The inaugural SXSWedu LaunchEdu spins off of SXSWi’s Accelerator to highlight the best of educational technology and innovation. [View the story “LaunchEdu Highlights Education Tech Innovators” on Storify]
John Boyer has a unique message: gigantic classes can build an environment with tremendous sense of communities and connection, engage students, and turn them into excited, lifelong learners. For three years, he’s been experimenting and perfecting the process. See preview here He has help with that, including one specialist in instructional technology, Katie Pritchard, and […]
First generation American success story Jaime Casap emigrated to the U.S. from Argentina as a child of a single mother, and grew up in Hell’s Kitchen when the name still fit the conditions. He knows the odds he overcame to achieve that success and become a vice-president at Google. Education was the key. “Education can […]
SXSWedu 2012 got off to a running start today with its opening session, “On the Horizon: Harnessing Emerging Technologies in Education.” Symbolically, technology was used to provide three different educational conferences in different locations in Austin and Washington, D.C. with a video link so that keynote presenters at each of the conferences could speak to […]
Meet SXSWedu’s youngest attendee, 12-year-old Isabetta Bleu Herrera Grant
With the emergence of social media as a standard for conversation, having an online presence is a must. An important part of that online presence is to have your own website. Having your own website is like a virtual portfolio, where one can showcase all of their achievements. Being able to actually create and build […]
The Integrated Media Association will be holding their 10th annual conference in conjunction with SXSWi this March 7 and 8. The iMA is an organization created in the late 1990s (officially incorporated in 2004) as a common landing ground for public media operations around the nation. The main goals of iMA are to enable public […]