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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I’d love one so my son could play angry birds because we don’t have any mobile devices that allow it and he has discovered it at a friend’s house!
An IPad would be great for my family because it would help entertain my brother who is sick in bed a lot with a chronic disease.
I would really love to win a ipad because i will never be able to afford to purchase one and my kids would really enjoy playing the same educational games on it that they do at school.
I’d love to win the iPad because of all the educational games and book my kids could use on it.
I’d like to win an iPad so I can take recipes into the kitchen.
An ipad would make reading easier and more comfortable because it’s lighter and not as unwieldy as a book.
I do a lot of family research at local libraries and this would come in handy for keeping track of information that I track down on my family
My parish went through a HUGE change this year converting one of our many schools into a Montessori public school. After 22 years of teaching in a traditional setting, I applied to teach in a Montessori setting and go through the Montessori training. It has been a long and hard road. I could use any and all help I can get organizing my classroom files, etc.
The computer I have now is slow as a turtle (talk about frustrating) and my laptop that I had died. This would make things a little easier.
My husband and I share the same computer. An iPad wouldn’t take the place of a computer, but it would help out.
I’d love to win this, as it would help tremendously with homeschoolong. Being able to trade up from my hand-cranked pc would maybe even encourage me to blog!
Many thanks and best wishes.
i would like to win an iPad 2 because there is somuch you can use it for! i would get a lot of use out of it
I’m a musician and I know there are so many great apps for music ! I don’t really have the best gear to play music so an iPad 2 would be more than welcomed 🙂 a friend of mine have one and he showed me how he could get such an awesome sound from it ! It would help me sooo much !
I’d like an ipad 2 because it’s portable and lightweight, and thus a great way to take my work with me when I travel.
I want to win an ipad 2 because I like new technology.
Comment about website: Although I am not a Montessori teacher (but am Montessori trained), I can see possible uses of this program for the “regular” classroom. The lessons would look different but the premise is the same.
Comment about demo: I really like how user friendly it seems which would be especially handy if you are updating throughout the day while in class.
Hello. I would love to win so that my husband doesn’t spend our money that should be going to our “rainy day/vacation/reno” fund!! My sons (4 and 2) would love to use different Montessori apps and educational apps on it. They love touching screens – as my computer screen can attest to!
I would love to win an iPad to assist me with organizing my busy, busy life =)
I am a South African and how great it will be when I tell the children at school that all their record keeping is now done on an Ipad that I won from a place where I receive all the information I need to uplift and teach them. This will surely be a wonderful easter egg that will be used for forever.