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A Successful Webinar on Creating Interactive Online Courses using Raptivity

On January 24, 2013, Raptivity® had organized a webinar with Dr. Ann Jackson, an Education Consultant. The session revolved around how Ann made use of Raptivity, to make online course content interesting and interactive. She also shared a couple of sample interactivities developed by her for various eLearning courses. The audience enjoyed the session and actively participated in the question & answer round, to know more about Ann’s experience with Raptivity.

The key speaker of the session Dr. Ann Jackson is a highly regarded name in the education consulting domain. She has a vast knowledge base of technology. Ann has also developed and implemented trainings for teachers and administrators on a wide variety of educational topics. Ann shared with the attendees a few tips on creating engaging content by adding creative interactivities, while elaborating on the use and importance of interactive in eLearning course content.

Vikash Mangal, Senior Business Development Manager, Raptivity®, showcased some state-of-the-art interactions that can be effectively used by educators to add the much needed element of interactivity to their eLearning courses. He also shared his insights about ‘Raptivity Evolve’ a new initiative for Raptivity premium customers, aimed at empowering the users with new and powerful interactions, for developing innovative eLearning courses.

Vikash says, “It was a highly insightful experience for us, as well as the enthusiastic audience. It was great to see the audience enthralled by the scope of Raptivity, while understanding the importance of interactivity in eLearning course creation. The humbling response from the audience motivates us to plan many more such webinars in future.”

The webinar concluded with one of the attendees commenting that it was a highly informative session and how amazed he was to experience the power of Raptivity, through various samples that Ann showcased during the session.

To view the webinar recording, please click here. You can also download a whitepaper recently released by Raptivity® on, ‘5 Creative Ideas of using Raptivity in Online Training’.

For more information write to Raptivity® at info@raptivity.com.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.
Raptivity® is a much awarded product and has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the ‘the “Best Rapid eLearning Tool” award at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012. It has won LearnX Learning and Technology Impact Awards for Games and Simulations Category. Raptivity has also bagged the 2012 reader’s Choice Award by eSchool Media. Along with this, the product was also honored with 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE). For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425 861 8400.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Michaels Associates LLC unveils their new web site at teacher-books.net

CEO Greg Michaels of Michaels Associates LLC announced today that the company will soon unveil a new website www.teacher-books.net. The new site represents a complete re-design of www.michaelsassociates.com. Visitors to the old site will be automatically redirected to the updated site.

The company, founded in 1986, had its first website in 1995 and specializes in professional resources for K-12 educators and administrators. Michaels Associates LLC has been named “distributor of the year” three times by the International Reading Association. They are also one of the nation’s leading distributors for resources from Scholastic, Pearson, Maupin House, Sage, Shell Education, Guilford, NCTE, ASCD, and many others. Also sold on the site will be leveled books for guided reading and reading recovery as well as school supply items.

The new website will feature new, best-selling, and classic professional titles from over 30 publishers – at a discount. There will also be a button on the homepage that will take administrators and librarians to a page that offers deep discounts on topic-based professional libraries and multiple copies of the same title.

The site is expected to operational by mid-February 2011. Contact CEO Greg Michaels at 1-800-869-1467 or gmichaels@michaelsassociates.com

Contact Details: Michaels Associates LLC
409 Beatty Road
Suite 100
Monroeville, PA 15146