This roundup features tablets designed to excel in the classroom. We’ve also talked to tech experts to provide you with 7 tips for choosing the right device for your school to meet the unique needs of your students.
See the tech Tampa Preps uses for it’s flipped classrooms. A/V technology helps facilitate collaboration, which is especially important in schools that employ the flipped learning approach. Class time is spent working together and sharing ideas while traditional “classwork” is completed independently at home.
See how teachers and technology staff are promoting Common Core Skills.
As the mobile market moves swiftly towards personal networking as the focus of most apps regardless their purpose, it makes sense that the newest apps on any marketplace serve a more personal purpose than just simple mobile utilities. Personal tasking apps offer a whole new take on the idea of a personal device, these apps organize your schedule and user experience based on your geo-location, personal entertainment and social trends, as well as, commerce decisions, to provide the user with a completely personal networked mobile utility.
The best network monitoring and access apps. These iOS and Android mobile apps cover a range of functions: monitoring and testing networks, file access and management throughout a network and Wi-Fi connection and congestion troubleshooting. Bolster your mobile IT toolbelt with these professional and secure network monitoring and access apps for your smart device. Check out apps from developers like Lysesoft, Metago, Kenny Root and Jeffrey Sharkey, Farpoc, Techet and Comcsoft for Android and iOS.
Unified communications is increasingly gaining a foothold in commercial environments as is BYOD. It is important to set clear guidelines for employees who wish to use their own devices at work. Data access, security and other concerns should be addressed as part of your BYOD strategy.
See 20 Holiday gifts perfect for the tech fan on your shopping list. We’ve included brand new tablets like the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 and favorites like the Nexus 7. This list also includes smartphones, an HD TV, a touch screen laptop and more.
Twitter is a flexible micro-blogging site that provide the platform for quick communication. Tweets can be sent as SMS texts to a phone, so you don’t have to be connected to the Internet. Many organizations use more than one Twitter feed to ensure that readers find the information they needs. For example, one Twitter feed can be for emergency communication, while another feed can be for those looking for answers to questions or for non-emergency announcements.
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.
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.
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