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O s e r C o m m u n i c a t i o n s G r o u p O r l a n d o T h u r s d a y, J a n u a r y 1 4 , 2 0 1 6 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH FETC An interview with Ed Harvey, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Training & Learning Technology (ATLT), LLC. ESD: What is the education problem ATLT addresses? EH: Poor knowledge retention is one of the most chal- lenging problems that impact education in the United States. This is especially true for mathematics. Most stu- dents successfully learn foundational arithmetic and algebraic skills in middle school. However, students do not retain all of the math skills they learned in middle school. These skills are critical for success in the high- er-level math and science courses students take in high RETAIN MATH SKILLS WITH PI AND THE LOST FUNCTION An interview with Eddy Boyette, Vice President of Sales for the Americas, Lumens Integration Inc. ESD: Tell our readers about what you have in your booth this year. EB: You can see our new lecture capture station designed for the K-12 environ- ment, the Lumens VS-LC101 CaptureVision Station. Lecture capture systems are widely used in colleges, where it's common for one instructor to be addressing students who may be gathered in several different places. In the K-12 environment, it's more common for all the students to be gathered in a single classroom, but Your school is about to launch an iPad program, and you're not sure where to start. That's where the Apple Management Experts can help. Since 2002, JAMF Software – and its Casper Suite solution – has helped schools across the globe ensure their Apple programs are a success. JAMF Software has pinpointed five steps to get a 1:1 iPad program up and running using the Casper Suite and Apple's user-friendly deployment programs. Step 1: Prepare Streamline the deployment process by enrolling your school in Apple's Device Enrollment Program (DEP) Focus School Software is excited to announce the launch of a new module to its suite of K-12 solutions: a fully inte- grated Special Student Services Module (SSS). Focus understands districts need a software platform that allows them to effortlessly manage students who qual- ify for specially designed services and instruction. Focus' SSS module provides districts with necessary tools to support students through many facets of the special education process. The SSS module offers a customizable platform in which districts can design and maintain desired pro- gram workflow in a wide variety of areas, including early identification, response to intervention and early By Bob Hill, Global Education Manager, Ergotron Ergotron While there is little doubt that classrooms have become more sophisticated and digital, the phys- ical classroom setting and furniture hasn't evolved at the same pace. The tablets that are transforming the learning process still sit on top of the same style desks from the 1950s. The blackboards and chalk may have been replaced by interactive whiteboards connected to a com- puter or projector, but far too often students still sit in stagnant rows looking up in the same direction at the teacher for the daily lesson. Continued on Page 23 An interview with Ji Shen, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HoverCam. ESD: With so many document cameras already on the market, why did HoverCam invest in creating a new line of document cameras? JS: Traditional document cameras are large, bulky and expensive or have really poor performance with blurry video. We wanted to fix that. Teachers deserve better technology that's affordable and makes teaching easier. So we invented Solo 8. ESD: What makes Solo 8 so different? Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 23 CAPTURE OR STREAM YOUR LESSONS WITH LUMENS THE GUIDE TO APPLE IOS DEPLOYMENT IN EDUCATION FIND THE RIGHT FURNITURE FOR CLASSROOMS OF THE FUTURE FOCUSING ON SPECIAL STUDENT SERVICES HOW HOVERCAM RE-ENERGIZED THE DOCUMENT CAMERA Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 23 Continued on Page 20