EDCompass previous issues

Differentiation Made Easy • From Johannesburg, South Africa to Calgary, Canada • SMART Notebook Tips – Filling Irregular Shapes, Shake to Group and Ungroup • Moving Forward With Differentiation • Surviving to Thriving – A Community Transformed • A Vision of Innovation: DviT technology • An Educator’s Perspective on DViT • DViT over time

Tips I Use to Ensure a Great Start to the Year • A Little Girl With Big Dreams Coming True • SMART Notebook Tips – Full Screen Page Border With Hide and Reveal, Aligning Objects, Audio Recording • Empowering Teachers With Tools for Success • Head Back to School With SMART Training and Professional Development • Global Research Finds Personal Devices and Interactive Whiteboards Add More Value When Used Together • Supporting New Learning Methods With SMART Products • Interactivity in Any Space • Quiz: What’s the Right Interactive Product for Your Classrooms?

Teach Smarter with Professional Development • Training and PD Another Extraordinary SMART Product • SMART Notebook Tips – Downloading Widgets in SMART Notebook 11 • Real Life Professional Development Practices • What Do You Think of the Magazine? • Shop the SMART Parts Store in May and Get a Free USB Drive • Funding for Professional Development • Preparing Teachers for Technological Success • Gaining Multiple Perspectives

Finding Funding for Classroom Technology • Looking for Funding in All the Wrong Places? • SMART Notebook Tips – Hide and Reveal • Strategically Achieving Funding Success • Tell Us What You Think for a Chance To Win • Contests Galore • ARRA Funding Waiting to be Spent • Give Your Finding a Boost • Buying SMART Products on a Budget • Bring Your Favorite Lesson Tools Together • Ask Allison: SMART Notebook 11 collaborative learning software

Impact of Stem and Academic Core Standards Integration • Four Chances to Win Products for Your School • SMART Notebook 11 Sneak Peek – Activity Builder • Transforming Learning through Exploration and Collaboration • SMART Solutions in the STEM Classroom • Apply for Your School to Be a SMART Showcase School • Attend a SMART Webinar on Supporting Accessibility • Become a SMART Exemplary Educator (SEE) • Making the World a Better Place • Get Professional, Interactive Content Accredited by SMART • Explore SMART-Accredited Titles From These Education Publishers

Accountability. Scores. Words Educators Are Constantly Thinking About • New Products Announced • SMART Notebook 11 Sneak Peek – Shape Image Fill and Customizable Creative Pen • Changing the Landscape of Education • Want to win a SMART Board 885ix interactive whiteboard? • Discover new ways to bring math and science to life in the classroom • Become a SMART Exemplary Educator • Participate in the world’s first digital spelling competition! • Making Global Connections without Leaving the Classroom • 3D Tools for SMART Notebook software – An added Dimension to Learning • Ask Amy

Evolution or Revolution? • Digital Content at Your Fingertips • 1:1 eLearning Environment • Visit SMART at FETC or TCEA in 2011 • Lesson Transformation Has Rewards for Teachers and Students • Learn How to Use SMART Notebook to Create Your Own Digital Content • Creating SMART Notebook Lessons for Dummies • Digital Curriculum Leads to Sustained Student Engagement at Irons Middle School • Subscribe to the EDCompass blog! • Become a SMART Exemplary Educator • It's Not too Late - Suite Talk for a Chance to Win • SMART Board 885ix Interactive Whiteboard System - In a Class of Its Own

Students Can Be Scientists Too • Science Resources • Science Grants • Energizing Science Lessons • From the CEO • Soaring Toward STEM Success with the Engineering and Aerospace Sciences Academy • Energize Lessons with the SMART Response XE Interactive Response System

The Magic of a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard in Kindergarten • SMART Products Kick-Start Early Learning • Play on the EDCompass Blog for Your Chance to Win! • Inspirational Stories - The SMART Table • An Early Start to Engagement • It's Not Too Late - Deadline For Applications Is March 31 • Learning How to Learn Together at Pattison Elementary • The Magic of SMART Notebook 10.7 Software

A Changed Classroom · SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards Improve Teaching, Motivate Students and Increase Test Scores · View a SMART Webinar About Building Motivational Math Lessons · Experiencing Exponential Growth in Math · Visit SMART At NCTM 2011 · Finding Multiple Ways to Make Math Exciting · Amplify Results with the New SMART Audio Classroom Amplification System

Supporting Technology Integration through Professional Development • Hone Your Skills with SMART PD • Research on PD • The Power of Professional Development • Speak Up for a Chance to Win • Have You Subscribed to the EDCompass Blog? • A Different Approach to Professional Development • Collaborative Moments Using SMART Products

A Tipping Point • Visit SMART at ISTE 2011 • New Products Showcased at ISTE 2011 • The ARRA Deadline Is September 30. How Are You Spending Your Funds? • Take Our Survey and Enter to Win a SMART Slate Wireless Slate • Congratulations to Our Winner! • Reaching Their True Potential • 2011 National Teacher of the Year • Does Your School Have What It Takes? • Focus on Students Means Success for Pittsburgh School • Lesson in Depth - Discover Mixed Reality Tools for the SMART Document Camera

Two Million and Counting! • Do You Want to Work at a School with SMART Showcase Status? • Help Students Shine • Tell Us How We're Doing - You Could Win a SMART Slate Wireless Slate • Join SMART for a Summer of Learning

Agents of Change • SMART Offers Lessons Aligned with Common Core State Standards • How Are You Using Tables in Your Lessons? • SMART Products and Apple iPad Are a Match Made for Education • Granting Access to Classroom Technology • New and Updated SMART Software for the Upcoming School Year • Taking a Title I School to New Levels with Classroom Technology • Lessons Go the Distance with SMART's Projectors

Grant Writing That Gets Results • SMART to Launch New Grants and Fundraising Web Pages • To Give Is To Receive • Sponsor-A-Classroom fundraising toolkit • Give your fundraising a boost • Nine states still eligible for Race to the Top funding • More than 2,000 teacher grants offered through 2011 • Grant Writing Helps Bring SMART Products to Palmview Elementary • Insightful Data for Informed Decision Making • The Advantages of SMART Vantage • Ask Nadeem

Explore, Discover, Learn • Assessment at It's Best • Clearing Ink from your SMART Notebook Page • Creating Informative Assessments • Reader Survey Winner Announced • Customer Satisfaction is Key • Shop the SMART Parts Store and Get a Discount • Attend a Webinar About the SMART Table • SMART Products Help Mount Harmony Elementary Students Prepare for State Assessment Tests • Flexible Assessment for Connected Classrooms • The Benefits of BYOD and SMART Response VE • Ask Sean

SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards Support Diverse Learners • SMART Solutions in the Special Needs Classroom • Removing the Grey Bars from your Notebook Page • The Power to Empower • Have Your Say • Shop the SMART Parts Store – November Discount Offered • Attend Michigan’s First Content Creation Seminar • This Month’s Webinar About the SMART Table Just Days Away • Motivating Childrend with Communication Disorders at Ardsley Middle School • Learning Comes Together with the SMART Table • A Community of Supporters • Ask Tanya

No Frills • Digital Content for Your SMART Products • What’s New on the SMART Exchange™ • Visit Us at FETC • Content for Every Class • Attend a Webinar on Technology in Education • Learning to Learn with Technology at the Saskatchewan Rivers School Division • Calling All SMART Podium™ Users • SMART-Accredited Software • SMART Notebook Express

Fresh Set of Eyes New Application Created for the SMART Table™ • Share Your Insights Contest Winners • SMART-Accredited Software • Education from Afar • Attend a Webinar on Technology in Education • Passionate Teaching Abounds at Thomas Edison School • Engaging Lessons Flow with SMART Podium

The Limits of the Mind • Attend a Professional Development Session • Get Involved with SMART • Master Your Products • Strength in Numbers • Attend a PD Webinar • Research on the Impact of Professional Development • Extreme PD Makeover in the School District of New Berlin • The SMART Table™ – New and Improved

Going for Lunch • Become a SMART Exemplary Educator • Engagement and Assessment – A Student’s Perspective • Share Your SMART Notebook™ Lesson Activities to Win • Assessing Success • Share Your SMART Support Stories • New SMART Notebook Express™ Features • SMART Response Clicks at Ware County High School • SMART Response product line

A Teacher’s Voice • Watch a Webinar on 1:1 Learning • White Paper on 1:1 Environments • SMART’s New Website • Win SMART Products • Share Your SMART Support Stories • Wonders of 1:1 • Nominate a Great Teacher • Real Projects, Real Learning • SMART Classroom Suite

Just One Thing • Get Trained •What's New • Boost Your Content Creation Know-How • Go Wide - Pay Less for a Limited Time • Content Challenge Winners • Building Best Practices at Kildare Elementary • Enter a New Reality with the SMART Document Camera

A Resourceful Approach to Grants • Grants and Fundraising Resources at Your Fingertips • Tips to Obtain a Grant • Finding Funding • Get More for Less • More Content on the SMART Exchange • California School Overcomes Funding Obstacles • The 600i - Generation Excellent

Bringing Out the Exceptional • Special Education Resources • SMART PD Plus • Learn How to Create Engaging Lessons… From a Distance • Lending a Voice to Learning • Creating SMART Notebook™ Lessons for Dummies® Book Now Available • SMART Table™ Wins Worlddidac Award • Kentucky School Offers Students Multiple Ways to Learn • Keep the Focus on Learning with SMART Sync

Increasing STEM engagement among high school students with a dynamic new program • Viewing lesson activities for math and science classes • Exploring the SMART Document Camera • Helping math students get creative at Port Hope High School

Using SMART products to prepare early education students for a lifetime of learning • Engaging students with technology at Tedder Elementary • Incorporating project-based learning into early learner classrooms • Introducing the SMART Slate wireless slate

Leveling the classroom playing field with SMART products • Removing barriers for students at Glasgow’s Isobel Mair School • Turning the spotlight on SMART Response LE • Exploring content for special needs students on the SMART Exchange

Fundraising and grant writing tips, best practices and inspiring stories from teachers who are finding the funds they need • Involving teachers in technology implementation • Embarking on an educational voyage at Salt Lake City’s Escalante Elementary

Motivating students with SMART Interactive Classroom PE • Integrating new technology seamlessly into existing environments • Building a collaborative school community at Saskatchewan’s Davison elementary • Introducing dual-touch collaboration with the SMART Board SBD600 series interactive whiteboard

Introducing easier software updates for Mac users • Launching a widescreen interactive pen display • Exploring new gallery collections • Investing in the future with SMART

Visiting SMART’s interactive classroom at NECC • Introducing the SMART Board 685ix interactive whiteboard system • Helping English language learners excel at Virginia’s Pleasant Valley Elementary School • Viewing new activities for SMART Table interactive learning centers • Using ARRA funds to create technology-enabled classrooms

Looking at SMART’s training and professional development opportunities • Students and teachers educating each other in unique college course • Exploring new content for the SMART Table interactive learning center • Implementing education technology correctly in New Mexico’s Rio Rancho Public Schools district

Encouraging students to participate in learning • Making classrooms fluid and energized • Meeting the needs of a diverse student body at Tampa’s Essrig Elementary School • Introducing SMART Response and SMART Notebook SE (Student Edition)

Building creative thinking skills in high school math • Spotlighting SMART Notebook Math • Making math interactive at Colorado’s Cresthill Middle School

Announcing touch recognition in SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboards • Taking students on the journey of a lifetime with Connections • Celebrating diversity at Toronto’s Joyce Public School

Building better lessons with digital resources • Leveraging SMART content collections at Minnesota’s Wayzata Public Schools district • Looking at the high-quality content that drives SMART products

Highlighting best practices in professional development • Using SMART programs and resources to build and share education technology knowledge • Transforming professional development through social networking • Embracing technology at Maryland’s Mount Harmony Elementary School

Fundraising tactics in daunting economic times • Sharing fundraising success stories • Introducing the SMART Table • Snowballing enthusiasm for SMART Board interactive whiteboards speeds up implementation in Minnesota’s Mahtomedi Public Schools

Designing curricula to meet diverse learning styles • Using technology and SMART products to differentiate instruction and reach all learners • Improving learning outcomes across the board at Florida’s Oak View Middle School • Spotlighting the SMART Board interactive display frame

Getting inspired for another great year • Looking at SMART services and support resources • Amplifying learning with SMART audio • Planning lessons with SMART Notebook • Increasing student engagement with the “wow” factor at Virginia’s Kenmore Middle School • Helping ESL students learn using SMART Document Camera

Studying the impact of interactive whiteboard use in K-12 classrooms • Maximizing your use of SMART training resources • Entering the SMART Teacher Content Challenge

Getting all the info you need to navigate SMART’s booth at the 29th annual National Education Computer Conference • Sharing lessons on the SMART Exchange • Teaching students to think for themselves in 1:1 classrooms • Engaging and interactive lessons at Walnut Hill Elementary School in Dallas

Using interactive whiteboards to facilitate project-based learning • Introducing the wide-format SMART Board 685 interactive whiteboard • Bringing cutting-edge tools to math students at Illinois’s Naperville Central High School • Getting a sneak peak of what to expect in SMART’s booth at the 29th annual Education Computer Conference

Introducing SMART Notebook 10 • Making learning authentic with digital content • Capturing students’ attention at California’s Norwood Elementary • Redesigning the Teachers’ Hub to make it easier to access teaching resources

Using technology to overcome obstacles to learning • Introducing SMART Document Camera • Facilitating distance education with SMART Bridgit conferencing software • Cheering for algebra at New York’s Oswego City School District • Sharing videos on SMART’s new YouTube channel

Motivating students with engaging learning environments • Using technology to keep classes focused at Utah’s Bennion Junior High School • Highlighting Reuters news agency in the SMART Learning Marketplace • Looking at the Senteo interactive response system 2.0