Microsoft Embraces SMART by Installing 16 SMART Boards in Their Technology Centers across the US.

Advanced Presentation Products is please to announce that their solutions partner SMART Technologies has joined the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) Alliances program.  Following a 2010 installation of SMART hardware and software products at the MTC in Irvine, California, SMART was invited to join the Alliances program as their innovative products were recognized as offering interactive capabilities for improved collaboration and business decision making.

The SMART Board^™ 8070i interactive display, SMART Board 885ix interactive whiteboard system and SMART Meeting Pro^™ software have since been installed in an additional ten U.S. and five international centers. As a member of the Alliance program, SMART business solutions are now installed in all 11 U.S. MTC locations. With SMART products included in these MTCs, thousands of Microsoft business customers can learn about the features and benefits of SMART business solutions.

The MTC Alliances program is a global initiative that includes industry leaders in hardware, software and services. The MTCs provide business customers access to innovative technologies and industry expertise, and offer strategy briefings, architecture design sessions and proof-of-concept workshops to help business customers determine which solutions will best meet their needs.

Advanced is proud to be working with Microsoft in Canada in various facility upgrade projects across Canada.

For more information on SMART business solutions, including the 8070i, the 885ix and SMART Meeting Pro software, contact us at info@advanced-inc.com or 1-800-436-6239.

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See how Microsoft is using SMART business solutions at its MTCs in this video.

See the SMART Board 885ix interactive whiteboard system and SMART Board 8070i interactive display in action by watching this video.

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About Advanced

Advanced is a Canadian leader in audiovisual communication technology, providing comprehensive solution and services for specialized AV installation, control rooms, digital systems, retail, food & beverage, corporate lobbies, hotels, government, and education.  Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Advanced has highly trained experienced and certified system engineers throughout Canada that can meet the needs of the most demanding AV project.  For more information, visit Advanced online at www.advanced-inc.com .

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Advanced Education is pleased to announce the new SMART Board™ Warranty Registration Program exclusively available to school boards that have partnered with Advanced!

What is the Warranty Registration Program?

 SMART Boards™ come with a 2-year manufacturer’s warranty that can be extended to 5 years upon registration with SMART™ Technologies.  Effectively immediately, Advanced will register each SMART Board purchased from us on our educational customers behalf saving them both time and money.  This free service will ensure schools receive the full 5 year warranty available from SMART.

How to take advantage of the program?

IT and Purchasing Administrators who have purchased SMART Boards from Advanced can go to www.advanced-education.com/administrators/warranty-registration and sign up for this free program.  An Advanced service and support team member will take care of the warranty registration process with SMART.

Advanced Education is committed to ensuring our educational customers experience with classroom technology is both rewarding and cost effective. 

About Advanced Education
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Advanced Education is the leader in providing audiovisual classroom technology to Ontario schools.  With experience working with over 60 school districts in Ontario, Advanced has demonstrated they possess the skills and experience to turn any classroom, lecture hall or computer lab into an effective, efficient presentation environments.

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Advanced Education is pleased to announce the release of the new SMART Board 400 series interactive whiteboard for education customers in North America.  The SMART Board 400 series helps ensure that educators with limited resources still have the opportunity to put the leading interactive whiteboard into their classrooms and access the complete SMART solution including SMART Exchange, services and support.

The 400 series comprises the SMART Board 480 interactive whiteboard and the SMART Board 480iv interactive whiteboard system with the SMART V25 projector. The 480 and 480iv extend the company’s interactive whiteboard product line, which includes the SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboard and the SMART Board 800 series interactive whiteboard. Using SMART’s patented DViT™ (Digital Vision Touch) technology, the 400 series offers a rich user experience, recognizing both pen and finger inputs, and enables teachers and students to easily interact with digital content.

The SMART Board 400 series interactive whiteboard is ideal for educators who want an entry-level SMART Board interactive whiteboard or interactive whiteboard system. The 400 series offers a 4:3 aspect ratio and standard display size of 77″ (195.6 cm) on the diagonal, and integrates seamlessly with SMART’s other education products, including the SMART Document Camera™, SMART Notebook Math Tools software and SMART Response™ interactive response systems.

For more information about the SMART 480 and 480iv interactive whiteboard, email us at info@advanced-education.com or call us at 1-800-502-0035.

Features:
Size - 77″ (195.6 cm) on the diagonal
Aspect ratio - 4:3
Precision touch - Provides direct, precise touch control for accurate data selection and interaction
Finger and stylus input - Recognizes inputs from a finger, pen tool or any pointing device
Durable surface - Is optimized for projection, producing no hot spots
Warranty - Two-year standard warranty
SMART product integration - Integrates seamlessly with the full range of SMART hardware and software products, including SMART Notebook 10.8 software

SMART Board 480iv interactive whiteboard system features
Short-throw projector - Extends 37.4″ (95 cm) from the interactive whiteboard surface
3D ready - Supports 3D content, images and video
Long lamp life - Lasts up to 4,500 hours in standard mode and up to 6,000 hours in economy mode
Resolution - XGA (1024 x 78)
Lumens - 2,000

DViT (Digital Vision Touch) technology
Interactive whiteboards and interactive whiteboard systems with DViT technology use cameras embedded in the interactive whiteboard frame to detect and distinguish inputs made by a finger, fist, interactive whiteboard pen or other object. Optical touch technology offers many advantages over other touch technologies, including effortless zero-force touch, the ability to scale to large sizes and support for multiple touches and multiple users. Globally, SMART has been issued a broad portfolio of patents related to DViT technology with a significant number of patents pending.

For more information about the SMART 480 and 480iv interactive whiteboard, email us at info@advanced-education.com or call us at 1-800-502-0035.

About Advanced Education

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Advanced Education is the leader in providing audiovisual classroom technology to Ontario schools.  With experience working with over 60 school districts in Ontario, Advanced has demonstrated they possess the skills and experience to turn any classroom, lecture hall or computer lab into an effective, efficient presentation environments.

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Advanced Education clients can register now to gain access to specialized support and rapid repair turnaround on their SMART projectors.

Mississauga, ON – Educators who purchase Smart projectors from Advanced Education now have access to a newly launched Projector Care Program from SMART.

The new program is simple – upon registration on the SMART website, education customers will receive an extended warranty on projector lamps, access to specially trained projector technicians who can troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, rapid repair turnaround and preferential pricing for lamps, upgrades and spare projectors.

“This new service program gives fast and reliable support to education customers who purchase a SMART projector as part of their SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard system” said Mark McPherson, Vice President, Advanced Education.   “The SMART Projector Care Program makes it simple and efficient for technology directors to maintain their projector implementations purchased from Advanced.”

Advanced Education customers also receive a complimentary upgrade to SMART Projector Care Plus, a premium service that offers all the features of the SMART Projector Care program and two upgraded options – expedited shipping and advanced projector replacement, which guarantees replacement projectors will be shipped within 24 hours. The SMART Projector Care Program is now available globally at no charge for education customers.

Information about the SMART Projector Care program can be found on the Advanced Educations website at http://www.advanced-education/Smart-Care-Program or call by calling Advanced at 1-800-502-0035.

About Advanced Education

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Advanced Education (http://www.advanced-education.com) is the leader in providing audiovisual classroom technology to Ontario schools.  With experience working with over 60 school districts in Ontario, Advanced has demonstrated they possess the skills and experience to turn any classroom, lecture hall or computer lab into an effective, efficient presentation environments.
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Public Relations
Advanced Education, a division of Advanced Presentation Products
Phone:  1-855-502-0035  or  1-905-502-0035
Email:    pr@advanced-inc.com

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INFINITE PLASMA VIDEO WALLS: SEAMLESS, BEAUTIFUL HD VIDEO CONTENT IN ANY SIZE YOU LIKE

The full rental suite of video walls at APG Displays gives you the potential to create a high definition video wall ranging from a single, bezel-less 42-inch panel to a giant 28-foot diagonal display.  APG Displays has the skills and experience to provide you with an awe-inspiring video wall at an affordable price.

103″ PLASMA TV IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL

103 inches of stunning HD screen make Panasonic’s ground-breaking television one of the World’s biggest plasma TV. Remarkably easy to transport and set-up, it is the perfect rental screen for a sleek, show-stopping audio visual offering at your event.

If you’ve seen it, you remember it.  A TV measuring more than 100 inches is so big you can’t help but look at it!  The images are perfectly crisp and vivid and the sheer size of this display means it’s a show-stopper all on its own.

WHY RENT FROM APG DISPLAYS?

APG Displays is the GTA’s premier and trusted full service source for rental and permanent installation of unique High Definition displays, from giant-screen video walls, flexible LED, outdoor weather-resistant HDTVs to the new to market eco-friendly Nanolumnes and Prysm displays. With over 20 years of experience installing the world’s most cutting edge video displays, we have continually improved the services we offer to provide an easy solution for businesses that need to impress their customers with ground-breaking audio visual solutions.

Wherever cutting-edge video screens are needed, APG Displays has a big screen solution to impress.

For more information call us today at 1-888-885-0228.

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Advanced Goes Digital

The digital landscape is rapidly changing and very different from the analog world in which we are all familiar.  Over the past year, the Advanced design and engineering team has been undergoing extensive training in this area to ensure we are satisfy the needs of our customers.

We are pleased to announce that senior leaders on the Advanced technical team have achieved Digital Media Certified Designer and Digital Media Certified Engineer designations.  These intense courses teach the functional differences between analog and digital systems as well as advanced skills necessary to design and configure digital systems.

The key to any successful AV system design – analog or digital – is understanding and satisfying the needs of customers.  Whoever you decide to partner with, ensure they understand this technology and the impact it will have on your organization.  Defining sources, signal transmission distances and signal switching/processing are becoming increasingly more complicated in today’s multi interface environments.  Imagine you invest in what you think is a state of the art AV system and then walk in one day with an iPad only to learn your system wasn’t designed to handle that device.

Selecting the right technology solution provider can be a critical factor in a properly executed system design – one that is designed with the future in mind.

To speak with one of our Digital Media Professionals or to set up an appointment to discuss your AV installation project, please contact us at 905-502-0036 / 1-800-436-6239 or info@advanced-inc.com.

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Advanced Inc., leaders in audio visual and collaborative communications solutions is pleased to announce the opening of a new office to support businesses, educators and other organizations in Northern Ontario.

Based in Sudbury, this recently opened office – like its affiliates in Mississauga and Ottawa – combines state-of-the-art technology to provide sales and educational support to corporations, healthcare facilities, schools, government and the private sector who are looking to install learning and collaboration systems in their facilities.

The new Sudbury office is also able to provide onsite and offsite interactive full day and half-day training programs on all Advanced solutions.

Advanced’s Sudbury facility is located at:
410 Falconbridge Road, Unit 1, Sudbury Ontario  P34 4S4.

For more information on products and services offered by Advanced, contact them today at:

• Visit:    www.advanced-inc.com
• Call:     1-800-436-6239
• E-mail: info@advanced-inc.com

About Advanced– Advanced is a leading Audiovisual and Collaborative Communications company working with corporations, government agencies, healthcare and educational organizations throughout Canada and beyond.  Dedicated to innovation in technology and services, Advanced has a strong set of businesses aligned to meet today’s needs.

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APG Displays has high-impact screens available for any budget.

INFINITE PLASMA VIDEO WALLS: SEAMLESS, BEAUTIFUL HD VIDEO CONTENT IN ANY SIZE YOU LIKE

The full rental suite of video walls at APG Displays gives you the potential to create a high definition video wall ranging from a single, bezel-less 42-inch panel to a giant 28-foot diagonal display.  APG Displays has the skills and experience to provide you with an awe-inspiring video wall at an affordable price.

103″ PLASMA TV IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL

103 inches of stunning HD screen make Panasonic’s ground-breaking television one of the World’s biggest plasma TV. Remarkably easy to transport and set-up, it is the perfect rental screen for a sleek, show-stopping audio visual offering at your event.

If you’ve seen it, you remember it.  A TV measuring more than 100 inches is so big you can’t help but look at it!  The images are perfectly crisp and vivid and the sheer size of this display means it’s a show-stopper all on its own.

WHY RENT FROM APG DISPLAYS?

APG Displays is the GTA’s premier and trusted full service source for rental and permanent installation of unique High Definition displays, from giant-screen video walls, flexible LED, outdoor weather-resistant HDTVs to the new to market eco-friendly Nanolumnes and Prysm displays. With over 20 years of experience installing the world’s most cutting edge video displays, we have continually improved the services we offer to provide an easy solution for businesses that need to impress their customers with ground-breaking audio visual solutions.

Wherever cutting-edge video screens are needed, APG Displays has a big screen solution to impress.

For more information call us today at 1-888-885-0228.

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Taking a page from a learning tool used in many schools, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Hospital are using SMART boards to help patients improve their cognitive and social communication skills.

“We are one of the first hospitals to use SMART boards to support our therapeutic work with adults,” says SLP Penny Welch-West. “We’re excited about this new concept and our energy is transmitting to patients.”

The SMART board’s sophisticated technical features are a boon to clinicians working with those who are visually impaired, hard of hearing or who find it challenging to focus. Patients’ orientation to date, time and place are coached through features such as web access to The Weather Network, and cognitive-communication skills such as organizing and word finding are improved through interactive puzzles and other skill building features. Social skills are reinforced when patients take turns giving answers and respect the input of other patients and facilitators.

“The SMART board is a dynamic tool that brings an element of play to therapy,” says SLP Anna Maria Koo. “Patients are enjoying the interactive, instant feedback.”

For more information on SMART Board interactive whiteboards, please contact us at info@advanced-inc.com or call us at 1-800-436-6239.

Article from Hospital News

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Advanced Education would like to congratulate its partner SMART Technologies on the installation of its two millionth SMART Board interactive whiteboard.  To mark the milestone, SMART donated the two millionth interactive whiteboard to Douglas Harkness School (DHS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the city where SMART was founded in 1987 and remains headquartered.

2011 is a special year for SMART in that it marks the 20th anniversary of the sale of the world’s first interactive whiteboard, and SMART recently recorded the five millionth registered user of version 10 of its SMART Notebook™ collaborative learning software. It took 17 years for the company to reach the one-million unit milestone and then less than three more years to reach two million units.   Advanced Education is proud to be Ontario’s leading provider of SMART Board interactive whiteboards and other classroom technology.

Teacher Lexie Paterson and her grade 5 and 6 students at Douglas Harkness School in Calgary, Alberta get hands on learning with their new SMART Board(TM) interactive whiteboard. SMART donated the world’s two millionth SMART Board interactive whiteboard to the school to mark the milestone. Calgary-based SMART Technologies created the world’s first interactive whiteboard 20 years ago.

For more information on SMART Board interactive whiteboards, please contact us at info@advanced-education.com or call us at 1-800-436-6239

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