Author: Caroline
About Startup Grind: Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month they welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with the community and tells the group what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an...
Education has definitely taken the spotlight this fall between the teachers’ strike in Chicago, the New York Times – Schools for Tomorrow Conference, and now the Education Nation Summit (sponsored by NBC News) currently underway. This year’s conference focus which was “Building a Better Teacher.” We had the great benefit...
With all of the work that we do with video and different types of media, we were naturally drawn to a product that is just coming on the scene… the Swivl. The company describes it as “your own personal cameraman.” More technically speaking it is “…an interactive motorized tripod with...
Originally posted on the Post-Tribune website by Leanne Hoagland-Smith, excerpts below: Given recent economic data, the economy is still in the doldrums. Maybe now is the time to update your own professional development by filling and closing your knowledge gaps? And always remember that knowledge alone is not power, but applied...
Originally posted on the Elliott Masie's Learning Trends website, excerpts below: Last week, I spent 3 hours on an Amtrak train listening to a series of senior level job interviews in which corporate and personal information was shared by the passenger in the seat ahead of me, who was talking...
Originally posted on the KQED (Public Media for Northern California) website: Games have shown great promise for learning, but it’s not always easy to figure out the logistics of how to use them in class. Every student and teacher’s experience is unique and it takes time to calibrate and tinker to...
“We won! We won!” shouted Shirley Decker as she read the e-mail notification from the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. When we first began designing TeacherStudio® three or four years ago, who knew that we’d be sitting among our city commissioners to accept one of the 2010 William C. Schwartz...
