From January 28-31, we will be in sunny Orlando, FL to bring you coverage of the 2014 Florida Educational Technology Conference, or FETC. This years conference is the 34th annual FETC. The FETC is the conference to go to for all things ed-tech, and we are excited to bring you FETC Faster.
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The Ladibug is incredibly interesting, and really a modern day overhead projector. It works in very much the same way as an overhead projector, but through a digital projector. Essentially, you plug the Ladibug into a computer, and transmit the video captured from the Ladibug through a digital projector.
While we were at the Florida Educational Technology Conference we were surprised to see that Encyclopedia Britanica, Worldbook and Scantron are still alive and kicking. But what's even better is that Scantron has evolved over the years to become one of the biggest players in Big Data for educational analytics. Yes, we're talking about the [...]
If you know what a conjunction is or how a bill becomes a law because of School House Rock, you may really appreciate educational technology company, Flocabulary. They're teaching vocabulary, language arts, social studies, science and math through what they call educational hip hop. When we first heard about it we wondered how good the [...]
One of the hardest things for educators to do is to send information to their students in a quick manner. Remind101 thinks that the answer to this problem is by utilizing text messages
Educators and school administrators spend an extraordinary amount of their time performing these tedious, mundane tasks. StudentGlance has a solution for one of the most tedious of these tasks: class list creation. As Carmen Conner - the CEO of StudentGlance - told us at FETC, elementary school teachers often create class lists using tedious manual techniques that often take hours and hours. StudentGlance automates much of the process, and generates class lists as much as 90% faster than the current methods.
Kindervention - from Abrams Learning Trends - solves a very real problem in early childhood education. According to a statistic given on the Kindervention brochure (PDF), more than one-third of entering kindergartners don't know all their letter names. That is not the major problem, though. The problem arises out of a lack of resources. While many school districts perform diagnostic screenings of entering kindergartners, and often are able to identify the at-risk students. However, many teachers aren't afforded the time and resources to provide the additional instruction and support to these at-risk students.
In case you haven't noticed from our coverage, we tend to drop things. Often. If you have the same problem, we may have just found the perfect product for you. Bump Armor builds some of the coolest, most useful iPad cases that we have seen. Never mind that Bump Armor cases were specifically designed for kids, I want one.
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 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 [...]
