strategies to life through easy-to-use, fun, hands-on exploration. Our Gizmos are designed as supplemental curriculum materials that support state and national curriculum standards; in addition, Gizmos help teachers bring research-proven instructional strategies to their classrooms. www.ExploreLearning.com
Florida Virtual Global Services - Booth 9
Florida Virtual Global Services, a division of Florida Virtual School, delivers excellent middle and high school e-learning products and services. Harnessing the expertise of FLVS, Global Services provides content, consultation, instruction, and support to schools, districts, consortia, and state-run programs nationwide. To learn more, visit us at www.flvsgs.net
FYI Online - Booth 2
FYI Online is a curriculum publishing company dedicated to engaging today’s web-savvy millennial students through online courses that are exciting and relevant in ways that exceed any other present-day curriculum. Founded on a deep understanding of the online experience that today’s learners expect, FYI Online combines solid pedagogy and the latest Internet tools to deliver courses that are fully Web 2.0 – dynamic, current, collaborative, and interactive. FYI Online courses are designed to engage the individual learner and to insure success in a wide range of virtual educational settings.
Giant Campus - Booth 16
When it comes to providing elective courseware that today's teen really gets excited about, Giant Campus covers interesting topics that stimulate academic achievement using hands-on projects. Our approach makes learning memorable and fun. The Giant Campus Virtual School System (VSS) courses include assessments, project descriptions, and grading rubrics in the following subject areas: Computer Fundamentals, Multimedia, Programming, and Game Design.
Giunti Labs - Booth 49
Giunti Labs is Europe’s leading online and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS) provider. Giunti Labs’ learn eXact LCMS suite now also includes the Hive Digital Repository product line, recently acquired by Giunti Labs from the Australian Company, HarvestRoad. Giunti Labs with its headquarters in Italy and offices in the US, Australia, UK, Germany, Sweden and a network of over 15 certified international partners, provides a wide range of solutions, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need, covering content production, technological solutions for content, learning & knowledge management, delivery solutions for mobile learning, and consulting and professional services.
Global Student Network - Booth 23
Global Student Network is the value leader in virtual curriculum. Find out why 250+ districts and 25,000+ students have chosen Global Student Network as their virtual curriculum provider. Global Student Network can provide all the tools you need for your own Virtual Learning Academy – in days, not weeks: no server required, online courses for grades 2-12, 90+ online courses – deeply rooted in national standards, personalized staff training. Ideal for small, medium or large schools.
Hands-On Labs, Inc. - Booth 54
Hands-On Labs, Inc., is your trusted advisor in distance science education since 1994. Developed by practicing online science educators, HOL’s 70+ LabPaqs provide genuine hands-on laboratory experiences in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, A&P, and Microbiology for tens of thousands of distance students each year. Safe, insured, environmentally friendly, and academically aligned LabPaqs contain actual science equipment, chemicals, specimens, and supplies so students can perform campus labs at home. LabPaqs effectively accompany standard plus AP level curricula at both the high school and college levels.
Indiana University High School (IUHS) - Booth 45
Indiana University High School (IUHS) is a virtual high school affiliated with the Indiana University School of Continuing Studies. IUHS offers accredited distance education correspondence and interactive online high school, dual-credit, and advanced placement courses as well as a diploma and honors diploma program that can be earned entirely through virtual education. http://scs.indiana.edu.
Intelecom - Booth 55
Intelecom is a non-profit consortium of community colleges and a leading developer of video courses for distance learning and classroom instruction. Our catalog includes programming in core content areas including U.S. History, Government, Health, ESL, Physics, Earth Science, Oceanography, Environmental Studies, Psychology, Sociology and more. Purchase individual episodes on DVD-R or competitively-priced DVD box sets for classroom use. Additional license options include telecourse (for credit), broadcast and ITV, and digital delivery. Visit the Intelecom booth to learn more about the Intelecom Online Resources Network - a hosted video streaming and digital content repository for today’s fast-growing online programs. Free trial subscriptions are available at www.intelecomonline.net.
Kaplan - Booth 53
Kaplan Virtual Education’s programs are geared toward learners at various stages, including students looking for credit recovery, those wanting an expanded curriculum, and adult learners who need a high school diploma. Partnering with KVE allows you to offer educational programs that better meet educator, parent, and student needs, resulting in increased academic achievement and retention of students. KVE is accredited by The Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA).
The Learning Springs - Booth 10
The Learning Springs is a leading provider of online curriculum for grades 5-12. We offer over 100 online courses all delivered through our Aurora Learning LMS. Our Aurora system allows each school to run their own Virtual School for any number of students. A fantastic program for At-Risk, remedial, credit recovery, off site and many other student populations. A simple, easy to use system, with features like Gradebook, curriculum writing, assessments, evaluations and internal messaging, plus Aurora can be customized by each individual school.
Link-Systems International Booth 31
Link-Systems International is a 13+-year veteran of the Educational Technology marketplace, and has worked with many major educational publishing companies and educational institutions, providing a range of technology licensing, content development, and student retention solutions and services. We have a successful track record of engagements that include testbank-to-online homework content conversion, learning object creation, system integration, licensing of our WorldWideWhiteboard™ platform for online teaching/learning and licensing of our NetTutor® online tutoring service for Math, Statistics, Accounting, English Composition, and more.
Madcap Logic, LLC - Booth 14
Creativity Express is an online interactive art and visual literacy program for grade levels 2-8. The sixteen lessons in this curriculum are a blend of animated movies, activities and projects that teach the principles and history of art, and provide the tools for creative self expression. A comprehensive teacher account center with student tracking, allows remote access to student progress, art portfolios and integrated lesson plans. Creativity Express meets the National Standards for the Visual Arts.
MBS - Booth 15
MBS provides an accurate and easy-to-use course materials fulfillment program that manages inventory, order processing, prompt home or classroom delivery, buyback, and excellent customer service. Place school focus on education, not on course materials distribution.
NACOL - Booth 27
The North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is the host of the Virtual School Symposium. NACOL, an international K-12 non-profit association advocating online learning to increase access to high-quality education, represents the interests of educational stakeholders, providers and students worldwide (www.inacol.org). NACOL’s mission is to ensure all students have access to a world-class education and quality online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime of success.
Nasco - Booth 44a
Nasco offers over 80,000 affordable education resources for all ages. To see our full line of products or to receive a free catalog, please visit www.eNasco.com or call 1-800-558-9595.
NROC - National Repository of Online Courses - Booth 7
The non-profit National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) offers high-quality, flexible, curricular content to support high school and college level studies in a broad array of subject areas at HippoCampus.org. NROC is sustained by institutional members of the NROC Network.
Odyssey Software Solutions, Inc. - Booth 51
Odyssey Software Solutions Inc. provides outstanding software development solutions for virtual school, payroll, and custom development applications. Our virtual school programs are unique. We combine a Web based front end for parent and teacher global interaction, with an extremely powerful Windows based administration system. There is no need to buy multiple systems. www.odysseysoftwaresolutions.com
Primavera Learning - Booth 47
Having developed a premier online curriculum for Arizona's largest virtual high school, Primavera Learning recently made its courses available worldwide. Primavera Learning developed state-of-the-art student management software, a parent-student portal, and a gradable discussion board to enhance and implement its courses for easy administration. Primavera Learning is seeking partnerships with organizations that can quickly put its curriculum into place in order to upgrade educational opportunities for all students.
Provost Systems - Booth 5
Provost Systems offers integrated suite software designed specifically for virtual schools. Working with some of the leading schools in the country, Provost Systems developed a comprehensive, user-friendly solution to manage day-to-day administrative and academic operations. With a commitment to enhancing online education for educators, administrators and, most importantly, students, Provost Systems' web-based platform creates a seamless experience. With the combination of Provost System's on-demand software suite and proprietary online curriculum, Provost Academy is a turn-key solution to establish a virtual school in 30 days. For more information, visit www.provostsystems.com.
Quality Science Labs, LLC - Booth 3
Since 2001, Quality Science Labs, LLC has been the hands-on science lab kit leader for independent study and homeschool students. Also used by public and private schools, our kits guide students through real science experiments to fulfill requirements and better understand science topics. Current available kits include Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Physical Science, Earth Science, and custom kits; all coordinated with popular curriculum. Contact us at 866-700-1884 or www.qualitysciencelabs.com.
Rosetta Stone - Booth 8
Rosetta Stone produces the world’s leading language-learning software. Rosetta Stone® Classroom Version 3 combines management tools with powerful learning software that gets students speaking faster! Become one of the tens of thousands of schools that have harnessed the power of Rosetta Stone to deliver language-learning success to so many students.
Saywire - Booth 13
Saywire powers safe social networking for schools and for the purpose of learning through permissions-based controls. The public cannot get in. Schools decide who among their students and faculty participates. Saywire is customized for the needs of each school and each learner. Getting homework help from peers and teachers is easy. Critical thinking skills are honed when writing blogs, wikis, and creating profiles and pages for projects and interests. Sign up for a free 90-day trial.
SoftChalk - Booth 56
SoftChalk creates software for educators. If you want to make your online content engaging, interactive and professional looking then come see how SoftChalk LessonBuilder creates content that integrates with all the major Learning Management Systems (e.g., Angel, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, eCollege, Moodle, WebCT); can be placed on a CD or any web/file server. See how student learning is re-enforced using LessonBuilder activities and
tools. These activities include the easy creation of flash content such as crossword puzzles, image mapping, slide shows, and sorting exercises. As well as interactive comprehension questions such as true/false, multiple answer, multiple choice, and short answer. And all of these graded activities can automatically be entered into the gradebook of the major
Learning Management Systems. But most of all, see how easy lesson content is to create. For more information and to get a free 30 day trial at our website: http://www.softchalk.com.
The University of Missouri - Columbia - Booth 50
The Center of Distance and Independent Study (CDIS) at The University of Missouri - Columbia (Mizzou) offers flexible learning options at a distance to meet your goals and needs. You can enroll in our courses, anytime, anywhere, and work at your own pace—in most cases without attending class. We specialize in serving students, including adult learners and working professionals, through courses at the university, high school, and noncredit levels.
XLPrep.com - Booth 48
XLPrep.com provides web-based learning tools that are interactive, adaptive, and self-paced. Their intelligent software presents material to students based on their demonstrated abilities and guides each student differently through the online content. XLPrep.com's products include CAHSEE and SAT prep and a standards-based math program. Their products are accessible at any time on any web-enabled computer and allow teachers to monitor the progress of individual students and entire classes.
Exhibitors
Exhibiting at the Virtual School Symposium may turn out to be one of the most cost-effective investments your company can make. VSS is targeted to a select group of leaders and decision makers for virtual learning across the nation. We encourage you to register for this conference and take the opportunity to engage and interact in conversations with an expected attendance of 1,200 participants to hear what those on the front lines of this field are thinking.
VSS offers opportunities in professional development, think-tank sessions, and discussion groups. The conference will see top governmental speakers and national leaders in educational policy and practice. VSS packs quite a punch for its size, making it a supreme value for your company.
The VSS 2008 Exhibits Program is sold out. For information on exhibiting at VSS 2009 in Austin, TX, please contact Tracy Breithaupt with Executive Events at 303-530-3512 or send a message to Tracy.
Other Benefits
Great Exposure! Your company will be listed:
Exhibitor Booth Fees
Exhibit Space |
Early Bird Discount Rates |
Regular Rates |
|---|---|---|
Non-Member* |
$1,350.00 |
$1,600.00 |
NACOL Member |
$1,050.00 |
$1,300.00 |
* Not a NACOL member? Become a NACOL member and save on exhibitor booth fees.
Register to Exhibit
| Exhibitor Registration |
Note: Booth fees do not include sessions
Exhibitors receive 1 free pass with each booth purchase. Two additional passes may be purchased for $75.00 each. Passes include entrance to the hall and meals.
Sponsors receive 2 free passes with each booth. One additional pass may be purchased for $75.00. Passes include entrance to the hall and meals.
Exhibitor Rules and Regulations/Floor Plan
Remember, the Virtual School Symposium is a gathering of virtual leaders who serve tens of thousands of students in schools, consortia, districts, and states across North America.
Please note: Exhibit space is assigned based on registration date and time. Once exhibit space is sold out we will begin a wait list and contact you should space open up on the show floor.
Exhibitor Schedule
Installation
Sunday, October 26- 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Hours
Monday, October 27 – 10:15 AM to 6:15 PM*
Tuesday, October 28 – 8:45 AM to 1:30 PM*
*A breakfast buffet is served on the show floor from 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. on both Monday and Tuesday mornings. It is recommended that exhibits be open during this time.
Dismantling
Tuesday, October 26, 1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
For More Information
To learn more about exhibitor opportunities please contact Tracy Breithaupt at 303-530-3512 or send a message to Tracy
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