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EdTech Show Daily Tuesday, June 26, 2018 1 8 Put Students at the Center of the Classroom with QOMO Interactive Technology By Michael Swierz, Educational Committee, QOMO Student Work at the Center At heart, teaching is an activity centered on the place where learning begins and ends: the students themselves. Teaching practices and curriculum that speak directly to students help make school rel- evant for their lives, encouraging them to retain lesson content and successfully apply the knowledge they learn to their daily lives. QOMO interactive classroom solutions offer easy tools to build stu- dent-centered classrooms and self-paced curriculum by allowing both students and teachers to wirelessly display wide-rang- ing work on QOMO's high-definition LED interactive panels, through the use of our QConnect wireless sharing device. QConnect A cross-platform, wireless screen sharing device, QConnect Wireless Interactive Presentation System allows every student in class to broadcast their own work before their peers from anywhere in the room. As many as 40 students (plus the teacher) can simultaneously connect their smartphones, tablets, laptops or any other mobile device, and the teacher can choose as many as four different students to appear on the board at once. With a built-in Android annotation overlay on both the Journey interactive panel and the QConnect Plus, teachers can visually comment on student work. Best of all, QConnect is not limited to any single brand of technology: iPads, Android devices, Chromebooks and Windows computers can connect alike as part of a seamlessly integrated BYOD classroom environment. Student-Centered Success For over a decade, QOMO has gone to great lengths to provide classrooms across America with engaging and acces- sible technology that stimulates and cap- tivates students of all ages and subjects. Today's kids spend more time than ever in front of laptops, tablets, cellphones and computers. To learn their best, stu- dents need a school environment that is up to date and pace with the high-tech world where they spend most of their lives. Technology not only influences how our students spend time outside of school; it also determines who they are. At QOMO, our goal is to provide leading edge educational equipment that makes classrooms as "real to life" as the world we are training them to lead. Allen County Technical Center is just one shining example of how QOMO is changing the way our educational system teaches our youth. "The kids are more motivated with the new technology," says teacher Cindy Scott of Allen County, Kentucky. "I like being able to share the students' work on the big screen. I feel like I've come out of the Stone Age into this new technology world." Both in Allen County and many other districts across America, QOMO interactive technology is allow- ing educators to engage the students with dynamic lesson presentations, collabora- tive group projects and greater team- work. Students feel motivated to partici- pate because they see themselves at the center of the schoolroom, up on the big screen. For more information, visit www.qomo.com, call 866.990.QOMO (7666), email info@qomo.com or stop by booth #2044. Purchasing Made Personal with TIPS By Whitley Allen, Inside Business Development and Marketing, TIPS Purchasing Cooperative The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) is a national purchasing cooperative that offers access to competitively procured purchasing contracts to its membership. TIPS is available for use by all public and private schools, colleges, universities, cities, counties and other government entities in all 50 states. It is the intention of TIPS to establish vendor awarded contracts to satisfy the procurement needs of participating mem- ber entities. These awarded contracts will enable member entities to purchase on an as-needed basis from competitively awarded con- tracts with high p e r f o r m a n c e vendors. This process saves our participat- ing member entities both time and money by not having to complete their own RFP process. Member entities can view all of our compliance documentation for each ven- dor and each contract they hold on our website. This information is located under the Due Diligence tab for every TIPS Awarded Vendor. EDGAR, DMWE and HUB Vendors are also available and searchable on our website for your con- venience. Membership with TIPS is complete- ly free with no purchasing obligation or liability. TIPS prides itself on our "Purchasing Made Personal" mantra while further ensuring compliant pur- chasing from high performance vendors. Join TIPS for free today at www.tips- usa.com/member- ship.cfm. TIPS also works diligently to meet the needs of our member entities. In doing so, our general coun- sel, previously a purchasing director for many years, creates RFP categories spe- cific to those needs. TIPS is continuous- ly approving high quality vendors that provide their products and services to our members nationwide. If you would like to view our open RFP categories and have the opportunity to join TIPS as an awarded vendor, enroll in our eBid system: https://tips.ionwave.net. Let us know how we can best serve you! Email TIPS your suggestions or inquiries to tips@tips-usa.com or call us at 866.839.8477. For more information, email tips@tips- usa.com, go to www.tips-usa.com or stop by booth #584. Discover PEG Writing: A Valuable Formative Assessment Tool Formative assessment is designed to guide instruction by enabling teachers to meet students at their respective performance levels, provide constructive feedback and plan future instruction to meet individual stu- dent needs. Unlike summative assessment, formative instruction allows students and teachers to collaborate during assignments to identify strengths and weaknesses immediately so that these can be addressed before they multiply. Constructive feedback and opportunities to apply it help students increase their skills and close learning gaps. To maximize results with formative assessment, feedback for students must be timely, specific and consistent. Timely feedback is important because students can only effectively use it when they need it. The fresher the task is in the minds of students, the more likely they are to apply that feedback to the task. Further, timely feedback prevents continued use of incorrect information, processes and means. The fresher the task is in the minds of the students, the more likely they are to apply the feedback in their task. Timely feedback can prevent continued use of incorrect information, processes and means. Specific feedback is also important, because students need to know exactly what they need to do to improve. Identifying what students can do to improve performance on a task gives them optimal chances to succeed. Consistency helps students know what to expect and allows them to continue their improvement. PEG Writing is backed by the coun- try's most researched and most award- winning scoring engine, Project Essay Grade. Updates to the system are per- formed on a regular basis to ensure that the feedback students receive is accurate and consistent.