Computer Support Blog

For newer college students in particular, keeping track of activities beyond the classroom can be a challenge. Becoming connected with school organizations and forming social groups can be daunting to many, and it is this difficulty that a startup called Campus Bubble exists to address.  It does so by presenting students with a calendar of events and information about campus organizations, sports, dining and area nightlife options.  On a very basic level, it serves as a blog site where student groups and school organizations could share information, but it ultimately goes well beyond that to unify campus information for students into a central hub.  It creators designed to help students, in their own words, “search through the noise of campus life” and decide what is useful to them with the goal of improving campus connectivity, which (especially to new students) can sometimes feel disjointed and overwhelming. Read more »

Most students struggle with the task of organizing their class assignments and simultaneously keeping track of due dates for any number of assignments.  Having a student planner is a very old concept, but students can easily forget papers or folders, leaving them at school, at home, or any number of places they go throughout the day.  This is where Schooltraq, a startup built for students to help track classes, assignments, and due dates on a single dashboard, can help.  An academic planner for students, it helps them track homework more efficiently and see it at a glance, add assignments at any time, and more.  It employs a simple-to-use interface and syncs between a smartphone and any number of other tech devices. Read more »

There are many useful tools and resources for academics on the Internet.  Unfortunately, even when you are able to find them, it is difficult to share and discuss that content beyond the classroom.  According to its creators, TheHubEDU exists to make it easy to find the great people, places and things that support one’s academic life, then to simplify the sharing of those resources once discovered.  The app accomplishes this by creating a place online where people can organize, share and discuss information and media that serves to aid in class discussion or is part of the classwork itself.  It is an extremely helpful way for students to organize all of their articles and research for classes. Read more »

Reinforcing good behavior in the classroom is one of the most effective ways to get students to perform well in school.  However, creating a workable system to promote and reward positive behavior can be difficult for many teachers.  Finding a way to keep track of students’ actions over time so they can earn positive reinforcement requires a significant amount of work when teachers already have a significant amount of responsibilities.  In addition, students may get confused difficulties if every teacher in the school uses a different system, decreasing the likelihood that students will keep any sort of rewards system in mind when thinking about their actions.  Cool person in technology Matthew Rubinstein wants to fix these problems with his app LiveSchool.  LiveSchool presents teachers with a unified system for rewarding their students with the help of mobile technology.  Using a mobile device such as an iPad, teachers can easily mark when their students do something positive to earn “points”.  Rubinstein’s app keeps long-term track of every student’s points.  Kids can then use these points to cash in for rewards and incentives customized by the teachers themselves.  Any teacher who has issues while trying to use the LiveSchool app may have a broken device needing tablet computer repair. Read more »

Teachers want to give their students every tool necessary to make their education worthwhile and help them succeed.  Cool person in technology John Runkles created Bulb in order to help teachers make assignments and lessons more engaging for their students.  Bulb is an online publishing platform designed specifically for use by both teachers and students.  With Bulb, users can create elaborate reports and posts using text, images and video and post them online in a convenient easy-to-read fashion.  Using Runkles’ product, teachers can create supplemental lesson plans for online consumption using mixed media and post them online for students to see.  In response, students can create their own posts on Bulb, easily publishing assignments online as response posts with the ability to use mixed media just as their teachers do.  With Runkles’ product, students and teachers have access to one simple platform that gives them a multitude of ways to create lessons and respond to them accordingly. Students or teachers who have problems setting up free accounts with Bulb should find a computer tech support provider for help. Read more »

Fundraising is a major concern for anyone running a nonprofit, school or community organization.  Large networks of regular donors are essential to keeping any of these organizations both alive and accomplishing goals that are part of their stated missions.  However, fundraising is also a complex and draining process.  Building a network, maintaining contacts, hosting events and converting new donors are all difficult tasks.  Even more problematic for many of these organizations, they are not selling a product or service that directly benefits the people paying them and therefore, converting people into donors becomes far more difficult.  Fortunately, there is a cool product called Kimbia that provides a web platform that nonprofits, schools and other fundraisers can use to both manage and optimize their efforts.  Read more »