Announcing the Finalists for the 2017 Tech Edvocate Awards

Announcing the Finalists for the 2017 Tech Edvocate Awards

Written By: Talk of the Sound News

NEW ROCHELLE, NY —

Best Lesson Planning App or Tool

Finalists:

  • ClassFlow Family of Software
  • Unit Planner by Eduplanet21
  • Ogment

Best Assessment App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Istation
  • Proctorio
  • Renaissance Star 360
  • Turnitin Feedback Studio

Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Nuiteq (SnowFlake MultiTeach)
  • Alive Studios
  • Origo
  • StoryBots Classroom

Best Literacy App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Speare Hybrid Word Processor
  • ThinkCERCA
  • myON
  • Turnitin Revision Assistant

Best Math App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Renaissance Accelerated Math
  • Origo
  • CanFigureIt Geomety

Best STEM/STEAM Education App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Defined STEM
  • Nepris
  • Collisions by PlayMada Games
  • STEM Gauge by Measured Progress 

Best Language Learning App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Rosetta Stone
  • Verbling

Best Virtual or Augmented Reality App or Tool

Finalists:

  • DiscoveryVR
  • Learning Alive Plus by Alive Studios

Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Nuiteq (Lessons Online)
  • Renaissance Flow 360
  • Claned Group
  • ThinkCERCA 

Best Coding App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Tynker
  • Code.org
  • Best Gamification App or Tool
  • Finalists:
  • Mindcraft: Education Edition
  • Classcraft

Best Learning Management System

Finalists:

  • NEO LMS
  • Ogment 

Best Blended/Flipped Learning App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Istation
  • ClassFlow Family of Software
  • Defined STEM
  • Turnitin Revision Assistant

Best Assistive Technology App or Tool

Finalists:

  • MyChoicePad
  • Fast Forword

Best Parent-Teacher/School Communication App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Parent PaperWork
  • LivingTree
  • Apptegy
  • Bloomz App

Best Collaboration App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Google Classroom
  • Insight Advance
  • x2VOL from intelliVOL
  • Nepris 

Best Tutoring/Test Prep App or Tool

Finalists:

  • HelpHub
  • GradeSlam 

Best Classroom/Behavior Management App or Tool

Finalists:

  • Google Classroom
  • NetSupportSchool
  • Hero K12

Best Classroom Audio-Visual App or Tool

Finalists:

  • BoardShare
  • ActivPanel

Best Higher Education Solution

Finalists:

  • iGrad
  • EssayJack Inc.
  • Student Connections Success Center
  • ClassLink

Best Learning Analytics/Data Mining App or Tool

Finalists:

  • EDIS.io
  • Claned Group

Best Professional Development App or Tool

Finalists:

  • PD Planner – Eduplanet21
  • Insight Advance
  • Ogment
  • edWeb.net

Best Student Information System (SIS) App or Tool

Finalists:

  • SynergySIS
  • eSchoolPLUS by PoweSchool

Best Global EdTech Leader

Finalists:

  • Anant Agarwal
  • Harry van der Veen

Best Global EdTech Company

Finalists:

  • NetSupport
  • ClassLink
  • Promethean
  • Claned Group
  • Turnitin 

Best Global EdTech Startup

Finalists:

  • Upswing
  • GradeSlam

Best K-12 School Leader

Finalists:

  • Christina Bice, Haleyville Elementary School, Haleyville, AL
  • Rachel Hesprich, Slinger School District, WI

Best Higher Education Leader

Finalists:          

  • Anant Agarwal, edx, Cambridge, MA
  • Ray Lefebvre, Bridgewater State University, MA

Best School District Technology Coordinator/Director

Finalists:

Rafranz Davis, Arlington School District, TX

Dan Phillips, Marin County Office of Education, CA

Best K-12 Teacher

Finalists:

  • Anthony Stirpe, New Rochelle High School; New Rochelle, New York
  • Francis Jim Tuscano, Xavier School; Luzon, The Philippines

Best College/University Professor

Finalists:

  • Nicole Kraft, Ohio State University
  • David J. Malan, Harvard University

Best EdTech PR Firm

Finalists:

  • PR With Panache
  • J Harrison Public Relations Group