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ARJAN KHALSA, INTELLITOOLS CEO, CO-FOUNDER,
ELECTED TO COSN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
For Immediate Release
Petaluma, California, March 22, 2005 - IntelliTools®,
Inc. (www.intellitools.com),
for 25 years the pioneer in learning solutions for preK-8 classrooms,
is pleased to announce that Arjan Khalsa, IntelliTools CEO and co-founder,
has been elected to the 2006 Board of Directors of the Consortium for
School Networking, for a one-year term as a corporate representative.
Founded in 1992, the Consortium for School Networking (www.cosn.org),
a national non-profit organization, is the premier voice in education
technology leadership. Its mission is to advance the K-12 education community’s
capacity to effectively use technology to improve learning through advocacy,
policy, and leadership development. CoSN members represent school districts,
state and local education agencies, nonprofits, companies, and individuals
who share this vision.
CoSN advances a number of leadership initiatives for the education community,
including Accessible Technologies for All Students (www.accessibletech4all.org),
for which IntelliTools is a founding sponsor.
About Arjan Khalsa
Arjan has been the CEO of IntelliTools since 1991. His passion
and broad vision have made him an active leader in the field of instructional
technology and assistive technology and a reliable voice for the field
through national trade associations and in legislative efforts. He began
his career as an elementary school teacher and later went on to train
other teachers at San Francisco State University to embrace technology
and computers in the classroom.
As CEO of IntelliTools, he was the lead inventor of IntelliKeys, the
most commonly used and highly awarded computer access device of its kind.
He has been Principle Investigator on federal curriculum grants through
the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
He has reviewed SBIR proposals for both departments and has been twice
given the Tibbetts Award for SBIR excellence. Arjan helped found the Alliance
for Technology Access (ATA) in the mid-1980s, and he is a co-founder and
past-president of the Assistive Technology Industry Assn. (ATIA) and serves
as an ex-officio board member.
About IntelliTools, Inc.
IntelliTools®, Inc., a pioneer in learning solutions for preK-8 classrooms,
has been producing software and adaptive hardware products for 25 years,
earning 14 Technology & Learning Awards of Excellence, the EdNet Hero
Award, and numerous other awards along the way. Its IntelliTools®
Classroom Suite is a network-based software toolset for K-8 curriculum
support, designed to help struggling students, reluctant writers, English
language learners, and students with special needs perform to standards.
IntelliTools® Reading: Balanced Literacy is a nine-unit supplementary
program providing a full year of literacy instruction at a first-grade
skill level. IntelliTools also produces additional activities-based reading,
writing, and math programs. All IntelliTools software products are fully
accessible for standard keyboard and mouse users as well as its IntelliKeys®
programmable alternative keyboard, the company’s flagship product,
and switch users.
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For more information contact:
Paula Irons, Director, Marketing
IntelliTools, Inc.
1720 Corporate Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954
(800) 899-6687; pirons@intellitools.com
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