“My students had fun!” said Cynthia Dale, a teacher from New York. “The contest was great because it allowed us to combine research, writing, speaking, and technology all in a creative manner.”

Samsung, a leader in document camera technology, is continuing its fall SUPERHERO competition. Students can submit an entertaining video portraying their favorite hero in history – and the student who wins gets $500 and their class receives a SAMCAM 860 document camera. By getting into character they gain a better knowledge and understanding of who their chosen pioneer was and the impact they left on our country. Years from now when they think of Pocahontas or George Washington, they can remember how much fun they had participating in the competition. Take a look at the past winner’s videos and find out more information on how to post your entry in the current competition. http://samsungk-12.com

Fifty Sneakers is free to use with additional premium features available for a small monthly fee.
The website: http://www.fiftysneakers.com

Fifty Sneakers, now allows teachers to:
- Create, store, and print worksheets, studysheets, exams, and quizzes online, just as Quizinator did, but with a significantly improved interface and options.
- Build secured and safe online tests for their students, complete with images and video.
- Track student performance with automatic grading and analysis for online tests.
- As well as the ability to create, manage and join communities to exchange resources, ideas and discussions with other teachers. This makes it easy for teachers to have access to large amounts of contents that are not their own.
- Among many other features, such as: management of classes, students, notes, discussions and messaging between members.

It is really an extraordinary application, and it is fully translated into Spanish. Because, our members are from all around the world and from different cultures, we are moving towards globalization into other languages, as well.