Now that summer is in full swing it's starting to look like Lil Jon's club anthem "Turn Down For What" may be the song of the summer. That's actually ok with me now that I'm over the 8,432,200 times I heard "Blurred Lines" last summer. Not only that but I'm a child of the "Get [...]
Open Source Smart Table As an alternative to expensive multi-touch display surfaces, a group of hobbyist engineers decided to try to build their own and in doing so, open source the hardware and the software. What came together was a community created project called the Play Surface at playsurface.org. Of course there are multiple [...]
Big Grips iPad Case Test There are plenty of iPad case manufacturers out there that claim their cases are made for kids. Some have done exhaustive testing and deemed that yes they could be put to the test, and some have been implemented in classrooms and lived up to their claim. Our six year old [...]
Drawp Art Collaboration App Drawp is an amazing new art app for kids. Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that’s built for more professional applications. This means that kids can get even more creative than normal on an iPad. More and more kids are using iPads in and out of [...]
Buzzmob School Communications Platform, ISTE 2014 A real communications problem exists in many schools and many school districts across the country. Schools use automatic voicemail, texting solutions, Facebook, and even notes home to communicate with parents. Typically all of these solutions are from different service providers sans the notes home, that's old fashioned print outs, [...]
There are a lot of companies out there making a name for themselves by saying that they are teaching kids how to program in a very short time. At ISTE 2014 we actually saw it happen when Terrapin Software taught our six year old special correspondent, Tatum, the fundamentals of programming in under ten [...]
Panasonic 3E ISTE Sunday th first big day at the International Society for Technology in Education kicked off with a big bang from Panasonic with the help of their partners Intel and Microsoft. In a standing room only press event, Panasonic took the cover off of the brand new 3E 2-in-1. Rance Poehler, President of [...]
Firefighter Creates App TiloTag On Off Days Ray Briant is a third generation full time career fire fighter. The South Florida Battalion Chief works for one of the more busy fire departments in the state. Briant,works 24 hours on and 48 hours off. In his spare time he's turned to his entrepreneurial ideas. "I've had [...]
As tens of thousands converge on Atlanta for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference we wanted to compile a good list of resources for those attending the conference. Bookmark this list on your smartphone and have an amazing conference. The official ISTE mobile app is amazing it provides a complete overview of [...]
Six Year Old Covers ISTE You don't get much more blunt then the opinion of a six year old. That's why 6 year old Tatum F is helping with our coverage of the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) conference coverage. With hundreds of products on hand in the ISTE exhibition hall, specifically geared [...]
