Paul Davison – CEO and Co-Founder of Clubhouse
Valuation: $4 billionInvestors: Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Tiger Global, Elad Gil Clubhouse is a voice based social network where people can host rooms and facilitate conversation. I’ve heard of people say something along the lines of “I wish I was in such a place at a specific time during this particular movement.” I personally love […]
Mitchel Resnick – Scratch Game Creator
Original posted by Brogan Pratt on May 29, 2019 Mitchel Resnick is known as the godfather of Scratch Game Creator. He is the Lego Papert Professor of Learning Research at MIT, the Director of Okawa Center, and the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. With an impressive number of developmental tool creations under his belt, […]
Co-Founder/CEO of OpenSesame: Don Spear
Don Spear: CEO & Co-founder Venture name: Open Sesame Description of the Venture: Open Sesame provides an online marketplace for buying and selling SCORM e-learning courses. The company was founded in 2011 on the idea of aggregating e-learning content from respected publishers and resources, and being able to embed/share that content in a learning management […]
EXPLR- Globalising Online Content for Kids
EXPLR aims to create a streaming service that is educational, globalists’, amusing and solution-based for youth. With their initial goal met in under 2 hours, EXPLR is quickly on their to becoming an established safe place for youth to consume media without parental supervision. Offering streaming services of Oscar-winning movies, and shows covering topics such […]
PITCH – PowerPoint! what?
We love presenting and PowerPoint is akin to oxygen for us. We breath it everyday and use it every chance we get. Sure there is canva and other web apps that help making designing and changing our perception on slide shows unique, but is it really? That is when i came across this literal “pitch” […]
Persuasive technologies – Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
I am fascinated by persuasive technologies. They have been used and are being used widely especially in marketing and social media, and so have received somewhat of a negative reputation. I am really interested in their ability to foster connection and social cohesion around different topics in the classroom and in broader society. Although I […]
Global Market Insights
Global Market Insights Inc. is a global market research and management consulting company catering to leading corporations, non-profit organizations, universities and government institutions. Their main goal is to assist and partner organizations to make lasting strategic improvements and realize growth targets. Their industry research reports are designed to provide granular quantitative information, combined with key […]
Hello from Smithers
This is my fourth MET course and my fourth year teaching at a Secondary School in Smithers BC. I teach Tech Ed, Drafting, Mechanics and Wood as well as Trades Coordination for the District. I try to develop content for my classes that uses different forms of technology to help make the material easier to […]
Hello, I am Adriana
Hello everyone, My name is Adriana Silvestre and this is my 9th ETEC course. I am currently a grade 7/8 Teacher for the English component in an extended French program, I teach Science, Math, and Language. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media, and I really enjoy using Technology in the […]
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Hi everyone — great to be in this venture (haha) with all of you! I work at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. For almost 2 years now, I’ve been helping our commerce instructors with all things e-learning. My background is actually in Sociology. I did my undergrad at UBC, and I went to Queen’s for […]