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Her personal app project grew into Weduary, a full-fledged app for wedding site design. Part of the key to Brit + Co.' Morin remarked that she hoped to fill a void in the tech world. Morin's site sells Brit Kits that include supplies for DIY projects. Morin said she avoids the word "crafts," preferring "hack," which she uses to refer to any time- or money-saving trick. The site includes all kinds of how-to instructions for edible projects, such as this Double Rainbow Cake that is similar to a Martha Stewart-featured cake by blogger Kaitlin Flannery. Morin models fluorescent feather earrings made with neon duct tape. 1. Home » She Tech Philly. - Social Good Magazine | Online Networking Community | Socialworkhelper.com. Etsy's Revolutionary Yet Simple Policy Results in More Female Engineers.
Somehow...they gave up very, very, very early in attempting to find non-entry level women. Somehow, they could not find any woman for management, architectural, lead work, although they tried very, very, very briefly. Somehow in this effort they early on decided to go all entry level to increase the number of women and patted themselves on the back. No need to ruffle the feathers by actually hiring a woman in tech leadership.
The bias that women face is after entry level. Send the press release when you increase management, architecture and lead tech positions to 20 women. Five Ways to Get Girls into STEM. As a society, we learn about the world and advance our well being through science and engineering. The United States may be known around the world for its higher education, but compared to many other leading and steadily emerging countries, we lack a strong focus on educating scientists and engineers. One significant reason that we have fallen behind is that we do not encourage our female students to pursue career paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
This needs to change, as the lack of women in STEM will continue to plague our country until all students, regardless of sex, have adequate opportunities to explore math and science throughout elementary, middle and high school. If we want to attract the best and brightest minds into the fields that will move us forward, we must look to all of the population. More women can contribute to our field, and we can help make that happen.
Expose Young Girls to STEM Encourage Participation in Special Programs Serve as a Mentor. Google Updates iPad App to Make Search More Local. Google said on Tuesday that iPad users in the U.S. will be treated to a new interactive experience when they search for restaurants, bars or other locales. The search engine giant has added a horizontal "carousel" to its iPad platform of local results at the top of the search page. When searching for "ramen shops," the search engine pulls in your geographic location and populates the carousel with pictures of restaurants in that genre. This is designed with the touchscreen iPad in mind, allowing users to easily swipe through results. Here's a picture of how it looks when doing a search for "ramen shops" in New York City.
In addition to showcasing pictures, it also includes a Google map to the business' location when the image is selected. The move is a part of Google's greater effort to make search results more localized and ultimately, more personalized for users. The iPad update, which announced the news on its Google+ page, is only for English-speaking users as of right now. Google Goes Trick-or-Treating With an Interactive Halloween Doodle. How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual. Ch12Q1: How do the parents in your program feel about tech use in the classroom. Ch11Q1: What is the role of tech in early care and education for infants and toddlers. Top 5 Hashtags for Early Educators Interested in #Tech - Early Childhood Technology Network : Early Childhood Technology Network. Book Club. In June, Early Childhood Technology Network launched a virtual book club.
Now you can use the questions and ongoing discussion to jump start your PLN, support the use of the book in college classrooms, or just explore issues in early childhood technology. Best of all, it’s free! About the book: Digital Decisions: Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Early Childhood, written by Fran Simon, M.Ed. and Karen Nemeth, Ed.M., was created to help teachers and administrators develop a plan to link developmentally appropriate practice and technology integration in the early childhood classroom. The book offers you charts, forms, and information to evaluate the use of technology in your classroom and then apply what you have learned to decide how, why, and what technology is most appropriate and effective for the children in your class. You can participate by: d out to members! Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten.
Roominate: Make It Yours! by Maykah Inc. 10 Colleges Most Creatively Using Mobile Technology. Seeing as how mobile devices and related technologies have completely overtaken a good chunk of society already, naturally the education sector has followed suit. Oddly enough, though, smartphones, social media, tablet computers, and other hallmarks of the mobile technology revolution still have yet to fully creep onto campus, with many schools somewhat puzzled over exactly what to do with the exciting new toys the kids are into these days.
Others, however, saw innovation as opportunity, and went about drawing up innovative strategies for letting these digital developments enhance lessons, streamline college life, open up new possibilities, or some combination thereof. Get inspired by some of the seriously cool, creative ways the following schools have harnessed mobile media for current and future students. May Day Updates | Tech For a Global Early Childhood Education. Wow, Tech for Global Early Childhood Education has really taken flight! I can’t believe it’s already been over a month since I launched it. There have been over 3,850 hits to the site and educators from New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, the U.S. and many other countries have visited these pages! Thanks to everyone who has visited or contributed to the site so far. I hope the website will continue to be shared around the globe.
What’s New? There are now a number of funding resources on the Ideas to Action page to help teachers find the money or the hardware to provide their students with the technology needed to enable global learning experiences. A few new projects have also been added to the Current Projects page. Collaborate and Share Resources with Other Educators! If you currently use technology in your classroom and know of specific technology tools for teachers or young children to facilitate global learning and exchange, please share them via this Google Form. Like this: Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling. The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing. Editor’s note: Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder of Unrabble, a hiring software solution for small- to medium-sized businesses, especially startups.
You can follow Unrabble at @unrabble. I was recently going through an old banker’s box that I packed up years ago while I was cleaning out my office. There was a Palm Pilot, a mini cassette recorder, and even a stack of floppy disks. It was like a time capsule of obsolete technology. Every gadget I found in that box had evolved or been replaced by some new innovation. It baffles me how the lifecycle of so many products and business processes can be extremely short and are so easily disrupted by innovation, yet an individual’s resume is still a one or two page document. Maybe the answer is that the change is actually underway but we just don’t realize it’s happening.
Shifting from a traditional resume to an on-line profile presents a huge opportunity for improving the hiring process for both the candidate and employer. Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology | Etsy News. Marc Hedlund is VP of Engineering at Etsy. He has managed engineers in Internet companies from coast to coast, and is currently writing a book for O’Reilly Media on engineering management. Today, in conjunction with Hacker School, Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we’re providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join but need financial support to do so.
Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry. Women in Engineering I’ve been an engineering manager in the Internet industry for 17 years, in the Bay Area and now in New York City. Throughout that time, I’ve hired hundreds of men from across the country and around the world into fun, creative, lucrative jobs. Kindergarten Students in Indonesia and Japan Leverage Technology to Collaboratively Write Story | Exploring Digital Media in Education. This past fall my class and I participated in a Progressive Story. The basic idea behind project was that 4 classes would collaborate virtually to create a story. The project creators chose a wiki for the shared writing space. Classes were grouped and assigned to a specific wiki page. Our class began the writing process and posted the first two paragraphs. Starting our progressive story. As each subsequent class added their section the story grew and took many interesting twists and turns.
Both my students and I enjoyed this project but it left me wanting more. I knew I needed a teacher who was willing to try something completely new and who wasn’t afraid to use technology in a way that was new and exciting. Since our classes were already Twitter friends we decided to capitalize on this and let the kids start conversing about the project using this medium. Skyping with our friends in Japan. Our classes decided that we should meet “face to face” via Skype before we began. #ECETechChat on Twitter | Early Childhood Technology Network. Join us every Wednesday evening at 9pm EST for #ecetechchat, a lively hour of “thematic” tweeting about early childhood technology. Every week, we post the topic for the week right here on this page! Sometimes we offerguiding questions. Just follow #ECEtechCHAT all of the time, and you will know what’s in store for the upcoming chat… Check out the: (Pssst!
If you don’t know what a Twitter Chat is or how to participate, read “Help! Upcoming #ECEtechCHAT Chat Topics: 11/14/2012: Educational Technology Conferences: What makes ‘em tick, tock, rock, or stink? We’re still fired up from Tech on Deck at the Annual NAEYC Conference, and gearing up for other technology conferences. Join us at 9 PM Eastern Time to chat about: 10/31/2012: #ECE Faculty and #ECEtech Halloween?
What do teacher educators and faculty need to know about using technology to teach their students? 10/24/2012: What’s new Wednesday! I’m guessing they are, but we’ll find out: We’re talking about bright new shiny tech tools. 1. 2. 3. Moved Temporarily. Reflecting on Technology as a Global Learning Tool. It’s been about two weeks since I taught my first graduate course at American University, entitled Technology as a Global Learning Tool (or as you might have seen on Twitter, #T4GL12). I wanted to wait a little while before writing a post about teaching the course to give myself some time to reflect and review all of the learning that occurred.
The stated learning objectives for the course were as follows: I am happy to say that I think each of these goals was achieved during the course and further developed in our online spaces (Wikispace, Twitter) after the course ended. I was a bit concerned about how easy it would be to establish a course community in such a short time span (the class was taught in an intensive two-day workshop-style design). Luckily, participants were willing to open up and engage with one another and I think some of the course activities helped to facilitate the connections that were made. One surprising result to me was the popularity of Voicethread. Like this: New Site Helps You Control Google Search Results for Your Name. Potential employers, clients and dates are all Googling your name. BrandYourself, a new website launching Thursday, helps make sure they find what you want them to. The website guides you in search optimizing the links you want to push up in Google results for your name.
Here’s how it works: You choose the links you want to “boost,” for example your LinkedIn profile. The platform assigns SEO tasks that will help those links show up higher in Google search results. For LinkedIn, suggestions include setting your name, customizing the URL and adding a profile photo. BrandYourself tracks the links you choose and lets you know if their Google rankings change. The free version of the platform will help optimize up to three links and track the first page of Google search results for your name. The startup also provides a profile page where you can link to all your other online profiles. Co-founders Pete Kistler and Patrick Ambron launched the first beta version of BrandYourself in 2008. Early Ed Resources / Six Important Ways to Use Technology to Meet the Needs of Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Classrooms. Technology Tools for Reflection - Reflection for Learning. Here are a series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
The following technologies can support reflection: web logs (‘blogs’) as reflective journals, wikis as collaborative websites, digital storytelling/podcasting, Twitter and social networks. Blogs (Reflective Journal) The most obvious technology for reflection is the web log or "blog" as known by those who read and write them. As the Stanford Learning Technologies group has evolved the technology to support its research project on "folio thinking," researcher Helen Chen reports that they are beginning to use blog or "wiki" software to support students' reflections. David Tosh and Ben Werdmuller of the University of Edinburgh have published a paper online (PDF) entitled, "ePortfolios and weblogs: one vision for ePortfolio development. " A weblog is defined as any web page with content organized according to date.
Social Networking. Technology for a Global Early Childhood Education (ECE) Will Google’s Insanely-Fast Kansas City Network Shame U.S. ISPs? Google’s highly-anticipated plan to build an ultra-fast city broadband network kicked into gear Monday with the search giant’s announcement that it will begin laying miles of fiber-optic cable across Kansas City, Kansas and neighboring Kansas City, Missouri. Google said it aims to create a new “high speed infrastructure” that will allow local citizens to enjoy data speeds 100 times the national average. Google’s goal? To show off its telecom engineering chops and showcase next-generation web-applications. Oh, and maybe shame the big national broadband providers into improving U.S.
Internet service speed, which currently lags behind many other countries around the world. Google’s Kansas City network is not just a stunt: the company is implicitly making a broader point about the lack of broadband competition in the U.S., which is one of the reasons broadband is slower and more expensive here. (More: Google Taps Kansas City for Crazy-Speed Internet) Google is not alone in its concern. Early Ed Resources / Integrating Technology into Primary Classrooms. ECEtechChat 2/8/2012: Technology for professional development and engagement « 140+: In the Moment. Lack of Funding Creates Barrier to Using Tech in Class. Udacity - Educating the 21st Century. eSchool News TV. Remarkable Offers Nice Apps for Young Students. Technology + Early Childhood Education = Dilemma? Mommy, Can I Watch Elmo On the iPad? - Early Years. 5 Things Publishers Need to Know About HTML5.
You Don't Have to Be A Technology Whiz But You Do Need to Be Fearless. Battling skepticism. How to… Make a Mini Robot. #Tech, #GlobalEd, & #EarlyEd News. Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC] 6 Must-Have Affordable Web Tools for Non-Profits. Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy. The Top 25 Social Media Terms You Need To Know. The Introvert's Guide to Boosting Your Career Through Blogging. Social media case studies from State Farm, Virgin, Raytheon, and 10 more. The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte.