Osmo Projector App for Teachers Reaches 100,000 Downloads

Due to the abrupt shift to virtual learning one year earlier, Osmo reacted to instructors cries for a more efficient means of engaging trainees in a virtual class, by using Projector App. The app began as a free download to all thanks to Osmo Cares, the charitable arm of Osmo. Introduced in late March, the app is now being utilized by teachers of all levels (pre-K to university) across the nation to make the virtual learning environment more enjoyable, appealing, and comparable to an actual class; it recently reached 100,000 downloads, and helped to grow Osmos community of active users..

All Learning System Bundles Upgraded To Plastic Manipulatives for Effective Sanitization.

Osmo for Schools, a department of Tangible Play, Inc., focuses on building in-classroom use of Osmos acclaimed instructional systems. Using proprietary AI innovation, these systems help instructors foster collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and increased engagement in knowing, in trainees. Osmo is utilized in more than 30,000 schools in North America. Concrete Play is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information about Osmo for Schools and its items, check out schools.playosmo.com..

Carol Argumaniz, Assistant Principal at Lillie Jackson Early Childhood Center in Lewisville, Texas, discusses the success her teachers are having with virtual learning, thanks to Osmo Projector App. “It permits instructors to deliver the same quality lesson through virtual learning, as they would deliver through in-person learning at school,” says Argumaniz. “And it allows them to carry out little group lessons with extremely high quality pictures so trainees seem like they are really beside the instructor.”.

” The entire world holds a mirror to each schools hygiene requirement and techniques of cleansing and disinfection– this is especially real in class where a number of hands are touching various products every day,” states Richards. “Our plastic pieces are an exceptional academic tool, now made even more secure for class, and just instructors have access to them. Educators are so fired up to have all-plastic pieces in their sets!”.

In January 2021, Osmo for Schools updated all 9 school bundles to include plastic pieces across the board, changing ones made from cardboard. This makes it much easier for schools to disinfect and tidy Osmos manipulatives, which are utilized in conjunction with Osmos innovation inside classrooms, and permits schools to preserve the greatest standards of class health. Osmo for Schools plastic pieces are lasting, easy to sanitize when utilizing EPA-registered disinfectant spray, and dishwasher-safe..

” Osmo for Schools started thanks to all the extremely passionate instructors throughout the U.S. and Canada who embraced Osmo as an instructional gadget for classroom settings, promoting its use, so that districts and schools began to buy it,” describes Jan Richards, head of education sales and marketing at Osmo for Schools. “In early 2016, Osmo began our division by forming a sales group, a conference strategy, plus a Classroom Kit for schools, which truly removed. Its come a long way since!” The department now has 15 sales and consulting executives who work under Richards, provides nine different learning system bundles, and deals with thousands of school districts.

” Its terrific that the totally free download of Projector App introduced many instructors to Osmo for the extremely very first time, who were formerly uninformed of the excellent range of educational products we provide,” says Richards..

About Osmo for Schools.

” Osmo for Schools started thanks to all the exceptionally enthusiastic instructors across the U.S. and Canada who embraced Osmo as an academic device for class settings, promoting its usage, so that schools and districts started to acquire it,” discusses Jan Richards, head of education sales and marketing at Osmo for Schools.” In all my years teaching, Ive constantly sterilized my teaching tools as a STEAM teacher; from robots, to iPads and now my Osmo for Schools sets– this is a life saver for my students and myself,” states Frances Amato Dominguez, Ed Tech Model and STEAM Teacher in New York. Due to the unexpected transition to virtual discovering one year earlier, Osmo responded to teachers weeps for a more reliable means of engaging students in a virtual classroom, by offering Projector App. The app began as a totally free download to all thanks to Osmo Cares, the charitable arm of Osmo. Osmo for Schools, a division of Tangible Play, Inc., focuses on structure in-classroom use of Osmos acclaimed instructional systems.

Projector App uses an effective reflective AI innovation that enables the video camera to “see” the desktop in front of the screen and task a teachers real world text, notes and illustrations onto the screen, even 3-D designs they hold in their hand, while working with Zoom and other video conferencing technologies (video). Projector App is the 2020 recipient of EdTech Breakthrough Awards “eLearning Innovation of the Year.”.

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Projector App Reaches 100,000 Downloads.

Osmo for Schools, the instructional division of Tangible Play that promotes in-classroom use of Osmos acclaimed instructional systems, celebrates its 5th anniversary March 30, 2021 and highlights current accomplishments. These consist of upgrading to plastic pieces in all its school packages to keep the greatest standards of classroom health, along with reaching 100,000 downloads of the Osmo Projector App meant for teachers, which helped grow Osmos community of active users..

” In all my years mentor, Ive always sterilized my teaching tools as a STEAM teacher; from robotics, to iPads and now my Osmo for Schools kits– this is a life saver for my students and myself,” states Frances Amato Dominguez, Ed Tech Model and STEAM Teacher in New York. Adds South Carolina kindergarten instructor Keri Lewis, “I enjoy how durable these pieces are. Being plastic, they have the ability to be cleaned completely in between usages without worry of harming the pieces.”.

These bundles including all-plastic pieces are unique to Osmo for Schools, and educators who previously acquired packages with cardboard manipulatives can now purchase the plastic piece sets separately, with a 25-percent discount.

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