I was sitting in a church meeting on Wednesday night when I received a jarring text from my wife with the news that Apple founder Steve Jobs had died. From a 3rd grader using an Apple IIe to a teacher using an iPad 2, the company Jobs founded has had a profound impact on my educational experience. While I’m not an Apple fanboy, I am certainly an Apple admirer, and I have especially admired what Jobs did with with his time at Apple.
Virtual Nerd is offering fantastic back to school 2011 program. The discounts go all the way up to 61% off for a 3-month package of tutoring. If you haven’t heard about them, I encourage you to read my Virtual Nerd review. They have a really slick user interface that goes beyond what other online math tutoring services offer. Here are the sale prices. Click here to visit Virtual Nerd and take advantage of these special prices while they last.
Texas Instruments has just announced a major update to their TI-Nspire Navigator system to allow Navigator to work with schools in a one-to-one computing environment. As was the case with the TI-Nspire CX, Texas Instruments was willing to fill me in on the details of the new Navigator system prior to today’s press release. Last Friday, TI-Nspire captain Mark Fry talked with me what the new Navigator system is capable of.
Got an uncharacteristic number of hits on the site yesterday for the search “TI-36X Pro” yesterday and couldn’t figure out why until I saw a post on another site and a Youtube video about a “bug” in the TI-36X Pro. I’m not going to post the links to those sites in part because the author of the complaint has needlessly chosen to remain anonymous and because the article itself never explains the error and is confusing a lot of people.
MATHCOUNTS, a foundation best known for their nationwide popular middle school math contests, has announced the start of a new math challenge for students. The new contest, known as the Reel Math Challenge, is quite different from traditional math contests, which typically focus on written or oral exam questions. With the Reel Math Challenge, student teams of four create a math video designed around a problem. The video needs to teach viewers about the problem and demonstrate a real world application of the concept involved.
Click here to pre-order the Kindle Fire at Amazon.com Amazon ended months of speculation about their plans for a tablet when they announced the Kindle Fire. The Fire is a 7-inch tablet built less with designs on knocking off the iPad and more with the intent of expanding Amazon’s current advantage in the e-reader sphere, and certainly going after the Nook. The Kindle Fire is an Android tablet that has WIFI, but no camera, microphone, or 3G.
UPDATE (9/28/11) The new tablet has been announced as the Kindle Fire. For almost a year, there have been rumors that Amazon is working towards a goal of a tablet. Numerous sources have revealed that Amazon is holding a press conference on Wednesday. The speculation is that Amazon will be announcing its new tablet at that time. Of course, Amazon already has a tablet, and a very popular one, the Kindle.
LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer Tablet LeapFrog is offering free shipping on their popular new tablet for kids, the LeapPad Explorer when you buy a bundle that includes games. If you’re not familiar with the LeapPad, it brings many popular iPad features like apps, games, microphone, and camera to kids in a more rugged and affordable manner. Games can be purchased in traditional cartridges or downloaded as apps by having the tablet connect to your computer.
Earlier this week, Texas Instruments announced a fall series of free webinars for educators. The series is a part of their T3 program (Teachers Teaching with Technology). The webinars are about an hour long each and are going to be available on demand after their original broadcast. You can get a certificate of attendance that might be applicable towards professional development hours in some states. Looking at the schedule of T3 Webinars, Texas Instruments continues to make the drive towards moving from the TI-84 platform to the TI-Nspire platform.
It’s been a couple of months since my original review of the Desmos graphing calculator. Desmos CEO Eli Luberoff was dropped me a line to let me know that his team has been hard at work, adding many of the features I was hopeful would show up soon after I wrote my original review. The calculator is so chocked full of features now that it’s honestly hard to keep track of which ones showed up when, so my apologies to the Desmos team if anything I mention was available prior to these latest upgrades.
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