ECTACO Info: ECTACO Honored with the Prestigious CES Innovation Award for the jetBook Color Educational eBook System
Nov 8, 2011
The 9.7'' screen jetBook Color is the world's first to utilize eye-friendly
Triton E Ink technology in an eBook Reader oriented solely towards education.
Every unit has an individual connection to a Teacher’s Console where teachers
can restrict the download of any programs or content that is not related to the
class, send students grades, exams, homework, and messages with the students
being able to submit all those options as well. The main screen serves as an ID
card for the student displaying a schedule of classes (updated daily via Wi-Fi
or 3G), list of student’s and teacher’s notes, homework and classwork, and a
designated channel for instant communication with any teacher. Along with the
most sophisticated and functional eBook Reader software, the jetBook Color
features the content of a 50-state reading list, teacher and school
administrator resources, and a fully interactive SAT course that will train,
test, and raise students’ SAT scores. A Speed Reading course that will teach
students to read and comprehend text faster, Talking Oxford Dictionaries
narrated by professional linguists, course of English and foreign language
grammar, speech recognition and speech analysis Language Teacher and U-Learn
courses that teach any of the 52 available languages and provide great support
to ESL students. Pictured dictionaries for 36 languages, cross translator for
180 languages, Vocabulary Builder, Linguistic Crosswords, reference materials in
Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and Earth Science, Interactive
Periodic Table of Elements, graphing and scientific calculators and more.
ECTACO Info
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Ectaco, Inc., the world leader in portable language learning and translation
technology have been decorated with the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
Innovation Award for their jetBook Color Educational eBook System. This is the
3rd CES Award received by the company, but by far the most
exciting.
The 9.7'' screen jetBook Color is the world's first to utilize eye-friendly
Triton E Ink technology in an eBook Reader oriented solely towards education.
Every unit has an individual connection to a Teacher’s Console where teachers
can restrict the download of any programs or content that is not related to the
class, send students grades, exams, homework, and messages with the students
being able to submit all those options as well. The main screen serves as an ID
card for the student displaying a schedule of classes (updated daily via Wi-Fi
or 3G), list of student’s and teacher’s notes, homework and classwork, and a
designated channel for instant communication with any teacher. Along with the
most sophisticated and functional eBook Reader software, the jetBook Color
features the content of a 50-state reading list, teacher and school
administrator resources, and a fully interactive SAT course that will train,
test, and raise students’ SAT scores. A Speed Reading course that will teach
students to read and comprehend text faster, Talking Oxford Dictionaries
narrated by professional linguists, course of English and foreign language
grammar, speech recognition and speech analysis Language Teacher and U-Learn
courses that teach any of the 52 available languages and provide great support
to ESL students. Pictured dictionaries for 36 languages, cross translator for
180 languages, Vocabulary Builder, Linguistic Crosswords, reference materials in
Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and Earth Science, Interactive
Periodic Table of Elements, graphing and scientific calculators and more.
"This is the most advanced and user friendly device we've ever created for
educational institutions" asserts David Lubinitsky, CEO of Ectaco Inc., "Our
direct experience with so many schools gave us the edge to interact on a
personal basis with teachers to discuss what they want to see in a device like
this for the classroom. That was the birth of the jetBook Color."
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