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:
How to Enter Rafflecopter Giveaways from Rafflecopter on Vimeo.
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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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my 56 year old mother would like to have one so i would love to gift her one I would tell her I won it from Montessori and not take credit for it 🙂 [email protected]
I would love to win the ipad2. It has many wonderful educational apps as well as other useful tools. I pray that I win.
I do my research online, my kids learn partly online, I love to read blogs, learn from and write blogs.. an iPad2 would be a great asset for our entire family !
We would love the chance to win an ipad to be shared by my son (4) who has GDD/SD and autism (asd). As well as my 18mth old daughter. I think it would be a great tool for both their learning! We cannot afford one so would love to win one for them.
Montessori Compass video- didn’t know that it has email to send to all in school
I would love to win an ipad2 because I can’t afford one and it would be very useful.
Montessori Compass – auto saving in real time, as i always lose my data.
I would love one for work.
I just want one no particular reason. It would be cool to have. I’m sure I could figure out plenty of beneficial uses for it.
I am in need of a new computer and an pad would be great.
i would love to have an ipad for my daughter who is special needs. adopted from china. she is homeschooled and 6 years old. thank you.
Found the parent messages a really nice feature. Keeping parents informed about their students and activities of the school.
We’ve been wanting to get an iPad for our school work, but it’s still a bit out of our current budget. Thanks for offering the giveaway.
Would love to win an Ipad 2 for my daughter. We will be traveling to Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and would love something to occupy her time after her surgery. We homeschool as well and would be great for all those educational apps that I eyeball for her. Thank you for the chance to win.
Ooh, I’ve been wishing for an iPad for a while, but as a student there isn’t a lot of extra money…I would like to have it for my kids to use educational apps. Thanks for the chance to win!
mrsmchappell at gmail dot com
Would absolutely love an ipad! I keep seeing more and more great homeschool uses and we have 4 kids that would love this! Thank you for this generous giveaway.
We were able to borrow an Ipad for a week from the library. My 2 years old daughter absolutely loved all the educational applications, including the Montessori one.
I have been looking to get one for my daughter for homeschooling on. Seems to be the perfect device for that.
I will never be able to purchase one personally, so it would be AMAZING to win an iPad2! I am a Montessori teacher and would be able to organize so many necessary files, forms, information, photographs, etc. for my students & classroom. There are so many apps available it is mind-boggling! I know my granddaughter would enjoy it too! By the way, I’m doing this on Rafflecopter!
We homeschool and an Ipad would make things a lot easier for us to stay organized. I think my dd would also be more eager to complete her work if it was on an ipad 😉 Thanks for the chance!