Entrepreneurness

I attended the Imagine K-12 pitches to educators last month.  Imagine K-12 is an incubator for education startups.  It's great to see where entrepreneurs feel like technology can add power to the education space.  Below is a list of those startups who are currently under the wing of Imagine K-12 and that may find their way into your school soon! EDpuzzle Find a video and make it yours www.edpuzzle.com Front Row Differentiated math practice on the iPad www.frontrowed.com DeansList Measure and improve student scharacter and school culture www.deanslistsoftware.com Classwork for iPad Engage with your student's work in the moment www.classword.co edoome Turn the classroom into an online community www.edoome.com ClassroomIQ Grade smart ww.ciqlabs.com Kodable Programming fundamentals for kids 5+ www.surfscore.com netclick Create aha! moments using your existing slides www.netclick.me Cellabus Mobile device managment and application platform for education www.cellabu...

This is from an informative handout I received from Maker Faire 2013. The Maker's Checklist K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Silly).  The ideal design has zero parts. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion (Parkinson's Law).  Don't give yourself too much time for a project or it will never get done. Past experience is good for a reality check.  But too much reality can doom an otherwise worthwhile project. Look at houw everyone else is tacking a problem-- what assumptions are so implicit that they're no longer being questions.  Question them.  Don't listen when people tell you that you can't.  Ignore your critics. Document everything (writing, pics, video), especially on collaborative projects.  The group will forget who did what and it will make going back and chancing things that much harder.  Also, good docs will make it that much easier to port into makeprojects.com you may pick two of the following three...

Here is a list of some of the different resources that you can use to learn how to code, robotics, or just about anything else online.  Keep expanding your knowledge base and there will be no stopping you! Coding: codecademy.com - Learn to code interactively, for free. khanacademy.org -    We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. coursera.org -  An education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Our technology enables our partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds. code.org - A stockpile of resources to check out iTunes U - Online Courses. thehelloworldprogram.com - A bunch of movies created by hand puppets about programming: skillshare.com - A place where you can take classes from real people. Udemy - For a limitied time Groupon  for $...

Life is an interesting thing and everyone comes to their own conclusions of the best way to live.  Here are the ones that I've come to conclude throughout the years from my own observations. 1.  Believe in SOMETHING. Being skeptical all the time won't get me anywhere In some cases it takes more power to believe 2.  Focus on what   I   want . Don't focus on my fears Its like riding a bike, if I am afraid of hitting a tree, and you keep concentrating on it, I will hit the tree 3. Do things for other people. The world is an eco-system of give and take I must give to receive, and receive to give Helping other people can also increase my happiness 4. I am not alone. There are people that care about me, just as I care about them Many times its just a matter of asking for help 5.  Just because it might be obvious to me, it doesn't mean that it is obvious to others. Some of the knowledge that I have is unique to me and I shouldn'...

With the age of the internet now most everything is digital.  But when you are requested to sign a form and sign it back, most of the time it requires you to print the form and either scan/fax it or mail it. The easiest way to eliminate the need to print and scan it to sign it digitally. If you have a mac, here are your options: Option 1: Sign a PDF with a Wacom Bamboo Tablet 1) Use a Wacom Baboo Tablet to digitize your signature. 2) Use either Adobe Acrobat Pro or Free formulatepro as the application to write on a pdf. Option 2: Sign with your mac's camera 1) Use Preview with a mac to open your PDF 2) Click the "Show Edit Toolbar" button 3) Click the Signature button dropdown>Create Signature from Built-in iSight 4) Sign your name on a white sheet of paper and hold it to camera and click "Accept" 5) Insert signature by going to the menu Tools>Annotate>Signature 6) Place signature in desired area

I'm not a fan of taxes... I'm not sure anyone is.  But more than the actual money involved the process of figuring it all out is.. in the very least, confusing. A couple of things I've learned. Filing your business taxes: If your company is an LLC- you file your losses and income as part of your individual tax return. If you company is an S-corp- you need to file your corporate taxes by March 15th , and then include a shareholder form along with your personal taxes, due on April 15th. If you file an extension you need to estimate the taxes you would owe, and pay them on the date they were originally due. About your IRA: For tax year 2012, the limit that you can put into your Roth IRA and IRA combined is $5,000.  But that begins to fade out once you start making more than $110,000 a year. You can deduct the money you put into your traditional IRA from your taxable income.  This is what people call a 'tax deduction'.  The money you put into a Roth ...

So far my experience with trying to download my app and make it work on my iphone has not been a  pleasant one.  I have spent hours in the process- over the course of many months because I get turned every which way. Here's my situation- I have files from a developer and the official provisional files have expired.  Since the files were made different versions of iOS have happened.  So, all I really wanted to simply to was transfer my files to my phone and have it work.  But here's the reality: 1) Apple did not provide a software update for my older ipod touch, so now my ipod and iphone 5 are on different operating systems 2) I then had to created an Apple Developer account 3) I downloaded Xcode 4) I had Lion running on my laptop.  When I plugged in my iphone5 it told me it needed Mountain Lion to run. 4) After I paid $20 to install Mountain Lion on my Mac, my laptop has been running much slower and has had strange quirks, for exa...