Posts by Elizabeth Woodard
Audio Transcends: Sound and Education, Part 2
Sound is a crucial component of how we experience and perceive the world around us. Whether it exists alone as music or accompanies other media, sound can carry information, augment different sensations, and even evoke strong emotional responses. We’ve long understood the way our bodies conduct sound waves – how cilia in our inner ear…
Read MoreAudio Transcends: Sound, Travel, and Hospitality
Sound is a crucial component of how we experience and perceive the world around us. Whether it exists alone as music or accompanies other media, sound can carry information, augment different sensations, and even evoke strong emotional responses. We’ve long understood the way our bodies conduct sound waves – how cilia in our inner ear…
Read MoreAudio Transcends: Sound and Healthcare
Sound is a crucial component of how we experience and perceive the world around us. Whether it exists alone as music or accompanies other media, sound can carry information, augment different sensations, and even evoke strong emotional responses. We’ve long understood the way our bodies conduct sound waves – how cilia in our inner ear…
Read MoreAudio Transcends: Sound and Education
Sound is a crucial component of how we experience and perceive the world around us. Whether it exists alone as music or accompanies other media, sound can carry information, augment different sensations, and even evoke strong emotional responses. We’ve long understood the way our bodies conduct sound waves – how cilia in our inner ear…
Read More3 Essential Best Practices for Maximizing the Impact and Value of K-12 Audio Solutions
Audio solutions—like headphones and headsets—are critical tools in today’s learning environments. From increasing focus and engagement in early learners to engaging students in various instructional modalities, audio solutions are essential for ensuring every student can hear well and be heard. Here, we are highlighting best practices for maximizing the impact and value of K-12 audio…
Read MoreOur Top Ten Moments of 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, we look back at this year with deep gratitude for the opportunities and accomplishments we have experienced here at AVID. As we prepare to ring in the new year, read on to celebrate our top ten moments of 2022 with us and we’ll see you in 2023! We reimagined…
Read MoreHow the Right Headsets For Assessments Can Increase Your Confidence (And Your Scores)
Listening and speaking skills are an important part of most state standardized tests, like M-STEP, as well as English language learning assessments like TELPAS, WIDA, or ELPAC. As students and educators across the country prepare every year for these state tests and assessments, perhaps the last thing on their minds is determining what tools they…
Read MoreWhy Use Headphones for Learning? 3 Important Purposes Audio Solutions Can Offer Your Education
When it comes to education, there are many ways that technology is helping us improve and approach the way we learn. In that respect, audio solutions are an important tool for learning. While headphones and headsets are often used for entertainment purposes — listening to music, gaming, etc. — they can also be used as…
Read MoreThe Positive Impact of ESOP Culture
Being an ESOP has been a key component of AVID’s identity since we became 100 percent employee-owned in 2017. We knew it would be a huge change, but what we didn’t anticipate was how much of an impact it would have on our culture. What is an ESOP? First, let’s understand what an ESOP is.…
Read More4 Benefits of Listening to Audio Through Headphones
Audio is everywhere. Cleaning the house? Listen to a podcast. Commuting via train? Listen to some background music. Here at AVID, we have a passion for delivering audio and regardless of the reason for listening, we find audio is best experienced through headphones. Now as an audio solution company, perhaps we are a bit biased…
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