Our favorite techy blogs, authors, podcasts, videocasts and books Chris For me, few things motivate like a good TED Talk, and not even those talks that are focused on ‘education” necessarily. Listening to brilliant minds being brilliant inspires me. As for bloggers try Christopher Pappas and Annie Murphy Paul. Now, for a real mind bender […]

Dyslexie Font Makes Reading a Breeze! | Audio Review #118
Overview A parent introduced me to a new typeface that I love. It’s called Dyslexie Font. The typeface was created in 2008 by Christian Boer. Boer is dyslexic and wanted to create a font that made it easier for people like him to read. In the past few years this font has gotten a lot […]

OneShot Makes Tweeting Book and Article Quotes as Easy as Pie | Audio Review # 117
When I was a lot younger, I learned to read. It has been a wonderful thing! Thankfully I am still able to read and I even use my iPhone to do lots of reading on the Kindle app. I also like to read articles from websites or using my Flipboard app. Once in a while […]

Audio Review # 116 | Fakebook Lets Students Create a Fake Facebook Page
Overview What we put on our Facebook home page usually involves some deep thinking about how to put our best “face” forward. We have to represent our personalities in a few pictures, posts, interests and taglines. Now, this sort of thinking process just might be interesting if you were to apply it to a character […]

Audio Review #95 | Readability Makes Reading off the Web a More Enjoyable Experience.
Overview I’m going to let Readability speak for themselves, “Readability is a free reading platform that aims to deliver a great reading experience wherever you are, and to provide a system to connect readers to the writers they enjoy.” Essentially what their site does is that it takes articles from the web and cleans them […]