iCitizen App To Track Legislation So often, the general population has no idea what is going on politically. Sure, we all know about the big, hot-button issues, but when it comes to the more nuanced, detailed legislation, we often have no clue. There is a startup that is looking to change that. iCitizen is [...]
There is no question that the traditional textbook will soon be a thing of the past. They are, simply put, outdated. A science textbook from 2009 is filled with information that has since been proven wrong, or has since been updated to a significant degree. It does not make sense to keep using such [...]
There has been a big push in recent months and years to get kids into coding. This is no easy task. One of the hardest things, when starting out, is actually seeing and visualizing any sort of results. This is where Trinket - formerly Coursefork - comes in. Trinket is an incredibly unique product, and we recently [...]
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 Tales2Go. Tales2Go is an interesting approach to getting kids to read and enjoy reading. Essentially, Tales2Go is a sort of Netflix for streaming [...]
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 Lightspeed Systems. Lightspeed Systems has a few different products that "make learning safe, mobile and collaborative." Lightspeed Systems Facebook Page We had a chance to [...]
As we have been focusing more on education in the past several months, we have covered a ton of great EdTech startups and companies. However, the great majority of these companies have been involved in the more traditional K-12 and/or college education track. However, we just came across a great education company that is [...]
We have been coveing a ton of great education startups over the past several months. However, most of these companies are involved with the standard classroom education. However, we just came across Great Parents Academy. Great Parents Academy provides students and teachers of grades K-5 with high quality supplemental math curricula for these students. We had [...]
There is no shortage of video in the world. According to YouTube, there is more that 100 hours of video uploaded to the platform ever single minute. With this huge amount of video out there, it seems like this would be an excellent source for educators. However, the huge amount of video is both a huge [...]
Being a news website, we are no stranger to ads. That said, most are pretty bland and intrusive. However, the need not be. We just came across Imonomy, a pretty unique ad platform. We had a chance to speak with the team and learn a bit more about the platform: Imonomy What is Imonomy? [...]
There has not been an advancement in email in some time. The big guys keep adding features, but none seem to be anything more than a novelty. That said, we just came across a pretty unique email service: Kneto. Kneto provides a huge amount of analytics on the normal open and click through rates, but also provides some more benefits. We had a [...]
