SAFARI Montage

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Carolyn Faulkner-Beitzel, PhD
Director of Curriculum, SAFARI Montage

Free Pre-Conference Workshops at FETC 2012

SAFARI Montage will be offering 2 FREE pre-conference workshops at FETC 2012 in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in Meeting Room S220B. 

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Andrew Schlessinger
CEO & Co-founder, SAFARI Montage

Boosting Classroom Efficiency With Technology Features That Will Make You Smile

 

As many of you know, at this past ISTE in Philadelphia, we showcased the value of a classroom that benefited from seamless technology interoperability, giving any teacher the ability to engage students with media-filled lessons. All of these elements are brought together under one user interface in SAFARI Montage’s newest module, Digital Curriculum Presenter (DCP).

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A Common Humanity--Acceptance, Tolerance & Inclusion

 

Essential Question: What criteria are necessary to build a learning community that honors and respects all students?

Activity 5: Cries from Endangered Species

Activity 5: Cries from Endangered Species
Through the activities in this project, students will become aware of the issues facing specific endangered species and their habitat and use poetry to express their observations, opinions, and emotions about this important topic. The final project will be the creation of a poem that will be written, published and presented in a multimedia format to help raise awareness about different endangered species.

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Andrew Schlessinger
CEO & Co-founder, SAFARI Montage

A Holiday Gift of Hundreds of Videos FOR YOU!

I started distributing educational video 25 years ago, and I have always enjoyed being selective about the videos that I offered to schools and public libraries. Back then, it was VHS tapes, and I was reminded of a particular series dating from 1985 while watching the movie Julie and Julia. The series was Julia Child’s “The Way to Cook.” It was exceptional, although more for public libraries than for schools, which ultimately became our exclusive focus.

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SAFARI Montage
Site Contributor, SAFARI Montage

Introducing....Allen Independent School District

 Prior to implementing the SAFARI Montage system, Allen ISD was using school-based media retrieval systems. That was back in 2006, and David Spann, AISD’s Executive Director of Technology, says that the district set its sights on a centralized digital media system. “The goal was to streamline, and with SAFARI Montage, we no longer have a need to put VCRs or DVD players in all of our classrooms,” he explains, adding, “The content on SAFARI Montage opened up a lot of avenues for our teachers.”

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Fred Whitehouse
Account Executive (FL, GA, TN), SAFARI Montage

SAFARI Montage at FETC 2012

We are here in sunny Florida on Day 1 of FETC.  The conference has only just begun but it's started off with a bang! Bright and early Tim Beekman presented the SAFARI Montage vision and received input from Florida and Georgia school district staff.  Meanwhile, Carolyn Faulkner-Beitzel and Shannon Yeager shared SAFARI Montage with customers in our booth.  

 

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