A3: – Questions – The Algebra App
Hello fellow entrepreneurs and educational venture analysts, I am very excited for the unveiling of my brand new start-up, “-Questions – The Algebra App”. Expanding upon the functionalities of some of the best math apps currently on the market, my venture adds original value in the form of unlimited, AI-enabled algebraic questions that meet students […]
SaniSenini Company
Greetings everyone! I invite you to check out my elevator pitch for my new company “SaniSenini” . This company is focused on improving the way of life for people around the world. With flu outbreaks and germs everywhere my company strives to help people stay clean without using alcohol sanitizer. Many products from my company […]
FreshGrade Analysis
I decided to do an analyst report on FreshGrade. I’ve heard of the name before, however I’ve never actually took the time to learn and understand it’s interface. I have to say I’m pretty impressed and decided to implement FreshGrade in my practice. It is everything I have been looking for. At an investor’s standpoint, […]
Wesley Lynch – Snapplify
Founder and CEO: Wesley Lynch The Venture: Snapplify is a digital learning EdTech company aiming to enable digital learning for individuals as well as institutions by creating a marketplace for digital education content, services and devices. Focused on the African market, Snapplify provides everything that an institution needs in order to create a secure, collaborative […]
Beyond Disruption
Hello Everyone, For this assignment I have created my own venture – Beyond Disruption. The goal of beyond disruption was to create a place for people to gain expert level in-demand skills without the associated risks. The tagline is “real world experiences without the real world risks” Hope you enjoy. You can find my pitch […]
BibleQuest – Bringing the ancient text into 21st C learning
With the clear pedagogical benefits of GBL; a booming market promising GBL to be a sure and profitable investment, and a growing population of potential buyers without a serious competitor in sight, BibleQuest – the first “serious game” to teach and experience the Bible – the most published book in the world, will help bring […]
Walk With Us Project: An Indiegogo Campaign
Hello sharks! I mean, fellow students, I am looking for your valuable feedback on my Indiegogo campaign (and maybe some shares on your socials when it goes live?), and, when I launch, $4500 for our next project. 🙂 Walk With Us Project is a digital storytelling and mapping project that uses 360′ cameras (Ricoh Theta S […]
A3: The Space
Welcome to the venture pitch for The Space: a hub for the 21st century student. Below you will find a mock elevator pitch, product video and full venture portfolio. [522 note: If these media packets were to be sent/presented to investors, they would be formatted and contextualized either on a website or in an email […]
Assignment Three
If technology were way farther along than it actually is, Choose Your Own Ed-venture would be the next big thing in the personalized learning market. I chose to invent my own something for this assignment. Or my own idea of a something anyhow – as there’s no coding or anything anything actually done. The “elevator […]
A1 Analyst Report – IXL learning
Hello Everyone, I did my A1 Analyst Report on IXL Learning. IXL LERNING is online learning website where students and school can use to learn Math and English. https://etec522ixllearning.weebly.com/ Please visit my weebly webpage!
A1 Analyst Report – Read & Write by Texthelp
Hi everyone, I chose the assistive technology of Read & Write by Texthelp for my analyst report. I’ve presented it through Google Sites, which can be found by clicking on the image below. Enjoy!
Assignment 1 – Edmodo
Edmodo is, at its core, a stripped down version of Facebook for educators to better engage with their students. It offers to educators the same functionality that they’re familiar with and it offers to students an extremely friendly user experience. There are security measures in place to keep content private and it’s even possible to […]
Reshma Saujani: Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani, as shown above, is a champion for girls and women. Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist, and founded Girls Who Code (GWC) after witnessing first-hand the gender gap in the field of Computer Science while running for US Congress (fun fact: Reshma was the first South Asian woman to run […]
Larry Page & Sergey Brin – Google
When people ask questions that either we don’t know or can’t answer, we often say ‘Just google it’. We use google so often that google became a word instead of just calling as a name of the company. When we search online for anything, we always start from Google, at least that’s what I do to […]
Wix founder and CEO Avishai Abrahami
How many of us have created a website using WIX for one of our ETEC courses? Or assigned projects to our students to create websites using Wix? Or created our own professional website or blog with Wix? Well, if you haven’t, you should, because Wix is the easiest, most robust, most diverse, do-it-yourself website builder […]
Zachary Sims – Codecademy
Codecademy is an online platform that offers a variety of online coding classes to anyone wanting to learn. It offers classes on a variety of coding languages (Python, HTML, etc.), for the complete newbie or for someone looking for a skills upgrade. The lessons are interactive and invites users to code along with the lessons. […]
MudWatt – Powerful Mud!
Probably the only way to get me to invest in having my kids play with mud… This successful pitch on Kickstarter caught my attention: It’s “green”, it’s affordable and even though it has extra amazing educational abilities when paired with the MudWatt app, kids from lower level income families and schools can also benefit from […]
Polyphony – Personalized Music Theory Education
Polyphony is a music theory learning app that takes the frustration and confusion out of teaching yourself through YouTube. It learns the interests and skill level of its learners and uses AI to connect them with YouTube videos that teach what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, in the quickest way […]
Wade Roberts – CEO and Co-founder of Educreations
Educreations is a app that turns an iPad into an interactive, recordable whiteboard. The for-profit venture was released in 2011 and counted with a number of investors including Accel and NewSchools Venture Fund. One interesting aspect that I found out was that Accel felt inclined to invest in the venture proposal because of the founders’ ability with the […]
Franklin Lyons CEO & Founder of Merge Labs (Merge VR)
I do better with graphics so I made a video bio. I will also include the written pdf if you wish to read. Franklin Lyons
Virtuali-Tee: AR T-Shirt, Bring Learning to Life
The technology enables users to transform a simple T-shirt into an awesome learning experience. It’s about interactivity in a fully animated 3D experience. Check all the details here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curiscope/virtualitee?ref=category&ref=discovery
Steam Education
This is the elevator pitch I created for my Venture Pitch. It is a fictional Educational venture lead by Steam the worlds leading video game distribution company. Enjoy! Brian
EduStream360 – Venture pitch for 360˚ live stream educational video service
Hi folks, Here is my venture pitch for a (mock) non-profit 360˚ live stream educational video service that I called EduStream360: https://spark.adobe.com/page/pSpUvo8uUfHvH/. I embedded my elevator pitch in the Spark site, but here is also a direct link: https://youtu.be/ifzCLaHCXpg I modeled the pitch somewhat after the standard Kickstarter page with me as the innovator, but […]
Please sign up for your Week 12 activity ASAP.
Hi everyone, The Week 12 Digital Text Team (Zain, Jessica and Dana) need your help. Because we are using the free version of the digital textbook program, we are somewhat limited on the number of contributors we are allowed to have. To work around this issue, we have created a class email address for us […]
A1 Analysis – CloudScript
Hi folks! Here is my A1 Analysis on CloudScript, a web-based coding environment that I found found on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95429242/cloudscript/) and originally investigated during our elevator pitch discussions. I engaged in a bit of role-playing and approached this from the perspective of advising my school district, which has a history of public-private partnerships to develop […]
Please remember to add your name.
When commenting on our Game-Based Learning site, if you are not using a padlet account, please put your name at the bottom of your post. There are several posts that we can not identify the author of. If it was you, please go back and add you name to get credit for your work. Thanks, […]
David Rusenko of Weebly
Company Description Weebly is a web hosting service that provides tools and storage for users to create and maintain their own websites. The service allows users to track analytics and can integrate with online payment systems like PayPal to provide ecommerce capability for users’ sites. The attraction to a service like Weebly has always been […]
Matt Mullenweg – WordPress
After dropping out of the University of Houston, Matt Mullenweg (above left) pursued a career at CNET Networks. He later teamed up with Mike Little (above right) to start WordPress. Matt is currently the CEO of WordPress and also the CEO of Automattic. Matt has had an interesting career in technology considering he attended […]
Learngevity
Hi Everyone, I’m excited to share my Venture with all of you. Learngevity is new app that will help innovate the corporate education landscape. The app uses Experience API to allow employers to track all of the learning experiences undertaken by their employees. Employees earn learning points for all of their experiences and compete with […]
Venture Pitch (A3): Personalized Education Inc. (Albert)
The more I think about personalized education for each student, the more I am coming to the conclusion that it can never really happen in the current model of public education we have today. The constraints on time, money, resources, awareness, feasibility and the curriculum make it impossible for a student to attend various grade […]
M-Learning
Welcome everyone to Week 7: Mobile learning, hosted by Mackenzie Moyer, Ghassan Barhoumeh, and Justin Bolivar. After watching our animated introduction to our topic (above), please head on over to our website: http://mobilelearning522.weebly.com/ On our website you will find that we’ve divided out our topic into 3 main sections: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Cloud Based […]
Adrian Graham and Carl Sjogreen. The founders of Seesaw
Please welcome the co-founders of Seesaw. The digital journal for students and teachers in the classroom. What makes Seesaw special and deferent than many other products in the market is that Seesaw can be used directly by the students. They can use this application by themselves to record their learning, choosing from a wide range […]
Pasco Science Probeware: from humble science fair experiment to full service educational science supply company
Meet the Pasco Scientific team: Name Title Paul A. Stokstad (pictured below) Founder and President Wayne Grant Ph.D. Chief Education Officer Mike Bridge Vice President of Market Development and Strategy Freda Husic Director of Education Solutions Pasco scientific started in the dorm room of its founder Paul Stokstad, as part of a science experiment. It grew to […]
Greetings from Toronto
Hi everyone! My name is Jay and ETEC522 is my 7th MET course. My background is in graphic design & print. I currently work as a marketing designer for a magazine publishing company called St. Joseph Media here in Toronto. Some of our titles include Toronto Life, FASHION, and Weddingbells. I created the video below during […]
Podcast – great resource for Founders Parade post
Hey folks (and future 522 students), I know David mentioned the Gimlet podcast Startup earlier in the course. I have been listening to How I Built This from NPR recently, and I keep thinking how useful this would have been when I was doing my Founders Parade posting. If you haven’t heard of it before, each […]
SAI – Venture Pitch and Elevator Pitch
Hello, Here are my pitches for my venture, SAI, an e-learning authoring tool that leverages personalization algorithm to offer constructivist and personalized learning for K-12 students. Venture Pitch: https://youtu.be/DV-LUcz7aZo Elevator Pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y6rcugL-HU I’d love to hear your feedback! Thanks, Joyce
Google Classroom
Google Classroom is making inroads in many districts. In this assignment, I am presenting Google Classroom to school trustees as an ed tech initiative. Watching the launch and implementation of Google Classroom as a teacher, I was interested in putting myself in the shoes of a superintendent responsible for choosing initiatives and navigating the early […]
Duolingo
Founder and CEO of Duolingo: Luis von Ahn Venture Name: Duolingo (Duolingo.com) Duolingo is a free language learning platform that employs a gamified skill tree and adaptive feedback tools to motivate potential “students” to learn a new language. 1 The software teaches languages to anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. 2 Users gain experience […]
26 Nov
Hi Christopher, I wanted to echo Ryan's comments on a job well done, as your efforts clearly show in your pitches. I also really liked your venture concept, as it is simple, easily editable by users, and the venture can be grown to cater to any grade level based on user inputs. My comment is not so much about your venture as I think it was really well done, but more so about how the content might be moderated. You mention subreddits and user-moderators, but I'm left wondering if that will be enough to maintain the academic integrity of the site? If one of your main selling features is specifically curated content for academic purposes, it might require more moderation than Reddit uses. Just a thought. Otherwise, I really like your use of user reinforcement through badging, upvotes and downvotes to encourage ethical and meaningful contribution. I liked how you mention the revenue streams of Reddit, but couldn't find Lurnt's revenue stream; if I missed it, just let me know! If our assumption is that it's similar to Reddit in that it's ad- and premium user-based, as an EVA I would consider a small angel investment in your venture. Great job! -Reg
