Today we sit down with Emerging EdTech’s founder Kelly Walsh. Emering EdTech is a collection of insights about topics relevant to educational and technology. Kelly is the Chief Information Officer at the College of Westchester, and he is with us today to talk more about educational technology. 1. What inspired you to start Emerging Ed Tech? Many things, including: A desire to learn and stay informed about education technology, a desire to share the many useful free resources on the…
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Today we have Invideous cofounder Jack Thorogood with us today. Invideous is a new platform that promises to redefine the user experience in online video. Jack is with us today to talk about educational technology and Invideous. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got involved with invideous. I’ve been working in the interactive online video sector for four years now; doesn’t sound like long but the space has seen a lot of changes over this time…
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MindSnacks cofounder Jeff Evans is with us today. MindSnacks is a mobile app that helps users learn languages with several different games. It is now available on the Apple App Store. Jeff is with us today to talk about education and technology. 1. Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got involved with MindSnacks? MindSnacks was founded out of a frustration with the current product offerings for learning a foreign language. My co-founder Jesse Pickard and I were…
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Today we have Richard Barniuk with us today. Richard is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Rice University and has been involved in Connexions since day one. He is with us today to talk about education and technology. 1. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got involved with Connexions. I’ve been an electrical engineering professor at rice university since 1993. In 1999, frustrated by the fact that there was no appropriate textbook for…
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Edublogs sales manager Ronnie Blurt is with us today. Ronnie works with Edublogs, a blogging platform for educators and students. Edublogs has over 500,000 blogs registered, and it is used by institutions such as Stanford University and the Department of Education. Ronnie is here with us today to talk more about education and technology. 1. Tell us more about edublogs and why it was started? Edublogs was started by James Farmer in 2005 after he began using blogs and realized…
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Today we have Open Culture founder Dan Colman with us. Open Culture is a website that links users with the best free cultural and educational media on the web. Dan is the director and associate dean of Stanford University’s continuing studies program. He is here with us today to talk more about education and technology. 1. Tell us a bit about your background and you got involved in Open Culture. Ok, here’s the short version. After getting my PhD, I…
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Wordsteps cofounder Vladimir Saranchin is with us today. Wordsteps is an language learning website that helps users learn and retain foreign words. Users can spend 15-20 minutes a day learning 20 word, with results in about 240 words per month and roughly 3000 words per year. Vladimir is with us today to talk about wordsteps and online education. 1. Tell us a bit about your background and how you got involved in wordsteps. While working on our first project to…
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Administrator Darren Cannell is with us today. Darren works with the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School, an online k-12 school which delivers accredited classes to Canadian students. Darren also writes ferquently about education on his blog Tado. He is here with us today to talk about education and technology. 1. What inspired you to start blogging? Blogging for me was a newsletter for my online teaching staff, I use it to share my thoughts, websites, the educational articles and anything else…
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