One of the biggest problems I had in school was keeping up with assignments. It was not out of laziness or anything like that. Rather it was more a result of scribbling notes all over the place. Classes that I struggled in, necessarily, took priority over classes I did well in. The result was a [...]
Swift Optical Microscopes It is no secret that microscopy can be a pretty dull thing in class. Especially when students all have to take turns looking into the same microscope. While there certainly are exceptions, looking through a microscope at some squiggly lines is a fairly dull task. In a class of, say, 7th grade children, [...]
First impression app Getyou We just came across a pretty interesting new app. GetYou takes a lot of components and features that work in other applications and combines them into an oddly satisfying, game-like app. The whole concept of GetYou is based around what the founders call social feedback. Though it is disguised behind some [...]
Scootpad Web Learning Platform Throughout the course of ISTE last week, we saw a ton of great companies, a ton of interesting software, and some great robotics kits. Generally, however, all of these different products fell into a few main areas. As such, ScootPad really went against the norm. ScootPad offers a web based learning [...]
Funderbuilt Crowdfunding Crowfdunging is exploding not just in the United States but across the globe. Even a man making potato salad has raised tens of thousands of dollars on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Many people have challenged the potato salad kickstarter project but Kickstarter is not complaining, it's within their terms of service and the more [...]
We are just about all geared up for the National Association of Elementary School Principles 2014 conference later this week. We have already had a chance to speak with several exhibitors. Edtech JSBF is one such company. Edtech JSBF has a pretty unique app available. TEAM Student Tracker is a web based app that allows for easy communication between [...]
Yahoo Voices Shutting Down Yahoo sent an email the other day to the members of it's nearly decade old Yahoo Contributor Network. The Yahoo Voices Contributor Network provided an outlet for bloggers, and writers across many categories like news, tech, sports and finance, with a built in audience of 600 million. The contributor network paid [...]
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Grammaropolis NAESP Were you a child of School House Rock? Did you learn how a bill became a law by singing the School House Rock song about it? Did you learn what a conjunction was by listening to "Conjunction junction what's your function". Well creating characters, songs, videos and games about Grammar is exactly how [...]
Bootstrap Themes Bootstrap Bay With all the different tools and frameworks available to developers and non-developers alike, it has become incredibly easy to build a website; not necessarily a quality site, but a site nonetheless. As platforms like WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, and others have become more mature, you can pretty much get a website up [...]
