Show Synopsis

On this show we will be discussing the Technology that is available to our children and how it is affecting their learning environment. Is it enhancing it or detracting from it. How to harness the good and limit the bad.

This Weeks Guests!

12:34-12:46 - Greg Wright the Senior Vice President at Renaissance Learning joins Craig to discuss their educational AlphaSmart Neo laptop that runs for 700 hours on 3 AA batteries.

12:48-12:58 - Harry Barfoot from MyAccess joins Craig to discuss their online student writing tool that instantly scores and provides feedback in English, Spanish and Chinese so teachers can provide timely, data-driven instruction.

1:06-1:22 - Stacy DeBroff, parenting expert and author of Organized to Learn joins Craig to discuss how important it is for children to be organized when they are learning.

1:34-1:46 - Geoff Allen of Anystream joins Craig to discuss how colleges are implementing their Apreso automated lecture capture solutions to help a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs meet the growing demand to provide students with access to online learning.

1:48-1:58 - Karen Schmuch the Marketing Manager at RISO joins Craig to discuss how RISO Assessment products enable the printing of bubble testing sheets and how their automated testing software actually grades the scanned tests, gives instant results, and prints or emails customized reports to teachers, parents and school officials. Theses tests are printed and graded on site in just minutes, teachers can provide students ready information that can be applied as they prepare for the next round of standardized testing, all for no extra cost. This reinforcement through practice tests may result in better student performances on the mandated tests.

2:06-2:22 - Troy Williams the CEO of Questia Media joins Craig to talk about their product which is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Especially for Tech Talk you can try it risk free for 7 days!

2:34-2:46 - Dr. Benjamin Roye, a specialist in Pediatric Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City joins Craig to discuss kids and backpacks and why it is important that you make sure that they are adjusted properly and are not to heavy for the child.