Today marks a historical day in the smart phone space. The legendary RIM, having fallen so far from their once untouchable peak, has come to an end. RIM is no more. Long live BlackBerry. This was perhaps the most surprising twist of the launch event. CEO...
BETT is an educational technology show that’s held every year in London, England. It’s like ISTE or FETC on steroids, with over 30,000 attendees at the show and over 100 workshops. This year there are over 700 vendors and while they are mostly from the...
This week I am in Orlando, Florida with fellow Media-Xer’s Robert McGregor and Marc Moretti at the FETC 2013 show. We are in booth 506, right near the front of the hall behind the Global Scholar booth. We’ve had folks drop by the booth from Broward and...
It came about as a result of an employee who wanted to adopt a rescue dog. Because the dog was blind, leaving him at home during the day would have been problematic. And so the conversation started. Yvonne: “Well why can’t he just bring the dog here?†Edmond:...
It’s been a very cold week for us at Media-X, and while it takes more than -40°C (-40°F) wind chills and blowing snow to stop us from coming to work, most of us were reaching the point where our skeletal structure felt like it was encased in ice by Friday. With...
In the beginning, our eWalk process was all about checkboxes and the number of completed eWalks we could do in a week. We operated this way for a while thinking that the feedback we were providing to teachers was beneficial. Little did we know that teachers had a very...
