eSchool Media honors 2013-14 Readers’ Choice Award winners

BETHESDA, Md. - Aug. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- Aug. 1, 2013—eSchool Media, a publisher of three leading educational technology news networks – eSchool News (K-20), eCampus News (higher education), and eClassroom News (teachers) – has announced the winners of its 2013-14 Readers’ Choice Awards, honoring the best products and services in educational technology as chosen by readers.

Educators and administrators from K-12 schools, colleges, and universities across North America nominated their favorite ed-tech product or service from February through April 2013; to maintain the integrity of the program, nominations from vendors were not accepted. When submitting nominations, educators were asked to describe how they were using each product to improve teaching, learning, or school administration—and to what effect.

The result “is a list of ed-tech products and services that have proven to be effective,” said Editor in Chief Dennis Pierce. “We hope readers will find this information valuable as they consider what technologies they should use in their own schools.”
Nearly 700 nominations were received, and from these, eSchool Media editors chose 40 winning products and 60 honorable mentions, based on the quality of the nomination.

Here are the 40 winners:
Alert Solutions
BiteSlide
Camtasia Studio (TechSmith)
Canvas (Instructure)
Centricity (Schoolwires)
Collaborate (Blackboard)
CrashPlan PROe (Code 42 Software)
Digital Passport (Common Sense Media)
Discovery Education Techbook™ (Discovery Education)
Enterasys Network Access Control (Enterasys)
eTrition (Harris School Solutions)
Futaba (INKids)
Gizmos (ExploreLearning)
GoClaim (Go Solutions Group)
Google Chromebooks (Google and other vendors)
Google Hangouts
Hobsons Retain
In2Books (ePals)
Infuse Learning
Insight 360 (eInstruction)
Interactive Campus Map (NuCloud)
Lexia Reading (Lexia Learning)
Luna Interactive Projection Camera (Learning Resources)
My Big Campus (Lightspeed Systems)
MyLearningPlan Professional Development Management System
Observe4Success
Office 365 for Education (Microsoft)
ParentSquare
Remote Proctor (Software Secure)
SAFARI Montage
SAM Animation (iCreate to Educate)
SCORE 21 Assessments (TE21)
SNAP Health Center (ProMed Software)
Student Lingo (Innovative Educators)
SymbalooEDU
TalentEd (Netchemia)
Tales2Go
TreeRing Yearbooks
WalkKits (The Walking Classroom)
Zinch (Chegg)

The winners and honorable mentions are recognized in a special feature published in the July/August 2013 edition of eSchool News and eCampus News, as well as on eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com.
This special feature highlights the winning products and services and includes comments from readers about why each entry deserves the award. To read about this year’s award winners, go to http://www.eschoolnews.com/rca.

About eSchool Media

eSchool Media Inc. is a news and information organization delivering print, web, email, and video communications to nearly one million K-20 decision makers and influencers throughout North America and around the world. Its information networks provide educational technology content and services for leaders in schools and colleges and help educators successfully use technology to transform education and achieve their goals. eSchool News is the flagship publication of eSchool Media Inc., which also includes eCampus News, serving higher education exclusively, and eClassroom News, an electronic publication network for teachers and other classroom practitioners.

With more than 290,000 registered members and more than 500,000 page views a month, eSchoolNews.com is the No. 1 website for daily ed-tech news and information for K-20 decision makers.