Jeff sits down with 19Pencils Founder Jason Fabbri to discuss how this great educational tool is helping to provide teachers and students a safe place to do their internet searching.
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About 19Pencils
19Pencils provides an easy way for teachers to make the most of the web. Teachers can discover, manage, and easily share web based educational resources with students as well as peers. 19Pencils provides teachers with a safe search, a unique teacher managed search engine, and unique teacher class where teachers can share any resource with a single click of the mouse. In addition teachers can create quizzes and assignments that include any web resource making it easy for the youngest of students to get to a particular website quickly. 19Pencils saves teachers hours and hours through out the school year by enabling teachers to leverage web resources from one another and making resources all accessible by students from home or school.
Links of Interest
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/19pencils
Twitter
http://twitter.com/19Pencils
Blog
http://blog.19pencils.com
Early video demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQ5B3vH-4w
Fun Informational Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtRGuKnMTY
Press
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ash-kumra/education-tech-startups_b_2101575.html
20 Websites Not Requiring Student Login (Tech Learning Magazine)
http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4761
De-tech-tive for Teachers
http://thede-tech-tive4teachers.blogspot.com/2012/08/19pencils-ideal-classroom.html
Featured Guests
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Jason Fabbri – Founder/CEO
Jason has been an software engineer in the Silicon Valley for more than 17 years. Jason is a veteran of a number of start ups as well as Adobe Systems, Inc. where he contributed to many products including Illustrator, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Services and more. Jason has a track record of not just building great products but also has a history of communicating a clear vision and direction to bring technologies together to solve difficult problems. After volunteering in his own children’s classroom Jason recognized that teachers could use some help to make it easier to leverage the web. After gathering input from a community of local teachers Jason founded 19Pencils.
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