Activinspire Online
Emmanuelle Riker
Although e-learning already provides a safe and viable option for educational continuity, school districts are investing in several advancements that will help to further and improve its adoption. The technique of gamification, for example, has led to the simplified tracking of progress and improved interactions between educators and students.
ActivInspire makes it easy to import existing resources, such as PowerPoint slides or PDFs, which can then be embedded in multimedia files within lesson plans. When students and teachers return to an in-person classroom, ActivInspire can be downloaded and used with 4K interactive whiteboards, which encourages collaboration at the front of the class with multitouch functionality.
ActivInspire can also guide students to spell untaught words phonetically by drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions. Using these phonetic capabilities, ActivInspire makes learning how to spell complex words an interactive exercise for the student by drawing on sound and letter relationships. Teachers can also use ActivInspire to bolster the lesson plans for teaching conventional spelling of words with common spelling patterns, as well as common irregularly spelled words.
ActivInspire is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Setup took less than 10 minutes on a computer running Windows 10. Perhaps the best thing about the software is that teachers can leverage templates that other teachers create. For example, while testing the software, I used a world history lesson that I found online, as well as several other lesson plans on various subjects created by the increasingly large community of users.
Teachers can use ActivInspire to plan an entire school year of learning. I found and implemented a 200-day flipchart that covers the entire school year. The calendar I used starts on the first day of school and goes through to the last day. It was very easy to edit and customize, and best of all, it can be reused year after year.
After a week of using the Ultra Ergo, my youngest started focusing better in class and the improvement in his attention level was measurable, noticed not only by his parents but also by his teacher. He found the ergonomically angled ear cups very comfortable, and after a short while, he accepted wearing them simply as part of the online experience.
As parents, we were relieved that their ears were protected from compression and their hearing from the strain of damaging frequencies over long listening periods. Our sons were much more engaged in their schoolwork and well protected too.
Staying safe while working remotely has not only exposed cybersecurity gaps, but also provided a new opportunity for cyberattackers and their malware to strike schools and other educational organizations. Ransomware is a particular problem, as it can affect both schools and their students. These challenges highlight the importance of solutions like Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2020 to protect teachers, students and schools from nefarious activities.
Normally bundled with other solutions like Bitdefender Total Security 2020, this anti-virus platform runs the gamut in robust threat detection, flagging both the most basic attacks and the most sophisticated intrusion attempts. I tested Antivirus Plus 2020 by sending viruses from my testing zoo to a typical laptop protected by the software. Without fail, Antivirus Plus 2020 was able to stop all infections and remediate each attempted attack. Nothing got through, and no user intervention was required.
Online education is here to stay, in one form or another, for the foreseeable future. With these three key solutions, everyone in the educational community benefits: Teachers, students and school systems can improve student learning rates. Teachers can create dazzling lesson plans. And everyone can be kept safe in their online learning environment.
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ActivInspire is an educational software developed by Promethean Entertainment that provides teachers with the tools they need to create interactive and engaging lessons for their students. This software is designed to work with Promethean's interactive whiteboards and other classroom technologies.
With ActivInspire, teachers can create multimedia presentations that incorporate a variety of resources such as images, video, and audio. They can also create interactive activities that allow students to participate in the learning process by clicking on images, dragging and dropping items, and more.
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