06/20/2008: "Uboost Joins SNS Project Inkwell"

Friday Harbor based Strategic News Service , a newsletter about the computing and communications industries, announced today that their not-for-profit Project Inkwell’s goal “to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technologies onto K-12 desktops worldwide”, received a boost this week when uBoost joined the project.

Inkwell was the first international industry group organized to design appropriate educational technology at the K-12 level, through cooperative planning with vendors, teachers, administrators, and students.

Today Inkwell is the global leader in the successful implementation of this revolutionary movement to one-to-one computing.

uBoost is a web-based rewards and recognition platform designed to inspire learning among K-12 students in the U.S. by providing rewards and recognizing their academic achievement through thousands of relevant online rewards, including college savings accounts and charitable giving.

“We are proud to have uBoost as a full Inkwell member,” said Inkwell CEO Mark Anderson. “We recognize the power of reward and parental engagement in learning, and how a one-to-one implementation can enhance these rewards and so improve outcomes.”

uBoost joins a group that includes IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, IDEO, Gateway, Clearwire, Promethean, QED, Steljes, Inspiration Software, and many other educational technology and content companies.

CEO of uBoost, John Bower, stated “We look forward to participating in a meaningful way. It is important to recognize the educators that are using the available technology in relevant ways and create incentives for students to utilize the technology as it becomes more broadly available in their schools. uBoost can play a role in providing systems of motivation to accelerate the use of technology within a school system as it is deployed.”.