November+14,+2013+Meeting

November 14 - a few of us went and visited the Samsung Headqaurters in Ridgefield Park, NJ. All the employees were running around with Galaxy Gears! The fifth floor was dedicated to the new Samsung Educational Experience - see the notes below.

Samsung Rep Donna Gill dgill@sea.samsung.com LDI Rep (LDI is a reseller for Samsung products for state contract) - Carrie Price-Knospe CPrice-Knospe@myldi.com - Samsung was showcasing their Samsung School App and Samsung Educational Expererience - Samsung has made an educationally purposed overlay for Android (specifically for their Galaxy Tabs but could potentially work on other Androids) - some of the hardware they can supply are the 8" and 10" tablets (with stylus for writing), 75" smart tv, interactive overlay for smart tv, charging cart, printers, and wireless access points - the Samsung School App is licensed - a one-time perpetual license is approximately $80 per student as opposed to paying the ongoing annual license of $25 per student - The following are some of the features of the Samsung School App - Teacher 'starts class', when students join the class, that becomes the attendance - teacher can put their screen on the tv/board or any student screen - this is done via casting and does not tie up wireless bandwidth - teacher can separate students into groups at the click of a button and the students can work collaboratively from each of their own devices, their work can be turned in individually or from a group leader - students can annotate notes on textbooks, presentations, etc and their notes are saved to their account - the teacher can send out polls, screensharing, videos (again videos are via casting so no wireless used) - tablet can go for up to 10 hours - can get it with a keyboard dock - dock powered by the tablet Carrie is working on pricing. Existing equipment could be used i.e. if your projector has an HDMI port you could get just the Samsung All Cast for casting. Samsung has also created a BYOD solution based more upon an mobile device manager. Samsung then accommodated us by letting us watch the exciting PARCC webinar on their smart tv. Hopefully everyone completed their NJTRAx survey for November!

Adam Tucker - Harmony Becky Snyder - Washington Borough Mike Hann - Great Meadows Bob Redmon - Hackettstown Diane Bower - Lopatcong Matt Shea - Lopatcong Rick Houston - Phillipsburg Christian Nancy Morera - Greenwich
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Next Meeting - Greenwich December 10 to discuss budgets, shared services, and more!