(ENCINO, CA) May 1, 2018 — Insight ADVANCE, creator of groundbreaking tools for teachers’ professional growth, today announced the launch of its first iOS app for users of ADVANCEfeedback®, the award-winning observation, coaching and evaluation software product. ADVANCEfeedback recently won Edtech Digest’s Award for Best Professional Development Learning Tool.

The ADVANCEfeedback mobile app is designed to improve the user experience and save educators time capturing, uploading, and sharing videos so they can concentrate on peer and observer feedback in order to improve teacher practice.

With the new app, users can:

• Log in using their ADVANCEfeedback username and password;
• Track how much storage space they have to add new videos;
• Record new videos;
• Choose existing videos from the device’s gallery;
• Trim the video or merge multiple clips into one video;
• Upload videos directly into their ADVANCEfeedback account; and
• Share videos with peers or observers.

Rebekah Ralph, instructor of educational technology and edTPA coordinator at LaGrange College, said, “I can't imagine teaching, training, and supporting teachers without ADVANCEfeedback. The mobile app makes the teacher's workflow easier and more efficient, which should mean more videos are created for self-reflection, peer collaboration, and coaching."

Nancy Goodman, vice president of product for Insight ADVANCE, added, “We understand that teachers don't have time to worry about cameras, transferring video files, or wondering if their internet infrastructure will support the upload, so we worked with them to design an app that would eliminate any obstacles. Just as ADVANCEfeedback is designed to make it easier for teachers to receive feedback, our app will make it easier for teachers to initiate the process.”

The app is available for iPhone and iPad via Apple’s App Store.

About Insight ADVANCE
As a team of former teachers, coaches, school leaders, and district administrators, Insight ADVANCE is passionate about changing the status quo when it comes to supporting educator growth. Based on years of on-the-ground experience in states, districts, and schools across the country, Insight ADVANCE has developed a suite of products that connects self-reflection, coaching and peer collaboration, observation, and evaluation to permanently impact how all educators involved in teacher growth are supported. The ADVANCE Suite of tools breaks new ground in proving how educator observations, whether on video in person, can generate data that powerfully drives professional growth. To learn more, please visit InsightADVANCE.com/AboutUs.

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In February, TabPilot released the iOS version of the Tablet Manager MDM suite into public beta, offering key MDM features including integration with Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP) and Volume Purchase Program (VPP). Today, the company expanded the offering with new features for both classroom teachers and IT administrators.

Among the new classroom features is the ability for teachers to distribute content to iPads for student access through the TabPilot File Locker app. File Locker will display many common file formats internally, or allow the student to choose an external app. Teachers have access to clear passcodes on iPads, allowing students to get back to work quickly. AirPlay features allow teachers to choose a student iPad to start mirroring to a classroom Apple TV device with a few clicks in the cloud-based Control Tower console. Web Links allow the teacher to place links to websites directly on student iPad home screens and restrict the browser to only that group of sites if they choose.

TabPilot invites schools to try TabPilot for iOS for free. Schools who use the free trial to test the new features before June 28th will receive free device licenses and pay only an annual subscription fee.

Aerohive Networks® today announced it has developed a new iOS App for guest and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) management. In addition, the company is teaming with Impulse to deliver end-to-end network security, protection and visibility.

Aerohive is expanding its security capabilities with new enhancements to its ID Manager application and Private Pre-Shared Key (PPSK) feature.

ID Manager now has an accompanying iOS app that enables self-service guest and BYOD registration by employees.

In addition, Aerohive has partnered with Impulse to extend its security functionality to network access control (NAC). Impulse’s device-centric access control approach integrates directly with Aerohive’s access point user profiles to dynamically assign Layer 2-7 firewall policies and quality-of-service privileges without the need for VLAN steering.

Pricing and Availability

ID Manager is sold in packs of concurrent users, starting at $500/year US for 10 active credentials. The new iOS ID Manager App is a free download on iTunes with an active ID Manager subscription. Aerohive’s PPSK feature is available today on all Aerohive access points and branch routers running HiveOS 5.0 or later. Integration with Impulse is available today for free to all current Aerohive customers with access points running HiveOS 6.4 or later.

On Tuesday, May 6, in celebration of National Teacher Day, Hooked On Phonics (www.HookedOnPhonics.com), will offer unlimited downloads of its Learn to Read Classroom Edition for free from the iTunes Store. The Hooked On Phonics Classroom app is correlated to National Common Core Standards.

Wildlife Acoustics introduced its new Echo Meter Touch bat detector/recorder/analyzer at the National Science Teachers' Association Conference (NSTA) in Boston.

The Echo Meter Touch is a key-fob-sized ultrasonic module that plugs into an iPhone or iPad that accompanies a free Echo Meter touch app and provides users with a spectrogram viewer. The app can identify a bat’s species by its sounds and includes a GPS tracking feature that automatically tags all recordings with location information.

Bat Conservation International's bat biology studies curriculum guide offers in-class activities, field work and at-home projects. (Video courtesy of Ken Royal.)

Tales2Go Inc. announces today a new iOS version of its app that introduces new features such as seamless bookmarks and multi-variable search.

Tales2Go is a Netflix-like subscription service that streams name-brand audio book titles to desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom.

For more information on Tales2Go, visit: www.tales2go.com

Bretford Manufacturing, Inc.®, a global manufacturer of technology-enabled furniture for schools and businesses, today released its app-enabled charge and sync products for iOS devices.

The PowerSync Cart® 40, PowerSync Cart® 20 and PowerSync Station™ 20 for iPad and iPad mini are designed to charge, sync and store large numbers of iPad devices.

The PowerSync Cart 40, Cart 20 and Station 20 allow users to remotely check connected devices. Other features include:

PowerSync Cart 40 for iPad and iPad mini. Offers greater capacity in a compact footprint.

PowerSync Cart 20 for iPad and iPad mini. Contains all the same features as the Cart 40 but is designed to hold up to 20 devices and includes secure storage for headphones, keyboards and more.

PowerSync Station 20 for iPad and iPad mini. When space is limited, the PowerSync Station 20 can be stacked up to three units high or individually mounted on the wall.

Atomic Learning recently added content to their ed tech training library that includes iOS 7 training on the App Store, Contacts, Maps, and Safari apps and is sharing this new content with visitors at their booth at the TCEA conference February 3-7 in Austin, TX.

Apple® redesigned most apps for iOS® 7, including these four apps. In the App Store series, educators can learn how to browse for, purchase, and install apps, view and create ratings and reviews, as well as how to manually and automatically update installed apps.

In the Contacts training, teachers and students can learn how to sync contacts with other services like Gmail™, add and delete contacts, search for contacts, as well as show and hide groups, and use all of that information within each contact.

The Maps training series covers how to find businesses and locations, drop pins and bookmark them, find and use your current location, as well as ways to explore locations using different views and using 3D and flyover, while the Safari app training series includes how to browse the Internet, navigate around and between pages, create and organize bookmarks, share pages, as well as use Private mode and the security preferences.

NetSupport announces the latest update to its classroom management and instruction tool, NetSupport School (version 11.41).

An enhanced version of the NetSupport School Student app for Android is now available which includes the ability for teachers to view thumbnails of connected student tablets, remotely launch websites on one or more student tablets and assign student rewards. The enhanced Android Student is also joined by a new Student app for Apple iOS.

The NetSupport School Student apps for Android, Kindle and iOS are available as free downloads from Google Play, Amazon and iTunes.

The latest update for NetSupport School ensures key e-safety areas are supported, including keyword monitoring; Instant Messenger monitoring; a Safe Search mode; internet controls, and a student toolbar ensuring students can communicate silently with a teacher at any time.

NetSupport School v11.41 will be presented at the upcoming FETC 2014 and TCEA 2014 events. Visit www.netsupportschool.com for more information and to download a free 40-PC trial copy of NetSupport School version 11.41 Windows desktop Tutor application.

Computer Explorers, a technology education provider for preschool and elementary school students, partnered with Playrific to develop an iOS app for preschoolers. The TechStars Technology Education for Kids app has videos, games and activities for children ages 3 to 5 focused on science, technology, engineering, art and math, and is available in Apple’s App Store.

Learn more about TechStars Technology Education for Kids and the TechStars curricula by visiting the Computer Explorers website.

FRONTROW releases its new Teacher Edition App for the iPad and iPhone. The latest addition allows teachers to manage AV technology in the classroom, from anywhere in the room.

Teachers can turn on the projector, change inputs, set audio levels, freeze the screen, even call the office from their iPad or iPhone. The suggested educational price of the FRONTROW EZ-T touch screen control with Teacher Edition app begins at US$499.

Bretford Manufacturing, Inc.® is now shipping its high capacity charging cart, the Mobility Cart™ 42 for iPad and iPad mini. Also shipping are the Bretford PowerSync Roller™ 10 for iPad and the PowerSync Roller 20 for iPad mini, which are charging and syncing roller cases.

The Mobility Cart 42 i allows up to 42 iPads to be charged simultaneously and includes separate locking front and rear compartments. The Mobility Cart family incorporates the Bretford Dock & Lock Security Kit that enables the cart to be secured to an immoveable object during off-hours.

The PowerSync Roller 10 for iPad is compatible with iPad with Retina display and iPad mini. The PowerSync Roller 20 for iPad mini is compatible with iPad mini, iPhone 5, and iPod touch (5th gen).

Bloxx Inc. is introducing its latest Bloxx Web Browser for iOS6 to help schools manage their Web content filtering and internet access policies on the Apple devices they issue or make available to students and teachers.

When installed on Apple devices, the Bloxx Web Browser will filter Web traffic whether the device is connected to an organization’s Wi-Fi network or used off-network, for example, at home or connected to a public Wi-Fi network. The Bloxx Web Browser works in conjunction with the company’s Tru-View Technology, a dynamic filter that analyzes web content in real time.

The Bloxx Web Browser for iOS is available now free from the Apple iTunes Store. To provide filtering the Bloxx Web Browser must be used in conjunction with a Bloxx Web Filter or Bloxx Secure Web Gateway.

Today, Wanderful is bringing a new collection of the multilingual interactive books originally published by Living Books to schools nationwide on a variety of hardware platforms that meet the needs of schools today.

The company will initially launch three titles on the App Store and on the Mac App Store: “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “Little Monster at School” and “Arthur’s Teacher Trouble.” More than a dozen additional titles based on Jan & Stan Berenstain’s Berenstain Bears, Marc Brown’s Arthur and other noted authors will be released in the coming months. Each Wanderful app will be available for $4.99 including both English and Spanish. French can be added for $1.99; upgrading to the premium version adds French, a 40-70 page classroom activities guide and the right to perpetual feature updates for an additional $2.99. On the Mac App Store, all titles will be the premium versions priced at $9.99.

Wanderful has created a dynamic language function that allows readers to switch languages on-the-fly from anywhere in the story.

Wanderful apps will be available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store, and the Mac versions will be on the Mac App Store, later this month. Android and Windows versions will debut later this year.

For more information, visit: www.wanderfulstorybooks.com.

Sheng Apps has released Air Chalk, an iOS app for educators teaching or presenting in class.

The developer describes Air Chalk as a "digital chalkboard." Teachers can draw or write text into their mobile device, and the content gets displayed onto a projector screen. Air Chalk supports

Air Chalk supports iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch) and wireless connection and is $9.99 USD.

Features:
* Create chalk boards using either finger sketch or text input
* Multi-color chalks and eraser support
* Quick un-do and re-do
* Real-time display of chalk boards on an external display
* Works with Apple Digital AV Adapter and Apple VGA Adapter
* Remote drawing using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
* Automatically save your boards
* Replay the saved boards
* Create PDF file from your boards
* E-Mail or print your boards

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has launched Math on the Spot, a collection of entertaining video tutorials for the iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®, aimed at math students aged 10-17 years old. Featuring personal instruction from math professor Ed Burger, Math on the Spot is now available in the App StoreSM for a special promotional price of $0.99 per bundle of video content.

HMH Math on the Spot consists of a library of 1400 videos covering over 100 topics from Grade 6 to Algebra 2, including geometry, numbers and operations, algebra, statistics and probability. The tailored instructional content is arranged in bundles and categorized according to grade-level and subject matter. Aligned to Common Core State Standards for mathematics, each concise tutorial provides key learning objectives, practical examples and simple step-by-step written explanations to support key math topics - from linear equations to the Pythagorean Theorem.

Learn how to video chat on your iOS in this quick video tutorial

PD Tips courtesy of Atomic Learning

Atomic Learning recently added new content to the online professional development collection, including an expansion of its iPad® / iPad® 2 training which now supports both iOS 4 and iOS 5 users. Both of the training series provide a tutorial on how to find what operating system the device is using for accurate series viewing.

Atomic Learning has also added several other new training series to the online collection. Other software featured includes Auto CAD 2012, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) as well as a workshop for those educators who are “moving to the cloud” and more. Visit the What’s New page for all the updates to the site.

With the recent popularity of iOS gadgets in education, you might be asking yourself this question, just as others have asked, “How do I connect my pages on my iPad to my Google Docs account?” This quick tutorial walks you through the process in a few easy steps. http://youtu.be/6Sa2yUfnhbo.

PD Tips courtesy of Atomic Learning

Absolute®Software Corporation, provider of firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions, today announced the general availability of Absolute Manage 6.0.

Absolute Manage offers a single, unified console that natively enables IT administrators to efficiently manage all of their Mac, PC, Android and iOS devices by automating IT processes such as software distribution, patch management, and asset inventory. Additionally, Absolute Manage helps organizations save money by allowing them to track installed applications and licenses, redeploy under-used licenses and hardware to maximize inventory utilization and avoid non-compliance fines, and implement power management policies to reduce energy consumption. For Android and iOS devices, customers can manage apps, collect asset inventory and security data, perform configuration management tasks, and rapidly respond to security incidents.

The release includes:

AbsoluteSafe: IT administrators can securely distribute sensitive or confidential files to iOS devices including security options to block the file from being copied or emailed, as well as password protect files. Even the screen capture functionality can be turned off for the tightest document/media security available on the market today. AbsoluteSafe provides a solution for IT that removes the need for end users to use tools like DropBox and email to access company liable information on their iOS tablets and smartphones, and returns control of that data to the company – a must-have to enable organizations to embrace and fully leverage the consumerization and BYOD movement.

Scheduled Policies: Configuration profiles and media files can be assigned time-limited access. Now IT administrators can shut down access to corporate networks at a pre-defined time, or limit the availability of a document on a device for the duration of a meeting. Once the meeting time ends, the document is automatically removed from the device.

Policy-Locked Configuration Profiles: IT administrators can create corporate smart policies to provide devices with access to company email and networks. Absolute Manage 6.0 provides them with the capability to attach conditions to these policies so that non-compliant devices (jailbroken, containing blacklisted apps, etc.) will immediately lose access to company resources.

Management for Android Devices: Along with PCs, Macs, and iOS devices, IT administrators can now manage Android devices within their deployment, all from the same console.

Guest blogger Michael St. Pierre is the is the President of Morris Catholic High School, a coeducational college preparatory school in Denville, NJ., with 460 students in grades 9-12.He blogs at www.thedailysaint.com.

Prior to last year, our Admissions Team worked out of a cramped space that was broken up into several small, outdated work spaces. If folks wanted to collaborate, they had to either schedule a meeting or pick up the phone. In no time, we realized that the way we were working wasn't working.

We began to design a new workspace that would be more open and allow each member to collaborate on a moment's notice. The walls came down and multipurpose furniture went in. This was the easy part- what we needed next was an ecosystem of software and tools that would enable our workflow to move projects forward.

We found that in iOS and in iOS devices, using a combination of iPod touches (for office staff), iPads (for area directors) and iPhones to stay connected. Wherever we are on campus, we can get in touch with one another and iOS 5.0's iMessage makes it easier than ever. Our hope was to make work as frictionless as possible, so with tools in hand, we sought out software that would complete our journey. Apple's App Store provided more than a few options from which to choose.

DropBox has become an essential tool, whether on the Web or in a desktop setting. Now we share folders when a brochure is being designed or a promotional poster is being considered. Instead of putting a Powerpoint deck of slides on a flash drive, we leave it in DropBox and several members of the team can provide input. DropBox is completely free and has been flawless thus far.

The next app that has become indispensable is Nozbe, a classic GTD (Getting Things Done by David Allen, Penguin Press, 2002) app that is available either on the Web or on any iOS device. Nozbe's new desktop app is a companion product which syncs well with the mobile versions. The company offers a "family" or "team" account, depending on the size of the group. We opted for the former and now share projects, delegate tasks and post comments to one another. Best of all, Nozbe syncs with DropBox for the times when we want to add a document to a project list.

We recently deployed iPads to our 8th graders and provided some office support for the project. We shared research and data prior to the launch and refined our use policy via Nozbe.

As a result of both DropBox and Nozbe, our meetings are fewer and when we do meet, things move more quickly. As we now have more communication in between meetings, we are continually updating one another and collaborating so that we can get more done. Not surprisingly, as we communicate more, our collective trust level has increased.

We're open to adding other apps to our ecosystem of iOS tools but for now, DropBox and Nozbe have met our needs quite nicely. The combination of technology and physical space redesign have taken our team to new levels of productivity.

Saggio Technologies today announces Spanish Flashcards 2.0 - 1,000 Nouns for iOS, the Education app that uses word prioritization to help students learn Spanish. The app employs the Leitner cardfile system: It keeps three lists, based on student performance: Unseen (new), Correct (right once), and Mastered (right twice). Each time a new deck is dealt, cards from each group are included in a ratio of 50%-30%-20%. A scoring system tracks the student's progress.

Saggio Technologies offers a series of three apps, which contain 2,000 of the most commonly spoken nouns and adjectives.

This week, Lightspeed Systems announced the release of the My Big Campus app for iOS devices, a free application for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad devices that provides mobile access to educational resources including You Tube videos, online assignments, activity feeds, group discussions, and more.

My Big Campus offers an online environment to promote blended learning within a secure, monitored platform—balancing the educational use of Web 2.0 tools with network security and student safety. With the new My Big Campus app, teachers and students can access educational videos, manage assignments, view calendars, and post to class discussions from their mobile devices.

The app is available in the iTunes store at http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-big-campus/id464196976

Saggio Technologies today announces Spanish Flashcards 2.0 - 1,000 Nouns for iOS, the Education app that uses word prioritization to help students learn Spanish. The app employs the Leitner cardfile system: It keeps three lists, based on student performance: Unseen (new), Correct (right once), and Mastered (right twice). Each time a new deck is dealt, cards from each group are included in a ratio of 50%-30%-20%. A scoring system tracks the student's progress.

Saggio Technologies offers a series of three apps, which contain 2,000 of the most commonly spoken nouns and adjectives.