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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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Prior to this venture, Eynon-Lynch and two other co-founders developed an online gradebook that was acquired by Haiku Learning in 2013. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) Along with classroom experience, Pear Deck’s team can also boast about their entrepreneurial chops.

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5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices

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Office Mix for Powerpoint – Office Mix is a plugin that you add to PowerPoint 2013. I’m convinced any teacher can learn to make a quick video in minutes. (PC Haiku Learning was our highest-ranked LMS. Recently, PowerSchool purchased Haiku Learning and rebranded it PowerSchool Learning.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The company raised $3 million in 2013 and acquired three companies: Learning Earnings, Spiral Universe (an SIS provider) and Chalkable, which initially aimed to create an educational app store where teachers can purchase and deploy apps. Like PowerSchool today, Chalkable’s offerings have come through previous acquisitions.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Remember Richard McKenzie?