San Fernando, Calif. (Feb. 2, 2009) – Califone International, Inc., and Copernicus Educational Products, Inc., have partnered to provide teachers, media specialists, reading teachers, and school audiologists with two versions of customized tabletop and rolling carts for audio supplies. The Performer Plus™ and Spirit™ Audio Pods™ allow educators to organize listening center equipment, reading material and audio components in one convenient place.

Classrooms can become disorganized and messy as students use equipment, especially in the classroom learning center. Valuable teaching and learning time is wasted locating equipment, and it can become difficult to manage inventories. To address this problem, Califone and Copernicus Educational Products have designed these storage solutions to eliminate clutter. Available in either a portable or stationary model with the choice of a specially modified Performer Plus or Spirit Learning Center, the Audio Pod has dedicated storage spaces for a multimedia player, jackbox, audio materials, books, six headphones, and a special section to organize cables and cords.

“The Audio Pods give educators a way to keep audio equipment and listening materials organized in one central location,” said Tim Ridgway, VP of Marketing for Califone. “This encourages students to take better care of the equipment while allowing teachers to track quickly each audio component for future use. These also support state requirements for oral communication development, and for understanding media literacy as part of recommended educational technology standards.”

Since the audio equipment is readily available, the Audio Pod allows students to begin their lessons promptly and clean up efficiently afterward, which decreases waiting time between activities and optimizes the time available for learning.

More Information

For more information on the full line of Califone products designed for the education market and safe for school and library use, call 1-800-722-0500, or visit www.califone.com to view and download the entire Califone catalog. To order, contact a Califone dealer.

Visit www.copernicused.com to learn more about Copernicus Educational Products, Inc.

About Califone

Califone was founded in 1947 and continues to be a leader in the design, development and manufacturing of audiovisual and supplemental curriculum products for use in education, presentation and professional markets. The company offers a complete line of audio solutions, wireless systems and multimedia products for small, medium and large presentation needs. Califone serves millions of educators and children in the PreK through higher education school environments and has expanded to serve business and industry, houses of worship, parks and recreation, and other presentation markets as well.

About Copernicus

Copernicus Educational Products, Inc., is celebrating 20 years of “making teaching easier” for thousands of educators across North America. As a leader in designing and developing innovative classroom and curriculum teaching products, Copernicus offers a comprehensive line of teaching and presentation easels, flexible storage solutions, teaching aids, arts, and language products for the PreK-12 market.

Contacts

Califone^®, Inc.
Tim Ridgway
800-722-0500 ext. 428
timr at califone dot com
www.califone.com

C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.
Charlene Blohm
608-839-9800
charlene at cblohm dot com
www.cblohm.com

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