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Peter H. Reynolds Keynote at Bank Street College of Education
May 23, 2013
The Evelyn Rome Tabas and Daniel Tabas Auditorium
New York, NYPeter will keynote at the Bank Street College of Education for the presentation of the Irma Black Award. Peter's book, The Dot, won the Irma S. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, in which picture and text are inseparable.
Learn more at the Bank Street College of Education's website.
FableVision Studios' Art Show Open House
June 7, 2013
Boston, MACome see a unique display of artwork from the creative folks at FableVision, mingle with other artists and storytellers, and see our multimedia studio!
ISTE
June 23-26, 2013
San Antonio, TXISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, represents 100,000 members around the world, and is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders.
SKY COLOR at Nantucket Film Festival
June 26 – 30, 2013
Nantucket, MASKY COLOR, Peter H. Reynolds' film is screening at various dates and times throughout the Nantucket Film Festival.
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Author Archives: shari
Weekly Click: May 3, 2012
The marketing world is evolving fast, and Punch Media is ahead of the game with its new advertising tablet app. It acts as a collection of apps within an app, each one opening into an interactive editorial feature. Their goal was to create something that worked perfectly on the tablet- and only on the tablet. Each Punch app acts like a unique and personal advertisement for a sponsor, built to reside within the sponsor’s own app. For example, Punch partnered with the Tribeca Film Festival and built them an ad unit within the Tribeca app. The app acts like an interactive guide to the film festival, including a map of NYC to discover various facts about each movie produced there.
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Weekly Click: April 24, 2012
ExoPC, a French-Canadian startup, has signed a deal with the Panama government to build a grade school physics classroom equipped with 20 touch screen desks, or “EXOdesks.” At the front, the teacher will be set up with an interactive multi-touch drawing board. Each of these interactive pieces of furniture will have stored memory for all books, textbooks, notebooks, and other supplies, accessible from home at any time by connecting to the cloud. Continue reading
Weekly Click: April 19, 2012
9-year-old Caine Monroy of Los Angeles spent his summer vacation building a cardboard arcade inside his father’s auto parts store, spending months preparing, designing his games, and making creative displays. One day, director Nirvan Mullick happened upon the auto parts store looking for a spare part, and walked away with an inspiring idea instead. After playing in Caine’s Arcade, Mullick created a ten-minute short film and due to the virility of the Internet and a bit of luck, Caine is now the recipient of a $70,000 scholarship fund for his college education.
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Weekly Click: April 10, 2012
Featured Article
Publishers Hustle to Make E-Books More Immersive
Book publishers have been forced to evolve in response to the sweeping storm of demand for e-readers and e-books. But there are a lot of decisions that come along with this…
Weekly Click: April 2, 2012
Feature Article
How Apple Is Changing Kids’ Brains
Children younger and younger are getting hooked on mobile technology, some of them as young as 2 years old! Apple has been marketing its products (namely, the iPad) as an effective and…
Weekly Click: March 7, 2012
Ayah Bdeir, the founder of littleBits, has created a system of electronic pieces that will encourage kids to learn from and engage with technology in new and innovative ways. With this system of modules, kids can create anything they can think of- from cowboy hats to cannonballs- and with extra sensors like temperature controlled movement and motion detectors. This system has a low entry level- children do not need to have any training or prior knowledge of technology to be able to engage with these materials and “get excited about learning.” Continue reading
Weekly Click February 21, 2012
At Head Start, preschool teachers are changing the game of preschool education, introducing science, technology, engineering, and math. These STEM subjects have entered the classrooms of young students, many of whom can barely read. There has been a recent push to focus on these subjects in preschool education, and many organizations promote STEM in order to see an increase in the number of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians emerging from universities. Continue reading
Weekly Click February 9, 2012
Congrats to our friends at Little Airplane Productions for the great New Yorker spotlight! You guys continue to pave the way, making amazing children’s programming. Continue reading
