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E d Te c h S h o w D a i l y W e d n e s d a y, J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 5 6 INFORM, INSTRUCT AND INSPIRE WITH THE LEARN ONDEMAND POSTER MAKER An interview with Randy Hobart, President, Presentation Systems South Inc. ESD: Presentation Systems South sells the learn OnDemand poster maker sys- tem. How does the system inform, instruct and inspire students across America and beyond? RH: Awesome begins with us! Our poster maker system is the only product of its kind on the market to be awarded a provisional patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The simple one step system allows the user to simply click the print button and print a full color poster in less than two minutes. ESD: But how does that inform, instruct and inspire? RH: Let's explore each of those areas. Informing students, faculty and parents is one key to the success of a school. Any event, special programs, classroom rules, clubs, sporting events, holidays, teacher workdays, menus, visitor policies and much more can all be publicized on a poster for getting attention and communicating. The templates in the Learn OnDemand poster maker are perfect for the task! Instructing your students with high quality, full color poster tem- plates correlating to standards for the subject being taught is easy to do. The 1200 templates range in subject matter from reading, writing, math, STEM, sci- ence, character education and many more subjects. Multiply your student's level of understanding of the material being taught. You can also scan in your own lessons or create them on your own. This system will allow you to reinforce your message, clarify your points and create excitement in the classroom. Inspiring student has always been a challenge. With the poster maker you can easily recognize student achieve- ment whether it is academic suc- cess, athletic success or reinforcing character traits. Imagine a large poster with a picture of the student chosen as student of the week with a little biography of that student. What a boost to the student's morale. Stay in school-graduate, and suc- cess are all topics in the motivational poster templates. These are all ways the Learn OnDemand poster maker can help educa- tors to inform, instruct and inspire. Please come by our booth #1562 and request a free sample pack to be sent to your school. For more information, visit www.carolina posterprinters.com, call 800.729.2836 or stop by booth #1562. PROJECT FOUNDRY AND SAVING WILD HORSES Whether dazzling success or dismal failure, there is learning to be had in local, place- based, project-based learning … powerful projects that change kids' lives. The power of the learning comes from "going local," from being place- based, from starting close to home…get- ting that, and then moving out to "get" the bigger world. A great example of this is the "Wild Horses" project at Yakama Nation Tribal School in central Washington state. Students are working to solve a big and complex problem. Wild horses – 15,000 wild horses – are eating the high plateau desert plants to the ground and destroying sacred and medicinal foods in the process. Clearly, the horses love their environment, but over-population is making food scarce, weakening the horses, and destroying the land. Yakama students are partnering with Heritage University researchers to document horse movement and feeding patterns and to design systems to keep the horses away from valued plants. GPS photo plotting, site fencing, data collec- tion and interpretation are leading to understanding of complex science and technology and solutions to save the horses. Solutions that will mean that healthier wild horses and their tribal neighbors will continue to live in harmo- ny as they have for hundreds of years. Like the best of projects, "Wild Horses" is truly a local problem with real local motivation to solve it, resulting in compelling local benefits. It's place- based. Local partners bring their own local focus, knowledge and resources to make the science in this project real-world, authentic, engaging and powerful. Project Foundry makes all the com- plexity of "Wild Horses" both possible and simple – the project plan, standards- based learning targets, task lists, calen- dar, the work-along-the-way, messages, assessments and evaluations are all man- aged, tracked, reported, showcased and archived by Project Foundry's cloud- based platform for K-16 personalized, deeper learning. What local problem is waiting for your students? What organ- ization or business is likely to be interested in solving that problem? Build the relationship to link their expertise to the talent and energy of your kids! Let Project Foundry simplify and showcase your work and the power- ful learning of your students. Visit booth #2063. PBL, place-based learning experts Paul Tweed and Liz Seubert will be happy to open a window into their amazing school, Wildlands, and share how Project Foundry makes their learning model a joy for kids and teachers. Experience the power of a Project Foundry demo and receive a signed copy of their new book, An Improbable School. For more information, stop by booth #2063 or go to www.projectfoundry.org. BREAKING DOWN LEARNING BARRIERS WITH ZSPACE: STUDENTS EXCEL IN SAN JOSE'S ALUM ROCK UNION ELEMENTARY DISTRICT At Lee Matheson Middle School in East San Jose, Calif., a group of students explore the inside of a volcano via a three- dimensional, holographic image. They can open the volcano to explore inside, learn- ing about its features and how it works. "It feels like it's right in front of you," said one student. Students at Matheson reflect the population of the larger Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, in which about three-quarters of students speak a language other than English at home, and more than 80 percent partici- pate in the district's free- and reduced- lunch program. Matheson students learn in a zSpace STEM lab, which include a set of student virtual reality stations and a teacher sta- tion, each outfitted with an interactive stylus as well as a wide variety of educa- tional software ranging from science and physics to engineering. Virtual-holo- graphic images can be "lifted" from the screen and manipulated with the stylus. With two or three students at each virtual reality desktop, stu- dents collaborate in teams and use critical thinking skills to solve complex chal- lenges. They can perform highly engaging tasks that are often impossible in the real world, like exploring a volcano or exper- imenting with zero gravity. Teacher Victor Guendulien is partic- ularly excited about zSpace, since the stu- dents who learn with the system are those with special needs who have experienced frustration learning in the traditional way. "Working with zSpace in this class- room makes it easier to address each stu- dents' needs," said Guendulien. "They can work at their own pace, in their own language, and understand and explain concepts in their own words." Gisellle Postrado, a resource teacher, can see both the fascination of the stu- dents as well as their growing confidence. "They think, 'wow, I can really do this,'" she said. Perhaps most impor- tantly, Principal Oscar Leon sees zSpace as one way his students can break down barriers. Technology and other STEM programs at his school are opening new doors for Hispanic and Latino students to move towards more study and careers in technology and sci- ence. As the Alum Rock students continue to stretch their abilities and dive deeper into science, physics and engineering concepts with zSpace, who knows which barrier they'll break next? For more information, stop by booth #300 or visit www.zspace.com. CHARGEHUB CHARGES UP TO SEVEN DEVICES FROM ONE POWER SOURCE The ChargeHub™ from Limitless Innovations is a seven-port USB charging station. It plugs right into the wall through its own cord and can power up to seven devices. The hub itself sits on a desk or table, and then the devices plug into it with their own USB cords. Another great fea- ture is that the ChargeHub includes patent- pending SmartSpeed™ Technology to allow any port to charge the connected device at its maximum charging speed, regardless of whether it is an Apple iOS or Android device. Limitless Innovations is a licensed Apple MFi Developer, which ensures that their CableLinx™ USB cables are fully compatible with Apple devices. For users who don't have the origi- nal USB cords that came with their devices, CableLinx from Limitless Innovation are 3-1/2-inch charge and sync cables that are sold as an accessory to the ChargeHub. They're available in the four most common types on the mar- ket today, including Lightning™, 30-Pin, Micro and Mini to USB, so they'll accommodate the widest possible variety of devices. ChargeHub is a descendant of Limitless Innovations' CableHub ® , which organizes up to seven cables, cords or wires at once while keeping them stabilized, protected and tangle- free! CableHub reduces exposed cords for safety and convenience – up to 10 feet of cables wrap around the weighted disc, which then snaps shut. Both CableHub and ChargeHub are easy to personalize. Either Limitless Innovations can print a name or logo to be added to the top of the product, or the user can print whatever they like on paper and insert it into the top of the device. For more information, visit www.limit- lessinnovations.com, www.thecharge hub.com and www.thecablehub.com.