3D Printing Mars This may seem like the stuff a good science fiction movie is made of but it's not. 3D Printing has come a long way. Starting out as machined you would only find in shops, 3D Printers have shrunk in size and price thanks to companies like Makerbot. While 3D printing continues to [...]
Stream Whiteboard Rocketboard July 7, 2014 Rocketboard is one of the most amazing apps I've seen, like ever. It's perfect for classrooms, board rooms and everywhere that there's a whiteboard. As a startup founder, entrepreneur and tech journalist my best work typically starts out on a whiteboard. My schedule is managed on a whiteboard, tasks [...]
Radical.FM Music App Pandora, Spotify and Beats Music are by far the most popular streaming music apps out there. They all offer a robust catalog of music and have the ability to go premium on an ad-free, interruption free model. Now, online music platform radical.fm is making it's way onto Android smartphones and tablets with [...]
Common Core LearnZillion When Eric Westendorf was the principal at E.L Haynes Public Charter School in Washington DC, things were going well. The school started to get recognized as a top performer. While many principals and educators may have just basked in the glory of the recognition Westendorf wanted to know how his teachers were [...]
T-Mobile John LeGere FTC Last week we reported, along with a hundred other sites, that the FTC was suing T-Mobile for cramming. Cramming is when third party billing companies bill customers for text messaging services that they don't believe, or don't remember signing up for. In most instances the customer didn't read the fine [...]
President Obama learns about Travis Dougherty's startup DeafTV at 1776 (photo: Facebook) Obama 1776 Startup When Evan Burfield and Donna Harris first began to work on their idea for a startup hub, incubation, corworking space and accelerator in the heart of the nation's capital, they specifically wanted to bring startups close to the [...]
Teacherlists NAESP As a parent of an elementary school student, and having been through 12 years of back to school preparation myself I am intimately familiar with the back to school list. It seems that most parents either get the back to school list in the mail, or it's posted on a wall at the [...]
Mario Kart 8 Happy Meal The Nintendo marketing machine is in overdrive right now. Mario Kart 8 seems to be the title that's driving record sales numbers to the Wii U which had fallen hopelessly behind when the Xbox One and Playstation 4 were released. Nintendo has now inked the highly coveted partnership with McDonalds [...]
It's time to go to the principal's office. We're getting ready for the National Association of Elementary School Principals conference in Nashville this weekend. . We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is VariQuest. VariQuest offers educators with a ton of Visual Learning Tools, aimed at allowing [...]
Lumos Smart Hub ISTE 2014 We saw a ton of great stuff at ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) 2014 Conference. That said, one of our most favorite products was the Lumos SmartHub. In a nutshell, the Lumos SmartHub is an in-classroom device that works as the centralized hub for all the various classroom [...]
