Preschool Bulletin Boards

Preschool bulletin boards are a great teaching tool as well as decoration for the classroom. They can be used to teach the children about holidays, seasons, a particular subject, shapes, colors, or just for fun. An interactive bulletin board is especially effective as it can be used for weeks on end to get across a particular objective.

For example, if you are learning about different animals, try making a bulletin board that is sectioned off into several different habitats. (Examples might be desert, ocean, forest, barnyard, etc.) Have the children place each animal in the correct habitat. You could even have different animal tracks to match the footprint each animal makes and see if the children can figure out the clues.

Seasonal bulletin boards are important in teaching children about the different seasons of the year. For fall, you could have each child trace their hand on colored paper to make “leaves” for a large tree. This can help them with tracing and cutting skills. If they’re learning to write their names, have them practice on their own leaves. A similar idea can be used for Christmas where each child gets to design and make ornaments for the Christmas tree on your preschool bulletin board.

Preschool children may have a basic understanding of a few major holidays such as Christmas or Easter, but bulletin boards are a great way for them to learn about other important special days throughout the year. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Earth Day can also be easily incorporated into a preschool bulletin board and can teach your preschoolers valuable lessons about history, as well as other important values such as conservation (Earth Day), gratitude (Thanksgiving) and love (Valentine’s Day).

If you are learning about various shapes in your preschool class, try making a bulletin board that has plenty of multi-colored shapes attached with sticky tack.

The children can move the shapes around and learn about making patterns at the same time they are learning their shapes!

With a little creativity almost any bulletin board can be interactive. Children love seeing their handiwork showcased. It makes them feel important and special. Having them “help” you make different materials for your preschool bulletin board may mean that it won’t look absolutely perfect, but it will save you a lot of extra work!

Having your students help with your bulletin boards has other advantages too. For example, when certain parents come in with a lengthy list of “helpful suggestions”(translation: everything you are doing wrong) you can distract them by saying, Oh look what little Jimmy made in class today! He is so talented! You must be so proud! Problem averted.

In all seriousness though, bulletin boards are a great way to showcase each child’s development as they learn. Even simple skills like coloring, drawing, gluing, tracing, and cutting are big milestones during this phase of life! You may just find that your preschool bulletin board quickly becomes the focal point of the room. Now go brainstorm and you’ll be amazed with what you can come up with!

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ADLINK Selects Gemalto Solution to Accelerate Deployment of Cloud-based M2M Services

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 07, 2014

ADLINK Technology, a leading provider of cloud-based services, intelligent gateways, and embedded building blocks for edge devices that enable the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it is utilizing a machine-to-machine (M2M) software as a service (SaaS) solution from Gemalto, a global leader in digital security, to provide remote system monitoring and real-time maintenance for connected devices. ADLINK embedded systems are used to manage and control business processes and assets such as medical and industrial automation equipment, digital signage, communications infrastructure, and transportation networks.

Gemalto’s SensorLogic Agent and Application Enablement Platform are being used by ADLINK to optimize and simplify the control and monitoring of ADLINK’s customer application deployments. ADLINK’s Smart Embedded Management Agent (SEMA) Cloud device-to-cloud offering allows customers to continuously monitor their devices and respond immediately to critical situations. Data collected by the SEMA monitoring agent – including CPU temperature, system restart information, and total operating time – is then transferred to the cloud. A web-based dashboard can be securely accessed from anywhere, at any time, allowing users to immediately assess performance levels and handle system management tasks remotely.

“The flexible Gemalto solution is ideally suited to serve our wide range of embedded solution customers across many different vertical markets without requiring a dedicated software stack for each application,” said Dirk Finstel, General Manager of ADLINK’s EMEA region. “Gemalto’s strong technical support helped us to quickly port SEMA Cloud to ADLINK devices for an accelerated launch and gives us the ability to scale up as business and technology needs expand.”

“ADLINK’s device-to-cloud strategy is a new model for all critical industrial businesses, demonstrating the impact and benefits of M2M on both instant data collection and management,” said Laetitia Jay, Vice President of M2M Solutions and Services at Gemalto. “The solution sets a benchmark for easy to deploy M2M services, offering new revenue streams for service providers, adding value for customers, and optimizing operations with improved Edge-to-Enterprise communications.”

For more information on Gemalto’s SensorLogic Agent and Application Enablement Platform, please visit http://www.gemalto.com, http://www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter. For more information on ADLINK’s SEMA Cloud and wide range of embedded computing products, visit http://www.adlinktech.com or follow @ADLINKTech_USA on Twitter.

About Gemalto

Gemalto is the world leader in digital security with 2013 annual revenues of €2.4 billion and more than 12,000 employees operating out of 85 offices and 25 research and software development centers, located in 44 countries.

We are at the heart of the rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are enjoyable and safe. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, authenticated cloud access, identity and privacy protection, eHealthcare and eGovernment efficiency, convenient ticketing and dependable machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. We develop secure embedded software and secure products, which we design and personalize. Our platforms and services manage these products, the confidential data they contain and the trusted end-user services made possible.

Our innovations enable our clients to offer trusted and convenient digital services to billions of individuals. Gemalto thrives with the growing number of people using its solutions to interact with the digital and wireless world.

About ADLINK

ADLINK Technology is enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) with innovative embedded computing solutions for edge devices, intelligent gateways and cloud services. ADLINK’s products are application-ready for industrial automation, communications, medical, defense, transportation, and infotainment industries. Our product range includes motherboards, blades, chassis, modules, and systems based on industry standard form factors, as well as an extensive line of test & measurement products and smart touch computers, displays and handhelds that support the global transition to always connected systems. Many products are Extreme Rugged™, supporting extended temperature ranges, shock and vibration.

ADLINK is a Premier Member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance and is active in several standards organizations, including PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), PXI Systems Alliance (PXISA), and Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGeT).

ADLINK is a global company with headquarters in Taiwan and manufacturing in Taiwan and China; R&D and integration in Taiwan, China, the US, and Germany; and an extensive network of worldwide sales and support offices. ADLINK is ISO-9001, ISO-14001, ISO-13485 and TL9000 certified and is publicly traded on the TAIEX Taiwan Stock Exchange (stock code: 6166).

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Using Message Boards for Internet Marketing

The term internet marketing is indeed a broad term. It encapsulates most marketing activities executed online. Banner adverts, website promotions, search engine optimization, and affiliate and email marketing all fall under the purview of internet marketing. But then internet marketing still has more concepts than those already mentioned. For instance, promoting your business on the message board is also classed as internet marketing. In fact, message board is one the most effective and inexpensive methods of executing your internet marketing campaign. This article focuses on evaluating the benefits of using message boards and how to avoid the pitfalls inherent in it.

Message board serves as an online meeting point for people with common views and way of life. It is a community of sort made of up people with homogenous needs. They all converge online to discuss issues of mutual interest to them. The subject of discussion ranges from sport, politics, environment, television shows, entertainment, gardening etc. What a discerning internet marketer does is to select the niche that best suit the type of business offering he has in place. Consider an internet marketer that has a sporting audience in mind. All he simply needs to is to identify the exact message board that serves as meeting ground for sport lovers. This enables the marketer to avoid the hit or miss approach of sending out blanket emails to people. In this case he has already identified his niche and can be sure of positive responses along the line. It is not even uncommon for such marketers to hook up with such a community in order to fully identify with them. Links to the marketer’s website are provided, and such internet marketers often provide valuable and helpful suggestions to the members of the community.

Internet marketers using the message board must ensure that they abide by the rules guiding the operations of the message board.

They often have rules concerning the posting of links. Failure to heed such warnings and rules often leads to outright ban. Marketers are advised to read up the user agreement before choosing the particular message board to launch from. Where links are allowed be sure to use them with good discretion in order to avoid being ultimately classed as spam. Try as much as possible to be professional in your approach to the execution of your agenda. This will help in no small measure to advance your cause. Internet marketing involves a lot of painstaking and careful planning to succeed. It takes a lot of patience and understanding to fully mine the benefits inherent in message boards. But once you have found the right balance the result can make all the difference.

There are several ways of furthering your internet marketing ambition. Message board, if carefully cultivated and deployed, can yield immense positive responses. It allows you have your target audience streamlined for you unlike other email correspondences. You have your niche carefully delineated from inception. This saves problem of blindly dispersing your efforts. It does not however mean you should ignore the rules guiding the message boards. Carefully explore such rules and regulations to suit your purpose.

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Digital Signage Gives Meaning to Charitable Donations

Digital Signage Gives Meaning to Charitable Donations
Using an interactive, digital sign developed by Hamburg, Germany-based agency Kolle Rebbe, donors were able to use their credit card to give a gift of 2 Euros ($ 2.75). As a card was swiped, the software immediately verified the donation, triggering the …
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Digital Signage Contributes to Second Quarter Growth at Planar
Gerry Perkel, Planar's President and Chief Executive Officer said, “The growth in digital signage product sales, combined with profitability in the second quarter, keeps us in a position to achieve our goals of growing sales of digital signage products …
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FASTSIGNS launches digital signage portal
In another sign that the static sign people are coming, and coming soon, FASTSIGNS has just launched an expanded section of its website aimed squarely at digital signage. The signage chain and visual communications provider has more than 550 locations …
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PCS And Curious Media Launch Strategic Partnership

Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) April 23, 2014

PCS Edventures!com, established STEM education experts, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with world class interactive agency, Curious Media. With a goal of creating animated, three-dimensional, interactive curriculum for PCS customers, these partners are inspiring excitement in learning by using the concept of education gamification.

Together, PCS and Curious Media bring a wealth of experience and excitement to the education industry. Curious Media has worked with Disney, Warner Brothers, Scholastic, PBS Kids and more to produce award winning interactive experiences that capture the imagination of children and adults alike. PCS has spent 25 years working in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) industry, producing hands-on products that challenge and inspire K-12 students.

Harnessing the idea of combining educational content and digital excitement, these partners will launch 2 new products in 2014: The 3DIC™ and the Cortex™ v5. The 3DIC™ is a 3D interactive curriculum that provides step-by-step instruction for students working with robotic building components. With this software students can view each construction step from any angle in 3D, highlight individual pieces for clarity on component positioning and scrub through an animated demonstration of each step.

The Cortex™ v5 uses unmatched technology that allows students to program and manipulate robots from mobile computing devices including iPads and Android tablets. User-friendly and fun, the programming environment engages imagination, critical thinking skills, and problem solving abilities as students develop advanced programming skills.

The relationship between Curious Media and PCS has come full circle in the past two decades. Randy Jamison, founder of Curious Media, was a PCS student more than 20 years ago and attributes his success with hands-on learning to his time in PCS Learning Labs.

Robert Grover, CEO of PCS Edventures said, “We are pleased to be able to work with a world class interactive agency like Curious Media to develop leading edge learning media. I am personally moved that Randy Jamison, the first PCS student I ever worked with, is leading this development effort.”

About PCS Edventures

PCS Edventures (PCSV) is a leader in design and development of STEM educational products. With an emphasis in hands-on learning, PCS provides exciting classroom, afterschool, and at-home educational supplements for K-12 students around the world. Additional information on PCS STEM products may be found at http://www.edventures.com.

PCS Edventures!com, Inc. is headquartered in Boise, Idaho and its common stock is listed in the OTC Bulletin Board under the sticker symbol, “PCSV.”

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. Actual results could differ materially from such statements.

Contact Information:

Investor Contact: Robert Grover, CEO 1-800-429-3110 x 119

Investor Relations: Jolene Anderson 1-800-429-3110 x 121

Investor Relations Website: http:/http://www.edventures.com/investors







Benefits Of Digital Signage

Digital signage gives retailers the advantage and the ability to build brand loyalty and brand awareness. It also enables the retailers to provide better options to customers and improve profitability. It is widely believed that most of times the decision to buy a particular product is made at the point of purchase. That explains why marketing industry places so much of importance to in-house advertising.

Changes in digital signage methods have been revolutionary over the past few years. They are easily adaptable to any situation or store and they are positively alluring. They have the ability to influence the minds of the clientele when they are in their most responsive state. A store can customize the content of digital signage to suit their customer profile. The product is flexible and can lend itself to any surrounding with amazing ease.

The medium of digital media enables retailers and marketing managers to use vibrant and attractive messages to attract the right type of customers. The presence of color, motion, interactive touch screen and a multi-feed functionality makes it possible to project varying images. This can have a great influence on the viewers and customers. Digital signage is a powerful tool which can help retailers increase their revenues and also decrease their costs.

Retailers can highlight items which provide them better profitability through high margins. They can also display special offers on specific items and other discount schemes in real time. Digital signage helps retailers to promote and sell advertised products at point of purchase. A major advantage of this medium is that it allows you to change messages faster and easily as compared to printed signage. The cost of making such changes is also much less than that of printed signage.

Digital signage displays better aesthetics in a store as compared to any other mode of advertising. By using the latest technology in advertising field they are well placed to influence customer preferences as no other form of advertising can. They are available in convenient sizes to fit in any place a retailer wants to display them. They offer real time feeds for news, weather, sports and entertainment.

Finally, digital signage is invaluable in providing in-store sales and product information to the employees. They are kept updated constantly about the organization, and the various promotions and schemes that are in force. There is no doubt that in the future too, digital signage will change the way an organization communicates with its customers and advertises its products.

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Ice Cold Outdoor Digital Signage

Increasingly, there has a lot more installs and interest emanating from ski-resorts and mountain areas in Europe and the United States. The screens are being used for both advertising and information and their use in such areas it is a good example of the unique benefits that outdoor digital signage can offer.

Alpine resorts and other ski locations have begun turning to outdoor digital signage because of the effectiveness in providing information that other communication methods simply can’t match.

The great advantage of using outdoor displays in these sorts of areas is the immediacy that the information can be uploaded and distributed.  Often, in skiing areas emergency information such as dangerous snow and avalanches needs to be relayed as quickly and to effectively as possible and until the advent of outdoor digital signage the only real method of passing this information on was physically, with a steward going up and down the slopes.

Now, emergency information can be uploaded remotely to all slopes and areas and displayed on the outdoor screens, warning and informing everybody that is out. – no other medium can do this as effectively and what-is-more, when the screens are not being used for information, advertising can be run to generate revenue that can eventually pay for the installation of the outdoor displays.

The use of such technology in such locations is only made possible due to the advancement in the protection of LCD and other display types. There are many challenges to installing a screen in a cold and snowy environment. Not only do you have to prevent snow and moisture from damaging the screen but also you have to keep temperatures high enough to prevent the components from freezing.

The sun too, can cause sun-glare and make the screen unreadable on a bright day.

LCD enclosures are an effective method of using an outdoor display in such a location. They keep the screen protected from the elements whilst the internal heaters ensure the screen is kept within operating temperatures. Insulation, anti-reflective glass and other solutions are also fitted to outdoor LCD enclosures in these areas to ensure the screens can continue to operate 24 hours a day no matter what the conditions.

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