Chicago Tech Events
Selling Technology to Educators is as Hard as you Think
The wall of red tape keeping innovation out of schools has got to come down. And right now we’re witnessing a surge of entrepreneurs and investors looking
How HIVE Chicago will Change Chicago’s Education Reputation
Connie Yowell, Director of Education for U.S. Programs at the MacArthur Foundation, opened the most recent meeting of Chicago’s Hive Learning Network member organizations with
Digital Media & Learning Gets Weird on St Patrick’s Day
And by getting weird I mean going legit. Mozilla’s Open Badges initiative is at heart about getting educators and technologists to design a trustworthy method of
Be Remarkable: A Take on Emerson Spartz
I had the pleasure of listening to Emerson Spartz speak at the Catapult Chicago offices last week about founding MuggleNet, the most popular Harry Potter fan site in the
Chicago Innovation Up-and-Comer Award Winner!
This week, MentorMob was selected from a pool of nearly four hundred companies as a particularly promising Up-and-Comer at this year’s Chicago Innovation Awards! Hosted
The Future Doesn’t Just Happen – It’s Invented
This past Saturday wasn’t just another typical rainy weekend day in Chicago. Instead of staying at home all day, I ventured out to a LiveLab
OMG It’s Social Media Week!
Social Media Week in Chicago has been a cacophony of events, speakers, conversations, and cocktail hours, all geared toward making online social networks work for
Belly: Full of Rewards, and Beer
Last week I jaywalked across Clark and LaSalle from Catapult Chicago to 1871 for what proved to be an unconventional, honest, and really funny Founders’ Stories
A Catapult Conversation with Trunk Club CEO Brian Spaly
Brian Spaly loves top quality pants. You can tell because he calls them “trousers” the way Francis Ford Coppola talks about his “films” rather than his
MentorMob U Launches at the Flipped Classroom Conference
MentorMob hosted the opening reception for the Flipped Learning Conference in Chicago this week, which brought innovative teachers together though a shared love of teaching with
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