Approximately 20 additional field test sites are needed for the iPad eScreener application and a potential eMonitor application. Field sites will receive the applications at no cost and must simply send us an email certifying that you have iPads to collect data with. No additional requirements are necessary. Please contact us as soon as possible to indicate a willingness to be a field test site.

Our eScreener is in beta development, thanks to those of you who signed up to request the eScreener. We hope that the beta process will take just a short time and will be releasing it slowly (and for free) to our members who already sent in their intent. The likely launch date for the fully functional eScreener-K will be the summer of 2011. However, we have GREAT NEWS! We have finished a round of development and will make the eNumeracy ENSI-Kindergarten and ENSI-First Grade Screening Inventories available to school districts, teachers, and schools in kit format. Please take time to read more about the ENSI-KSI and the FGSI.

Thanks for all your recent work taking the eNumeracy eScreener poll. This helped the development team target the software to your needs. We have decided to release the Kindergarten eScreener, Beta Version, for the iPad (www.apple.com/ipad).

The majority of eNumeracy users are still PC and laptop users, but an unexpected percentage of users (30%) appear to be using the iPad or anticipate using the iPad. Personally, I have found the iPad to be very user friendly and a potentially excellent data collection tool. We are designing the eScreener to collect data within minutes and display the data to you as teachers.

Check out the Discuss page. A teacher in NY State reported the success of screening with the AIMSweb Number ID measure and I replied with a cautionary note.