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 would love to win the iPad2 for a few reasons.
1) my husband has the iPad and it is awesome!
2) The kids LOVE to play with it, so many child friendly apps.
3) I’m a teacher, and it would be awesome to integrate some of the educational apps into my classroom on an occasional basis.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
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I’d like an ipad do 1)keep up with my websites without having to isolate myself at my desk and 2)the apps and ebooks for kids are beautiful.
Truthfully, I would love to win the Ipod 2 because it is my best option for ever owning one and I could use it for work and more!
i would love to win the ipad 2 for my specialneed daughter , thank you for the give away
I’d like to win one because there are so many great Montessori apps available 🙂
I’d love to win an Ipad because I’e always wanted one ad it is so cool because it is a trend an I’d love to try it and have one my own.
I like that everything is auto saved in real time on montessori compass. I like the layout for each child – how all the info is connected.
This is an exciting offer. I would love to win it so that I can purchase one less for our classrooms so they can use Montessori Compass in the fall easier.
I would us it in the classroom.
Love the parent community (my son attends a Montessori school), as well as the educator community. I plan on being a Montessori teacher once I finish my early childhood degree!
I would love the ipad 2 because my old iphone3g is almost dead, and i cant afford a new one!
There are so many fun uses for the iPad, so I couldn’t pick one on why I’d want it! Maybe to play games… 🙂
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Computer getting old. Would love a backup! Thanks for sponsoring this!
Montessori Compass demo video fav find is the email feature where you can select the whole school and you don’t have to worry about new emails or changed emails and stuff…they take care of it all for you!
I would LOVE to win a iPad 2!! Who wouldn’t! We just can afford a fancy toy like that right now but my husband works so hard and he wants one so bad. I would love to win this for him for all he does for us. Thank you!
I think the Montessori Company Online Classroom Photos is a really really cool feature!
I would really like to have one for myself!
I would love to win an iPad2 because I could use it as an e-reader and save trees and the associated energy/production costs related to paper books!
I would love to win this iPad for my grandfather. He is extremely smart and loves computers but he has Parkinson’s so it is hard for him to use a keyboard or mouse. The touch screen would be perfect for him!
Would love to use it instead of using my PC