I can't imagine what it would be like to lose my eye sight. Many take their eye sight for granted. So many of us have the latest and greatest Android or iPhones and use them every day. The touch screen makes the smartphone extremely convenient, but can you imagine trying to navigate the touchscreen of [...]
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 [...]
Uber, the car hailing app company that just raised a round of funding at a whopping $17 billion (or $5.9 billion depending on what you read) valuation, is known for their fun promotions. During the 2013 inauguration Uber users in DC got to experience riding in a presidential motorcade. The company has also delivered ice [...]
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 [...]
Back in April we reported that Nest, the now Google owned company that makes the Nest thermostat, pulled it's smoke/carbon monoxide detector, Nest Protect, off the market. They made this decision after they internally uncovered a flaw that could have been dangerous with the product. Although no accidents were reported, engineers at Nest discovered that [...]
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 [...]
By most accounts Nintendo has had a bad year. Once next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony were released it was almost like the Wii U had been written off. The Japanese manufacturer, that paved the way to the living room console, even lowered the price for the Wii U by $50 to try and stay [...]
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 [...]
If you're into technology or basketball you definitely know the name Mark Cuban. Cuban is the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks who built his empire by starting a computer sales company, before he even owned a computer. From there he built Broadcast.com which he sold to Yahoo in the thick of the dot com [...]
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? [...]
