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Ormiboard

EXO U Inc.

Ormiboard brings student and teacher closer together by providing a shared creation platform with universal tools. Sharing and classroom management are enabled via Web browser, enabling students to easily connect and collaborate with mobile devices. Teachers can create just about any kind of teaching activity, or give students the control to design and play learning games with Ormiboard. Judges appreciated Ormiboard’s OS- and device–agnostic nature, and found it easy to use and integrate into their classrooms.

ADVANCEfeedback

Insight ADVANCE

Designed for teachers, coaches, and school leaders, ADVANCEfeedback is a growthcentered, cloud-based platform that empowers participants to engage in robust self-reflection, peer feedback, observation, and professional learning processes. Including both live and video-based observations, evidence and artifact integration, coaching, reporting, and scheduling, ADVANCEfeedback makes highquality feedback easier to provide and access. Judges regarded the opportunity to align teaching practice with established rubrics as a powerful feature of the platform. Overall, they commended the product’s selection and variety of tools and learning options.

ClassFlow

Promethean

ClassFlow is a free, cloud-based collaborative learning application that lets educators create lessons, deliver interactive content across a variety of devices, and assess student understanding. The newly enhanced version of ClassFlow also includes thousands of teacher-approved interactive lessons and student badges to reward behavior and encourage students to participate. Educators can use realtime student responses to instantly customize and differentiate any lesson plan. Judges commented on ClassFlow’s ease of use, and liked that it’s Web-based. They were also impressed with the interactive resources.

myON Reader

myON

myON Reader is a personalized digital literacy platform that creates collaborative learning opportunities. myON expands the classroom for teachers and students by providing unlimited access to a collection of more than 10,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, real-time assessments, and close reading tools. myON empowers students and teachers with real-time, actionable data—number and type of books opened and read, time spent reading, results of regular benchmark assessments, and more—based on embedded Lexile assessments that measure student reading growth. Judges found that myON Reader makes literature easily available, and loved the tools that help enhance the reading process, prompting students to consider the deeper meaning of each book.

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