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E d Te ch S h o w D a i l y 1 7 W e d n e s d a y, J u n e 2 9 , 2 0 1 6 DEEPER LEARNING PBL. SIMPLIFIED. By Dr. Camille Mortimore, Ph.D. Project Foundry collaborative learning platform manages the "workflow" of project-based learning. Teachers report that Project Foundry's templates, models and resources make learning project- based learning simple for themselves and their students. Project Foundry guides the PBL Plan, Work, Assess, Show phases of every learning experience, every project. Learning that matters and stays with us – deep learning – is a journey of want- ing to know or do, for passion or for the need to know. It triggers real questions, exploration and discovery. It moves us to find mentors, experts and fellow travelers along the way, because our discoveries demand sharing, discussion and a real audience. Critique and revision feel natu- ral, even joyful, and celebration just comes with the journey. This journey is project-based learning that draws kids into engaging, rigorous, life-changing work. My first big project was the summer I turned 11. It was like all great summer projects, outdoors and filled with the sun- baked buzz of the garden. It wasn't a fancy garden, just a little plot of purple asters. The joy of it was the bees – their endless variety and energy, the intensity of their work and their lack of interest in me. That's how the project began; I couldn't stop watching their gathering and pollinating and endless trips back- and-forth. And that was how I started the collection. I spent my summer and fall catching, pinning, identifying and loving dozens of varieties. I became "entomolo- gist," "field researcher," "librarian" and "curator." The rigor of my study and quality of my collection were self- imposed bench- marks. My youthful summer passion for the bees drove my learning to deep understanding, caring and connection to bees, and to all things natural. And like all great projects, it changed me, the learner. Remember the great projects of your youth…your intense focus, your self- motivation and delight in discoveries, your desire to share your triumphs of learning. Aren't projects the way humans learn? Learning to walk. Climbing the monkey bars. Finding a best friend. Building a campfire. Writing a thesis. Hiking a 1,200-mile trail…Learning a new way to teach… What's next for you? Taking a first dive into Deeper Learning? Turning an idea you've been pondering for a long time into a project for your kids? Initiating a team-teaching, interdiscipli- nary project? Or, perhaps, collaborating to create a Showcase of Learning for your students' projects this fall? Visit booth #3438, or go to www.projectfoundry.com, to learn how Project Foundry guides and manages PBL workflow and breathes life, depth and sanity into projects for you and your students. See a demo of Project Foundry's Personalized Professional Learning Platform and learn how to become part of a powerful professional learning community and the Project Foundry Schools Network. If you ask about the Project Foundry Schools Network, we will gift you with a book authored by two teachers from our Network Schools on how they created their amazing PBL school. For more information, visit www.project foundry.com or stop by booth #3438. INFORM, INSTRUCT, 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 tem- plates in the Learn OnDemand poster maker are perfect for the task! Instructing your students with high quality, full color poster templates correlating to standards for the subject being taught is easy to do. The 1,200 templates range in subject matter from reading, writing, math, STEM, science, character education and many more subjects. Multiply your stu- dent'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 stu- dent achievement, whether it is aca- demic success, athletic success or reinforcing character traits. Imagine a large poster with a pic- ture of the student chosen as stu- dent of the week with a little biography of that student. What a boost to the stu- dent's morale. Stay in school, graduate and success are all topics in the motiva- tional poster templates. These are all ways the Learn OnDemand poster maker can help educa- tors to inform, instruct and inspire. For more information, visit www.carolina posterprinters.com or call 800.729.2836. Stop by booth #111 and request a free sample pack to be sent to your school. HOVERCAM SETS HIGHEST STANDARD FOR SCHOOL DOCUMENT CAMERAS HoverCam, a leading document camera manufacturer based in San Diego, California, has set the highest standard for performance for school document cameras, while still remaining affordable. HoverCam's cameras allow teachers to record HD video without any lag or delay over a USB cable directly to a computer, which makes it easy for teachers to post to their website and share. "IT directors and teachers are amazed by HoverCam's image quality and performance," said Craig Justice, HoverCam Vice President of Sales. "All other USB document cameras either compress the video lowering the quality so you can't read text or are extremely laggy, which distracts students," Justice said. HoverCam's latest innovation is called CenterStage™, which can be thought of as a document camera with a 65" interactive touchscreen. The CenterStage is an integrated all-in-one teaching station that includes the docu- ment camera, computer, interactive flat panel, interactive software, audio system and a podium for teaching and recording lessons. The whole system is ready to use right out of the box. The company's Ultra 8 model is the world's first document camera incorpo- rating an 8.0 MegaPixel sen- sor, LCD preview screen and HDMI, VGA and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 out- puts. "Teachers love the LCD preview screen," said Justice. "Ultra 8 offers high- er performance at a lower price than competitors." The company's most popular model is Solo 8, which is also 8.0 MegaPixel resolution and outputs uncompressed 1080p video at 30 frames per second over USB. The unit is also a document scan- ner, an HD webcam, a grading machine and an HD video recorder. "Customers don't realize how good a document cam- era can be until they see Solo 8," said Justice. The list price is $349. One reason the HoverCam has a smaller footprint than traditional docu- ment cameras is zooming is done with the high-resolution sensor and not bulky and expensive optical com- ponents. HoverCam calls it ASR Zoom for Adaptive Sensor Resolution, which allows for fast digital zoom- ing without any loss of image quality. Because HoverCam's document cameras record video so well, the company has devel- oped a cloud service called KnoteSter which records lessons, voice and annota- tions that students can access with the KnoteSter app to prepare for quizzes and tests. HoverCam manufactures a full range of document cameras priced from the $99 Z5 to the $449 Ultra 8, interactive flat panel teaching stations and interactive software. For additional information, visit www.the hovercam.com or stop by booth #1736. 'WHY I SELECTED CLASSLINK, TWICE' By George Perreault, Chief Academic Officer, ClassLink As Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media at Orange County Public Schools in Florida, I led a team of technology and instruction enthusiasts always ready to explore new advances in technology, eager to find the best means for supporting teachers and students. That got us out of bed in the morning, and yes, often kept us up at night. Looking back, one of the best deci- sions we made was to select ClassLink, which we adopted in order to streamline access to all the apps, content and resources our educa- tors and scholars used every day. There are a few rea- sons why our team selected ClassLink among a robust group of platforms, including single sign-on technologies. Here are a few: The end-user experience was breath- lessly easy. Nothing is so elegant as being able to intuitively know where you are and how to get where you're going. ClassLink gave our teachers and students that experience. The initial setup took less than two hours, and required a minimal amount of time with one of our engineers. Having endured numerous implementation C o ntinued o n P age 2 9