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My friends at Zap Zap Math has been building an education platform that makes learning math a joy for kids from kindergarten age to Grade 6 and beyond.

Fun with Maths

Through Zap Zap Math, math learners are entering a universe of play aligned with Common Core standards, and engaging in structured lessons that encourages higher order thinking skills and better retention of new math concepts at their own pace. Because they have full rein on how fast they learn plus it’s incentivized (i.e., scoring system, new levels unlocked, etc.), kids absorb the lessons far quicker.

Students’ Progress Tracking

Zap Zap Math also enables teachers to track and assess each student’s individual progress with updated, easy-to-digest performance analytics. It’s a great self-guided supplement for math classes, and an educational past time for kids during the extended holidays!

..and it’s Free!

Do support the Zap Zap Math team by downloading the free app and trying it out with your students, as well as sharing the good news with other passionate teachers like yourself.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance.

To install the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack with your Bluetooth adapter, you may need to disable driver signature enforcement if you are using Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

Firstly, you will need to boot up Windows in Advanced Startup mode. This can be done by clicking on the Restart Computer button in the Bluetooth Stack Tool.

Your computer will restart and the following screen will appear.

Click Troubleshoot.

Click Advanced options

Click Startup Settings

Click Restart

Select Disable driver signature enforcement by pressing F7 on your keyboard

Next, you may try running the tool again for the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack to detect and install drivers for your Bluetooth adapter.

In Windows, the Wii Remote Plus requires the use of the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack or the DolphinBar. For more information regarding this issue, you may refer to http://www.smoothboard.net/wiiremoteplus/

Some Smoothboard users have difficulties installing the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack and thus I have made a tool to simplify the process.

If you have difficulties installing the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack for your device, this tool may work for you. If you have any issues with the tool, you may post a comment here.

The Bluetooth Stack Tool automates some of the steps required to force the Toshiba drivers to be used for your Bluetooth adapter.

The following steps are automated:

1. Identify your Bluetooth Adapter’s hardware ID.
2. Insert the entries into C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\Drivers\tosrfusb\tosrfusb.inf.
3. Update the registry to pretend to be a Toshiba Bluetooth Stack compatible adapter.

Bluetooth Stack Tool Download Link (run at your own risk)

We have created an animated video to introduce Smoothboard Air.

Our vision is for educators and students around the world to benefit from the real-time collaboration platform which Smoothboard Air provides.

Thanks for watching!

Here is the transcript for the video:

The rise of mobile technologies like smartphones, netbooks and tablets are increasingly challenging not just conventional teaching methods but the attention span of both students and teachers.

More students are bringing their own mobile devices to class. And the numbers are just going to keep growing.

But mobile technology should not be another hurdle to keep students engaged in class. It should be an effective tool in encouraging participation and active learning among students
How do you do that?
All you need is Smoothboard Air, a good teacher, a computer with wireless access, and a class of students with their mobile devices.

Begin by installing Smoothboard Air into your computer. It takes just 20 seconds to install.

Smoothboard Air will provide an IP address immediately.

Connect students’ mobile devices to the WIFI network.
Students just need to enter the IP address into their mobile devices and WALLA! They are now sharing your screen.

Now, you can write annotations on your own presentation and students can save them at the end of the lesson.

You can organize mini contests and quizzes. And students can participate instantly from their own mobile devices.

More than 100,000 educators have downloaded and tried the first version of Smoothboard.

And now, we have Smoothboard Air which will bring learning to a new level.

You don’t have to fight the rising trend of mobile devices in classrooms.

Ride the trend smoothly with Smoothboard Air.

Visit Smoothboard.net and download the Free version today.

With the help of my friend, I have made a short video showing how to connect several different mobile devices to the computer running Smoothboard Air. The video also contains a quick run through of the features of the Smoothboard Air software.

The devices in the video are: 2x iPads, 1x Macbook, 1x Galaxy Tab 10.1, 1x Galaxy Nexus, and 1x iPod Touch.

Download Smoothboard Air with Duo at http://www.smoothboard.net/air