Tuesday August 26, 2014 – 12pm
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12-1 Tuesday #TechHour – Tech in Education
12:00- Wes Worsfold – Manager, Velocity Garage – @UWvelocity
Worsfold is overseer and uber coach at Velocity Garage, a startup incubation space focused on building great software companies from concept to commercialization.
12:15- Popy Dimoulas-Graham, Founder & President, Hour Republic – @CharityRepublic
An online volunteer solution for easily tracking, sharing and ranking experiences. Hour Republic launched hourrepublic.com, an education solution that enables students to track their volunteer and work activities and connect to opportunities in the community.
12:30- Max Brodie, Cofounder, Kaizena – @kaizenafb
Kaizena is an online platform focused on student skills improvement by empowering teachers to give highly targeted, personalized, actionable feedback. To address specific areas for improvement, a teacher highlights the relevant area of the student’s work, then records a voice comment, adds a text comment, and/or attaches a link to any online resource (such as a mini lesson, video or educational game). Kaizena is poised to be at the forefront of education’s transition from paper to digital
12:45- William Zhou, Cofounder and CEO of Chalk.com – @chalkdotcom
Chalk.com is a suite of productivity applications for Kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers that streamline their daily workflow. The business world runs on Microsoft Office, the design industry runs on Adobe Creative Suite, teachers currently do not have anything similar for their day to day tasks. Teachers are either using pen & paper or silo’d software that don’t integrate with anything else. Chalk.com is the Google Apps for teachers; Chalk.com provides a suite of tools for K-12 teachers that are interconnected with a single login.
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