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The substantial part of any business website is the content. Good content is the top reason for search engine ranking success. It is the one and only means, which would bring customers to your website and gives them a reason to come back. No place of compromise when it comes to content of your website. But without content however, it doesn’t stand a chance.
Today,JourneyEd, a division ofJourney Education Marketing, Inc., announced a major collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. As the leading online marketer of software to K-12 and college education, JourneyEd will market and sell RenderMan®, Pixar’s professional rendering software, through its website, to high school and college students, educators, schools, and higher education institutions at attractive academic prices.
Challenge 20/20 is an internet-based program that pairs K-12 classes from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries. Together the teams of two or three schools tackle real global problems to find solutions that can be implemented at the local level and in their own communities.
From August 31 through October 1, customers who purchase a small-l through Route 44-sized fountain or frozen drink at SONIC, they can go online and vote for their favorite teacher’s classroom project. Each drink will have a unique code used to place one vote for projects registered. SONIC will fund up to $100,000 of projects with the most votes each Friday for five weeks during the campaign. Though the voting campaign doesn’t begin until late August, teachers are encouraged to visit www.LimeadesForLearning.com by August 15 to register their project.
InfoComm International’s foundation, the International Communications Industries Foundation (ICIF), created the Michael Verguwen Education Fund to recognize the career achievements of AV industry leader, Michael Vergauwen. Vergauwen, the COO of AVI Systems and officer of InfoComm International, died in an accident on June 28.
The Michael Vergauwen Education Fund will foster educational opportunities, enhancing the audiovisual industry’s service to the public through scholarships, curriculum development, community engagement and the promotion of careers in the AV field. Proceeds from investing the fund will be used on an annual basis to create these new educational opportunities, while the balance will be maintained to continue to make investments in the industry on an ongoing basis.
The fund has set an initial target of $100,000 to begin the activities of the fund. Companies and individuals wishing to contribute to this fund should send donations to: Michael Vergauwen Education Fund, ICIF, 11242 Waples Mill Road, Suite 200, Fairfax, VA 22030. Checks should be made payable to the International Communications Industries Foundation. Donations will be tax deductible.
Pearson announced the company has been awarded a contract from the state of Iowa for the Iowa Student Record and Transcript Exchange System project.
This release showcases two customers of Optical Image Technology that are leading the company’s customer- and partner-led Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) from July 2009 – June 2011.
Winning students in the Geospatial Technology competition, part of the National SkillsUSA Championships recently held in Kansas City, Missouri, were awarded prize packages that included ESRI’s ArcGIS software.
A Michigan high school senior has sued Amazon.com Inc. over its deletion of copies of George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 from the Kindle eBook reader, claiming the deletion has affected his studies, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Two security experts have found a vulnerability in Apple’s iPhone that allows a hacker to take control of the phone through a text-message attack, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
