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Seeking Female Founders In The Tech Startup Scene hide captionThe founders of startup accelerator Women Innovate Mobile (clockwise from top right: Deborah Jackson, Kelly Hoey and Veronika Sonsev) aim to boost the profile of tech companies founded by women. Lisa Tanner/Courtesy Women Innovate Mobile The founders of startup accelerator Women Innovate Mobile (clockwise from top right: Deborah Jackson, Kelly Hoey and Veronika Sonsev) aim to boost the profile of tech companies founded by women. More often than not, when we hear about hot tech companies, all the founders are male (see: Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga). But in an effort to change that profile, a new funding source is targeting companies founded by women. Kelly Hoey thinks a lot of investors may be missing some good business opportunities because they aren't coming from someone who looks like the next Mark Zuckerberg. "You're looking for a white guy in a hoodie, and that next visionary is ... going to be wearing a skirt and a great pair of shoes," she says.

Kodu | Home ED Tech Cheat Sheet Every Educator Should Know about One of the perplexing things that teachers and educators encounter when trying to understand educational technology and leverage it to their classrooms is the abundance of those baffling techy terms. Blended Learning is different from Differentiated Learning, Educational Technology might not be necessarily Instructional Technology, a Virtual Classroom is different from an Electronic Classroom or Flipped Classroom; There is also asynchronous, synchronous, and personalized learning, these and many more are but some examples of the growing terminology in this field. Boundless has created this wonderful visual explaining some of the major trending EdTech terms. Browse more data visualizations.

Search, plus Your World Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content is currently missing from your search experience. Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met. Today, we’re changing that by bringing your world, rich with people and information, into search. Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, news and much more. We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. This is search that truly knows me, and gives me a result page that only I can see. Profiles in Search Every day, there are hundreds of millions of searches for people.

Minecraft Technology for Teaching and Learning Pinterest: 13 Tips and Tricks for Cutting Edge Users On Pinterest? Follow Mashable to check out our favorite infographics, tech news, internet memes and digital culture! Pinterest has been one of the hottest new social networks on the radar for a few months now. In fact, Pinterest has cracked the current list of top 10 social networks — and it's technically still invite-only. For many users, Pinterest serves as a comprehensive wish list of sorts. Users (a.k.a. SEE ALSO: Pinterest: A Beginner’s Guide to the Hot New Social Network Like many new startups that experience an unprecedented spike in popularity, Pinterest has yet to streamline some of its features. Still, the service is fresh, relevant and entirely different from any social network we've encountered thus far.

AppShed - Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online for schools, education and business New Generation Technologies for Learning #ECEtechCHAT Weekly Topic 1.18.2012- Overcoming Resistance « 140+: In the Moment #ECEtechCHAT Weekly Topic 1.18.2012- Overcoming Resistance The (temporary) home of the official Early Childhood Education Technology Chat on Twitter Wednesdays at 9 PM EASTERN TIME! Hey there #ECEtechCHAT tweeks. This week’s topic is overcoming resistance to integrating technology tools in early childhood settings. The questions for this chat are: A. B. C.

Teaching Appz | Formats Archive | iPad iPod Touch / iPhone / iPad Mr Thorne Does Phonics: Safari Mr. Thorne's Safari app features 4 games to help with sound recognition, word recognition, phoneme to grapheme correspondence and grapheme to phoneme correspondence. More Info Chirp Chirp is a magical new way to share your stuff – using sound. More Info iPad GamePress GamePress is a game creation app that allows anyone to make the games of their imaginations with no programming or graphic design. More Info Pocket Curriculum Description The Pocket Curriculum for England is the definitive app for teachers and parents who want the new National Curriculum at their finger tips. More Info CollageIt Turn your photos to wonderful photo collages in seconds! More Info Mr Thorne’s Subtraction Galaxy Subtraction Galaxy is dedicated to all the strands of subtraction through key stage 1 and key stage 2, from ages 6 - 11. More Info iPad / Android Animoby More Info Dinosaur Fact Files More Info The Hobbit: Visual Companion More Info iOS / Android ITCH book More Info

Some Tech Goals for 2012 Last week, I wrote some reflections on 2011 and after looking back on the past year, I decided it would be good to also think about 2012 and some of the tech goals I hope to accomplish. The first one is to keep up with this blog and to start adding more pictures to my posts! I think I got a good start with this goal in my last post. :) I want to learn more about coding this year. Another tool I’ve been exploring and want to begin using more frequently is Google Reader. After recently receiving an invite, I just started to poke around on Pinterest and I would like to explore the site more. Wikis are also on my list of goals for 2012 because I plan to create at least one wiki for my master’s program this year for a weekend course I’m teaching in the spring on Technology as a Global Learning Tool. One other fairly new tool/site that is on my list is Google+. Like this: Like Loading... Related Thinking Forward Into 2013 In "Thoughts" New Goals for a New School Year!

In the Bronx, a New School Combines Tech Skills and Cultural Literacy - Education Digital literacy is a required skill for the 21st century, but in today's globalized economy, knowing how to work with diverse groups of people is just as critical. So Tech International Charter School, a new middle school campus set to open this fall in the Bronx, hopes to give the area's low-income students an edge in both technology and cross-cultural understanding. The school's founders, Steve Bergen and Adjowah Scott—both former teachers at some of New York City’s most elite private schools—say their goal is to give kids from the Bronx kids (including immigrants still learning English, and those with special needs) the same technology and cultural literacy opportunities as the wealthier students they've worked with. They hope that setting high academic standards and "clear expectations of international responsibility through experiential learning" will help put the students on the college track and build an understanding of our "shared humanity and cultural differences."

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