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Primary Targets:
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ELL Students
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Special Education Students
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Marginal / Under Proficiency Students
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Adult - English Language Learners
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Credit Recovery Students
Primary Strategy Assets:
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The Power of Personal, Portable
Technology Integrated on a 1:1 Basis:
(Hewlett-Packard Study)
Teacher
Feedback:
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93 percent
of teachers in their user group believed handheld computers have a
positive effect on students’ learning.
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72 percent
said handhelds were easier to integrate into classroom activities
than desktop computers.
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89 percent
responded that handheld computers were an effective instructional
tool.
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75 percent
indicated that where students were allowed to take handhelds home,
there was a significant increase in homework completion.
(SRI International Center for Technology
Learning study)
 Learning on the
Move.
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Study
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Testing
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Assessment
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Reporting
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Content
Development
CCQ gives any Microsoft Windows®
based computer, including desktop PCs, laptops and handheld computers
the ability to deliver verbal instruction.
The Cool Conversations
Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ (CCQ)
was launched at the National Education Computing Conference
(NECC) in Atlanta, June 2007, by Interactive Speech Solutions
(ISS) in partnership with Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
This year’s NECC 2008 in San Antonio again features the CCQ
Traveling-Tutor for K-12 students at the HP and Microsoft
exhibits. Through the use of Microsoft Windows
Mobile, CCQ Traveling Tutor merges the natural speech
synthesis capabilities offered by today’s computers with the
latest advances in mobile technology resulting in a walking
talking computer that can speak to students in multiple
languages.
 Proven Methodology. Years of
experience and trials as well as comparative studies of
conventional methods of teaching and learning have
demonstrated that the interactive speech methods used by the
CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ are engaging for students and result in
better acquisition of new knowledge and development of reading
skills. Presentation of computer-generated speech
reinforces acquisition of the phoneme-grapheme relationship
and reading aloud to the student reduces effort in reading
skill development. Studies included instances where 3rd
graders starting 3 years below grade level averaged 2 years of
progress in eight months. CCQ is an anywhere, anytime
education system to support America’s teachers and help insure
that more students are able to successfully progress from
elementary school through high school.
The Traveling-Tutor™ is ideal for ESL
(English as a Second Language) students and their families
with second language support provided in Spanish and options
for any of over 20 language combinations. CCQ Talking
Tutor can also be used for English speaking students who want
to learn or improve their proficiency in another language or
need to take classes in another language. Benefits
extend to other family members in the home environment;
helping families reach new levels of achievement.
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Research Based Strategy
 The use of interactive speech, produced by
computers, can provide a “talking tutor” that tirelessly reads aloud,
asks questions, corrects errors, continually assesses performance, and
addresses the reading level of each individual student. Controlled
studies that compare the computer-based tutor with human one-on-one
tutors and have a control group receiving regular instruction showed
that the tutored group surpassed the control group in Word Attack, Word
Comprehension and Passage Comprehension by significant amounts.
Furthermore, the computer tutored group surpassed the human tutored
group in 2 of the 3 measures. A pilot study with 4th grade
Hispanic students using the computer reading tutor method showed
significant gains in English fluency, sight word recognition, and
comprehension, outperforming a control group of students receiving
established classroom reading instruction.
Source:
Progress in
Interactive Speech Improves Literacy and Numeracy
Instruction © Louis V. Ruffino, P.E. (August
2006)
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 Available for
Desktops, Laptops and Pocket Computers
If you
don’t have an immediate budget to make the PDA a classroom and
“take home” learning tool, CCQ will run on all of your
school’s PC’s.
Cool
Conversations Quiz (CCQ) and Traveling-Tutor™ is a complete
study, testing, assessment, content development and reporting
application that gives any Microsoft Windows® based computer,
including desktop PCs, laptops and other handheld devices the
ability to interact verbally with users. You can even
get second language support in SPANISH if it will benefit some
of your students!
To
request purchase information for your classroom, school or
district, fill out the request form at this link:
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON
PURCHASING
 You may
take a look at our on-line demo and tutorial section at:
GO TO DEMOS
We look
forward to helping you put this research-based anytime,
anywhere learning solution to work for you students. CCQ
is easily customizable to their needs. The verbal
interaction will speed learning and increase engagement.
The reporting features will let you monitor their
progress.
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 CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ Extends the
Classroom with Anytime, Anywhere Learning
The CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ program empowers
students by merging computer-based speech technology with the
latest advances in mobile technology and PDAs (Personal
Digital Assistants). The result is a pioneering “walking,
talking computer”.
The April 2007 issue of Technology
& Learning the magazine stated “…the digital divide’s
newest defining characteristic is 24/7 access to a personal
computing device.”
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 From the June/July 2007 issue of
Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine:
CCQ is at the forefront of creatively
using technology to help America’s students… “A reading tutor
program helps with advancement in reading; and with students
and parents…a mobile tool (the CCQ Traveling-Tutor™) that can
read to you …is like having a personal tutor.” - Article
entitled, “Bringing Mobility to the Ultimate Information
Workers: Students” by Nathan Clevenger and Bill
Hagen.
CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ requires no
connection to the Internet to function, bridging the
opportunity to students without access to Internet-based
programs outside of school. Once content is loaded on the
mobile device, students can work in school, on the bus, at
home, anywhere and anytime. The CCQ system stores a report of
all of the student’s activity which is transferred to the
teacher’s computer when they return to the
classroom.
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CONTACT
US
Interactive Speech Solutions,
LLC
100 N.W. 70th Avenue, Suite
115
Plantation, Florida
33317
email:
info@getccq.com
Phone: 954 793-4858
Fax: 954 793-4859
Click HERE for more information.
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CCQ Greeting |
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CCQ Overview
For a look at a short presentation done at the Microsoft Theater
during this year's National Education Computing Conference (NECC
2008) go to this link:
CLICK HERE |
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CCQ
Traveling-Tutor
DEMOS
and Tutorials
Go to the link below, select the
item you want to view and then use the PLAYER controls at the bottom
of the screen to PLAY video.
GO TO
DEMOS |
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CLICK
HERE
for Instructions on Getting Started with the Cool
Conversations Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ on your PDA
Pocket Computer |
The CCQ Traveling-Tutor™ is an extremely
valuable tool to support the work of classroom teachers. It is cost
effective and, on hand held computers, provides an anytime, anywhere
learning platform to extend the classroom from school into the home or
anywhere else the student happens to be. The one-to-one relationship
between computer and student has also been shown to be highly successful
in delivering positive results.
Further, with CCQ, content is easily created allowing
schools and teachers to customize how it is used for different
students. This is a non-judgmental and thus non-threatening system
for students who may be far behind their peers in skills
development. The verbal interaction (with Spanish language support)
engages students and simplifies the acquisition of knowledge.
Reports on student work provide quick feedback on progress.
Motivate, Educate, Evaluate.
With CCQ helping to build basic skills, classroom
teachers are freed to spend more time on the cross-discipline thinking and
abstract problem solving that is so crucial for students to excel in
today’s world economy.
Pocket
Computers Provide the High Value Solution for 1 To 1 Learning
Generally
several PDA’s can be purchased in place of a traditional computing
device. Microsoft, ISS and HP are committed to working with school
systems to customize this education solution for maximum effectiveness in
supporting State and local programs.
On the Go Education Platform
Integrated Classroom and Mobile
Learning Tool
Second-Language
Support
Operates on any Microsoft
Operating System
Operates With/Without Network
Connection
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