Hurriyet Daily News: Saadet Erciyas, a female entrepreneur, and her team are creating decorative products by using the marbling art on Turkish natural stone. As part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events, she is preparing to display her products and sell them in museum stores. Her next goal is to market them around the world. According to […]

SmartyRents offer a variety of educational video games for children from the ages of 9 months to 10 years. The “Netflix” of educational games has several rental packages available to allow you to find the best package to fit the needs of your family. Maybe you have several children at different age levels or with different game systems and need […]

physorg.com: Dr. Lodge McCammon and his team at NC State’s Friday Institute for Educational Innovation have developed FIZZ – a suite of tools that allows teachers to implement safe Web 2.0 environments in the classroom, similar to a private YouTube site for each school. Helping students solve classroom assignments is an important part of FIZZ, McCammon explains. However, there is […]

All parents know how hectic, time-consuming and frustrating driving around kids and teens can be. Especially when the apple of your eye is a socially active, extra curricular maven that’s super involved in everything. In cases like these, dad generally spends his mornings and evenings carpooling & driving to schools, friends’ homes, birthday parties, various youth centers, drama classes, karate, […]

GradeGenie is a study tool for the academic community. People use GradeGenie to assist with their studying capabilities by allowing members to access other member generated study material. Through the capability of searching, uploading, downloading, and mass collaboration, GradeGenie.com provides a very convenient and effective way to use supplemental study material. Through mass collaboration, students of all different studies can […]

Times Argus: Barcomb’s eighth-grade classmates at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School have been discussing career ideas, everything from nursing to playing professional basketball to flying a jet. Guidance counselor Ry Hoffman has held class with the eighth-grade students for an hour each week this semester. They talk about the transition to high school, their career interests and courses at […]

Nature Calls Studio’s mission is simple: to make your bathroom more fun with their unique bathroom art pieces that depict various animals answering the call of nature. It’s a great way to lighten up the mood in the bathroom. In their own words: “We have scoured the Earth for the most sophisticated art de’toilette – a revolutionary new concept in […]

boston.com: The paper version of “Psychology,” a popular college textbook by David G. Myers, weighs nearly 5 pounds and costs roughly $90 new and $70 used. The digital version is easy on a backpack and costs $55. Which would you choose? CourseSmart LLC, a new company backed by the nation’s biggest textbook publishers, is betting that many tech-savvy students looking […]

Iconoculture: WittFitt wants to harness kids’ propensity for movement and improve their fitness and focus by replacing classroom chairs with bouncy stability balls. The program educates students and teachers on benefits of a healthy spine and core muscles, and how to safely sit on stability balls. Teachers using the WittFitt program report that ball-based students are more attentive than when […]

EARTHtimes.org: Mathew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment has partnered with Planet Toys to launch the first ever hip-hop/rhythm inspired preschool toy line promoting creativity, learning and movement through music. Mr. Knowles, who has made it a top priority to create and release “child-friendly” music content over the past year with his Kid’s Rap Radio series, has brought to fruition this groundbreaking […]