Learn how to create an #edtech startup w/ @PledgeCents @Crescerance @StoryboardThat
Summary: The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.techeducatorpodcast.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">www.techeducatorpodcast.com</a>.<br> <a href="http://www.techeducatorpodcast.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">Hosts:</a><br> <br> * Jeff Bradbury – <a href="http://TeacherCast.net" target="_blank" shape="rect">TeacherCast.net</a> – <a href="http://www.twitter.com/teachercast" target="_blank" shape="rect">@TeacherCast</a><br> * Jeff Herb – <a href="http://InstructionalTechTalk.com" target="_blank" shape="rect">InstructionalTechTalk.com</a> – <a href="http://www.twitter.com/insttechtalk" target="_blank" shape="rect">@InstTechTalk</a><br> * Sam Patterson – <a href="http://MyPaperlessClassroom.com" target="_blank" shape="rect">MyPaperlessClassroom.com</a> – <a href="http://www.twitter.com/learningsliving" target="_blank" shape="rect">@SamPatue</a><br> * Chris Nesi – <a href="http://mr.chrisnesi.com" shape="rect">Education the Nesi Way</a> – <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mrnesi" shape="rect">@MrNesi</a><br> * David Saunders <a href="http://www.Twitter.com/DesignSaunders" shape="rect">@DesignSaunders</a><br> * Josh Gauthier <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mrgfactoftheday" shape="rect">@mrgfactoftheday</a><br> <br> About our Guests:<br> Crescerance: <a href="http://www.Twitter.com/crescerance" target="_blank">@crescerance</a><br> <br> Alefiya believes that involved communities result in higher academic and social outcomes, stronger values, and increased future success for students. Her degree in psychology and education from Emory University, along with her training and experience as a Montessori teacher, power her passion for wide-scale education improvement. It is this passion that led her to start her company <a href="http://crescerance.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">Crescerance</a> (cris-seer-unce) in 2011.<br> In Crescerance’s short lifespan of just over 3 years, Alefiya has enabled over 150 educational institutions in America and throughout the world to better communicate with and engage their communities through the growing power of mobile. Alefiya is passionate about making mobile an easily available and powerful channel to thousands of schools worldwide. She is now focussing on brining the concepts and tools of app development to students as young as the 3rd grade by enabling them to build mobile apps with the newly launched <a href="http://mad-learn.com/" target="_blank" shape="rect">MAD-learn</a> program. In her spare time, she enjoys touring the world, meeting new people, learning new languages, and experiencing new cultures. She is also a closet adrenaline junkie who loves the occasional sky or sea dive expedition.<br> Crescerance began its journey in 2011 with the simple idea of wanting to make it easier for schools to connect and truly engage with their parents, staff, students, alumni, and community at large. Through working with schools in creating their school apps (so that everyone could be connected through Mobile and have quick, easy access to the information they needed), we met students that had a keen interest in not just using the app that we created for their school, but in wanting to learn about the creation process of that app. <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> “How did you make our app?” was a question that we got asked through numerous in person or Skype calls from teachers wanting to bring an App Developer perspective to their students. This is where MAD-learn was born. It was born from the curiosity of our students. From their quest to know more and absorb more. From our passion to feed that curiosity.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> MAD stands for Mobile App Development and MAD-learn is a program that is teaching students how to be Creators of Technology,
