Podcasts about activinspire

On today's episode, we sit down with Michael Brothers, Classroom Technology Specialist of Promethean World. Michael brings over two decades of K12 classroom technology experience to this conversation and gives us a small taste of the work Promethean is doing to untether teachers and learners. Promethean ResourcesPromethean Power Hour: Element Series Panel Orientation Have a new Promethean ActivPanel?  Want to learn more about it? Come and learn the ins and outs of your Element Series ActivPanel in this webinar.  You will learn about the console, unified menu, and the Promethean app suite. Click here to register! Ask the Experts: Promethean Office Hours Take advantage of this opportunity, in which you can sign into the Zoom session and ask specific questions to one of Promethean's Education Consultants.  Bring your questions regarding your panel, Promethean apps, ActivInspire, and ClassFlow. _______Don't forget to subscribe to The Vartek Podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform. If you've got feedback or an idea for an episode, send us a note to info@vartek.com. Visit us on social:Twitter - @VartekPodcastLinkedIn - Vartek ServicesYouTube - Vartek Services, Inc.

If the past 14 months have been the world, biggest and boldest remote learning beta test, the next 14 months should prove out better tools and techniques for schools going forward. In this episode of EdTech Today, Matt Cole lays out what that means for how Promethean supports their districts.Details from Promethean: The latest round of CARES funding will provide educators with the technology and development tools they will need to continue supporting students as we enter the next phase of education in remote, hybrid, and in-classroom learning environments.For more than 20 years, Promethean has committed to providing schools with the necessary educational technology created for teachers by teachers. This includes our interactive displays, including software and professional development tools educators need to facilitate undisrupted learning through this period of transition and beyond.Seamless Transition to Teach in All EnvironmentsPromethean's ActivPanel Element Series is an interactive display providing an all-in-one solution for hybrid and in-classroom learning, enabling learning experiences with more opportunity for interactivity. The ActivPanel Element series comes preloaded with a suite of premium teaching tools, such as infinite canvas, screen capture, timer, and spinner.Our solutions expand from hardware to software, making sure educators are equipped with technology compatible with in-person, hybrid, and remote settings. ClassFlow and ActivInspire software are included with ActivPanel and allow for undisrupted teaching in all environments.With ClassFlow, a cloud-based teaching software, teachers can build and deliver interactive lessons from any web browser, making lesson preparation easier and providing the opportunity to make lesson delivery more engaging for all students. This includes bringing presentations, documents, image files, videos, and more into a dynamic lesson and further engaging students with interactive polls and quizzes.Additionally, ActivInspire is a collaborative lesson delivery software that provides a suite of tools to create and deliver exciting lessons. Students can also install ActivInspire Personal Edition and share activities for offline interactions. With multi-touch functionality and interactive tools, ActivInspire is designed to drive student engagement at the front of the class.Using CARES II to Invest in EdTechSchool districts can invest in Promethean technology for long-term use in any learning environment with CARES II funding. Beyond being a technology provider, Promethean partners with schools to support professional development for long-term teacher success. A section of the CARES II funding can be spent on professional development to integrate technology and bridge the learning divide, which Promethean has a standing commitment to deliver.We offer high-quality virtual and in-person training to support edtech implementations nationwide. Our professional development platform, Learn Promethean, gives educators access to training, online courses, video tutorials, and more. The portal provides teachers with the resources and support they need to effectively use the technology.As we continue navigating this next phase of education, the investment and prioritization of edtech and professional development is pivotal and is possible through the CARES II Act. See how Promethean can support your school's specific needs by visiting PrometheanCARES.

TCEA 2012 had the Tech Chicks all a-twitter. Ha ha! Anyway, this is our round-up podcast about the sessions we attended and the vendors we loved. Adobe Academy - Anna attended a great hands-on session on content creation with Adobe. Check out the Adobe Education (http://www.adobe.com/education.html) site for great resources including lesson plans, ideas and tutorials. Jamey Osborne (http://jameyo.com/) had a great session on creating iOS web apps! Brush up your Javascript! Promethean (http://support.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=nav.17508) - We love the new features in ActivInspire! Lynell Burmark (http://www.lynellburmark.org/) had a session, IWB apps: From the iPad to the Wall which had us revisit an app we'd definitely overlooked... Doceri (http://doceri.com/) is an awesome app for controlling your Mac or Windows machine from your iPad in the classroom. It has great markup tools and a nifty stylus which is handy for doing the drawing tools. Splashtop Whiteboard (http://www.splashtop.com/whiteboard) is still a favorite of ours, too, don't get us wrong. The pricing scheme of Doceri and Splashtop are such that you can pick whichever is most cost effective for your situation. FableVision (http://www.fablevision.com/) asked us to show off their fine software! We picked our favorites, Animation-ish (http://shop.fablevisionlearning.com/animationish/fa/shop.detail/productID/2542/) , Big Screen Books (http://shop.fablevisionlearning.com/big-screen-books-ish/fa/shop.detail/productID/2766/), and Stationary Studio (http://www.fablevision.com/stationerystudio). Definitely check them out! We had a QR code session with a great group of educators. Thanks for all who attended! Here are the resources we shared (http://techchicktips.wikispaces.com/QRQrazy). Atomic Learning (http://atomiclearning.com) did a neat thing with their t-shirts at the booth. Check out the cool video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3OntdDRlJI) Loved seeing our Twitter friends @paulrwood, @technolibrary, @ipadsammy, @bryanpdoyle, @rrodgers, @neontetra and @mrhooker for BBQ and donuts! And then them and more including @kevinhoneycutt, @mradkins, and @jmaklary, and our local friends @JGraytxchk, @hlandez, @kevinfoxxy, and @jessicablanca at  the official Twitter meet up. Clever swag included a chair massage at some booth with an A... oh wait, Helen had to look it up for us. Absolute Software  (http://www.absolute.com/) offered the chair massages. And then we think it was Flexile (http://www.flexile.net/) that was offering caricatures using their tools to show video conferencing and interactive whiteboards. Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com/) is coming out with an iPad app which looks really awesome but is missing a critical feature in our opinion. Listen to find out what that is. Anna will probably still buy it because she's an iOS app junkie. We still love the Lock -n- Charge (http://www.lockncharge.com/) cart for charging the laptops. They have iPad charging carts, too, and they have REALLY thought out the needs of a charging cart! Bretford (http://bretford.com/category/seating/soft-seating/motiv-seating/) furniture has built-in power. Can we have this for our houses? We did a mobile learning session and want to give a special thanks to two of our new favorite apps, DoInk Express and GroupShot, that gave out promo codes for us to raffle! DoInk Express (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doink-express-messaging-photos/id414067189?mt=8) is an awesome app for iPhone/iPod for tweening and flipbook animation. It's the baby cousin to the DoInk for iPad  (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doink-animation-drawing/id364762290?mt=8) app we talked about in a previous episode. It's a mere $1.99 and worth every penny. GroupShot (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groupshot/id488709126?mt=8) is a magic app. MAGIC, we tell you! When you take several photos of a group of people trying to get the one perfect shot, you can actually merge the best heads from each shot into one. And it's MAGIC. Wow! Seriously! Check it out! It's 99 cents! Buy it now! In conclusion, it was another great TCEA!

ActivInspire is a free downloadable software from Promethean that enables a greater use of Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom.

Take Five Podcast by Ann Oro Mentioned in this podcast: Downloading and opening ActivInspire flipcharts, learning to use the proper pressure of the pen on the board, using a lunch count/ check-in flipchart in the morning, learning to group pictures and words, hiding and unhiding the ActivInspire toolbar, using video in the classroom, having Internet access to answer a student question and Googling the answer, and working with other teachers to solve problems that arise during the day. Musical Citation: Album: Popular Jazz Project by Stephen "The_Croat" on Jamendo. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/30226 Take Five Podcast Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States

Take Five Podcast by Ann Oro Mentioned in this podcast: Quizlet, ActivInspire, using Promethean Planet resource to turn index card based concentration game into a ActivInspire game. Promethean Planet Resource by RuthAnn Emerson http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConResource.14705 Musical Citation: Album: Popular Jazz Project by Stephen "The_Croat" on Jamendo. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/30226 Take Five Podcast Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States