We're gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. 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 teachers the ability to create effective visual aids [...]
As EdTech, online learning, collaborative classrooms, flipped classrrooms, and elearning continue to take off, the need for content monitoring has increased. Long are the days when a teacher or administrator can go to town with a free ip address blocker and call it a day. As more and more students start school, who basically grew [...]
Oh those were the days. Do you remember back to elementary school and every Friday morning the teacher would pass out the Weekly Reader. It was your very own copy of a newspaper with interesting stories, puzzles and games just for kids. I'm pretty sure in the back of my mind it was the Weekly [...]
Have you ever seen an iPad case that you could really just bounce the iPad off the sidewalk? Sure there are cases by Otterbox and Griffin that offer maximum protection from situations that most grown adults may consider an accident, but what about kids. We had one of those premium cases on my 6 year [...]
TCEA, the Texas Computer Education Association is one of the largest state wide edtech organizations in the country. Their annual conference in the spring brings educators from all over the country and the world to show off the latest in educational technology and teach teachers the benefits of how to use it and more. Flipped [...]
We first got a chance to meet the folks at Mcor during the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. There, our 3D Faster correspondent John Hauer, CEO of 3DLT, spent some time talking with Mcor about changing trends in the rapidly expanding 3D printing industry. Mcor is one of the pioneers in the 3D printing [...]
As we are gearing up to head to the TECA Tots and Technology Conference, we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is B.E. Publishing. B.E. Publishing will be showing off their new typing platform: EduTyping at Tots and Tech. We had a chance to speak with the B.E. Publishing [...]
E3 has been mostly about the games thus far. For good reason, there were some mega announcements: a new Halo, a new Smash Brothers, a new GTA, a new Assassins Creed, and a new Battlefield to name a few. However, Sony dropped in a new piece of hardware that could be a monster game-changer. On [...]
As we are gearing up to head to the TECA Tots and Technology Conference, we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Data Frontline. Data Frontline offers a powerful cloud solution to school administrators. We had the opportunity to ask the Data Frontline Team a bit about their [...]
Because everyone loves a white gaming console... At Sony's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) press conference on Monday they revealed a bunch of new games. Unlike EA, it appears most of their new software is coming soon, with release dates in tow. One of those new software offerings is the highly anticipated Destiny for PS4. Sony [...]
