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An interview with Lance Busdeker, Education Lead, Newmind Group, Inc. ESD: What is Newmind Group bringing to the table where the Connected Classroom is concerned? LB: Starting in 2011, we were the first organization to work with Google for Chromebooks in education – in fact, our focus is squarely around Google and partners that fit into the Google ecosys- tem. Through conversations with our FIVE MINUTES WITH NEWMIND GROUP'S CONNECTED CLASSROOM An interview with Scott MacDonald, Vice P r e s i d e n t / G e n e r a l Manager, RGS ESD: Tell us about your company. SM: RGS, a business unit of Avnet Inc., focuses on the digital learning transfor- mation taking place in the K–12 market as schools go away from a heavily print- based environment. RGS's emphasis is on delivering the end-to-end strategy that meets schools' requirements. An interview with Dr. Deep Sran, Chief Academic Officer and Co- Founder, Actively Learn. ESD: You've been a teacher and school admin- istrator. Why start Actively Learn? DS: After researching critical thinking and optimal decision making in graduate school, and having taught undergraduate and graduate students, I decided to build a secondary school designed around the idea You may have heard of Edmodo or Schoology. But how about Edsby? Almost 300,000 users in Hillsborough County Public Schools, centered around Tampa, Florida, use the Edsby K–12 learning management system (LMS), and see the product's distinctive blue Edsby alien/robot logo on their phones and browsers all day. For its 2013/2014 school year, Hillsborough moved its 200,000 stu- dents, 270 school sites, 18,000 teachers Tiggly has pio- neered a new learn- ing experience by combining the most important aspects of physical play with the depth of content from digital learn- ing, offering an optimal environment for the youngest students (aged two to nine years old). Tiggly's Learning Platform provides students with ways to interac- tively enhance language, creativity, liter- acy and math skills by combining physi- cal manipulatives with the tablets chil- dren love. Bringing Tiggly into the class- room is now easier than ever with the Continued on Page 30 Security is quickly becom- ing the buzz- word of the decade, yet one very high security target that is still inadequately addressed is email. While a number of email systems are scrambling to close those seemingly never-ending security holes via more and more advanced security settings – such as SMS verification – most users still log into their email account with a password and an OTP code, and in every case their email is still sitting, fair game, unen- crypted, in the cloud. Continued on Page 30 Continued on Page 37 RGS: ENABLING YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING TRANSFORMATION STOP SKIMMING, START LEARNING EXTENDING TABLETS BEYOND THE SCREEN FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS LITTLE ROBOT RUNS ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS SECURE EMAIL FROM GOLDKEY Continued on Page 30 Continued on Page 30 Continued on Page 27 O s e r C o m m u n i c a t i o n s G r o u p P h i l a d e l p h i a W e d n e s d a y, J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 5 An interview with No. 2, Spokespencil, Scantron Corporation. ESD: No. 2, people think of Scantron as "just that No. 2 pencil company." What do you say to that? No. 2: Well, first – I'm flattered. It's nice to know that after more than 40 years in the business, my name and face are rec- ognized around the world! We're still the best producer of reliable scanners and high-quality forms, and a lot of educators An interview with Jay Fry, CEO, identiMetrics. ESD: Why would a school district use biomet- rics? JF: Many areas in a school require identi- fication. The most common kinds of iden- tification currently in use are picture ID cards, PINs and, of course, visual identifi- cation. Each of these methods creates its own issues and is a drain on the time and resources of IT departments. Cards are regularly forgotten, lost, mutilated and Continued on Page 37 SCANTRON: MUCH MORE THAN 'JUST THAT NO. 2 PENCIL COMPANY' SCHOOLS USE BIOMETRIC FINGER SCANNING TECHNOLOGY Continued on Page 27 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH ISTE