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AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH TCEA Kimberly Oser Publisher Jules Denton-Card Senior Associate Publisher Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director JoEllen Lowry • Jeanie Catron • Karrie Welborn Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Art Director Jonathan Schieffer Graphic Designer Caitlyn McGrath • Sarah Glenn Customer Service Managers Jay Watson • Hannah Stefanovich Show Logistics & Distribution Marcos Morhaim Senior Account Manager Tara Neal Director of Operations Enrico Cecchi European Sales EdTech Show Daily is published by Oser Communications Group ©2018 All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy www.osercommunicationsgroup.com Lee M. Oser Founder EdTech Show Daily Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4 MackinVIA Wins an Amazing Seventh Award The multiple award-winning MackinVIA recently received a third Award of Excellence by Tech & Learning maga- zine and has been hailed as one of today's most prestigious education technology products. Adding to this accomplishment was the equally respected Best of Show winner at ISTE 2015, 2016 and 2017. Rounding out the list of accomplish- ments was a recent 2017 and 2018 Platinum Award from the esteemed Modern Library Awards. When Mackin set out to create a dig- ital content delivery system for its cus- tomers, the top priority was to make it user-friendly and robust for students and educators alike. With a catalog of over 1.9 million digital titles, over nine mil- lion students with access to MackinVIA, and having recently received multiple accolades, MackinVIA has proven that those efforts have now been validated. MackinVIA is being hailed within the industry as the best digital resource management solution available for schools K-12. Users can access their dig- ital products including eBooks, online databases, videos, audiobooks and more from almost any mobile device or desk- top computer. Teachers can use the sys- tem to align resources to their curriculum and educational standards, and librarians and administrators can purchase and manage the digital inventory all in one place. MackinVIA boasts a number of study features including a personal and convenient Backpack for each student that lets them store their favorite resources, and affords them the ability to create and access notes and highlights within those resources. With the Backpack feature, students can also download eBooks and audiobooks for on-the-go reading on their mobile Boxlight Committed to STEM Education To help busy educators start or expand their STEM (and STEAM) instruction, K-12 digital classroom technology experts at Boxlight have made available two free STEM resources: monthly STEM lessons and "The Big Guide to STEM." Now, instead of teachers having to add the challenge of coming up with new STEM lesson ideas to an already hectic work load, they can access the MimioConnect™ Interactive Teaching Community to have a steady stream of ready-made, well-thought-out, easy-to- execute lessons right at their fingertips. The monthly lessons are centered on the use of sensors and data loggers (such as those embedded within the Labdisc portable STEM lab) in order to facilitate modern science standards requirements of inquiry-based learning and the devel- opment of students' problem solving skills. Some of the interactive STEM les- sons also utilize technology such as doc- ument cameras and IWBs. The collection of activities ranges from elementary to high school and cover science areas for biology, chemistry, environmental and physical science. In addition, they incor- porate opportunities for knowledge checks and student collaboration. Available at no charge at news.mimio.boxlight.com/stem-guide, "The Big Guide to STEM" is a 30-page comprehensive PDF that explains why Continued on Page 25 Continued on Page 25