Parents across the country shed a tear earlier this week when Blake Wilson posted the vine below. Wilson is the Georgia dad who has taken to Vine offering six second parental anctedotes wearing a Batman mask and turning on a gravelly Batman voice. Wilson offers a break from the prebuscent viners who have all but [...]
Kids Health Record was built to take on the student medical information nightmare that exists in schools. Rather than keeping up with paper forms and documents, Kids Health Record allows for the accessing of health records and info online. While that may sound a little unsafe, the company has taken every precaution to ensure that this is a safe and secure process.
No matter the conference or which topic/industry the conference is concerned with, we always pencil in a stop at the Griffin exhibit. The 2014 Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) is no different. While Griffin is a leader in many accessory categories, we were surprised to see how much work they have done in the classroom. As the classroom is rapidly changing, Griffin offers many products to help teachers and students alike keep up with the evolving education landscape.
When IMAX was first introduced, it was in massive theaters. Before IMAX was a mainstay in at least one major movie theater in every major city, you would only find IMAX theaters in museums, or stand alone sites where the structure of the theater would tower anything you ever dreamt of watching a movie on. [...]
When VGo, was first introduced the use cases were very clear. They showed off VGo robots being used as receptionists. They also showed people who used the VGo to work remotely. One engineer showed off how he could use a VGo at his companies main office in San Francisco and easily tele-commute from his New [...]
Creativity and collaboration are two fundamental pieces in today's educational space. A new iPad app called Drawp is bridging both of those things together and at the same time making them easier Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that's built for more professional applications. This means that kids can [...]
There are tons of games out there that claim to teach even the youngest of children how to code. One of our favorite's is Kodable. Our 6 year old daughter has been playing Kodable for nearly two years. It's a wonderful game and it it teaches basic IFTT skills to young children. The problem is [...]
Epson, the global leader in projector technology, is on hand at the Florida Educational Technology Conference, the largest educational technology conference in the US. Epson promised to bring great news for classrooms utilizing projector technology, and that they did. This morning Epson introduced its new line of ultra-short throw interactive projectors – the BrightLink® 575Wi, 585Wi [...]
Apple is believed to be working on a refresh of their Apple TV box. The Apple TV box is one of the most easiest to use set top boxes, especially for someone enamored in the Apple ecosystem. The current Apple TV comes with most of the features it's competitors already offter, including Netflix and Hulu. [...]
One of the companies that were are particularly excited to see at this years Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) is GameSalad®. GameSalad provides a wide variety of game development tools that make "iOS, Web & Mac game creation accessible to the 99% who don't like to code." The company's game development tools, "are a top choice by educators when integrating game development technology into their classrooms."
