
SHOWCASING the smartest integration of K-12 educational technology ever!
Get an inside view of the outstanding SAFARI Montage Effective Digital Classroom in Meeting Room #105A at ISTE. Attend a full lineup of fascinating presentations delivered by exemplary educators and ed-tech thought leaders who will model a practical digital classroom showing best practices, and introduce cost-effective ways that technology can simply solve today’s K-12 budgetary challenges while providing sound pedagogical solutions. SAFARI Montage, along with its Effective Digital Classroom Partners, will show you the most effective integration of K-12 educational-technology components, content and software ever!
This hands-on workshop, for the novice user, focuses on basic SAFARI
Montage training as well as enhancing effective technology
integration skills. In this Bring Your Own Laptop session,
teachers will learn how to find and use digital content to boost the effectiveness of lessons and
the overall engagement of students. Attendees will create instructional playlists that apply theories
of best practice for implementing a digital curriculum, promoting higher order thinking skills and
supporting your state and ISTE NET-S standards.
Learn to use, manage, present and share rich digital media by utilizing the SAFARI Montage solution.
Tech-savvy
how they have integrated SAFARI Montage and the CreationStation™
PA educators will present module into classrooms, lessons and professional development, and will help you re-create their success
in this free Bring-Your-Own-Laptop hands-on workshop.
This workshop, for experienced SAFARI Montage users, focuses on enhancing effective technology
integration skills using SAFARI Montage. In this free hands-on session, attendees will apply
their knowledge of how to find content and build on their ability to form playlists by creating
more effective and diverse multimedia lesson plans, including interactive whiteboard files and
other teacher-created materials by using the CreationStation™ module. Hands-on activities will
help teachers create an authentic assessment plan that promotes the 4C skills that every
21st-century student needs to master.
Over breakfast, experienced SAFARI Montage customers share their product development
ideas with Tim Beekman and review the latest SAFARI Montage features completed and in development.
Learn how to improve your school's safety, student performance and teaching effectiveness with one comprehensive system.
VIEWPath integrates Panasonic's A+ Classroom Audio System, now including a built-in security alert capability, with
both camera integration and SAFARI Montage. The system allows staff to schedule remote lesson observation for teacher
evaluation, student behavioral issues, remote learning and professional development.
Come witness the most cost-effective and efficient K-12 digital classroom, taking course instruction
to the most engaging, yet simplified, experience possible.
Showcased in the SAFARI Montage Effective Digital Classroom the new module, Digital Curriculum Presenter, is helping schools manage their classroom technology, build digital curricula, integrate with district-wide software applications, moderate and share user-created content and broadcast instruction directly into homes and all form of mobile devices. The opportunities are limitless and the usage potential is inexhaustible.
If you've seen SAFARI Montage before, you’re guaranteed to be thrilled by the new features. If you're new to the product, you’ll leave with a new appreciation and excitement for the potential of a digital curriculum. This K-12 Effective Digital Classroom showcases interactive 3-D content, virtual interactive student response systems integrated with iPads for formative assessment, interactive projectors, audio enhancement, live digital resources, wireless solutions and much more.
Attendees will obtain valuable insight into the important requirements when delivering high-quality
video files wirelessly, and learn how to implement a reliable and easy-to-use wireless infrastructure
that supports 1:1 objectives, while opening up new doors for integrating other learning tools and
resources into district curriculum. You will see how Motorola's AP 7131 802.11a/b/g/n flagship access
point offers the high throughput and coverage required in today’s digital media learning environments.
You will also gain an understanding of how architectural choices can affect overall performance, reliability,
availability, management and total cost of ownership.
From the developer of the most spectacular K-12 interactive 3D models available today, learn how to use the
interactive Cyber-Science 3D models in the science classroom (without glasses!) to better demonstrate spatial
and orientation concepts critical for learning anatomy that are more difficult to teach using conventional 2D
methods. Use these 3D models to create your own 3D animations, which can be shared throughout your district.
The implementation of a digital curriculum is at the forefront of the 21st century school district technical challenges.
Learn how to prepare your district to adopt, develop, and implement the tools necessary to achieve a reliable
digital solution. Identify the top considerations that need to be considered and addressed. Understand the impact of
digital curriculum delivery on instruction and opportunities for improving how your teachers teach and how your students
learn. Explore Digital Curriculum Presenter™, a system integrated with SAFARI Montage, to develop, manage,
enhance and effectively present digital media in the classroom.
Be astonished at how SAFARI Montage Digital Curriculum Presenter™ now integrates with
Moodle v.1.9, providing an elegant visual interface for a teacher’s simplified presentation of an entire
lesson and all of its digital resources. Learn how your Moodle courses can be easily enriched by searching
and adding digital video content from the premier educational video, 3D and formative assessment publishers
found on SAFARI Montage. Plus, get a peak at how IMS GLC Common Cartridge standards will change interoperability
in the K-12 digital curriculum in Moodle 2.0.
Cabletime and SAFARI Montage will present high-performance encoding solutions (SD and HD) that offer extremely
efficient H.264 video compressions, thereby enabling streamed video to the classroom from any traditional analog
or digital source for delivery via IP networks. Learn how to expand the boundaries of the classroom instruction
by providing teachers with a fully integrated solution for easily accessing live digital video streamed resources.
Let Hitachi and SAFARI Montage show you how the newest Hitachi Ultra Short Throw (UST) Interactive Projector
and Pen can change K-12 classroom instruction while saving considerable money! This newest technology,
integrated with SAFARI Montage, also allows school districts and teachers to transform lessons into engaging
interactive opportunities with StarBoard software, a dynamic set of free teaching tools designed for educators.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) lessons should turn students on in the same ways
video games or movies, yet don’t need to mimic those forms of media. Come see how to easily
create and present STEM lessons with interactive 3D models (without glasses!), interactive illustrations,
rich video segments from the finest educational video series on SAFARI Montage, which include Bill Nye the
Science Guy, Magic School Bus, Schlessinger Media, BBC, National Geographic, and more.
In 2010, Robin Gonzales launched an online learning initiative that the Chicago Tribune called "an inexpensive, flexible,
cutting edge" learning environment that expanded the CPS program from 500 to 5,000 students. Learn how she leveraged
online learning to increase graduation rates and expand learning options through the use of digital curriculum, media
and web conferencing tools.
Chicago Public Schools, a leading technology innovator in K-12, will share their district's success in saving millions
of dollars by using interactive desktop videoconferencing. Learn how they selected the right system that reduced or
eliminated costs for travel, food, stipends, substitute teachers and other related expenses for district-wide
Professional Development. Whether your district is large or small, it is possible to do more with a lot less.
Over lunch, experienced SAFARI Montage customers share their product development ideas with Tim Beekman and
review the latest SAFARI Montage features completed and in development.
Break down the walls of your classroom and connect your students to 21st-century skills. Embrace
new technology literacies and connect your students to their global world through technology and
available live digital resources. Jill Hobson, recently named one of Technology & Learning's
Top 100 most important people in educational technology, and listed as one of the 20 emerging
leaders in technology on the National School Board Association's Twenty to Watch, will show you
how she uses SAFARI Montage as the vehicle for change.
The implementation of a digital curriculum is at the forefront of the 21st century school district technical challenges.
Learn how to prepare your district for adopting, developing and implementing the tools necessary to achieve a reliable
digital solution. Identify the top considerations that need to be considered and addressed. Understand the impact of
digital curriculum delivery on instruction and opportunities for improving how your teachers teach and how your students
learn. Explore Digital Curriculum Presenter™, a system integrated with SAFARI Montage, to develop, manage, enhance and
effectively present digital media in the classroom.
Hear from Mary Hewett, Executive Director of Instructional Technology from Plano ISD, how quick and easy it can be
to publish district-created video content for anyone in the world to access using a familiar, web-based interface with
thumbnails. Learn how you can share important school functions, such as school board meetings, special holiday
celebrations, professional development, fundraising campaigns, graduations and more with the community and beyond.
Virtually every school district in the country has been forced to accept the "new normal" of working with fewer staff and
resources, while still needing to deliver services to teachers and students to support instruction and learning. Here are
ten ways to cost-effectively cope with the need to deliver professional development, provide engaging rich media to students,
save on new school construction costs, reduce lost teaching time in the classroom due to larger class size, reduce classroom
technology costs and maintain technology systems automatically or remotely, save on Internet costs and more.