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MetaMoJi Reports: Teacher Michael Jephcott Inspires His Young Class With Innovative Mobile App MetaMoJi Share for Classroom to Explain Introductory First Grade Geometry

Teacher Michael Jephcott is using the Share for Classroom ™ application from the MetaMoJi Education Solutions suite to teach his energetic class of six- and seven-year-olds the fundamentals of geometric shapes years before other California children will encounter a formal geometry curriculum.

  Don Juiian Elementary School

Using the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app is expanding my reach as a teacher every day as I explore its use and capability

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2015 

MetaMoJi today reported on a unique adaption of Share for Schools. In the small town of La Puente, California, Teacher Michael Jephcott teaches First Grade in one of the smallest and most challenged school districts in Southern California. Resources are slim at Don Julian Elementary School in Bassett Unified School District. The District is located in a working class, racially diverse area in the flatlands of the San Gabriel Valley, on the eastern edge of the vast Los Angeles County. 

Virtually none of the parents of Jephcott’s young students have finished college; most of the parents have never been on a university campus. But ask his class en masse where they will go to college, and they will joyfully call out in one voice, “YALE!”

This is an exceptional classroom in an exceptional school district. And on a warm spring morning in Southern California, Jephcott is using the Share for Classroom application from the MetaMoJi Education Solutions suite to teach his energetic college-bound class of six- and seven-year-olds the fundamentals of geometric shapes – years before other California children will encounter a formal geometry curriculum. 

Education solutions.  The families of the young students in his classroom may not be able to afford computers at home, but each child in Jephcott’s home room is equipped with a new impact-protected Apple iPad loaded with digital instruction materials developed by their creative teacher personally and embedded inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom installed on each electronic tablet.

The early morning prayer chants from a nearby Buddhist monastery compete with the sound of roosters and other livestock that grace the small yards and modest stables surrounding the school. The Bassett Unified School District is more than 100 years old and lies atop lands of an even older Mexican land grant – Rancho La Puente – once just secluded farms, fields and groves that predated the entry of California into the United States. 

Despite its rural remoteness from the busier urban streets of the City of Los Angeles 30 miles to the West, Don Julian Elementary School participates in a demanding national “No Excuses University” program that assigns each classroom to a specific, high-achieving university. 

“No excuses” curriculum.   Classrooms enrolled in the “No Excuses University” program must meet tough academic goals. Teachers are encouraged to seek out not only with the latest mobile technology the school district can afford but also provide the class with banners and t-shirts proudly decked out with logos from the classroom’s assigned university. Jephcott’s class is focused on Yale University and has even memorized the songs and mottos of that elite Ivy League university. His first graders will gleefully belt out the Yale Bulldog fight song on the slightest provocation.

Jephcott and his wife are both talented and skilled elementary school teachers and enthusiastic world travelers. He holds a degree in environmental design from the California State University system and a master’s degree in education earned with honors at nearby Azusa Pacific University. Jephcott also has met and is identified as an H.Q.T. metamoji.com content analysis or Highly Qualified Teacher under tough U.S. federal criteria for demonstrated classroom competence.

Open platform policy.  Don Julian Elementary is one of only three elementary schools in Bassett Unified School District, but the District has a progressive open platform policy which allows selected and innovative teachers to design their own hardware and software environments. Jephcott, with his degree in design, is an Apple enthusiast to the core, so he delighted in designing a classroom environment at Don Julian Elementary around advanced Apple iPad tablets, going hunting then among the available education-oriented mobile apps in the Apple Store. He was very happy to discover the just released MetaMoJi Share for Education app.

Says Jephcott: “Our district believes and is passionately committed to employing technology in ways that enhance learning and teaching. I support that and I believe in using those applications that permit teachers the maximum flexibility in designing and presenting materials to even the youngest students in ways that inspire and excite them. I saw immediately that MetaMoJi Share for Education offered that kind of promise.”

Says Bassett Unified School District Superintendent Alex J. Rojas: “We believe that successful 21st century learning organizations are those who integrate the analog and the digital. In Bassett Unified, our goal is to create and maintain high levels of student achievement.” 

Adds Jephcott: “Using the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app is expanding my reach as a teacher every day as I explore its use and capability. And it never fails to energize my young students when they see that the very latest technology, even an app designed in faraway Japan, isn’t a far-off dream seen on a TV series or summer movie, but a technical literacy they can achieve and explore right here in their own California classroom. Working with Share on their iPad tablets opens them up immediately to the rich world beyond us – and brings all that the world can offer to them in an instant.”

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom™.  The teacher’s own technical prowess and skillfulness is apparent, as he first smoothly guides the young children in his care through traditional arithmetic sums, using Jephcott’s own custom-designed calculation forms inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app and easily findable by each child in their individual files proudly stored in the MetaMoJi cloud. 

Jephcott was able to quickly access the completed (or sometimes incomplete) calculation sheet of each student and, if needed, project it for instant improvement or praise onto the class screen using a new Epson whiteboard projector.

The second half of his curriculum that morning was particularly innovative … and also all done inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app. Jephcott was leading these very young children in an advanced introductory session on geometric solids – they had done two dimensional geometric shapes on Share earlier in the week. For the customized geometric solids curriculum, Jephcott embedded a findable “dictionary” inside each child’s Share files – really a shared snapshot of a handmade picture-and-text poster he hung earlier in the week in the front of the class. 

Eyes on Teacher!  Whenever the young children were a bit distracted, he would quickly bring up on each of the iPad screens this bold poster: “Eyes On Teacher!” The kids would all point to him and chorus loudly and gleefully in response: “Eyes On You!” and settle down to happy, attentive, raptured silence.

Their talented teacher then held up three-dimensional objects, one by one, and moved among them while lecturing a bit on each singular 3-D shape, making sure the kids were familiar with the names – cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, cone. 

Jephcott had earlier scattered several odd sets of the objects around the classroom in random places, and now had the students do a joyful treasure hunt. Each child was free to roam the classroom with their impact-protected iPads in hand (still within the Share app). 

Share and Whiteboard.  The mission? To track down at least one of each shaped object, photograph it with their iPad camera option linked and embedded inside the Share for Classroom app, then add the name of the object by individually typing it into a caption. Jephcott was then able to selectively pull up any single photo with or without a caption from a student’s own personal file and project it forward to the whiteboard for all the class to admire.

Finally, the students finished the lesson with a casual exercise in discovering and calling out the same like shapes inside other structures and among common objects found in any conventional classroom – globular light bulbs, cube-shaped file boxes, square windows, even cylindrical water bottles. 

All can succeed and learn. Says Jephcott: “To teach in our small school district, a teacher must believe in the district’s philosophy: ‘All students can learn and succeed.’ The diversity of our student population and our school staff here is also a great asset that enriches what we can teach and what we can learn even in the First Grade. The enthusiastic technical support each of our teachers receives from the district and from the leadership at Don Julian Elementary only strengthens and accelerates our pursuit of those great ideals.”

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Teacher Michael Jephcott Inspires His Young Class With MetaMoJi Share for Classroom to Explain Introductory First Grade Geometry

Teacher Michael Jephcott is using the Share for Classroom application to teach his energetic class of six- and seven-year-olds the fundamentals of geometric shapes years before other California children will encounter a formal geometry curriculum.

MetaMoJi today reported on a unique adaption of Share for Schools. In the small town of La Puente, California, Teacher Michael Jephcott teaches First Grade in one of the smallest and most challenged school districts in Southern California. Resources are slim at Don Julian Elementary School in Bassett Unified School District. The District is located in a working class, racially diverse area in the flatlands of the San Gabriel Valley, on the eastern edge of the vast Los Angeles County.

Virtually none of the parents of Jephcott’s young students have finished college; most of the parents have never been on a university campus. But ask his class en masse where they will go to college, and they will joyfully call out in one voice, “YALE!”

This is an exceptional classroom in an exceptional school district. And on a warm spring morning in Southern California, Jephcott is using the Share for Classroom application from the MetaMoJi Education Solutions suite to teach his energetic college-bound class of six- and seven-year-olds the fundamentals of geometric shapes – years before other California children will encounter a formal geometry curriculum.

Education solutions. 

The families of the young students in his classroom may not be able to afford computers at home, but each child in Jephcott’s home room is equipped with a new impact-protected Apple iPad loaded with digital instruction materials developed by their creative teacher personally and embedded inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom installed on each electronic tablet.

The early morning prayer chants from a nearby Buddhist monastery compete with the sound of roosters and other livestock that grace the small yards and modest stables surrounding the school. The Bassett Unified School District is more than 100 years old and lies atop lands of an even older Mexican land grant – Rancho La Puente – once just secluded farms, fields and groves that predated the entry of California into the United States.

Despite its rural remoteness from the busier urban streets of the City of Los Angeles 30 miles to the West, Don Julian Elementary School participates in a demanding national “No Excuses University” program that assigns each classroom to a specific, high-achieving university.

“No excuses” curriculum.

Classrooms enrolled in the “No Excuses University” program must meet tough academic goals. Teachers are encouraged to seek out not only with the latest mobile technology the school district can afford but also provide the class with banners and t-shirts proudly decked out with logos from the classroom’s assigned university. Jephcott’s class is focused on Yale University and has even memorized the songs and mottos of that elite Ivy League university. His first graders will gleefully belt out the Yale Bulldog fight song on the slightest provocation.

Jephcott and his wife are both talented and skilled elementary school teachers and enthusiastic world travelers. He holds a degree in environmental design from the California State University system and a master’s degree in education earned with honors at nearby Azusa Pacific University. Jephcott also has met and is identified as an H.Q.T. or Highly Qualified Teacher under tough U.S. federal criteria for demonstrated classroom competence.

Open platform policy. 

Don Julian Elementary is one of only three elementary schools in Bassett Unified School District, but the District has a progressive open platform policy which allows selected and innovative teachers to design their own hardware and software environments. Jephcott, with his degree in design, is an Apple enthusiast to the core, so he delighted in designing a classroom environment at Don Julian Elementary around advanced Apple iPad tablets, going hunting then among the available education-oriented mobile apps in the Apple Store. He was very happy to discover the just released MetaMoJi Share for Education app.

Says Jephcott: “Our district believes and is passionately committed to employing technology in ways that enhance learning and teaching. I support that and I believe in using those applications that permit teachers the maximum flexibility in designing and presenting materials to even the youngest students in ways that inspire and excite them. I saw immediately that MetaMoJi Share for Education offered that kind of promise.”

Says Bassett Unified School District Superintendent Alex J. Rojas: “We believe that successful 21st century learning organizations are those who integrate the analog and the digital. In Bassett Unified, our goal is to create and maintain high levels of student achievement.”

Adds Jephcott: “Using the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app is expanding my reach as a teacher every day as I explore its use and capability. And it never fails to energize my young students when they see that the very latest technology, even an app designed in faraway Japan, isn’t a far-off dream seen on a TV series or summer movie, but a technical literacy they can achieve and explore right here in their own California classroom. Working with Share on their iPad tablets opens them up immediately to the rich world beyond us – and brings all that the world can offer to them in an instant.”

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom

The teacher’s own technical prowess and skillfulness is apparent, as he first smoothly guides the young children in his care through traditional arithmetic sums, using Jephcott’s own custom-designed calculation forms inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app and easily findable by each child in their individual files proudly stored in the MetaMoJi cloud.

Jephcott was able to quickly access the completed (or sometimes incomplete) calculation sheet of each student and, if needed, project it for instant improvement or praise onto the class screen using a new Epson whiteboard projector.

The second half of his curriculum that morning was particularly innovative … and also all done inside the MetaMoJi Share for Classroom app. Jephcott was leading these very young children in an advanced introductory session on geometric solids – they had done two dimensional geometric shapes on Share earlier in the week. For the customized geometric solids curriculum, Jephcott embedded a findable “dictionary” inside each child’s Share files – really a shared snapshot of a handmade picture-and-text poster he hung earlier in the week in the front of the class.

Eyes on Teacher!

Whenever the young children were a bit distracted, he would quickly bring up on each of the iPad screens this bold poster: “Eyes On Teacher!” The kids would all point to him and chorus loudly and gleefully in response: “Eyes On You!” and settle down to happy, attentive, raptured silence.

Their talented teacher then held up three-dimensional objects, one by one, and moved among them while lecturing a bit on each singular 3-D shape, making sure the kids were familiar with the names – cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, cone.

Jephcott had earlier scattered several odd sets of the objects around the classroom in random places, and now had the students do a joyful treasure hunt. Each child was free to roam the classroom with their impact-protected iPads in hand (still within the Share app).

Share and Whiteboard.

The mission? To track down at least one of each shaped object, photograph it with their iPad camera option linked and embedded inside the Share for Classroom app, then add the name of the object by individually typing it into a caption. Jephcott was then able to selectively pull up any single photo with or without a caption from a student’s own personal file and project it forward to the whiteboard for all the class to admire.

Finally, the students finished the lesson with a casual exercise in discovering and calling out the same like shapes inside other structures and among common objects found in any conventional classroom – globular light bulbs, cube-shaped file boxes, square windows, even cylindrical water bottles.

All can succeed and learn. Says Jephcott: “To teach in our small school district, a teacher must believe in the district’s philosophy: ‘All students can learn and succeed.’ The diversity of our student population and our school staff here is also a great asset that enriches what we can teach and what we can learn even in the First Grade. The enthusiastic technical support each of our teachers receives from the district and from the leadership at Don Julian Elementary only strengthens and accelerates our pursuit of those great ideals.”

About MetaMoJi Share for Classroom

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom allows teachers to customize visually engaging lesson plans and collaborate with their students in real-time interaction as they work through the lesson on their tablet computers. Students can work individually or collaborate in groups as defined by their teacher. Share for Classroom provides all of the award-winning features of the MetaMoJi Productivity Environment, including note taking with multiple styles of pen and papers, tools to work with images and web content, voice recording, handwriting recognition and the ability to edit any content at any time. This allows students to quickly correct their work, change colors of existing writing or drawings, reposition and scale anything on a page and to add effects such as shadows and borders.

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Why mobile is creating a revolution in personalized blended learning

Why higher education must fully embrace going mobile for today’s students.

Nearly two decades have passed since the advent of the internet and already the face of education has been fundamentally turned on its head. Schools of every kind around the world have had to make sweeping changes to the way curriculum is designed and delivered in the internet age.

  For instance, reportedly, more than three quarters of American homes now have a smartphone or other tablet mobile device. People from every age group are accessing the internet for several hours each day, the way the previous generations did with television. However, there is a big difference between being a passive consumer of content that is served up on a static device like a television, and the interactive, exploratory nature of learning via online investigation and discovery. Teachers and students alike have had to adjust from a linear way of accessing information to a much more fluid, organic approach to learning.

One of the most radical changes in the past few years has been the implication of mobile devices within and beyond the classroom environment. Since mobile devices are intimately personal and fluid by nature, teachers are developing new and innovative ways to increase student engagement with a more personalized approach to how they guide the student in pursuing and sharing information.

According to education expert Dr. Steve Perry, “For decades, higher education has followed a tried and true, largely unchanged format since the Industrial Revolution. While modern-day technology has transformed other critical aspects of society, from the way products are manufactured to how goods and services are delivered to the way people manage their day-to-day lives, the approach to higher education had resisted opportunities for game-changing advancements. Fortunately, in the last several years, new entrants and approaches within the education arena have spurred the industry’s rapid adoption of new technologies, and substantially enhanced the options available to continuing education students.”

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MetaMoji Chooses Innovate My School Magazine to Launch Global Marketing Campaign

MetaMoji’s first Education Solutions advertisement will appear in the April 21 issue of Innovate My School and others are scheduled for subsequent May and June issues. All of the MetaMoJi ads will also be featured on the Innovate My School website.

  MetaMoJi Education Solutions

Innovate My School is just the sort of educational crossroads where we feel we can best place our message about MetaMoJi’s growing family of mobile educational tools.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2015 

MetaMoJi, a leading developer of mobile productivity applications, announced today that it is launching a global marketing campaign for its Education Solutions applications through advertising placements in Innovate My School magazine.

The first print ad for the MetaMoJi campaign will appear in the April 21 issue of Innovate My School Magazine and others are scheduled for the May and June issues. All of the MetaMoJi ads will also be featured on the Innovate My School website.

Said Ben Walshaw, MetaMoJi’s Director of Customer Communications: “Innovate My School is an extraordinary magazine and website that is free to all schools. The content comes from all over the world and includes innovative tech-friendly educational ideas that challenge students to use the very latest tools to teach fundamentals in the K-12 environment. It is just the sort of educational crossroads where we feel we can best place our message about MetaMoJi’s growing family of mobile educational tools.”

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom allows teachers to customize visually engaging lesson plans and collaborate with their students in real-time interaction as they work through the lesson on their tablet computers and smartphones. Students can work individually or collaborate in groups as defined by their teacher. 

Share for Classroom provides all of the award-winning features of the MetaMoJi Productivity Environment, including note-taking with multiple styles of pen and papers, tools to work with images and web content, voice recording, handwriting recognition and the ability to edit any content at any time. This allows students to quickly correct their work, change colors of existing writing or drawings, reposition and scale anything on a page and to add effects such as shadows and borders.

Said Walshaw: “Using MetaMoJi Share for Classroom, teachers can control visual collaboration on a page-by-page basis, allowing creativity and imagination to be applied in the correct places within lessons.”

Tablet Virtual Whiteboard

MetaMoJi applications are compatible with displays via HDMI or broadcast technologies (such as Air Play) allowing teachers to display their content from their tablet onto a larger TV or projector screen. This can be used to turn any platform of tablet computer into a large interactive ‘virtual whiteboard.’ This dynamic collaboration space can be opened to students as required. Teacher’s can look over the shoulder and interact with several students at one time. All students’ tablets can also be forced to reflect the teachers chosen content and to display any annotations that they make. 

All MetaMoJi mobile applications build upon the existing MetaMoJi Cloud infrastructure, allowing the optional cloud storage of documents, shared repositories for teams to place documents, and for multiple students to work on documents at the same time from any location.

Find out more about MetaMoJi’s award winning Education Solutions:  Web Site: http://business.metamoji.com/education-solutions/  About MetaMoJi Note:  http://noteanytime.com  About MetaMoJi Share: http://shareanytime.com/

To evaluate MetaMoJi SHARE for Business or MetaMoJi NOTE for Business then please visit http://business.metamoji.com/evaluation-options/ to request assistance.  To discuss partnering with MetaMoJi please email ben(at)metamoji(dot)com

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MetaMoJi Launches New Classroom App, Encouraging Classroom Collaboration and Interactive Teaching

Today marks the official launch of MetaMoJi Share for Classroom, a real-time collaboration app for teachers and students to interact within the classroom.

  Teachers can monitor student progress in real time

With Classroom we wanted to allow both students and teachers the flexibility of pen and paper and even a whiteboard within their tablet computers

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) April 15, 2015 

MetaMoJi today announces the general availability of its Classroom application. This dynamic collaboration environment allows teachers to look over the shoulder of students in real-time interactive class sessions from mobile devices. The Classroom product combines many of the features of MetaMoJi's award-winning Share and Note infrastructure with the document and user management required for teaching and learning within a classroom setting. 

The Classroom product was designed by MetaMoJi to give teachers a powerful tool that is easy to configure and manage documents for distribution, sharing and mark-up. For larger organisations that need centralised management of users and licensing, Classroom provides ICT friendly functions to integrate large numbers of students and faculty.

“MetaMoJi developed Classroom to help teachers and students work more efficiently as individuals and groups, making the most of the benefits modern tablet technology brings to education.” said Kaz Ukigawa, CEO at MetaMoJi. “We listened to the education users of our existing products and applied the key elements they wanted in their classrooms. We want to ensure that the key values of teaching and learning are not impacted when introducing technology but that new methods and techniques can be developed and shared around the world.”

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom is a combination of cloud SaaS and a tablet app, currently available for Windows 8 and iPad. Teachers can define groups of students, with the capability to define teams for group activities. Each class has a private repository of documents that can be easily synchronised and that are securely backed up in the cloud for safety. Source materials such as curriculum course work, exams, and assignments can be distributed via the application to the relevant students. The documents can be imported from existing content such as PDF or office documents, or created within the rich editing environment of the app. Each page of a document can be assigned as: 

Read only, for the teacher to display to students

For an individual student to provide their own work

For a group to work on

As a free for all page for the entire class to collaborate

  At any time, a teacher can view the current progress of any student in real-time, as they work on a document. If students appear to need assistance or request help from their app, the teacher can see immediately and interact with the students document in real-time, face-to-face or remotely.

“With Classroom we wanted to allow both students and teachers the flexibility of pen and paper and even a whiteboard within their tablet computers” said Hatsuko Ukigawa, Co-founder and CTO of MetaMoJi. “It was important to me that the performance of the application, and the editing features available, should enrich the learning experience and not cause frustration when using the application. By implementing our own cloud based streaming solution we are able to link hundreds of users to a document in real-time, with each user able to see changes being made almost as quickly as they happen on another users tablet.”

MetaMoJi Classroom has been designed to manage thousands of concurrent users working on shared documents, on their own work, and even to support online lectures using a view-only mode. The solution is designed to work on-premise, with students in a traditional classroom as well as remotely, with students able to connect with their teachers over the Internet. There is no restriction in where a teacher or student is located: teach in the school classroom during the day, but provide 1:1 assistance to students remotely in off hours.

Classroom is available immediately for a free trial or purchase at http://business.metamoji.com/classroom. MetaMoJi Classroom is available in two different versions.

The “Teacher Kickstarter Edition” is available for educational organisations for $210 per year. This edition includes:

      1 teacher license

    20 student licenses

    additional student licenses at $20 per year

  The Kickstarter edition is designed to help smaller schools or early-adopters of tablet technology in schools to introduce the application and evaluate its value.

The Enterprise Edition is available to all organizations and includes:

      Unlimited teacher licenses

    Unlimited student licenses

  Pricing is based on the number of students and teachers in an organization, storage space and any custom support options required.

An on-premise version of the product is also available for organisations wishing to install on their own cloud or in their own datacentre.

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Education expert Dr. Steve Perry Says Mobile Apps Encourage Collaborative Learning

Dr. Perry sat down for a personal interview with education app developer, MetaMoJi Corporation to share his thoughts about how mobile computers are changing education

  Education leader Dr. Steve Perry

There is a democratization of the world through apps

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) March 31, 2015 

In a meeting with award winning app developer MetaMoJi Corporation last week, the education champion Dr. Steve Perry spoke enthusiastically about how mobile computing is quickly transforming the way teachers teach and students learn. He said: “Technology is another tool that can improve access to talented educators and can be a platform for effective technology teaching platforms themselves. So anything that expands opportunity is vital to the education conversation.” 

Dr. Perry speaks frequently on CNN as well as at nationwide educational conferences, helping teachers to excel in the classroom. Dr. Perry is founder and principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet school in Hartford, Connecticut. The school has been listed among US News and World’s Report “America’s Best High Schools” due to its 100% graduation rate and placement of students in four year universities. 

Dr. Perry shared with MetaMoJi staff his opinions about the role of mobile technology in collaborative learning: “Tablets give us a window to the world. It is the information super highway and these portals feed information in our direction in ways we have never seen before. The generation that follows could be the smartest we have ever seen, if we can give them the basic skills they need to consume the information.”

Dr. Perry told MetaMoJi that mobile computers, particularly tablets, play a critical role in lifelong learning for students and even their parents. He said, “There are people who are rewriting the way that we work. More and more families have at least one or two people that work from home. So, there is a new strategy that we have for communicating information, whether it be for work or learning. Tablets in particular, and mobile devices in general, provide the opportunity for individuals to learn at their leisure or within the time that is most appropriate.”

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Leading education expert says tablet computers are rewriting the way we work and learn

Education is quickly changing as more and more tablets and mobile devices are incorporated into the classroom environment. Recently, MetaMoJi staff were honored to have a discussion about tablet apps in the classroom with leading educator Dr. Steve Perry. He is a frequent commentator on education issues for CNN and he speaks at education conferences across the United States. The high school he founded and leads was named by US News and World Report as one of “America’s Best High Schools.” Capital Preparatory Magnet School is a year round college preparatory school that sends 100% of its graduates to 4 year colleges. Dr. Perry shared with MetaMoJi staff his thoughts on the way that mobile computing is quickly transforming the way teachers teach and the way students learn. See here an excerpt from the interview:

Productivity

MetaMoJi: Do you think that technology can make students more productive?Dr. Perry: Technology is another tool that can improve access to talented educators and can be a platform for effective technology teaching platforms themselves. So anything that expands opportunity is vital to the education conversation. MetaMoJi: What do you believe of the role tablets can play in lifelong learning?Dr. Perry: One of the challenges of traditional education is that it requires that you be a traditional student - that you be able to spend your entire day or night in a classroom. The problem is that what we know of to be tradition has changed and continues to change with every passing moment. There are people who are rewriting the way that we work. More and more families have at least one or two people that work from home. So, there is a new strategy that we have for communicating information, whether it be for work or learning. And tablets in particular, and mobile devices in general, provide the opportunity for individuals to learn at their leisure or at within the time that is most appropriate. So a parent may currently have a job where she commutes via train or bus 4o minutes each way. She doesn’t want to stare at the window or read a trashy novel. She wants to improve her skills. So some of the things that we offer, is the school leadership. So she would be able to log on from her mobile devices, whether it is a tablet computer or her mobile phone, and engage herself in learning what she wants to learn when she wants to learn it. 

Tablet Apps Encourage Collaborative Learning

MetaMoJi: Do you believe that these devices can help increase interactive learning?Dr. Perry: Absolutely! One of the challenges that we see even in traditional education is that we are all limited by the people who live in the area. So if you don’t have access to teachers who are willing to drive 20-30-40 minutes to get to your school, your school’s effectiveness is determined by those individuals who for whatever reason happen to be living in the area. But there are great educators all over the world. So even within a traditional learning setting, you can learn from someone in Istanbul who does a very good job teaching algebra, or at least a component of algebra. And you can pull together individuals from all over the world who can bring educational opportunities to communities and individuals for whom education opportunities are a rarity. If they were food, they would be a delicacy! MetaMoJi: What do you believe technology’s role is in term of collaborative learning?Dr. Perry: Tablets give us a window to the world. It is the information super highway and these portals feed information in our direction in ways that we have never seen before. The generation that follows could be the smartest we have ever seen, if we could give them the basic skills they need to consume the information. But they have the intuition to do it. You give any child a computing device and he or she knows their way around. It is almost as if they were born with it attached to their fingers. MetaMoJi: What do you think about the idea of students being more computer literate than adults?Dr. Perry: Yes the technology is typically wasted on those who come behind us. The people who created it are the older generation. People forget that the most cutting edge technology that we see has been created by the generation before. But the consumers will be the ones that follow. So, a lot of times, the kids don’t even understand what they have in their hands. For them it is just a goofy game, just something to play more games on, Angry Birds or whatever their favorite game is. But for adults, we are looking to use it to solve age old problems. You can have two scientists in different parts of the earth studying the same chemicals, to bring those chemicals together to produce a vaccine to cure a disease in another part of the world that neither one of them are in. Both of them can do it in their living-room in their shorts. 

Pulls Kids Out of the Back of the Class with Mobile Apps

MetaMoJi: What do you think would encourage more productivity for teachers in the mobile computing learning environment?  Dr. Perry: Apps are interesting because they are typically organic because there is a democratization of the world through apps, because anyone can do it. And even children are putting them together. So I think, I mentioned to you earlier about the teacher that uses QR codes to check her student’s answers on the smart board. Now everyone knows who got the right and wrong answers. Similar to the way in which the kids used to raise their hands. So this was an app that my teacher found on Pinterest, it is a free app. So she uses it to engage the kids. And the kids love it. They like putting their answers up. What it also does is pull the kid out of the back of the class who would sit quietly before. Before only a couple kids would raise their hands and they would be the one with the biggest personality. Now, the teacher says, “Ok, put your cards up” and every kid puts their card in front of their face. All she does is take this app and scan the classroom and within seconds, literally a second, she takes a picture of the class and every single child’s answer is on the board. Every single child. And so she as the teacher can now, instead of checking all the answers, she has every single kid’s answer. Now, she has data that she can use. So in this particular science classroom, at the beginning of the year, out of 22 kids in the classroom, 19 were below level. 19 kids that they sent us from other schools. In the most recent assessment that we did, only 8. Over 50% increase in performance for children. Because she is able to use tools like the app. Now in another classroom if you don’t do something with the information it ends up not meaning anything. You just took a snapshot and showed the kid he got the wrong answer. If you don’t make an adjustment, then you haven’t improved the learning. So she has been able to improve the learning, has increased her efficiency because she doesn’t have to go around to every single child and say “what was your answer? Tell me your answer?” Now she can just focus on the 6 kids who got the answer wrong to that particular question. She can go over and talk to them. And the other kids can go to the next question. 

Expert Advice to Teachers: Don’t be Afraid of Technology

MetaMoJi: You are an advisor to a lot of teachers. What do you recommend to other schools to incorporate technology to make them better teachers?Dr. Perry: First, they have to be comfortable with it. Many people are afraid of technology. They always have been. Technology freaks people out. If you look at all the early depiction of technology in films, it was always robots taking over! Always machines taking over, even the book 1984 was about technology taking over. Every time technology comes out there is a certain apprehension that people have to it. And one of the worst groups of people when it comes to technology, I have found, are teachers. Because so many are so used to teaching the way they learned which is always at least 1-2 generations behind. Many of them were children could be 30- 40 years ago literally! And if you look at the technology that we used 40 years ago, just look at 10 years ago! I remember, we were the first in our housing project to have a microwave! And kids would come over and they would say “do the butter thing, do the butter thing!” So we would put the butter in there and melt the butter! And the folks would gather around and be terrified of each other as if we had discovered Uranus or something! That was technology back then! I remember being of the first to have an Atari. Or Pong before that! And now the video games that we see, the technology that we are seeing is like a movie. To watch a video game is to watch a movie! MetaMoJi: What are your recommendations to teachers when it comes to overcoming the technology gaps?Dr. Perry: Don’t be scared. Don’t be afraid of this thing. Give it a shot. Don’t teach to the young “you”, teach to your children. 

Find out more about the great work of Dr. Steve Perry

Dr. Steve Perry“America’s Most Trusted Educator” Dr. Steve Perry, MSW is a revered education expert and best-selling author of “Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve – Even If It Means Picking a Fight” among other titles. Dr. Perry, founder and principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, CT, is also the host of “Save My Son,” TVONE’s #1 docudrama. He may be reached online at www.tdjakesleadership.com.

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Items of Labware are now available with MetaMoJi Note & MetaMoJi Share!

Please enjoy using them. You may download them from “Showcase” > “Illustrations” (For Paid Version only).

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MetaMoJi to Unveil Invitation Only “Share for Classroom” Beta at the Education Innovation Show

The award winning producer of note taking and interactive tablet software, MetaMoJi will invite users to beta test MetaMoJi Share for Classroom at the Education Innovation Show in Manchester England

  Teachers can monitor student progress in real time

MetaMoJi will showcase Share for Classroom at the Education Innovation show in Manchester England this week

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2015 

MetaMoJi, the multi-award winning producer of mobile productivity applications, is pleased to announce that beginning today, their specialist education application “Share for Classroom” will be available for schools around the world to beta test.

Share for Classroom allows teachers to customize visually engaging lesson plans and collaborate with their students in real-time interaction as they work through the lesson on their tablet computers. Students can work individually or collaborate in groups as defined by their teacher. 

Share for Classroom provides all of the award-winning features of the MetaMoJi Productivity Environment, including note taking with multiple styles of pen and papers, tools to work with images and web content, voice recording, handwriting recognition and the ability to edit any content at any time. This allows students to quickly correct their work, change colours of existing writing or drawings, reposition and scale anything on a page and to add effects such as shadows and borders.

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom builds upon the existing MetaMoJi Cloud infrastructure, allowing the optional cloud storage of documents, shared repositories for teams to place documents, and for multiple students to work on documents at the same time from any location. This visual collaboration can be controlled by a teacher on a page-by-page basis, allowing creativity and imagination to be applied in the correct places within lessons. 

MetaMoJi applications are compatible with displays via HDMI or broadcast technologies (such as Air Play) allowing teachers to display their content from their tablet on a larger TV or projector screen. This can be used to provide a large interactive ‘digital whiteboard’ that can be opened to students as required. All students’ tablets can also be forced to reflect the teachers chosen content and to display any annotations that they make.

MetaMoJi will be demonstrating Share for Classroom along with other productivity applications for education at the Education Innovation show in Manchester, England on the 26th and 27th of February. Any schools or technology delivery partners interested in a 1:1 discussion with our team can get in touch to arrange a time. You can visit us at stand A22. EVENT INFO: http://www.educationinnovation.co.uk/

More information about Share for Classroom and how to apply to our beta programme can be found at http://business.metamoji.com/classroom 

More information about MetaMoJi education solutions can be found at http://business.metamoji.com/education-solutions

Recent awards for MetaMoJi products include winning the business / government app category at the International Business Awards, winning two Envisioneering awards at CES 2014 for our Share technology.

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MetaMoJi Launches Cloud Based Collaborative Teaching App for Real-time Interactive Digital Instruction

MetaMoJi Corporation today launches MetaMoJi Share for ClassRoom as a social learning platform for students and teachers to interact in live group collaboration over a virtual whiteboard.

  MetaMoJi Share for Classroom

Teachers can use the app to design personalized blended learning programs for those students with special needs or requiring more supervision.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) February 17, 2015 

MetaMoJi Share for ClassRoom provides an interactive teaching environment for individual study, group study, and collaborative learning. As a social learning platform, Share for Classroom allows teachers to digitally guide student work progress in real-time online interaction. The app provides teachers with a virtual whiteboard canvas to customize highly visual lesson plans including drawing, handwriting, images, websites and even audio files. 

As students work through the lesson plans, teachers can monitor their progress with a virtual look over the shoulder. Since all results of document markup are displayed in real-time, student engagement in lesson plans can become highly interactive. For distance learning situations, the cloud-based streaming environment provides an ideal way for instructor and student to work closer together. All work is displayed as it is entered in real-time, making it easier to illustrate and share lessons and ideas.

MetaMoJi Share for ClassRoom allows teachers to distribute a “Class Note” to their students. The note is either created from scratch with the powerful tools within the app or by importing files from PDF or Microsoft Office formats. Opening the Class Note starts a class. The students can write answers, sketch drawings or import photos and graphics to illustrate their ideas. Teachers can monitor how each student or group is progressing through the lesson by “checking in” to their screen while they are working. Easy management controls even allow the teacher to pass presentation control to the student to demonstrate their work.

With MetaMoJi Share for Classroom, teachers can create fluid lesson plans that are dynamic and engaging. Teachers can use the app to design personalized blended learning programs for those students with special needs or requiring more supervision. Extremely accurate handwriting recognition and voice capture functions within the app makes input quick and accurate, even for students with learning challenges. 

Following the lesson presented in class, students can join collaborative study groups and work through their homework together by checking in to the same document and sharing ideas within it. Teachers can use the platform for wraparound tutoring opportunities, helping students individually or in a group in virtual sessions. Teachers can even run an interactive lecture with their remote students.

Downloads & More Information  METAMOJI SHARE FOR CLASSROOM REQUIRES A METAMOJI CLOUD LICENSE  PLEASE CONTACT US AT BUSINESS.METAMOJI.COM/EDUCATION-SOLUTIONS FOR MORE INFORMATION

Web Site: http://business.metamoji.com/education-solutions/  About MetaMoJi Share: http://shareanytime.com/  Contact us: http://shareanytime.com/en/contact.html  MetaMoJi Corporation Privacy Policy: http://product.metamoji.com/en/privacy/

MetaMoJi Business Solutions

For more information about the business specific applications or to make contact with our sales team please visit http://business.metamoji.com/

To evaluate MetaMoJi SHARE for Business or MetaMoJi NOTE for Business then please visit http://business.metamoji.com/evaluation-options/ to request assistance.

To discuss partnering with MetaMoJi please email ben(at)metamoji(dot)com  Free versions of the consumer applications are available from your device’s App Store. 

For more information on all features, and for all download links, visit:  http://www.noteanytime.com for MetaMoJi Note  http://www.shareanytime.com for MetaMoJi Share

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MetaMoJi Share Helps Social Studies Teacher Engage Students in Interactive Learning

Hirokazu Kawano finds the collaborative environment of MetaMoJi Share to be an ideal tool in helping him keep students engaged in dynamic and interactive lessons online. Professor Kawano was excited about information technology and its impact on classroom learning. Last year, he conducted an experiment in collaborative group work among his students. Ten students were each given an iPad pre-loaded with MetaMoJi Share. Professor Kawano used the blank canvas of the MetaMoJi productivity environment to conduct group sessions where students could write ideas (just like on sticky notes) to share among each other. Professor Kawano reported to MetaMoJi that he was impressed with the analog feel of the MetaMoJi Share environment, particularly the ability to sync handwritten notes in real time as students worked together. One particular exercise Professor Kawano conducted was a social studies project designed to encourage collaboration among students. Groups of students were asked to work together to create newspaper articles designed to share ideas about environmental topics: such as recycling and trash repurposing. On the first day each student was given a tablet preloaded with MetaMoJi Share for use with classwork. The children dove into the exercise, effortlessly using the app to handwrite text, import illustrations and to create a newspaper layout. At the same time, students were also sharing ideas in real time, collaborating with one another with no difficulty whatsoever. At professor Kawano’s school, an elementary school associated with Tokyo Gakugei University, teachers are encouraged to promote independent thinking among their students. Professor Kawano holds a philosophy that in group lessons children should be encouraged to actively communicate their own ideas, listen to the opinions of others, and summarize both. Professor Kawano reported that the interface of the MetaMoJi Share environment is easy to understand and it is designed well for a collaborative meeting environment. He uses voice memo features within the app to for in-class announcements. MetaMoJi Share provides an opportunity for each and every student to participate and share real-time results. He can monitor and interact with students as they work, as well as capture accurate records of group collaboration with recorded voice notes imbedded within the notek. MetaMoJi Share for School provides many teachers like professor Kawano with an opportunity to engage students, especially in blended learning environments. Since dozens of participants can collaborate in live interactive sessions, MetaMoji Share also expands a set of tools for teachers to conduct tutoring and distance learning sessions as well. Like professor Kawano, many teachers find the MetaMoJi Share environment a way to customize learning sessions and empower both the teachers and students.

Get a free 30-day MetaMoJi Share trial

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Back to School? Get the most out of your new devices

Back to School is all about getting productive with tablets and smartphones. After a device happy holiday season, school is back in full swing and many kids are walking around with new phones and tablets on all platforms. Instead of a novelty, these “must-have” devices are everywhere and students and teachers are on the hunt for how to get the maximum productivity for simple things like homework, research, presentation mashups and note taking in class. Here are our top tips for how to use the MetaMoJi Mobile Productivity suite to make learning engaging and fun: 

Create Lively and Engaging Lesson Plans

Both MetaMoJi Note and MetaMoJi Share provide a broad high resolution canvas for you to create lesson plans that are colorful, dynamic, as well as interactive. For example, in history class today’s lesson covers a famous person in history. You can import a photo or drawing of that person, handwrite some fun facts, import an audio clip (if available) and even develop a pop quiz at the end of the lesson which can be distributed to all students via a shared drive.

Voice notes make homework easier

You have to take your notes on the go and sometimes, even handwriting (such as with MetaMoJi mazec) is not quick enough. Audio features in MetaMoJi Note and MMJ Share make it easy to capture audio clips to imbed directly into the note taking session. Because all note taking, drawing and voice recording features are saved into the MetaMoJi Cloud storage service, your notes also then include a time stamp and the ability to track the note taking session.

Markup and share PDF and Office files

PDF import and export features and Microsoft Office import make it easy for you to mash up and build off of standard lesson plans formats. Any document can be marked up with drawings, handwriting or typed text as well as mashed up with photos, webpage captures and audio files. Your options for creativity are endless in custom designing your lesson plan that matches your own personality and teaching style.

Interactive classroom

MetaMoJi Share provides live real time interaction between students and teachers, whether within the school or for distance learning environments. The collaborative whiteboard environment of MetaMoJi Share even allows dozens of real-time participants to collaborate. For teachers, this environment makes it easy and engaging to tutor and look over the shoulder of one or more students in real time. Audio capture also facilitates that these important lessons be preserved to be referred to later.

Jot it quickly and never lose your homework

Students love taking notes in MetaMoJi Note. With the mazec plugin particularly, handwriting is quick and accurate. Those with poor handwriting also have the advantage of curve correction technology and the ability to convert an entire batch of text into typed written reports which can be saved as PDF and sent to the teacher. Due to the MetaMoji cloud service, students should never again have the excuse that the dog ate their homework!

Mashup your book report

The next time you have a report which requires you to do research on the Internet, take advantage of web capture features in MetaMoJi Note. The web page becomes a simple image file which you can markup or mashup with photos and audio files. Make your next book report come to life!

Find out how MetaMoJi Education Solutions Can Help Your School

School administrators will appreciate many of the IT management functions within the environment of MetaMoji Education Solutions. To find out how these high performance productivity tools can help your school learn, please take a look at our education solutions and take a free trial within your school

Get your school a free 30-day trial

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MetaMoJi Previews a Real-Time Interactive Teaching App "MetaMoJi Share for Classroom" in Japan

MetaMoJi Previews a Real-Time Interactive Teaching App "MetaMoJi Share for Classroom" in Japan 

MetaMoJi Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, has just announced development of an interactive real-time teaching app called "MetaMoJi Share for Classroom”, planned for release first quarter of 2015. 

MetaMoJi Education Solutions

From bidirectional to "omnidirectional". Each member of the class who uses MetaMoJi is the main character. Participation by all students will speed up the sharing of knowledge.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2014 

MetaMoJi Corporation announced today its latest innovation with a new app planned for early next year called “MetaMoJi Share for Classroom”. In a closed door session with a limited set of invited guests and university professors, MetaMoJi showed a sneak peek of their newest invention. The new app will combine the advanced vector graphic editing functions of the digital notebook app MetaMoJi Note with the interactive cloud server technology of MetaMoJi Share, enhanced with specific features optimized for classroom interaction. 

Oji Hashimoto, NEC Corporation Smart Device Business General Manager said, “MetaMoJi Share for Classroom is a tool to help promote information and communication technology in the classroom. I trust that promoting a wealth of creativity and a clear understanding will bring innovation to various classroom scenes. We will continue to collaborate with MetaMoJi, and take our focus on providing customers with products and services in IT to the next level.”

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom was developed in order to address all sides of group study, individual study, and collaborative learning. The result is an interactive whiteboard where teachers can look over the shoulder of students in real-time. Teachers can import lesson plans in PDF or Office formats and interact with students in real-time as they work through the lesson plan. Handwriting functions that feel just like pen and paper make it easy for students to bring out their creativity. Even remote students can participate in dynamic class sessions with live interaction online.

MetaMoJi Share for Classroom was created to help teachers increase engagement among their students. As the teacher works through the lesson plan, entries and answers of all students will be displayed in real-time. Teachers can select entries of an individual or multiple students for presentation. The idea is to promote collaborative learning in groups. For distance learning situations, MetaMoJi Share for Classroom gives teachers a real option to include and engage students no matter where they are located. 

School IT managers will appreciate the easy deployment options for server side deployment through the MetaMoJi Cloud Server. Teachers will appreciate the ability to manage student interaction and keep them engaged. Said Seikei University Faculty of Law Professor, Kazuhiro Shiozawa, “From bidirectional to "omnidirectional". Each member of the class who uses MetaMoJi is the main character. Participation by all students will speed up the sharing of knowledge.”

Supported platforms for MetaMoJi Share for Classroom will be for both iOS and Windows 8 To find out more about MetaMoJi Education Solutions, please visit the website at http://business.metamoji.com/education-solutions/.

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Press Release: MetaMoJi Education Solutions Launch Today with Award-winning Note Taking and Whiteboard Collaboration Apps for Teachers and Students

MetaMoJi Education Solutions include the multi-award winning products MetaMoJi NOTE for presentations and note taking and MetaMoJi SHARE for distance learning and remote tutoring.

  Metamoji Education Solutions

Education is the essential gateway to a bright future in every society. Digital technologies and affordable cloud-based applications are opening that gate wider and providing access to all, reaching every corner of the Earth.

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) October 01, 2014

The MetaMoJi mobile productivity platform helps both faculty and students get more from their tablets and other smart devices. MetaMoJi NOTE is a feature-rich personal and team productivity tool which offers note taking, whiteboard functions and voice recording features for individuals and classes. Just some of the features include: drawing, handwriting conversion, voice recording, image and text mashup, document import and export, and capturing of web pages for annotation.

Teachers and students can use MetaMoJi NOTE for note taking, sketching and recording of class sessions.MetaMoJi SHARE builds upon all of the broad mashup features in NOTE and adds an interactive real-time whiteboard - making it easy for teachers and tutors to meet with students remotely in live online interaction or to look over their shoulders during lively class sessions.

AGILE, AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGY

Said Kaz Ukigawa, MetaMoJi CEO and co-founder: “Education is the essential gateway to a bright future in every society. Digital technologies and affordable cloud-based applications are opening that gate wider and providing access to all, reaching every corner of the Earth.”

Teachers can create highly visual lesson materials and distribute them via a Shared Drive, or send them directly to students via email or social media. Documents can be imported from any popular Office file or PDF file for annotation. Teachers can create on the fly or prepare documents in advance. Mobile devices can act as a whiteboard presentation tool by simply linking to a display in the classroom.

SCALING AND SAVING ALL CONTENT

Advanced document scaling features allow instructors to zoom in and out of any part of their composition with no loss of quality, thereby freeing up whitespace any time it is desired. When the lesson is completed, teachers can quickly save all whiteboard contents and distribute to the class. Students can make use of a wide variety of content creation tools to complete assignments or just to take private notes.

Said co-founder Hatsuko Ukigawa, who is also Executive Vice President and MetaMoJi’s chief technology officer: “Our unique and industry-leading vector authoring feature takes white-boarding to the next level, supporting clear and instantaneous connectivity for classroom sharing and advances state-of-the-art server technology built upon a durable cloud-based infrastructure for remote learning.”

AUTO SYNC AND AUTO SAVE INTO THE CLOUD

Changes to a document are reflected to all users as they happen, so teachers can keep their students engaged with the material. Document management features allow teachers to restrict editing and take possession of documents as needed. Documents are automatically synchronized and saved into the cloud so that any student or faculty can access documents from different devices.

Learning doesn’t just take place in the classroom. MetaMoJi SHARE provides a perfect environment for distance learning or remote tutoring. Students can also collaborate on documents as a team, accessing a document whenever they need to and making changes solo or as a group.

For larger deployments, all of the MetaMoJi Education Solutions can be managed by school IT administrators. MetaMoJi enterprise editions allow IT administrators to assign licenses for individual products to faculty members and students. User accounts can be uploaded and managed in bulk, allowing thousands of users to be managed by a single individual if required.

MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTIONS

To schedule a personal 1:1 discussion with a MetaMoJi Education Solutions expert, contact us and we will explore ways for you to get more from our products.

For companies looking to resell MetaMoJi mobile productivity solutions, or to integrate them within an existing or new solution, a partner program is also available.

For large scale deployments of MetaMoJi SHARE or MetaMoJi NOTE across your school, please visit:http://business.metamoji.com/request-demonstration-education/ to request assistance.

To discuss partnering with MetaMoJi, please email ben(at)metamoji(dot)com

Free versions of the consumer applications are available from your device’s App Store. For more information on all features, and for all download links, visit: 

    http://www.noteanytime.com for MetaMoJi NOTE

    http://www.shareanytime.com for MetaMoJi SHARE

  About MetaMoJi

MetaMoJi creates products to break barriers between devices and users with revolutionary applications on smartphones and tablet devices. MetaMoJi’s unique innovations give users the comfort of an analog experience with the convenience of digital technology. MetaMoJi’s mission is to contribute to the advancement of human beings with unique applications to collect knowledge, write documents, organize ideas and share them with others. Please visit the corporate site for more information. Find us also also on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Tab Times: 5 best iPad apps for team collaboration and brainstorming

Winner of a recent TabTimes' Tabby Award, Note Anytime has distinguished itself as a powerful collaborative whiteboard tool. It is extremely accurate with stylus or touch input and can be used for PDF and document annotation, whiteboard brainstorming and as a vector graphic sketching tool [...]

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San Diego Union Tribune: NEW APP A GLOBAL WORKPLACE FOR VIRTUAL TEAMS

Share Anytime app for note-taking on mobile platforms

“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything,” said economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

The Palo Alto tech company MetaMoJi is out to change that, at least virtually.

Share Anytime, a collaboration app launched last month by MetaMoJi, acts as an interactive whiteboard for team note-taking and document sharing. Launched across iOS, Android and Windows 8 mobile platforms, Share Anytime instantly connects team members anywhere in the world, regardless of their device.

The app supports interaction for up to 100 people working in real time in the same digital workspace. Its features include a handwriting recognition program and a chat bar so online meetings participants can discuss the information without interrupting the speaker.

The app is a complementary tool to popular meeting solutions like Google Hangouts, Skype, Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting and TeamViewer.

“What we’re trying to do with Share Anytime is give dozens of people the opportunity to simultaneously interact,” a company spokeswoman said. “It’s a way to bring your meetings to life.”

The app bagged two innovation and design awards at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. MetaMoJi is also known for its Notes Anytime app.

For more information, visit http://shareanytime.com

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/03/tp-new-app-a-global-workplace-for-virtual-teams/ By MELODY DAREING Special to U-T San Diego 12:01 A.M.FEB. 3, 2014

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MetaMoJi’s Share Anytime App Wins Two Envisioneering Innovation & Design Awards for ShowStoppers @CES 2014

January 14, 2014 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

2014 International CES

ShowStoppers @CES 2014

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetaMoJi today announced that its latest collaboration app, Share Anytime, was honored at ShowStoppers @CES with two Envisioneering Innovation & Design awards for its virtual workspace.

“MetaMoJi is honored that Share Anytime was selected by Envisioneering to win an Innovation & Design awards at ShowStoppers”

Share Anytime was recognized by Envisioneering for its fluid design and its new approach to collaboration. Envisioneering is world-renowned for its objective assessment of new technologies, products and service embodiments. Its awards promote the most innovative features of products, technologies and services present at ShowStoppers.

Launched across iOS, Android, and Windows 8 mobile platforms on January 6, Share Anytime instantly connects team members from anywhere in the world – regardless of their mobile device. Share Anytime, a complementary tool to popular meeting solutions like Google Hangouts, Skype, Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting and TeamViewer, creates a simply designed global workspace, making it possible for teams to visually collaborate from the palms of their hands.

Based on MetaMoJi’s multi-award-winning note-taking and virtual whiteboard app, Note Anytime, Share Anytime supports interaction for up to 100 authors working in the same digital workspace simultaneously.

“MetaMoJi is honored that Share Anytime was selected by Envisioneering to win an Innovation & Design awards at ShowStoppers,” said MetaMoJi CEO, Kazunori Ukigawa. “We believe that collaboration is the key to business success and we will continue perfecting Share Anytime to make it the most seamless and advanced collaboration app on the market.”

Share Anytime is available on Android, iOS, and Windows platforms and is offered as both a paid and free versions, which can be downloaded at the following locations:

iOS: Share Anytime Free: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id706742914 Share Anytime Paid: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id706742897

Android: Share Anytime Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.shareanytime.free Share Anytime Paid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.shareanytime

Windows: Share Anytime Free: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/share-anytime-free/38bcd995-fa53-467c-b1b0-00077e25acbb Share Anytime Paid: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/share-anytime/0d685380-85c9-4dad-bb40-06e7e056bc33

About MetaMoJi

MetaMoJi creates products to break barriers between devices and users with revolutionary applications on smartphones and tablet devices. MetaMoJi’s unique innovations give users the comfort of an analog experience with the convenience of digital technology. MetaMoJi’s mission is to contribute to the advancement of human beings with unique applications to collect knowledge, write documents, organize ideas and share them with others. Please visit the corporate site for more information.

Contacts

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