Interactive Whiteboard 2.0 at Ed Expo 2012

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

Classroom/Ed Trends: Interactive Whiteboard 2.0 (The Evolution of Content Sales)
Paul LaPorte, Content Publisher, Classroom Complete Press

If your book sales are down, you need to attend this session! Understand the best practices on how to sell content in other formats including E-books and Apps for iPads along with other android devices. Learn key strategies on how to market Digital Content for Interactive Whiteboards and tablets. Paul will take you from truly understanding why Interactive Whiteboards are now standard classroom hardware, to the challenges and opportunities for retailers who enter this market. Learn what an Interactive Lesson Plan is and what elements make them diff erent from old print versions. Paul will also take you through other market changing elements to enable you to rescue your lost revenue from your book content category.

Literature Study Guides: The Ins and Outs

There is no shortage of literature study guides out on the market today. So how do teachers choose the good ones from the rest? What is it teachers are really looking for in their literature study guides? It comes down to three things: content, comprehension, and compelling.

Content: The content is the base of any good literature study guide. Providing comprehensive and compelling content will encourage group discussion as well as open up the minds of the readers. The content should be organized in such a way that will create a fluid movement through chapters, and ask the necessary questions that will promote understanding of the subject matter. This leads into the second point — comprehension.

Comprehension: Good content will lead to a wider comprehension of the literary work. Comprehension is the purpose of the literature study guide. Study guides should aid students in understanding the topics covered in a literary work. They should help students to retain information longer by encouraging them to bring up important plot points from memory after short intervals of reading so as to quickly bring to memory what they have just read. This encourages comprehension of the novel as students are forced to think about things and understand what they have just read before continuing on.

Compelling: All-in-all, it is essential that the content is compelling. Students’ attentions should be grabbed by any novel, and this should be reflected by its study guide. The content covered in a literature study guide should foremost be compelling; encouraging group discussion as well as to encourage students to continue to read the literary work in question, as well as to encourage students to read other similar works.

How do teachers find the literature study guides that apply these three key features? That’s the tricky part. Classroom Complete Press’ Literature Kits take these considerations into account and provide comprehensive novel study guides for Newbery medal and honor winners as well as the classics to ensure 100% quality in all our titles. Visit the Literature Kit section of our books at http://www.classroomcompletepress.com/ for our full list of available Literature Kits for grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8. Our world-class Literature Kits are now available as instant PDF downloads.

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