Best Educational Use of a Device-Specific Application

Recognizes the best educational software solution, either curriculum or administrative, designed for integration and use with unique devices. Such devices include interactive white boards, testing/diagnostic equipment, etc. This solution may be designed for the K-12 or postsecondary markets or both.

Products nominated here are eligible for the Best K-12 Education Solution, Best Non-Traditional Education Solution and Best Postsecondary Education Solution supercategories.

MimioStudio 7 Software - DYMO/Mimio ITT MimioStudio 7 software gives teachers the tools to create engaging interactive lessons to use with the MimioClassroom product suite hardware. MimioStudio 7 seamlessly integrates with the MimioClassroom hardware to enable lesson creation with custom or ready-made content, student assessment data tracking and more, allowing teachers to do what they do best: simply teach. You'll find it easy to create multimedia lessons that engage your students, using the teacher-tested content in the MimioStudio Gallery. Your lessons will come to life with ready-to-use video, sound, and graphics. The Gallery offers: - Fast access to ready-to-use backgrounds, pictures, and multimedia files - Content organized in folders by subject - Easy search function, to quickly locate content from the MimioConnect website or the web - Options to create and customize your own files - Keep your old favorites, and make some new ones. - We know you need new lesson options, but you also want to keep using your tried-and-true favorites. That's why MimioStudio software offers compatibility with most popular software applications, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat. More exciting features of MimioStudio software: - Writing recognition - Ability to import audio and video - Multimedia drag-and-drop - Screen recording - Play/pause/rewind files - Spotlight and reveal tools - Object resizing - Thumbnails of pages in each file - Transitions and animations - Object cloning Go To DYMO/Mimio ITT's Web Site Go To Product Site
VizZle - Monarch Teaching Technologies VizZle(R) is a rich web application that gives educators access to interactive instruction for children who learn best from visually supported materials (e.g. children with autism, in early education, or typical children with a visual learning style). VizZle was designed using exclusively licensed intellectual property stemming from research proving the efficacy of a visual language-based approach to educating students with autism, but it has proven equally effective for any student who learns best visually. VizZle lessons can be printed for tabletop use, but are most effective when played interactively -- especially on interactive whiteboards, which promote joint focus and practice of important social skills, or on mobile tablets, which allow the generalization of skills into different settings. Interactive play also allows VizZle to take advantage of the autistic population's documented affinity for all things video and computer oriented, increasing their engagement exponentially. Increased engagement leads to better learning outcomes. VizZle helps both the students struggling to overcome learning differences and the teachers who need to customize their lessons in a time and cost-effective way through three areas of the product: CREATE lets teachers, parents or therapists create or edit any and every feature of a lesson for differentiated instruction of students with diverse needs. They can choose from thousands of images, audio and video clips in our database, or drag-and-drop in their own media directly from the desktop. Each interactive lesson template has customizable reinforcers and rewards built in. TEACH provides the tools to organize and launch those individualized lessons, and includes powerful data collection, either generally or by specific IEP goal or state standard -- a feature unique to VizZle. SHARE allows users to share and borrow adapted curriculum from a vast and ever-growing peer-reviewed shared library of effective materials. Effective visual language supports are lessons (like stories, matching boards or games) and tools (like schedules, token boards, timers or first-then boards) that take advantage of the visual learner's stronger visual processing abilities. A vital part of any child with autism's education -- be it ABA, TEACCH, blended model, or any other curriculum -- individualized visual supports are one of the very few non-controversial and universally lauded methods in special education for autism. The reason customized visual language supports have not been used consistently and constantly for every child with autism is that up until now they were extremely time consuming, expensive and difficult to produce, and impossible to share in any meaningful way. As a web-based subscription service, all our users immediately benefit from a continuous improvement and development schedule, supported by internal budgets as well as funds from competitive grants (NIH, Department of Education). VizZle takes advantage of the best features of the cloud, current classroom technology (whiteboards, touchscreens) and future innovations (Android mobile player) to make best practices in special education for autism accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Go To Monarch Teaching Technologies' Web Site Go To Product Site
SuccessMaker Collaborate - Pearson SuccessMaker Collaborate is a K-8 learning program that captures the imagination of students and teachers by fostering creativity and cooperation while providing differentiated instruction on any brand of interactive whiteboard. SuccessMaker Collaborate combines best-practice principles of multimedia and instructional design with a strong focus on educational outcomes to deliver methodologically sound, purposeful instruction through lessons and activities developed through intensive observational research in real classrooms. With SuccessMaker Collaborate, teachers get: • A customized experience designed for them, by them! SuccessMaker Collaborate is easy to customize so teachers can expand on content matched to their state standards, core program or instructional goals. They can add words from their own spelling list, add native language equivalents of target words to support their English language learners, or even connect words to images, audio or links. They can also collaborate with peers by sharing their customized lessons. • Activities and themes recommended by the foremost experts in learner engagement: kids! SuccessMaker Collaborate’s activities, themes and more were developed through intensive observational research in real classrooms and are based on real suggestions from student testers. • A research base worthy of the SuccessMaker name. The SuccessMaker family of programs has a nearly 40-year research legacy, and the newest addition lives up to its name. SuccessMaker Collaborate combines best-practice principles of multimedia and instructional design, with a strong focus on educational outcomes based on Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. • The ease of use of a truly turn-key solution. SuccessMaker Collaborate is intuitive and easy to use right from the start and backed by the unbeatable support teachers expect from Pearson. • Group learning ignited through interactivity. SuccessMaker Collaborate provides the spark that today’s learners crave, with engaging and interactive content designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners all at once. Go To Pearson's Web Site Go To Product Site
ActivInspire - Promethean Inc. (USA) ActivInspire Software is a relentlessly versatile time-saver for teachers. Educators can choose either primary or secondary versions. Lessons on the interactive whiteboard are brought feature full color video, sound and graphics – a bounty of flipcharts, images and activities are included and ready for use. It is seamlessly integrated with learner response devices and interactive tools. Go To Promethean Inc. (USA)'s Web Site Go To Product Site
Securexam Remote Proctor - Software Secure, Inc. Securexam Remote Proctor is a hardware and software solution that converts the desktop into a convenient and secure platform for distance learning testing. Patented technology addresses exam security by controlling the student’s computer settings and authenticating their identification with video, audio and biometrics. Solution helps schools achieve regional and national accreditation standards. Go To Software Secure, Inc.'s Web Site Go To Product Site

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