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PR with Panache! is thrilled to announce that three of our clients were honored as winners of Tech & Learning’s first annual ISTE Best of Show Awards. Over 70 products were submitted for consideration. Tech & Learning's advisors anonymously rated each product on a sliding scale before deciding which technologies could have the largest impact in the classroom. Read what they had to say about ClassFlow, myON, and Nervanix below and visit Tech & Learning's website to see the full list of award winners. Congratulations to all the Best of Show winners!

ClassFlow (www.classflow.com)

Promethean has released ClassFlow, a free, all-in-one, cloud-based teaching tool that lets teachers create and deliver interactive lessons across multiple classroom technologies, while assessing, understanding, and responding to student needs. Whether a classroom features a Promethean ActivBoard or ActivPanel, a SMART Board, 1:1 devices, or other interactive technologies, ClassFlow enables teachers to create, deliver, and store lessons and teaching resources in one place, from a Web browser. ClassFlow also offers tools for differentiation, including the ability to send different content to different groups of students and to assign self-paced, leveled assessments with instant feedback. Judges found it was easy for teachers to check for understanding, and liked that every student has an interactive board on their device.

myON (www.myon.com)

myON has expanded its digital library to include a set of literacy tools to further personalize the reading experience for students while growing the instructional capabilities for teachers. These literacy tools are an addition to myON’s existing collection of more than 7,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia scaffolds and embedded assessments. Students can use embedded tools in all myON digital books to practice close reading skills. Judges were impressed that all ebooks were available on any device, and found that myON helps students find appropriate books. They also found a high volume of content from excellent publishers in the library.

Nervanix Clarity (www.nervanix.com)

Nervanix has released Clarity, an application that monitors student attention levels as they study and guides them to revisit concepts or content areas where they lost focus. Using a simple and safe EEG headset, Nervanix Clarity measures the attention levels of learners as they study and paces along with them as they navigate a page, watch a video, listen to a recording, or interact with a digital manipulative. The device uses Bluetooth technology to stream the attention data it records to the Nervanix Clarity application. Judges found that Nervanix Clarity helps students effectively focus on material and improve their study sessions. They were also wowed by the ability for teachers and parents to gain instant access to students’ progress, without having to wait for test scores and report cards.