A quick history: in 1971 PA set up 29 Intermediary Units (IU’s) to help educate the educators and integrate technology in the classroom. Each IU has it’s own directors and paid staff to oversee it’s “territory.” The main contacts between the schools and the IU’s are tech savvy teachers, tech and IT directors called CFF Coaches (Classroom For the Future). It is a great concept and an asset to the schools. The organizations also do training, act as a liason between the School Districts and the PA Dept. of Education. There’s more at the main site if you’re interested, PAIU.
With that back story out of the way…
Last week Point Click Learn was invited to present the eInstruction products to IU #5 at their office in Edinboro. There were about 20 CFF coaches there and it provided a great opportunity to build a rounded presentation of the package.
We had pre-assigned names to the CPS clickers and distributed them at the beginning of the presentation for a review of their “homework.” We then transitioned into Examview and aligning lessons to state standards. The last portion of the presentation was using Workspace and showcasing the versatility of sandbox mode. The difficulty in Workspace is to narrow down it’s huge potential to the features that would be most often applied in the classroom.
Although the eInstruction products are not as well know as some of the larger brands (yet), several of the coaches were already familiar with them. One of them pulled out this months Tech Learning and showed us this article, which we hadn’t seen yet. And then, as we were presenting, a technology director from Warren gave us an impromptu reference.
Apparently, she purchased a mobi for one of her math teachers while someone else was using her Airliner. When they tried to return the Airliner she wouldn’t trade back. There was more to the story but that’s the short version.
That’s a phenominal reference. Although we believe that eInstruction has the best product line in the education market, it’s always great to hear feedback from the educators in the field who are using it. Any other pleased educators? Let us know. And….if you’re in PA and would like a quick demo we’re happy to do that as well.
I never would’ve gotten the notion at things in that light. This will make my life a lot easier.
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