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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WEDG Secure Data Cloud Saturday we reported on POM a gps and bluetooth enabled tracking device that gives you peace of mind about your loved ones, precious things and pets. With peace of mind on the top of our minds, we found WEDG a product that gives you peace of mind about your data. The [...]
Under Desk Elliptical Cubii Being in the tech world you probably spend most of your time behind a desk. Perhaps your plotting the next Facebook, fielding customer service calls for a new startup, or working on something edtech related. Whatever the case may be, you, like me, spend the bulk of your day in a [...]
Vex Robotics ISTE 2014 Our 6 year old special correspondent Tatum F enjoyed playing with lots of robots at the International Society for Technology in Education conference. The first video interview she did was with a high school student who had won a Vex Robotics competition prior to ISTE. A robot called the Bee-Bot helped [...]
The Techfaster team got sidetracked on Monday morning at the International Society For Technology In Education (ISTE) conference in Atlanta Georgia. Our six year old special event corespondent Tatum F, had found the Tale2Go booth. Tales2Go is a Netflix like service that streams a giant catalog of kids audio books to whatever device kids have [...]
Newsomatic Android Newsomatic, the app that we called "The Weekly Reader For Today's Modern Classroom" was at ISTE 2014 in the startup pavilion showing off a new way for kids to take in the news, and their hot off the presses Android version of the app. We already knew that Newsomatic presented five original stories [...]
Zspace Virtual Reality Classroom The ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference 2014 was full of awesome EdTech products. However, there was one product in particular that really stood out. The zSpace was far and away the most interesting thing that we, or at least I, looked at. Although the zSpace was one of the [...]
LEO Fitness Intelligence You know how the saying goes, if we got a dollar for every fitness wearable story recommended to us we could retire. So when we first saw LEO we naturally thought, oh another fitness device. After diving into LEO a little further we found that Leo is providing fitness intelligence to it's [...]
