The Kūkulu Kaiaulu 2.0 - Education Technology Conference 2008 sponsored by Kamehameha Schools will be held June 9 - 10, 2008 at the Neal Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, HI.

http://blogs.ksbe.edu/edtechconference

Sprout is honored to be selected as a presenter showing off how Sprout can be used in schools and classrooms.

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Dr. Feeser has done it again - a Sprout Competition at Purdue University . This time he encouraged his Entrepreneurship students to "do their own thing" with better results so he is going to follow this model in the fall when there will be 20-50 Sprout teams competing, including students from his new fall Marketing class.

First Place: far left is Austin Agarwal, a senior in science, center is Kevin Nuest, a senior in management, and Hank Feeser. Kevin is holding a $50 bill Hank Feeser donated to the MS cause/winning widget. Second place: far right is Gregory LaFavers, a senior in science, next to him Patrick Doherty a senior EE, then Chris Rush, a senior in biomedical engineering, and Hank.

Hank Feeser writes a blog that covers student entrepreneurs and their innovative ventures, anything involving technology, captology, brain-computer interfaces, and boomers as entrepreneurs.

Only three weeks of school to go and your students are squirrely. . .

How about putting them to work making sprouts for your school web page? If it is a typical school, the web site probably suffers from diminished funding and from static bling (or lack of pizazz).

To address the first issue, Sprout Builder is web-based and is free (no P.O. needed). To address the second, sprouts leap with multi-media bling! College-age and elementary students alike can add audio, video, slideshows, charts, surveys, polls, forms, maps, countdown buttons, and of course content and information - all by simply dragging and dropping.

What if your school doesn’t have a web page or your site is lame? Let students design the whole site without size being a factor. Sprouts can be as large as 960x800 and contain over twenty pages. Check out Kelly’s sample San Fandango site below and put those squirrels to work!

In schools we worry when heads are down; we worry when hoods are up. Are students secretly texting each other, listening to music, watching YouTube? Several years ago, at a Multi-Media Advisory Meeting, Mark Sturges from Autodesk, Inc. was asked what courses he thought schools should be teaching; he answered, “multi-media for hand-held devices”. Did we listen? But then came the multi-media power widget to the rescue - sprouts!

Schools understand the power of information but possibly under-estimate the power of multi-media. With schools competing, because of declining enrollments, the school web page is the first stop for parents. What if, instead of the traditional web site, parents and potential students found multi-media sprouting everywhere: sprout jukeboxes with the latest band or choir concerts, multi-page sprouts containing video highlights of each sport offered on campus, slideshows touring the classes and labs, welcoming audio from the principal and sprouts showcasing outstanding student works. Now that is power!

And heads-up . . . it’s free.

Purdue University has selected Kristeen Hudson as their first Sproutbuilder-Widget Contest winner. The competition was held by Hank Feeser, Ph.D. who is coordinator of Purdue's Certificate in Entrepreneurship Program. Ms. Hudson and Dr. Feeser are pictured here.

Check out Hank's incredible blog - a medium for entrepreneurial-related conversation. His blog covers student entrepreneurs and their innovative ventures, anything involving technology, captology, brain-computer interfaces, and boomers as entrepreneurs.

A must-read blog!