case studies:
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award winner: Bookbuilders of Boston 2013
Breaking the Spanish Barrier
Victory Productions worked with John Conner, a leading voice of language instruction in the United States, to develop an iPad version of his successful Spanish language program. The iBooks Textbooks version of three levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced) combine dynamic audio, video, and interactive exercises.
This product is the first language textbook series in Apple’s iBookstore. John describes it as “revolutionary” and “game-changing,” for teachers and students. Victory also created the animated, interactive product showcase page at Breaking the Barrier’s website.
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E-Examples
NCTM’s web site provides activities to support teaching specific K–12 standards. Fifteen of these were aging Java applets in dire need of an electronic facelift. Working with NCTM, Victory’s math editors created even better illustrations of the standards. Our designers and programmers built Flash applets that fit smoothly into their site layout. The reinvigorated applets look friendlier, perform more fluidly and interactively, and include a whole new level of functionality.
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Common Core Standards and Strategies
Mentoring Minds, the publisher of a popular series of flipcharts describing Common Core standards, recognized a demand for a similar product in digital form. Victory created an iPad app that simplifies browsing through the standards. Teachers can easily follow the progress of a standard, from its introduction in the early grades through its more advanced forms in the secondary grades.
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TouchMath Plus
In the Touch Math program, from Innovative Learning Concepts, special education and struggling students of all ages build proficiencies with numbers through a system that engages learners on auditory, visual, and tactile/kinesthetic levels. Victory used a set of HTML5 technologies to create a rich web-based front end that offers convenient online access to familiar worksheets and reproducible materials in digital form.
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Active Classroom
Active Classroom is an online platform where students can perform sophisticated multidimensional analysis using embedded video and interactive tools in rich, engaging ways. It is based on HTML5 and the latest web standards. It works with iPads, iPhones, and other mobile devices.
Teachers choose from a library of materials created by SSSS to cover subject area, era, theme, activity type, text complexity, assessment type, group size, and grade. Victory built a robust LMS that correlates content to CCSS and teacher-selected state standards. It collects, records, and tracks data. Additional interactive tools include Google Maps, Image Examiner, and a video conferencing component.
