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Increase Engagement and Time Spent
Learning with The Cool Conversations Quiz and Traveling-Tutor.
The CCQ Traveling-Tutor Teacher's Console
includes a Content Editor allowing teachers and students to
easily add new materials to the library. Whether it is a current
news story or materials already in use in the classroom, they can be
added to the content of the CCQ pocket PC. The CCQ Traveling-Tutor will
then be able to read these materials to students, ask questions and
record student answers to send back to the teacher. This makes
paperless testing easy for teachers. Students can be required to
answer questions in three formats - true/false, multiple choice or
written responses.
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The CCQ Traveling Tutor will be very
valuable for any student and can be used for any subject.
You also put all of the capabilities of a powerful mobile
computer into the hands of students.
CCQ can be loaded on any Microsoft operating system from PC's to
handheld computers.
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Primary Targets:
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Struggling Readers
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ELL / ESOL Students
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Special Education Students
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Marginal / Under Proficiency Students
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Adult - English Language Learners
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Students deficient in exposure to
technology
Primary Strategy Assets:
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Anytime, anywhere learning - a mobility
solution for education.
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Take home opportunity increases study time
and allows parent involvement.
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CCQ verbal delivery
of content is a key to language learning and reading skills
development.
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Easily add new study materials.
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CCQ can read any text to students.
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Combines three primary learning modalities
of auditory, visual and kinesthetic.
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Supports a paperless classroom.
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Verbal second language
support in Spanish.
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CCQ provides an entry point for technology
transition that is affordable and easy to work with.
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CCQ operates with or without an Internet
connection.
The Power of Personal, Portable
Technology Integrated on a 1:1 Basis:
(Hewlett-Packard Study)
Teacher
Feedback:
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93 percent
of teachers in their user group believed handheld computers have a
positive effect on students’ learning.
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72 percent
said handhelds were easier to integrate into classroom activities
than desktop computers.
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89 percent
responded that handheld computers were an effective instructional
tool.
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75 percent
indicated that where students were allowed to take handhelds home,
there was a significant increase in homework completion.
(SRI International Center for Technology
Learning study)
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Learning on the
Move
CCQ gives any Microsoft Windows®
based computer, including desktop PCs, laptops and handheld computers
the ability to deliver verbal instruction.
The Cool Conversations
Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ (CCQ)
was launched at the National Education Computing Conference
(NECC) in Atlanta, June 2007, by Interactive Speech Solutions
(ISS) in partnership with Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
This year’s NECC 2008 in San Antonio again features the CCQ
Traveling-Tutor for K-12 students at the HP and Microsoft
exhibits. Through the use of Microsoft Windows
Mobile, CCQ Traveling Tutor merges the natural speech
synthesis capabilities offered by today’s computers with the
latest advances in mobile technology resulting in a walking
talking computer that can speak to students in multiple
languages.
Proven Methodology
Years of
experience and trials as well as comparative studies of
conventional methods of teaching and learning have
demonstrated that the interactive speech methods used by the CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ deliver positive results by increasing
student engagement and developing reading
skills. Presentation of computer-generated speech
reinforces acquisition of the phoneme-grapheme relationship
and reading aloud to the student reduces effort in reading
skill development. Studies included instances where 3rd
graders starting 3 years below grade level averaged 2 years of
progress in eight months. CCQ is an anywhere, anytime
education system to support America’s teachers and help insure
that more students are able to successfully progress from
elementary school through high school.
The Traveling-Tutor™ is ideal for ELL
(English Language Learners) students and their families
with Spanish language support. Benefits
extend to other family members in the home environment;
helping families reach new levels of achievement.
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Research Based Strategy
The use of interactive speech, produced by
computers, can provide a “talking tutor” that tirelessly reads aloud,
asks questions, corrects errors, continually assesses performance, and
addresses the reading level of each individual student. Controlled
studies that compare the computer-based tutor with human one-on-one
tutors and have a control group receiving regular instruction showed
that the tutored group surpassed the control group in Word Attack, Word
Comprehension and Passage Comprehension by significant amounts.
Furthermore, the computer tutored group surpassed the human tutored
group in 2 of the 3 measures. A pilot study with 4th grade
Hispanic students using the computer reading tutor method showed
significant gains in English fluency, sight word recognition, and
comprehension, outperforming a control group of students receiving
established classroom reading instruction.
Source:
Progress in
Interactive Speech Improves Literacy and Numeracy
Instruction © Louis V. Ruffino, P.E. (August
2006)
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Available for
Desktops, Laptops and Pocket Computers
If you
don’t have an immediate budget to make the PDA a classroom and
“take home” learning tool, CCQ will run on all of your
school’s PC’s.
To
request purchase information for your classroom, school or
district, fill out the request form at this link:
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON
PURCHASING
 We look
forward to helping you put this research-based anytime,
anywhere learning solution to work for you students. CCQ
is easily customizable to their needs. The verbal
interaction will speed learning and increase engagement.
The reporting features will let you monitor their
progress.
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 CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ Extends the
Classroom with Anytime, Anywhere Learning
The CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ program empowers
students by merging computer-based speech technology with the
latest advances in mobile technology and PDAs (Personal
Digital Assistants). The result is a pioneering “walking,
talking computer”.
The April 2007 issue of Technology
& Learning the magazine stated “…the digital divide’s
newest defining characteristic is 24/7 access to a personal
computing device.”
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 From the June/July 2007 issue of
Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine:
CCQ is at the forefront of creatively
using technology to help America’s students… “A reading tutor
program helps with advancement in reading; and with students
and parents…a mobile tool (the CCQ Traveling-Tutor™) that can
read to you …is like having a personal tutor.” - Article
entitled, “Bringing Mobility to the Ultimate Information
Workers: Students” by Nathan Clevenger and Bill
Hagen.
CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ requires no
connection to the Internet to function, bridging the
opportunity to students without access to Internet-based
programs outside of school. Once content is loaded on the
mobile device, students can work in school, on the bus, at
home, anywhere and anytime. The CCQ system stores a report of
all of the student’s activity which is transferred to the
teacher’s computer when they return to the
classroom.
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CONTACT
US
CCQ
Traveling-Tutor
150 N. University Drive, Suite
220
Plantation, Florida
33324
email:
info@traveling-tutor.com
Phone: 954 793-4858
Fax: 954 793-4859
Cool Conversations Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ (CCQ Traveling-Tutor) on any
Microsoft operating system but features on the Hewlett Packard iPAQ with
Microsoft Mobile. Study, quizzing, testing with on-demand reading
support. Easily create new study and test materials. Ideal
for struggling readers, standardized test prep., ELL students, special
needs students, Title One students and gifted students. Increase
engagement and time spent. Can be used with any curriculum.
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Anywhere, anytime learning
– Inside and outside the classroom students have 24/7 access to real
tutoring functions, educational resources, and PC applications on
the Traveling-Tutor.
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Integrated
services – Traveling-Tutor enhances current school programs
rather than replacing them. Teachers need less supplementary
training because materials and methods are familiar. Compatible with
most standards-compliant PC peripherals.
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iPAQ
platform – The primary platform for the Traveling-Tutor is the
Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 110 pocket computer. In addition to being
rugged and low cost, research shows that the iPAQ is a favorite with
students because of its convenient size and capabilities.
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Low
cost – The Traveling-Tutor provides 1:1 tutoring to students for
less than 35 cents per hour of use. The Traveling-Tutor delivers
more services than any other educational product on the market – and
delivers them at a substantially lower cost.
Click HERE for information
on getting started, some tips and ideas for getting the most out of the
CCQ Traveling Tutor.
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Learning to
Change...
Changing to Learn
Watch the Video |
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CCQ Traveling-Tutor now supports text answers as well as
multiple choice/true false answers in study and test sections. |
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CLICK
HERE
for Instructions on Getting Started with the Cool
Conversations Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ on your PDA
Pocket Computer |
The CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ is an extremely
valuable tool to support the work of classroom teachers. It is cost
effective and, on hand held computers, provides an anytime, anywhere
learning platform to extend the classroom from school into the home or
anywhere else the student happens to be. The one-to-one relationship
between computer and student has also been shown to be highly successful
in delivering positive results.
Further, with CCQ, content is easily created allowing
schools and teachers to customize how it is used for different
students. This is a non-judgmental and thus non-threatening system
for students who may be far behind their peers in skills
development. The verbal interaction (with Spanish language support)
engages students and simplifies the acquisition of knowledge.
Reports on student work provide quick feedback on progress.
Motivate, Educate, Evaluate.
With CCQ helping to build basic skills, classroom
teachers are freed to spend more time on the cross-discipline thinking and
abstract problem solving that is so crucial for students to excel in
today’s world economy.
Pocket
Computers Provide the High Value Solution for 1 To 1 Learning
Generally
several PDA’s can be purchased in place of a traditional computing
device. Microsoft, ISS and HP are committed to working with school
systems to customize this education solution for maximum effectiveness in
supporting State and local programs.
On the Go Education Platform
Integrated Classroom and Mobile
Learning Tool
Second-Language
Support
Operates on any Microsoft
Operating System
Operates With/Without Network
Connection
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