Product Video Demonstrations
(Last Updated January 24, 2013)

This document provides short video demonstrations and information on education technology products that were developed with funding from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The videos showcase the features and components of the products, and describe their application in schools and classrooms with students and teachers. For more information, click on the product to be linked to the project abstracts.

Notes:

• IES/ED does not promote or endorse any non-Government or commercial content appearing on the page.
• Products appear in alphabetical order by the names of the small businesses.
• This document will be updated as new product demos are made available.
• Any questions about the program or the projects listed in this document can be emailed to the IES/ED SBIR Program Manager Edward Metz at Edward.Metz@ed.gov.

3-C Institute for Social Development
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfyax3F3_ck
Zoo U is an online interactive adventure for students and an assessment tool for educators. ZooU evaluates students' social skills in six key areas and provides real-time reporting at the classroom, school, and district levels.

3-C Institute for Social Development
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHIjklyOfQU
The Social Story Theatre will be a web-based platform in which 3rd through 5th grade students with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will engage with animated scripts that address challenges in their lives in order to facilitate improved social functioning.

Agile Mind, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrJyc6A2gc
Agile Mind's web-based biology course supports students' learning of biological concepts through interactive and engaging simulations and visualizations.

Children's Progress, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUSw5JtoBg
The Children's Progress Adaptive Assessment (CPAA) assesses concepts in early literacy and mathematics for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 3 and facilitates student learning through animated interactive scaffolding procedures and instructional activities.

Common Ground Publishing
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoUK1V_KmJU&feature=plcp
Scholar is an online environment for knowledge communities, harnessing collective intelligence and facilitating students' collaborative learning. Scholar has five publishing spaces where students and teachers work closely to create knowledge and learn.

Diversified Construction Services
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7DEs4CcsyY
The STEM Solar Explorations platform is multidisciplinary solar energy field laboratory to supplement middle school standards. The hardware component includes physical solar equipment that captures real-time data that is wirelessly transmitted to classrooms and the web-based component hosts the curriculum, the dashboard to present data, and materials to facilitate implementation.

Empirical Education, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-hDQqpKcc
MeasureResults is a web-based solution for K–12 school district leaders who want to determine the need for, and evaluate the effectiveness of, products and services aimed at improving student results.

Filament Games
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAON0kfWVQ
Games-Based Interactive Life Sciences (GILS) is a series of web-based high-impact games intended to facilitate conceptual understanding of the science inquiry process in middle school students, especially struggling learners.

Fluidity Software, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvxE7YgI6o&list=UU8kcEnQts_GYl7rNEcBVujw&index=3&feature=plcp
FluidMath is a software program for math teachers that recognizes handwritten math formulae and sketches drawn on the screen of a pen-enabled computer, and then generates solutions, graphs, and dynamic animations.

G8four
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbY9bbDYq-0
OASIS is a web-based multimedia and social networking platform that supports teachers as they learn to facilitate hands-on math and science lessons in the classroom.

Handhold Adaptive, LLC
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFonvRP9wGc
The iPrompt software allows teachers and caregivers to customize and present different visual supports in supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Institute for Disabilities Research and Training, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3krPdQS7CCI&feature=youtu.be
The myASL Quizmaker provides web-based assessments for deaf or hard of hearing students through English to America Sign Language graphic and video translations. The product enables teachers to create customized tests, exams, and quizzes that are automatically scored, and provide teacher reports with grades and corrected quizzes.

Information Research Corporation, Inc.
Demo: http://youtu.be/ksEltVVPkjM
The Interactive Touch Science will be an integrated software and hardware assistive technology platform to support STEM learning among middle school students with (or without) visual impairments.

Insight Learning Technologies, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmECL2mcy8
Algebra Insight is a web-based formative assessment software product that promotes mathematics learning by supporting students in visualizing and manipulating algebraic equations.

Mindset Works, Inc.
Demo: http://youtu.be/ZWSP4B83ntw
The Growth Mindset Learning Platform is a web-based multi-media platform designed to help schools prepare students to succeed in school by learning how the brain learns and changes with effort, and how to use effective study skills to increase learning.

Molysym, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbeDqadU-o
The Hypermodeler is a hardware and software product for use in Advanced Placement chemistry courses. The tool enables students to manipulate a hand-held ball and stick molecular modeling kit and interact with chemistry software in real-time.

Mtelegence Corporation
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8d_U_Lh6o
Readorium is a web-based product for middle school students designed to support improved reading comprehension of science content through guided lessons that scaffold reading and understanding.

One Planet Education Network, LLC
Demo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEQkKOQVmM
The Traveler's Oath product is a web-based gaming platform through which students' visit virtual recreations of national parks to engage in content across a multidisciplinary set of areas.

Polyhedron Learning Media, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1UQX7TqzU
The Virtual Physics Laboratory is a set of web-based labs that can fully replace—or be used as a supplement for—hands-on equipment in a typical introductory college physics course.

Quantum Simulations, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-VpZd_1yWM
Quantum Tutors use artificial intelligence (AI) software delivered over the Internet to create a personalized and adaptive learning experience in mathematics and science.

Quantum Simulations, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuB_eVnDp-0
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Braille Tutor will be a web-based program to provide kindergarten through 12th grade students who are blind or visually impaired on-demand support for understanding Braille code.

Quantum Simulations, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLsFa-8ifNQ
The Quantum Tutor for Probability is a web-based artificial intelligence (AI) tutor that provides customized supports and feedback to adult learners and college students in developmental math courses.

Seward, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwK085bF8ZQ
The First 4,000 Words product is a web-based system for assessing and supporting students in knowing the meanings of the 4,000 most frequently used English words.

Seward, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBCLACTn6g
Word Learning Strategies is a multimedia website that provides teachers a comprehensive program to support grade 4 and 5 students as they learn strategies for inferring the meanings of unknown words encountered during reading.

Sokikom (previously Virtual Learning Technologies)
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1kG2DKeFk
Sokikom's online social learning game is designed to motivate students in grades 1 through 6 to engage in and learn math.

thereNow (formerly Spectrum Education)
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/user/21stCenTeacher#p/a/u/0/93qLfJDsZ1A
The IRIS Connect is a camera system and software program that enables remote classroom observation, and can be used to facilitate teacher induction, teacher professional development, and observational research.

Thought Cycle, Inc.
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAeCp7KM7s
Numbershire is a series of web-based narrative mini-games where 1st grade students with or at-risk for disabilities learn about whole numbers by applying math concepts to the building of an idyllic fairytale village.

Triad Interactive Media, Inc. (formerly Triad Digital Media, Inc.)
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7Ghd7fUx8
Math Mystery Monster (M3) is a series of 23 web-based mini games that formatively assess fourth graders' mathematical understanding and provide immediate feedback to teachers for instructional practice.

Triad Interactive Media, Inc. (formerly Triad Digital Media, Inc.)
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQ6ej5kJ2c
PlatinuMath is a series of narrative based mini-games to improve mathematical understanding among preservice teachers. The games will cover 24 standards-relevant topics and will supplement any preservice curriculum or training course.