MY Access!® News

• March 24, 2010 Waipahu Sees Rise In Writing Skills

  -Alana Folen, MidWeek Waipahu High School received $10,800 from Vantage Learning earlier this month to help its students improve their writing skills. The donation will allow 300 students to use MY Access!, an online instructional writing program that’s been shown to improve achievement across the curriculum. “With this program students are able to go online […]

• February 26, 2010 Government Grant Helps Stainislaus Union To Sustain 21st Learning Technology

  -Mini Swamy, TMCnet A government grant assigned for the purpose of Enhancing Education through Technology, commonly referred to as EETT, is to be implemented shortly into Stanislaus Union’s elementary schools, giving them the opportunity to learn from an online learning program. This is intended to benefit an entire school district. Initially, Stanislaus Union School District […]

• February 11, 2010 Online Writing Program Shows Results In Brooklyn Student Performance

  -Emily Groves, Norwich Bulletin Computer gives instant feedback Sixth-grade students have been using an online writing program that gives them immediate feedback on their compositions since November, and they and teachers have already seen results. “What it is, is artificial intelligence,” Brooklyn Middle School Principal Alan Yanku said. The automated essay program, My Access, is […]

• January 26, 2010 Fleming Writers Get Coaching Help From Computer

  -Patti Richter, Daily Courier School considers it a supplement to good teaching MERLIN — Chris Jelderks, an English teacher at Fleming Middle School, knows how frustrating it can be for his students — about 150 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders — to wait up to two weeks to get an essay back. The graded work includes […]

• December 14, 2009 Learning Technology Helps Students To Prepare For The GMAT

  -Jason Paneque, Hispanic Outlook Prepping students of all ages to do well on tests has been big business for years now, and more and more companies are emerging to provide components designed to improve student performance. Manhattan GMAT, for example, was created in response to increased competition among M.B.A. programs and the growing demand for […]

• November 27, 2009 My Access Helps Students Write

  -StandardNET OGDEN — Don’t look now, but students are actually starting to like writing assignments. For more than a year the Weber School District has been using a Web-based instructional writing program that helps students learn and apply the fundamentals of writing. The computer program “My Access” instantly scores students’ essays through advanced artificial intelligence […]

• November 27, 2009 Computer In The Sky

  -Matt Baldwin, Whitefish Pilot “Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?” While seventh-grade students may not know of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Whitefish Middle School has taken a page right out of the script. The school is utilizing “artificial intelligence” through a program called “My Access’ to help students […]

• November 27, 2009 Program Gives Instant Feedback To Writers

  -Kristi Albertson, Daily Inter Lake Fear not: Robots have not taken over Whitefish Middle School’s English classes. But for the first time this fall, teachers are using artificial intelligence to help convey crucial writing concepts. A Web-based program, My Access, helps students improve their writing skills by giving them instant feedback on everything from spelling […]

• November 24, 2009 Hanover County Schools Utilize Online Writing Program

  -examiner.com Ninth grade students at the New Hanover County high schools will soon be utilizing an online writing program called My Access! to advance their writing skills. This week, select English teachers from the area high schools attended training sessions to prepare to implement the program in their classrooms. My Access! is a program that […]

• November 4, 2009 Districts Expand Use of Online Writing Tutor

  -Scott Aronowitz, T.H.E. Journal Milwaukee Public Schools of Milwaukee, WI and Anchorage School District of Anchorage, AK have each announced a substantial increase the numbers of students in their respective districts now using Vantage Learning’s MY Access! online writing tutorial software. MPS previously used the program to help students in grades 4 through 8 improve […]