Elluminate Provides Synchronous eLearning to Pennsylvania Department of Education and Chester County Educational Agency; Enables Organizations to Increase Participation, Improve Interaction, Reduce Travel

Business Wire, June 27, 2005

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has implemented Elluminate Live! Academic Edition running on Apple's Xserve G5. Along with the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU), one of 29 regional educational agencies in Pennsylvania, the PDE is using the solution to add dynamic interaction to online meetings and distance learning activities, while reducing travel costs.

"Our goal was to share information and improve communication in everything we do," said L. Michael Golden, Director Deputy Secretary, Office of Information and Educational Technology for the PDE. "We are primarily a Mac-based organization with Xserve G5 hardware running Mac OS X Server," said Gail Kennedy, Supervisor of Education Technology at the CCIU. "We selected Elluminate Live! because we were particularly impressed with its functionality and full Mac integration."

"Elluminate is a longstanding developer of applications for the Mac," said Rajeev Arora, Elluminate's Vice President of Business Development. "We have a server component that runs extremely well on the Apple Xserve G5 and supports those customers running any combination of Mac, Windows, Solaris, and Linux clients."

"Tiger Server combines over 100 open source projects with Apple's legendary ease of use, stability and performance," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're excited to see Elluminate using Apple innovation to deliver powerful, reliable and affordable training and Web collaboration server software to the education market."

Elluminate Live! can now be purchased directly from Apple by calling 1-800-MY-APPLE. Elluminate Live! Academic Edition is preinstalled on Xserve G5 hardware to provide a complete, integrated solution for K-12 or higher education environments.

Elluminate will be exhibiting in booth #96 at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), held in Philadpelphia on June 27-30 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Also at the conference:

--L. Michael Golden will present the spotlight spotlight session, "What is the Role of Technology in Education Today... and Tomorrow?" held Tuesday, June 28, from 8:30 to 9:30 AM EDT. Joining Golden is Paul Vallas, CEO of the School District of Philadelphia, in an interactive discussion on the nature of technology in today's urban, suburban, and rural schools.

--Diane Thomson and Gail Kennedy will present the Birds-of-a-Feather session, "Synchronous Learning Using Elluminate Live!" on Wednesday, June 29, from 4:45 to 5:45 PM EDT.

--Diane Thomson and Gail Kennedy's will present a concurrent session on Wednesday, June 29 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM EDT, "Building Vibrant Online Communities of Learning. See how they have used Elluminate Web conferencing tools for professional development.

About Pennsylvania Department of Education

The mission of the Pennsylvania Department of Education is to assist the General Assembly, Governor, Secretary of Education and Pennsylvania educators in providing for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of education. The Department also cooperates with independent groups concerned with public education, including the State Tax Equalization Board, State Public School Building Authority, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement Board and the Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission.

About Chester County Intermediate Unit

The Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) is 1 of 29 regional educational agencies working between the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the local school districts. The CCIU's mission is to provide services that can be offered most economically at the regional level, including special education and compensatory education programs, mentor training and staff development, technology initiatives, consortia for school business operations and adult education programs. The CCIU operates classroom programs throughout the county as well as at 5 schools, serving 12 school districts and over 64,000 students and 6,000 educators.

About Elluminate, Inc.

Elluminate, Inc. provides proven solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration, regardless of platform or Internet connection speed. Delivering best-in-class performance, Elluminate features reliable cross-platform support, high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality for participants and moderators, and unique No User Left Behind technology. Elluminate delivers real results and exceptional value with lower Total Cost of Ownership and higher ROI. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Pompano Beach, Fla., Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent corporate and academic organizations, such as T-Mobile, Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University and many more. For more information, visit www.elluminate.com.