Atlanta Startup Yik Yak Raises $10 Million Yik Yak is an Atlanta based app startup. They've created an anonymous, proximity based social network that's primarily tapped into college campuses. Realizing that many students on college campuses may participate in the same activities and events, and many also feel freer to communicate about those activities anonymously, [...]
Skyforge Skyhook Box Cloud 3D Printing. Nothing erks me more than to read a press release or note from someone filled with today's top tech and startup jargon and buzzwords, unless it all comes together. That's the case with Skyforge that's trying to solve a few common 3D printing problems with one solution. Skyforge in [...]
Common Sense Media Graphite A year ago at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Diego Common Sense Media introduced Graphite. Common Sense Media is the company, that for the past eleven years, has provided parents, families, care-takers, and educators a simple and easy to use platform to find out if [...]
Panasonic Classroom Safety Panasonic's IR Audio System for classrooms is best in class. It's a feature packed audio system for the classroom that insures that every student can hear the teacher clearly. What sits at the center of the system though, is actually around the teachers neck. A lightweight remote control of sorts is integrated [...]
Now that summer is in full swing it's starting to look like Lil Jon's club anthem "Turn Down For What" may be the song of the summer. That's actually ok with me now that I'm over the 8,432,200 times I heard "Blurred Lines" last summer. Not only that but I'm a child of the "Get [...]
Open Source Smart Table As an alternative to expensive multi-touch display surfaces, a group of hobbyist engineers decided to try to build their own and in doing so, open source the hardware and the software. What came together was a community created project called the Play Surface at playsurface.org. Of course there are multiple [...]
Big Grips iPad Case Test There are plenty of iPad case manufacturers out there that claim their cases are made for kids. Some have done exhaustive testing and deemed that yes they could be put to the test, and some have been implemented in classrooms and lived up to their claim. Our six year old [...]
Drawp Art Collaboration App Drawp is an amazing new art app for kids. Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that’s built for more professional applications. This means that kids can get even more creative than normal on an iPad. More and more kids are using iPads in and out of [...]
Buzzmob School Communications Platform, ISTE 2014 A real communications problem exists in many schools and many school districts across the country. Schools use automatic voicemail, texting solutions, Facebook, and even notes home to communicate with parents. Typically all of these solutions are from different service providers sans the notes home, that's old fashioned print outs, [...]
There are a lot of companies out there making a name for themselves by saying that they are teaching kids how to program in a very short time. At ISTE 2014 we actually saw it happen when Terrapin Software taught our six year old special correspondent, Tatum, the fundamentals of programming in under ten [...]
