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.
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 marketing team builds playhouse to support Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates).
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.
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 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.
Acoustical calculators and reference apps allow your mobile device to become a convenient utility for calculating the physics of your space’s acoustics. Check out apps from developers like Sebastian Rivas, Sparkle Solutions, Al Ayyoub, V PUGAZHENTHI, Gabriel Moreno Ibarra and acoustassist Ltd. for Android and iOS devices.
These remote apps are multi-functional applications that do more than just change the slides and brighten the display. From lens focusing to content management, many mobile projector remotes have evolved from convenient utilities to essential work tools in projector-ready spaces. Check out mobile projector controllers from developers like Barco, IIX Inc., Seiko Epson Corporation, NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.,
The CIO of the Aurora, Colorado school district talks about deploying mass notification and emergency communications technology and having an emergency response plan that includes who triggers alerts and the role of AV and IT.
Pricing your digital signage plan properly means you have to have a grasp of the hardware, software, installation and labor costs. In addition, managing an on-going project and content creation strategy both have a cost. Budget accordingly.
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