Showcases

Sound Amplification Showcase

  • Date and Time: March 24, 2010 (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
  • Location: Educational Service District 112, 2500 NE 65th Avenue, Vancouver, WA 98661
  • Registration Fee: $35 per person (includes lunch, handouts and PowerPoint presentation)

While a classroom amplification system is not a matter of technology integration or technology literacy, it clearly represents a technology solution that provides an optimal learning condition in the classroom. There is an abundance of research that shows the need for amplification in the K-12 classroom, both for hearing-impaired students and students with normal hearing.

This showcase will provide information about the need for classroom amplification, and attendees will leave with an understanding of why this solution is so critical in a learning environment.

This day will provide you with an opportunity to see and hear:

  • The research about classroom acoustics and its impact on student sound perception, attention span, and student achievement;
  • The three acoustical barriers to speech perception by the students;  The significance of the Signal to Noise Ratio in a classroom;
  • The various solutions to overcome poor acoustics;
  • The classroom guidelines set by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association;
  • Presentations and demonstrations by DigitalEdge Vendors on their amplification solutions.

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Interactive Whiteboards and Student Response Systems

  • Date and Time: April 20, 2010 (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific time)
  • Location: Educational Service District 112, 2500 NE 65th Avenue, Vancouver, WA 98661
  • Registration Fee: $35 per person (includes lunch, handouts and PowerPoint presentation)

The power that interactive whiteboards and student response systems bring to classrooms is more evident each day. Together, these solutions provide an engaging learning environment for students.

  • Interactive whiteboards increase visual learning and provide opportunities for kinesthetic learning experiences that are not possible with traditional chalkboards and overhead projectors.
  • Student response systems give learners the opportunity to have a “voice” in their learning experiences as well as assess their learning.

This showcase will offer an opening presentation on the educational uses of interactive whiteboards and student responses systems. The emphasis of the opening presentation will be on the ways in which these engaging technologies support the nine research-based instructional strategies that are identified in the well-known book entitled Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano, Pollock and Pickering, ASCD, 2001).

Following the opening presentation, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about these classroom technologies by seeing the solutions that are available and sold by DigitalEdge vendors.

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Sustainable Solutions: Projectors and Document Cameras

  • Date and Time: May 24, 2010 (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time)
  • Location: Educational Service District 112, 2500 NE 65th Avenue, Vancouver, WA 98661
  • Registration Fee: $35 per person (includes lunch, handouts and PowerPoint presentation)

As districts and universities seek technology solutions for teaching and learning, sustainability is becoming as important as affordability. However, sustainability can be hard to define and identify. This seminar offers a list of indicators of sustainability, and identifies a sustainability model that stands the test of time.

When connected to a projector, the document camera offers an affordable and sustainable solution as a teaching tool. In Washington State, it has become the most pervasive piece of technology for K-12 classrooms. Teachers of all ages are using document cameras to create, deliver and share highly visual and interactive lessons in all content areas. It has become the piece of equipment that teachers can not live without.

This event offers an opening presentation on a new classroom model called The Sustainable Classroom, and provides insights into the attributes of such a learning environment, and the reasons that document cameras and projectors are sustainable solutions that support research-based instructional strategies that are also sustainable in themselves.

Then spend time with various vendors that sell document cameras and projectors on the DigitalEdge contract, and learn more about their features and educational capabilities.

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