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Interactive Whiteboards Enter the Web Conferencing Generation
Promethean and Elluminate announce strategic partnership to bring “Connected” learning to classrooms
Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (June 25, 2007) — Promethean, a global leader in interactive learning technology and Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and web collaboration solutions announced a strategic partnership today. Classrooms equipped with Promethean's Activclassroom technology will now be able to use Elluminate's web collaboration technology to build learning communities, share lessons across multiple Activboards at one time, invite guest speakers into the classroom and extend learning beyond the physical classroom.

Promethean customers can now sign up for a free version of Elluminate's web collaboration technology at
http://www.elluminate.com/promethean. This exciting partnership will enable co-development of solutions in the future.

Forsyth County School District in suburban Atlanta has been a long time customer of Promethean and Elluminate. Bailey Mitchell, Forsyth's chief technology and information officer said, "Educators in Forsyth have expanded opportunities to break down the walls of the classroom and engage students using the Promethean Activboard and Elluminate's virtual classroom environment to ask questions and choose tools to solve real world problems."

Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California is another fan of both companies. "Elluminate has greatly enhanced our ability to deliver professional development to teachers throughout our district, as well as deliver high quality learning to virtual school students. We wholeheartedly endorse their partnership with Promethean given we have standardized on the Activboard in our classrooms," said David Haglund, specialist for instructional technology, Riverside Unified School District. "Going forward we will be looking at using these two solutions to create room-to-room and school-to-home learning communities, bring in virtual guest speakers, support homebound students and capture classroom activity for later use."

"Elluminate allows us to expand the boundaries of classrooms beyond the four walls," said Mark Elliott, president of Promethean USA. "Teachers and students of today want to experience a globally connected learning community and the partnership between our companies is a giant step towards that direction." "At Elluminate, we have always thought that whole-class learning can be significantly enhanced using Elluminate's collaboration technologies," said Maurice Heiblum, president of Elluminate USA, Inc. "We are happy to work with Promethean to deliver that to schools today."

Availability
The Elluminate Live! functionality is available to Promethean Activboard users by signing up at http://www.elluminate.com/promethean.

About Promethean
Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning technology helping to empower teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate students. Developed by and for educators, Promethean's curriculum delivery and assessment technologies enable teachers to create, customize and integrate texts, Web, video and audio content to interactively capture students' attention and accommodate their different learning styles. By closely collaborating with educators worldwide in the development of new pedagogy-based technologies, Promethean supports local curriculum standards while providing tools to formatively assess student performance instantly and ensure their success.

Promethean Activclassroom solutions are helping educators teach and students learn worldwide. Beyond the classroom, Promethean offers comprehensive training and support services to ensure maximum results and realization on investment. For more information, please visit www.prometheanworld.com/us.

The group is headquartered in Blackburn, UK, and has overseas offices in the USA (Atlanta, Ga.), France, Germany and China.

About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration. The company delivers exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, lower Total Cost of Ownership, and higher ROI. Elluminate Live! features high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality for participants and moderators and unique No User Left Behind™ technology, regardless of platform or Internet connection speed. Elluminate's vRoom, a free, three-seat virtual room, enables users to integrate real-time interaction into daily activities, including small group meeting and training, one-on-one tutoring, interviewing and virtual office hours.

Elluminate is one of Deloitte's 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, the winner of several prestigious industry awards including a Top Training Product award from Human Resource Executive magazine and Network Computing magazine's Editor's Choice Award for web conferencing software. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations, such as ADP, DeVry University, Duke University, Georgia State University, Johns Hopkins University, Novell, PA Department of Education, Queen's University, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and many more.
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