Teacher Observation Classroom Mosaic No one will dispute the fact that technology in education is exploding. This weekend will start the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, the largest gathering of education technology in the world. Tens of thousands of educators, administrators and other ed tech professionals will gather for the three day [...]
Google Project Tango Is Coming Google dropped some major bombs at their annual developers conference - Google I/O - this week. However, one of the most exciting announcements was sort-of glossed over by many. On Thursday, during a session about its ATAP - Advanced Technology and Projects - group, Google announced that it is working with LG [...]
Fire Powered Bluetooth Speaker Pelty There is no shortage of Bluetooth speakers available out there. Most do pretty much the same thing, in the same fashion. However, we just came across a new take on the Bluetooth speaker. The Pelty is not only one of the coolest Bluetooth speakers we have seen, but one of [...]
Trov Quantify Your Stuff While the quantified self movement is picking up steam, there have been certain aspects left out. One of these has less to do with the "self" and more to do with "stuff." We just came across an interesting new startup that wants to help you quantify all of your stuff. [...]
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 [...]
Android Auto, Car Play During Google's marathon keynote address on say one of I/O, the company announced a ton of new products. Of these products, one of the most innovative has to be Android Auto. Essentially, Android Auto is like Google Now, but for the car. Android Auto takes all of the best parts of [...]
Findster GPS Tracking Lately, we have seen a huge rush on the GPS tracking devices on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter. However, these devices, though interesting and useful, often have one major downfall: a monthly service charge. That needn't be the case, or so argues Findster: Findster is a new and innovative GPS tracking system working towards the [...]
Gmail API, Google Opens Gmail To Developers On Thursday at Google I/O, the Mountain View company made a huge announcement concerning Gmail. Google announced a new Gmail API. For years, the only way that developers have been able to access the huge amounts of data within Gmail was via IMAP. However, the only thing that [...]
World Cup Wifi Password Leaked If you're lucky enough to be in Brazil attending the 2014 World Cup and you need internet access, you may have had your chance to jump on the official World Cup Wifi. Geek.com reported on Thursday that a little photography faux pas resulted in the internal wifi password for the [...]
EdTech Fablevision ISTE As Fablevision enters graduation age, they've seen a lot of changes in the classroom and specifically technology in the classroom. Common core standards, reading, writing and arithmetic, and standardized testing are all an important part of a students education, but the backbone of a well rounded student at the [...]
