The giveaway is now closed. Please see the bottom of the post right below the Rafflecopter form for the announcement of the winner! And don’t forget the Special Montessori Compass promotion: Sign up for Montessori Compass using the promo code LivingMontessoriNow and get a 30-day free trial and 50% discount for the first 3 months! 🙂
Wow! What an exciting giveaway! Anita and Rob Amos, Montessori parents and founders of Montessori Compass, recently returned from the American Montessori Society Annual Conference in San Francisco. They sponsored a giveaway at the conference of an iPad 2. They’re now sponsoring a second giveaway … An iPAD GIVEAWAY here at Living Montessori Now (available WORLDWIDE)!
Before we get to the giveaway, let me tell you a bit about Montessori Compass. Montessori Compass is an incredibly user-friendly, web-based software application that provides online Montessori record keeping, school management, and parent communication from any web-enabled device.
Montessori Compass on an iPad
Montessori Compass on an iPhone
I had the opportunity to take a web demo of the site on Tuesday. Was I ever impressed! I just wished Montessori Compass would have been available when I was a Montessori teacher – and especially when I was a Montessori school owner.
Montessori Compass is designed to help Montessori teachers and schools keep records and communicate with parents easily and efficiently. It’s available for schools with infants-grade 12.
Just a few of the things you can do with Montessori Compass:
- record attendance
- create student work plans
- record individual lessons, group lessons, and notes for each child
- see classroom progress at a glance
- see where individual students are right now and where they should be going next
- place lesson plans on calendars
- share reports with specific members of your school staff
- share a directory of photos and descriptions of the most common Montessori works with parents to help them understand Montessori education better
- create and share an online photo album
- generate activity reports for each child daily or weekly
- automatically send reports to each child’s parents
- show coming events and your annual calendar
Montessori Compass on a Laptop
You don’t even need to be a techie to appreciate Montessori Compass. The interface is amazingly easy to use, and everything is autosaved so you can’t accidentally delete something important. Information is easy to edit with a minimum number of clicks needed to use everything. There are great templates with the site, although you can customize as well.
Montessori Compass isn’t just wonderful for teachers and schools … it’s also wonderful for Montessori parents! Montessori Compass helps you understand Montessori education through a directory of Montessori works and gives you a way to know what your child is doing at school. That makes it so much easier to support your child’s school experiences at home. If you’re a parent, you can always recommend that your child’s school sign up for Montessori Compass!
From the Montessori Compass site:
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- School Management – Helping Montessori educators save time, money, and trees!
- Classroom Management – Spend your day focused on what you love to do … guiding young minds!
- Parent Communication – Bridging the gap between home and school!
Check it out … Montessori Compass demo!
Special Montessori Compass promotion: Sign up for Montessori Compass using the promo code LivingMontessoriNow and get a 14-day free trial and 50% discount for the first 3 months! 🙂
Now for the Giveaway:
What You Will Win: 1 lucky winner WORLDWIDE will win an iPad 2!
Who is Eligible:
This giveaway is open to anyone 18 and older worldwide. The first entry is mandatory. You must leave a blog post comment telling why you want to win (and be sure to say you did that on the Rafflecopter form)! After you’ve completed your mandatory entry, there are lots of optional entries. You have many chances to win! (Note: For the extra entries, you may count ways of following that you already do. For example, if you previously “liked” Living Montessori Now on Facebook, you may still count that for your “like” Living Montessori Now on Facebook entry!)
It’s easy to enter giveaways with Rafflecopter! Just follow the directions to enter. You must complete the Mandatory Entry to qualify for any additional entries. The giveaway closes 10:01pm MST on Monday, April 2. Best of luck! 🙂
Here’s a 45-second video with quick directions for entering through Rafflecopter:
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UPDATE:
It’s Tuesday morning, April 3. I enjoyed reading all 700 blog comments. And I really appreciated the 6,846 entries! I just wish you all could have won. (Where is Oprah when you need her?! 😉 )
A winner has been selected using Random.org through Rafflecopter!
The winner of the iPad 2 from Montessori Compass is Stacey B.!
I’m so happy for Stacey, who had multiple entries! (Note: Stacey, you have 48 hours to respond to my email, or a new winner will be chosen.)
The comment for Stacey’s mandatory entry (why she wanted to win) said:
“Thanks for sharing the information about the software. It seems like a really great tool. I want to win because an iPad would benefit my whole family each in different ways, but I just can’t afford to put the extra money out for one. Thanks so much for giving me a chance to win.”
CONGRATULATIONS, Stacey!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH to Montessori Compass for sponsoring the giveaway – and thank you to everyone who entered!
And great news! I have another absolutely amazing giveaway starting this morning – my 2nd blogiversary giveaway (open worldwide) sponsored by Montessori Print Shop with 2 grand prizes of a Deluxe CD-Rom Collection (each worth $599.99) and a second-place prize of a $100 Montessori Print Shop in-store coupon! Also, the Special Montessori Compass promotion continues: Sign up for Montessori Compass using the promo code LivingMontessoriNow and get a 14-day free trial and 50% discount for the first 3 months! 🙂
As always, thanks so much to all my blog sponsors!
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There are so many wonderful learning opportunities with the iPad2, and I would love to win it for my child’s benefit!
i have always entered so many giveaways and h but ope to win this; i would love to use this for the children i work with who r orphans n are effected with HIV; seeing the children work in the montessori environment is a very joyful experience on its own; and being able to save work and prepare work thrrough the ipad would make a huge difference for these poorly children
I would LOVE to win an ipad! There are so many great uses for them, I would use it as an organizational tool and for all the great apps for young children.
I would love to win an iPad because it is very kid friendly and I could use it as a homeschooling tool. We’re overseas in a small town and resources are limited. This would be great!
Wow, what an amazing giveaway!
I’d love to win for our little gal. She’s a newly minted five, and there is just SO much available for the iPad that I’d love to share with her. She has a thirst for learning “I’m curious, Mama”, which we are trying to encourage at every turn. I just know she’d love this!
I would love to win an iPad for my daughters. There are so many educational apps that I know they would love.
I would totally love to win this!!!!!! I have wanted one for a while since there are so many apps that can help with learning! I would love to have the mobile Montessori apps as well as some of the childrens books that are out there! What an amazing opportunity!!!!!!
I know someone who really needs one for her autistic child. I would love to be able to give it to her.
I’d LOVE an ipad – and actually mostly for the kids to use! I think it could be a great learning tool in some areas at certain times. Thanks for the great opportunity!
I’d love to win this for my son’s school! I LOVE Sun Grove Montessori School of Fort Pierce, Florida and think this iPad would help our school upgrade with new technology perfectly.
I’d love to find/use educational & creative aps for my kids!
I have a smart,kind and wonderful 21 month old who also happens to have an extra 21st chromosome. We use a lot of Montessori methods every day and plan to attend Montessori school when she is old enough. Currently she can read over 100 words. We would LOVE to have an IPAD to help her continue to accelerate! There are so many wonderful apps available and we will never be able to afford one on our own.
I also just did the Rafflecopter entry!
My wife and I homeschool our 5 year old and 3 year from home. They were previously in a Montessori school but we moved to an area without a good Montessori school nearby. My wife had worked tirelessly to turn our entire extra room in the basement to a finished Montessori room complete with traditional Montessori style lessons. My wife quit her job of making $70K+ a year for the education of our children. Had she kept working we could have easily afforded even the most expensive of private schools in our area. Personally, we use technology very minimally. We feel children our kids’ ages learn more and learn better from hands on. However, being able to take information and lessons on the go via an iPad 2 would be helpful. Learning in a homeschool environment very rarely means all learning happens in the home. Most lessons and activities are spent away from the home, which is the beauty of learning.
I just did the rafflecopter entry.
I would love to win so that we can try out some of the great new apps I keep seeing that are only for ipad 🙂
I would love to win the I Pad 2 to use with my 2 and 3 year old as well as to use it for lesson plans and record keeping for our home-school journey.
I would love to win so we could have the extra teaching and record keeping help!
I would use the iPad 2 for note taking and studying – I’m going back to school to earn an IBCLC (lactation consultant) certification soon!
it would be so easy for my coteacher and me to be on the same page. no more hauling the binder home to update it!
I liked te online attendance, which seemed so easy and fast!
Oh, Deb, what a great giveaway, and what a great website!
I would love to win the ipad so I coult be able to use it with my goup of six year olds that i currently teach. I follow all the blogs with reports of great apps, great work with the ipad and am constantly jealous!
Thanks!