The Guilford County School district in North Carolina has purchased over 21,000 Amplify tablets as part of a personalized learning initiative. The district’s director of Instructional Technology shares his goals for mobile learning and how the district is preparing teachers to rethink insturction.
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Security, Meet Automation
Integrating access control with control and automation saves energy and boosts space and worker efficiencies.
Security and Control and Automation systems are being integrated more often as building facilitators realize there is a beneficial connection. Just as areas like lighting and room control systems are capturing greater interest, incorporating security areas such as access control makes sense.
Manage Mobility and Smith Micro Software Partner for K-12 Mobile Device Management Solution
Connection Manager allows administrators to prioritize wireless networks, enforce user policies and sends notifications for data limits.
Manage Mobility and Smith Micro Software have partnered on a mobile device management solution called Connection Manager. It allows school administrators to prioritize wireless networks and offer CIPA-compliant filtering. Connection Manger also alerts students when they are approaching their device’s data limits.
AMX Team Gives Back to the Community
AMX marketing team builds playhouse to support Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates).
AMX marketing team builds playhouse to support Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates).
Fire-Lite Alarms by Honeywell Releases New App for its Mass Notification System
The app allows you to send critical messages and provides end users and installers with information about ECC system components.
Fire-Lite Alarms by Honeywell announced a new iPad app that works with the company’s Emergency Command Center (ECC) mass notification system. The App is free and is available at the Apple iTunes Store. A video can also be found on YouTube. The ECC mass notification system can be integrated with any existing fire alarm system.
IED’s IED1100TEL Offers VoIP Messaging for up to Eight VoIP Channels
Innovative Electronic Designs' mass communication and emergency notification VoIP telephone interface.
The 1100TEL is a device that provides access to a GLOBALCOM system to allow announcements and messages to be made from a VoIP telephone system. It supports up to eight simultaneous active VoIP audio channels. The interface allows users to make live announcements, delayed (recorded) announcements, or launch pre-recorded messages by using either the DTMF interface or based on the telephone extension used to access the device.
5 Great Flipped Learning Tips
Pioneer Jon Bergmann talks about the advantages and disadvantages of Flipped Learning and offers tips for edtech professionals.
Jon Bergmann, a pioneer of the flipped classroom, sits down with TechDecisions to talk about founding the flipped learning movement in K-12. The advantages, disadvantages and misconceptions of a flipped classroom, tips for making effective videos, how to overcome the digital divide and more.
Sheridan College Looks to the Future with Its Innovative Flex Classrooms
Running A/V systems over IP and using mobile furniture and equipment helped the college to maximize on space and see a true ROI.
Sheridan College created innovative “flex classrooms” that can be used in a variety of ways and host a number of A/V systems. These rooms include NEC commercial-grade projectors, Dell computers, AverVision SPB350+ document cameras, movable teaching podiums, Extron DMP 44 LC digital matrix processors, Extron power amplifiers and Shure wireless gooseneck microphones. The network switches are Cisco.
Innovative Video Walls Redefine Northeastern University Admissions
The iPad-controlled interactive video wall earned consultant Cavanaugh Tocci honorable mention in the 2013 Integration Awards presented by CI and TD.
Innovative Video Walls Redefine Northeastern University Admissions. The iPad-controlled interactive video wall in Northeastern’s new Visitor Center earned consultant Cavanaugh Tocci honorable mention in the 2013 Integration Awards presented by CI and TD.
Lutron Electronics Introduces an LED Version of its Video Conference Indirect Wash Fixture
The new LED fixture is designed for energy savings and provides evenly distributed, glare-free illumination
Lutron’s new LED Video Conference Indirect Wash Fixture is designed for videoconferencing applications, but it can also be used in areas that could benefit from an indirect, evenly distributed lighting solution.
