WordPress Launches Classroom Sites

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Educators have another option for classroom sites and blogs, "WordPress is an elegant solution for education professionals looking to create a website for their class, and today we’re excited to announce the launch of WordPress.com Classrooms. Whether you need a group … [Read more...]

SOPHIA Partners With ‘New Classrooms’

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SOPHIA.org, the online education platform offering a unique Many Ways to Learn™ learning model with more than 28,000 free academic multimedia tutorials taught by a multitude of teachers, has partnered with New Classrooms – a nonprofit organization that gives students a … [Read more...]

Minnesota EduTech Startup KidBlog Now Reaching One Million Users

On Wednesday, I stopped into the EduTech Minnesota conference at the U of M. I wanted to catch up with my friends Matt Hardy and Dan Flies, cofounders of Kidblog.org, and hear about the latest with their startup. It turns out, of the 10 startups that were selected to … [Read more...]

Something Amazing Happened at #EduTechMN Yesterday – Steve Jobs Was in the Room

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[This post was originally published earlier today on Tech~Surf~Blog.] I felt it. I didn't know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the … [Read more...]

Classroom of the Future?

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Reinventing education in a time of accelerating change is more important than ever before, especially if you're at all interested in your kids and our future workforce being technologically savvy and possibly more so than any other workforce in the world. Normally I … [Read more...]

Science Museum Could Be Minnesota’s Tech Secret

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The Science Museum of Minnesota held another of its Web Seminars on Tuesday, October 7th.  For many, the SMM has become a valuable resource as they seek to get up to speed, learn a new skill, or discover “what all the fuss is about” in the computer world. To others it … [Read more...]