Helping Schools Reopen Safely
The spread of the COVID-19 virus throughout the United States has created numerous challenges for educators and new fears for students. The crisis also presents the opportunity to help students learn, cultivate compassion and increase resilience while building a safer and more caring community.
Advanced Classroom Technologies has partnered with several ed-tech innovators to curate a suite of products and resources specifically designed to help keep kids safe and learning effectively as they return to the classroom. For more information about any particular product or service related to the COVID-19 response, you can schedule a consultation with one of our local education consultants or schedule a live demonstration.
Back to School and Back to the panel
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be a key turning point for the role technology plays in K-12 education in the United States. The need for remote learning options and widespread access to at-home technology has never been more apparent as students and educators alike navigate digital instruction. As the road ahead remains largely uncertain, schools will need to prioritize their investments in technology to bring the classroom anywhere.
Fortunately, through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding, school leaders have the opportunity to invest in educational technology and professional development services to help stabilize the current decrease in student engagement and support a mix of in-person and remote learning. Funds to local districts can be used for coronavirus-response activities, such as purchasing educational technology to support online learning for all students, and additional activities authorized by federal elementary and secondary education laws.
Empowering Educators to Teach Remotely
Promethean has long supported mobile and distance learning, and today they are providing additional tools to help teachers teach and students learn from anywhere, at any time. See the video below to learn more about their efforts.
Schedule a consultation to learn how Advanced Classroom Technologies and Promethean are working together to support educators as they navigate the complexities of distance learning.
Mobile & distance learning has been an important part of everyday learning, and it builds important life skills, including responsibility, time management, problem-solving, and critical/creative thinking. With mobile, virtual, or distance learning, teachers can utilize Promethean’s lesson delivery software to prepare lessons for their students and place them in a virtual location where students can easily access them from home.
Promethean’s award-winning suite of lesson delivery software drives student engagement and brings lessons to life in both classroom and mobile environments. They have created a course to provide you tool tips and best practices to help you connect and engage with your students through a mobile learning environment.
ActivInspire
Known and loved by educators around the world, ActivInspire provides a vast suite of tools to create and deliver dynamic lessons. Teachers can use ActivInspire’s screen recorder tool to record lessons they’ve created and students can access these recordings via any cloud environment.
Classflow
Promethean’s cloud-based lesson planning and delivery software, ClassFlow, is free to any teacher and an ideal platform for mobile & distance learning. Because everything is stored in the cloud, teachers and students can use any device to access their lessons and assignments in ClassFlow.
Promethean Academy
The Promethean Academy offers a wide range of free online training courses with interactive content. Teachers can advance their product understanding and continue their professional development journey by becoming a Promethean Certified Teacher.
To learn more about Promethean’s Award Wining Display’s & Lesson Delivery Software for Education click here or visit www.prometheanworld.com
Mimio Connect, a Blended Learning Platform
MimioConnect® combines innovative lesson building and instructional tools to create an active learning environment. Teachers and students can connect from anywhere making this a perfect solution for distance, flipped or blended learning environments. Lessons can be presented to a group of students or assigned for individual, self-paced learning. Our goal is to help you maintain continuity throughout all learning environments. Let’s work together to create pathways to keep the routes to learning open and consistent without disruption.
Present lessons as students follow along on their own devices either from home or in the classroom. Create a connected and collaborative experience by allowing students to share their work with the class. Use instant polling to quickly assess student understanding and adjust instruction as needed. Make materials available before and after class, so students show up ready to learn. Deliver self-paced assignments to reinforce skills and concepts, directly following group instruction.
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Engage students, enrich lessons, and enhance the learning process, both in and outside of the classroom. Our solution augments instruction, making it easier for teachers to teach, and students to learn.
Clearly illustrate concepts and draw attention to the important details with whiteboarding tools.
Improve two-way communication at a distance with video conferencing. Teachers can instantly gauge students’ level of participation and demonstrate concepts.
Create an active learning environment with your favorite lessons created in PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook, ActivInspire and MimioStudioTM. Add polling and interactive questions like labeling and sorting that allow students to demonstrate understanding.
Supplement current instruction with lessons developed with critical learning objectives as a foundation.
Collaborate with students using your existing technology including iPads, Chromebooks, Interactive Projectors and Touch Panels.
View Path System by Audio Enhancement
Audio Enhancement brings you a complete solution for the challenges blending learning is bringing to classrooms across America. With VIEWpath® (Video Interactive Education Window) it’s simpler than ever to record, reflect, collaborate, and deliver your lessons to students. With VIEWpath Live, you can bring homebound students into the classroom discussion.
Remote and Blended Learning
Compatible With
Recording lessons with VIEWpath is simple thanks to an intuitive user interface. You can easily record lessons from your installed classroom camera, mobile app, portable system, and your own webcam.
With regular practice in recording lessons, you can create and manage a library of easily searchable content for your students. We make it simple to get your videos into your LMS.
With the new VIEWpath Live feature, you can deliver content to students both in the classroom and those that might be learning from home using popular online meeting platforms.
With HoverCam, Remote Teaching Possibilities Are Endless
Not only is every HoverCam a fantastic in-classroom companion, it was also made from the ground up for remote instruction
Virtual Office Hours
Remote Tutoring
Mystery Skype
Career Tech (CTE) Demonstrations
and More!
Work Through Complex Math Equations and Graphs
View Books and Documents
Diagram Sentences
Read-Alongs
Conduct Science Experiments
Starting a Zoom Class Has Never Been Easier.
Schedule, Start, and Run Zoom Sessions Right From Our Software
Virtual Classroom Tools by Padcaster
When you’re unable to be in the physical classroom, Padcaster is here to help you and your students stay connected. Padcaster’s virtual classroom tools allow you to communicate with your students effectively over video. Padcaster not only allows you to conduct your virtual classroom with Zoom or other streaming platforms, but also helps you create quality pre-recorded videos and livestream directly to your students. Students learn best when they can hear and see you clearly. While adjusting to learning at home, students shouldn’t be distracted by the quality of their video lessons. Padcaster uses the high-quality cameras on the devices you already know and love; your phones and iPads. Padcaster allows you to mount these devices to tripods and attach lenses, lights, microphones and more. In addition to basic filmmaking accessories such as tripods and microphones, Padcaster even offers a mini teleprompter, so educators no longer need to memorize lines or look down at scripts. The Padcaster Parrot Teleprompter is complete with a wireless Bluetooth remote, so that you can operate the teleprompter yourself while connecting with your students.
Use Padcaster with your favorite filmmaking apps to shoot, edit and share your videos with your students, or livestream directly from the iPad. Padcaster hardware integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom and other classroom management systems, so you can use it alongside the virtual classroom tools you already use. Padcaster equipment makes it easy for you to create video content, so that you can focus on what’s most important; educating your students.
Record lessons
Conduct your virtual classroom alongside tools such as Zoom and Google Classroom
Connect with your students
Broadcast to your students’ homes
Hold meetings with administrators, parents and students
Live stream lectures to anywhere in the world
Distance Learning Means More Than Just Zoom Meetings
Case Study: Videos You Can Make To Help Your Students During Remote Learning
While many teachers are keeping their classrooms connected in real-time via video conferencing such as Zoom, pre-recorded video can also have a major positive impact on students. Here are three ways to incorporate pre-recorded video into your virtual multimedia ‘classroom’.
Beyond blended. Connected.
Resources for flexible learning.
To the tireless teachers, students, parents, leaders, and communities adapting to new learning environments and navigating an uncertain future, we see you. We’re here to support you with live, interactive webinars and recorded resources, grade level resources, easy-to-use fun lessons for parents to use, and more. Got questions? We’re available on our social media channels to help you out, anytime.
Learning-appropriate resources for all levels
Create inspiring learning experiences
We help teachers and students leverage devices, content, and platforms to enhance learning and improve outcomes. Integrating with Google, Microsoft, and LMS platforms, SMART tools enable more interactive learning experiences, more meaningful feedback, and deeper student collaboration everywhere learning happens.
Live Webinars and Recorded Resources
We’re here to support you with live, interactive webinars and recorded resources.
SMART is CARES Act Eligible
With funding from the new CARES Act, learning can continue with a focus on activities that support remote learning for all students, especially disadvantaged or at-risk students and their teachers.
Sanitizing Solutions
Hand Sanitizer Stations & Carts
Easy access to hand sanitizer will be critical when schools reopen. These convenient carts by Copernicus Educational Products are designed specifically for schools (and messy kids), with child lock out safety features on the dispensers, large drip trays, paper towel holders and locking storage tubs.
NEW! UV Tech Tub for disinfecting devices and more—and in one minute!
These days, cleaning devices is as important as charging them. The UV Tech Tub® is here to help with the necessary disinfecting of devices required to keep classrooms as germ-free as possible. Quickly disinfect devices, including germy laptop screens and keyboards, iPads® and other non-tech items found in the classroom. UV Tech Tub disinfects to a 99.9% kill in just one minute*, reducing the risk of common hospital and classroom viruses and bacteria.
Safe, Effective, and Easy-to-Use
UV Tech Tub is designed with a fully enclosed disinfection chamber to prevent any UVC exposure. The light bulbs only turn on when the door is securely latched.
With four bulbs and reflective interior, UV Tech Tub has 360 degrees of UVC irradiance to provide maximum disinfection.
Simply place an open laptop or other device or object into the tub, close the door and in one minute, everything is disinfected!