Microsoft offers many resources for education, including lesson plans, tutorials and in-depth product resources that can be used in the classroom. Microsoft Live@edu provides students, alumni, faculty and staff with mobile, desktop and web-based applications to help them collaborate in K-12 schools and on post-secondary campuses, as well as create an online community.

Visit Microsoft.com/edu to learn more. 

Pearson Canada Inc. is the Canadian market leader in education, education technology, and consumer publishing. Through their Higher Education, School K-12 and Penguin Group (Canada) divisions, their goal is to help customers to “live and learn” by enhancing their learning, reading and work-life experiences.

Pearson Canada’s investment in authors, innovative technologies, and a personalized approach to student learning and professional development for teachers has set new standards in the industry, signifying their commitment to produce high-quality content, products, solutions and services.

Visit PearsonCanada.ca to learn more.

Throughout its history, Apple has focused on the use of technology in education and has been committed to delivering tools to help educators teach and students learn. Apple believes effective integration of technology into classroom instruction can result in higher levels of student achievement, especially when used to support collaboration, information access and the expression and representation of student thoughts and ideas.

Apple has designed a range of products and services to address the needs of education customers including Macintosh computers, iPods, iTunes and Apple TV, in addition to various solutions for video creation and editing, wireless networking, professional development and one-to-one learning. 

Combining web content management (WCM), marketing optimization and social software, Ektron’s software and solutions improve efficiencies, drive revenue and build customer loyalty. Ektron empowers marketers to create, publish and optimize web content that engages, converts and retains customers. Developers benefit from Ektron’s extensibility and commitment to the Microsoft .NET framework. 

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The MindShare Learning Report mission is to transform education by sharing knowledge of 21st Century innovative best practices and success stories in the Canadian education market space and beyond. They harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies to feature engaging Vodcasts, podcasts, polling, Canadian educational technology news headlines & upcoming strategic industry events in the K-12, Higher Ed and corporate eLearning market segments. Other elements of the MSL Report eMagazine include: successful practices, ask an educator, ask a professor, research & tech tools, GreenIT and career listings, to support educators and educational technology providers in maintaining a pulse for emerging trends in Canada.

Mygazines empowers publishers, professionals and corporations with the tools to produce, distribute and track their content on any web enabled device. The Canadian-based company has been converting traditional print versions of textbooks, whitepapers, magazines, newspapers, marketing materials and corporate documents into digital editions since 2008. 

Our web based software as a service platform converts a PDF into an interactive reading experience where embedding links, integrating with social media and adding videos is just the beginning. 

Research in Motion, St. Joseph Content, RMS Media and Harris Publishing are some of Mygazines partners and customers.

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