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EdTech Show Daily 2 1 Tuesday, June 25, 2019 are being used," District Administrators Dan Armstrong and Matt Frey recently told THE Journal for an article published by the magazine in March of this year. Using ClassLink, administrators can push out a clickable link to the resources they choose to make available to stu- dents. Students find the links on their per- sonal "my apps" page, which encourages them to explore the resource. "Simply placing launchable tiles on our users' custom app dashboards serves to promote resources in a way that we haven't been able to achieve before now," said Armstrong and Frey. "With quick cards, an authentication method that leverages QR codes instead of key- board strokes, even our youngest stu- dents can access hundreds of instruction- al applications within seconds – even if they've never experienced a traditional login before." Web Filtering and Classroom Management The 52,000 Chromebooks in use in Plano ISD are also paired with GoGuardian, a tool capable of mitigating the very real potential that students would wander away from the digital resources they Plano (Cont'd. from p. 1) should be using in favor of the myriad distractions available to them online. "Teachers are responding very favorably to our decision to use GoGuardian to help classroom teachers manage, monitor and filter student web activity on their Chromebooks," said Armstrong and Frey. Compatibility with Google's G Suite for Education Plano ISD has been using G Suite for Education's productivity and presentation tools since well before the district began thinking about implementing its 1-to-1 computing environment. Google Drive, Docs and Classroom all held a prominent place in this district's digital ecosystem. Reliance on G Suite for Education has grown since the Chromebooks were rolled out to students. ClassLink's analytics module shows that Google Classroom was launched more than 700,000 times between August 1 and March of this year. "That's a big number that doesn't even account for logins that occur outside of our Single Sign-On portal," Armstrong and Frey said. For more information, go to www.classlink.com, call 888.963.7550 or stop by booth #1151. Marvel Vizion ® includes portable 3-D printer cart makerspaces, adjustable height teaching stations, compact class- room carts, sit/stand mobile workspaces and mobile teacher carts designed espe- cially for floating teachers. Marvel Vizion products have unique features simply not found in competitive products. Assembled Many Marvel products arrive completely assembled, ready to use or require mini- mal assembly at your facility, saving time and money. Furniture Grade Quality and Durability The Marvel Focus Desk and Marvel Vizion products feature the same high- pressure laminate tops and heavy duty steel construction that it provides in its commercial furniture lines. Many Marvel products carry a lifetime warranty. Safety: UL Listed Marvel has just been recognized by United Laboratories as a 20 year certi- fied member of the ISO program and is currently ISO 9001:2015 certified by Marvel (Cont'd. from p. 1) ULDQS Inc, the most difficult accredi- tation, the most difficult standard to attain and retain. All Marvel product passes and is listed for the appropriate UL Standard. GREENGUARD Certified The Marvel Group, Inc. is proud of its ongoing commitment to responsible environmental policies and manufactur- ing processes. Safeguarding the earth's vital resources though conservation, technology application and progressive emission controls is a responsibility embodied in its manufacturing, sourcing and marketing practices. These efforts and a corporate culture of responsible stewardship give associates and cus- tomers the reassurance they demand in partnering with an environmentally responsible company. Do you need help with your floor- plan? Marvel's interior design and space planning experts will help you make the best choices for your classroom. Visit www.marvelvizion.com to view the entire line of Marvel Vizion products and see www.marvelgroup.com for Marvel Aire and Marvel's full office product line. The entire Focus Desk line can be seen at www.marvelfocusdesk.com. No one asks our opinions and the only time other companies send us free things is when we are going to buy the products. By then it is too late to get the product right," said Carolyn S. of New York. "We told Kensington how they could improve the charging solutions, and they Kensington (Cont'd. from p. 4) made the change. Their charging rack is exactly what we wanted," said Paul P. of Florida. "The willingness to listen is not nor- mal in this business. We look forward to our yearly focus group," said Jeff W. from Iowa. For more information, go to www .kensington.com or stop by booth #662. QR code scanner and the instant trans- lation feature, but the possibilities for lessons are truly endless. With an output terminal offering HDMI, RGB and USB 2.0, the MO-2 seamlessly connects to a wide array of devices and is compatible in almost every classroom setting. The MO-2 has a digital zoom of up to 16x in 1080p full HD and can capture video at 30fps ELMO (Cont'd. from p. 4) (up to 60fps when connected via USB). If you want to move the MO-2 around the room, there is a built-in recharge- able battery that lasts for up to three hours. The camera is also powered by plugging into a traditional power source. To see the MO-2 STEMCam, as well as the rest of ELMO's new product lineup for 2019, visit booth #3030 or go to www.elmousa.com. who have begun to crawl or inquisitive toddlers who love to explore, the BabyView Eco PT allows parents to maneuver the camera vertically and hori- zontally to get a better view of the sur- rounding area. The BabyView Eco PT lets parents create a more energy efficient and envi- ronmentally friendly home for their chil- dren with its energy-saving Eco mode. While the device does come with VOX mode as well, the Eco mode gives users another way to further conserve power. When in Eco mode, the monitor only wakes up when the camera detects sound, extending the monitor's battery life. Each user can set their own sound sensitivity level. In addition, the monitor and cam- era connect by only using radio frequen- cy signals every two seconds, ensuring lower radiation in the baby's room. The color 4.3" LCD touchscreen monitor display provides clear, real- time video with at least six hours of bat- tery life. The BabyView Eco PT also has a long-range radio frequency of 900 Hanwha (Cont'd. from p. 1) feet within line of sight, giving parents the freedom to do what they need to around the house without losing contact with their baby. It supports up to four cameras, and features multiple viewing modes: single, sequence and multi-cam- era view. The BabyView Eco PT is equipped with a room temperature sensor, allowing parents to keep an eye on the temperature of the baby's room through the monitor. In addition, the camera has a built-in microphone and high-quality speaker for two-way talk. The device comes pre-programmed with four lullabies and three types of white noise to soothe the baby and help them fall asleep. Additionally, it's equipped with night vision capabilities up to 16 feet to produce clear images in low-light or dark conditions, using built- in non-visible infrared LED lights. Pricing and availability of the new BabyView Eco PT will be announced soon. Visit www.wisenetlife.com for more infor- mation. On Track: W3C Standards for the Immersive Web Virtual and Augmented Reality (collec- tively known as XR) are the next frontier for immersive entertainment experiences that let you physically interact with con- tent on the web. As the VR & AR ecosystem expands, so too does the demand for VR to leverage standard web technolo- gies such as HTML5, and to provide common ways to define, build and interact with 3D content on different devices. In the same way it advanced web standards for the mobile web and web and television, the World Wide Consortium (W3C) – the global stan- dards body for web technologies – con- tinues work to enable VR & AR solutions to use the Open Web Platform as a full- fledged development environment. With standards, there will be interoperability to avoid fragmentation and duplicated effort, which in turn lowers development costs. After a 2016 W3C Workshop on Web and VR & AR, where over 120 participants representing browser ven- dors, headset and hardware manufactur- ers, VR content providers, designers and distributors came together to demonstrate the benefits that the web can bring to VR development, and a 2017 workshop focused on authoring VR content on the web, important milestones contributed to making the web platform great for VR experiences, including the avail- ability of an experimental VR API by default in several web browsers. W3C launched the Immersive Web Working Group in September 2018 to standardize WebXR, the next genera- tion API for immersive content that will enable both VR and AR content creators to integrate their production in web pages and web appli- cations, widening consid- erably the number of users who can view and interact with their content. Industry experts from companies including W3C members Magic Leap, Microsoft, Letsee, Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Adobe, Facebook/Oculus, Huawei and Alibaba help bring high-performance Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) (collectively known as XR) to the open web via APIs to interact with XR devices and sensors in browsers. For more information about W3C's immersive web activities, email w3t- pr@w3.org.