Are you headed to FETC this week? Us too!
Alive Studios will be among 475 exhibiting companies at the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) this week in Orlando!
If your brain starts getting mushy from all of those presentations, or you want to just skip to the best solution on the market for early childhood learning in reading and math, start your tradeshow stroll with a visit to Alive Studios. We will be at booth 263 on the trade show floor!
Demos Demos Demos!
Alive Studios will be holding ongoing product demos as well as two drawings for the NEW Learning Alive Suite (a total value of $2,590). The first drawing will be on Thursday January 22nd at 4:10 pm and the second drawing will be on Friday, January 23rd at 1:50 pm. Be sure to stop by booth #263 to register for these drawings and meet Gerdy the Giraffe and Amos the Alligator!
Laser Training (that doesn’t hurt)!
Already using Alive Studios products in your school? We’ll be offering free laser trainings on the hour for Letters alive, Math alive and Storybooks alive in the booth. Want to check out how augmented reality mixed with smart curriculum design can boost reading and math results? Come by for a demo at any time. If we’re slammed, just schedule a time to come back for a personal demonstration.
A Sneak-Peek at the Learning alive Suite:
Letters alive is a supplemental reading curriculum currently in use by educators in 11 countries and in hundreds of classrooms across the United States. Letters alive was designed in alignment with Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten classrooms, as well as early childhood reading within grades 1 – 5 for ESL students, RTI students and students with special needs.
The curriculum gets students excited about reading by using the same mind-blowing, computer-generated augmented reality technology implemented by the Imagineers at Walt Disney World, only in the classroom, where 26 alphabet cards spring to life to help students grasp key concepts in reading.
Each card features an animal that corresponds to a letter in the alphabet, but these are not just simple flash cards or basic animations; These animals pop up in 3-D with no glasses needed, and seem intelligent as they amazingly respond to the questions and sentences that students will build. Even reluctant learners enthusiastically respond to the animals, sounds, and movement. [more]
We will be introducing our newest software, Math alive! Math alive gets students excited about math by helping teachers teach math to early learners in a new and engaging way. Lessons and activities are mapped to Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten and First Grade. Math alive develops critical learning skills that children need to meet major milestones throughout the school year at Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade levels. Math alive uses 45 skill-based interactive games and the latest “mind-blowing technology” — Augmented Reality. [more]
Interactive Stories makes reading fun and engaging for children with digital interactive storybooks. They can read the stories themselves or have the program read it to them. Children are able to interact with the pages of the digital book with the same lovable animals that are in Letters alive and Math alive. One character trait is incorporated in each digital story. (i.e., being on time, courage, or kindness) Each story has mini games and activities that are aligned to Common Core State Standards.
Contact Information for Journalists:
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just tell you guys how much fun we had at NAEYC’s Annual Conference! It was so awesome. We got to see and meet so many dedicated educators, it was truly inspiring. For all in attendance we hope you guys were able to get to Follett’s booth and see Letters Alive in action. We offered TWO Letters alive giveaways while there and had a phenomenal turnout for both giveaways.
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The average teacher spends up to $1,000 of their own money on supplies for students every year. Adopt A Classroom allows crowdfunders to partner with a teacher to ensure students have what they need to succeed. Here’s how it works:
Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are the two most popular crowdfunding sites on the internet, however, none focus specifically on education. We’ve heard mixed reviews from teachers using these tools and the one thing they all have in common is this: both crowdfunding tools draw far more out-of-network (possible donors who you did not invite, who found you because they were searching for similar projects or stumbled across you on the home page) traffic than education-specific pages. The main difference between the two? IndieGoGo allows you to capture funds from projects that do not make their total fundraising goal, while Kickstarter will only release a fully-funded project.
Sharon Campbell recently retired from an illustrious teaching career of over 30 years. Her teaching story stretches from Napa County Juvenile Offender programs, to alternative high school, to Youth Employment programs, and on to her last stretch of 23 years was as a Middle School teacher. Winner of several A+ for Education grants, she is best known for designing classrooms that meet the needs of today’s students. Her spacecraft (classroom) was used as the model for Project Based Education at the Global Educator’s conference in London, and featured in the Taiwan Commonwealth Educators Journal. In 2009, she was named California School Master: the oldest most prestigious California education award.
“The scores from the AIMSweb® Letter Naming and Letter Sound Fluency Assessments (the quantitative data from this study) suggest that the Letters alive® curriculum positively impacts students’ early literacy skills. 100% of students in the full implementation classroom experienced gains on the Letter Naming Fluency Assessment, while 84.2% of students in the partial implementation classroom experienced gains on that assessment, followed by only 78.6% of students in the classroom with no exposure who experienced gains on the Letter Naming Fluency test. Additionally, 100% of students in the full implementation classroom and the partial implementation classroom experienced gains on the Letter Sound Fluency Assessment, while only 64.3% of students in the classroom with no exposure experienced gains.”
The most common reason teachers believed the Letters alive curriculum had been so effective was its power to engage even those students with the most notable attention difficulties. One pre-K teacher even admitted that it was nearly impossible to use the augmented reality features of Letters alive with a single student without catching the attention of the entire classroom.