EDUKWEST on tour has always had a special feel to it and as much as I like connecting with great start-up people via Skype, I have to say that I truly enjoy visiting companies when I have the opportunity to … Continue reading →

As it’s the beginning of June and thus half the year went by already (as always I feel that January was just a short moment ago) but there is another six months to go before we’ll wrap-up 2011, I thought … Continue reading →

6 Reasons Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom - "By looking at all that tablets offer in the context of student behavior and some of the recent trends in education, it’s clear that tablets are ready for the classroom." Mashable … Continue reading →

Sometimes I make a real finding on YouTube. Of course, Google knows me well and when I listen to some music or watch a webcast over there, I mostly get Inigral’s Schools App or Learnable as advertisement. This time was … Continue reading →

Along with their official launch, I had the chance to meet with Patrick Randolph of Talkwheel for an EDUKWEST. Talkwheel are based in SF and the platform allows its users to communicate and collaborate in a very visual way. Although … Continue reading →

Learning to Read on Zero Dollars a Day "Twenty years ago we had challenges helping kids find enough information. Now we have the opposite problem. There’s plenty of information out there. Now it’s a matter of training students to think … Continue reading →

About a year ago we were witness of a short but heavy battle about the fact that Facebook does not allow you to download your user data or delete your account permanently. This battle took place on TechCrunch and several … Continue reading →

Whereas in the last social media post I talked about why I blog and why this might be a good thing for you or have benefits for your education company, I want to concentrate on some of the platforms for … Continue reading →

For this part of KWestions I had the pleasure to interview Christian Arno, the managing director of Lingo24 and his take on the future of translation online. Compared with many other start-ups I have had the opportunity to do an … Continue reading →

For some time now I have been thinking about how to shape the image of both KirstenWinkler.com and EDUKWEST and as you learned I came to the conclusion that with KirstenWinkler.com, I want to return to what it had been … Continue reading →

Time to officially introduce you to a new face on EDUKWEST. Fellow Berlin expat André Klein wrote his insightful inaugural post yesterday. And he’s everything but a newbie to online education. André is among other the author of two books on … Continue reading →

I’m happy to announce that our small team of writers at EDUKWEST has grown once more and I have the pleasure to introduce you to Benjamin Stewart who I’m sure is known already in a big part of the online … Continue reading →

Finally, I’m not the only woman on the team anymore as we welcome Lidie Oleson, our new writer for EDUKWEST. Lidie first got in touch with me via LinkedIn and made a proposal you (at least I) don’t get every … Continue reading →

The thing I love most about being a blogger is the direct engagement with my readers. Getting feedback and thoughts on posts directly is always enlightening and brings up different angles of a story or delivers the basis for an … Continue reading →

Not a long time ago, I did a KWestions series on the opportunities lying in translation on the Internet. I had the chance to interview edupreneurs from various backgrounds in order to portray the different angles one might have regarding … Continue reading →

In France, but I believe this is true for the rest of the world, summer is this special period in the year when everything seems to reduce pace, school holidays are long and many people go on holidays or simply … Continue reading →

As you know, this blog here has become my personal sandbox again and all the news in education 2.0 are now over at EDUKWEST. In case you did not know, now you know . For all of you who check … Continue reading →

Kno, the education tablet manufacturer turned e-textbook provider launched some interesting new features. The software now automatically converts molecule models printent in textbooks into interactive 3D animations. Kno also added external video content from the Khan Academy. Right before the … Continue reading →

iversity, a Berlin-based education startup in the higher education sector announced a $1.6 million funding round. It is offering a free online workspace for educators and students with a variety of tools for organizing and collaboration. Big Think and The … Continue reading →

Lidie Olesen, one of our contributors over at EDUKWEST and librarian made me aware of International Literacy Day on September 8th and thus for the last couple of days I have been thinking in a broader way about how my own … Continue reading →

As we increasingly discuss whether content itself is still what matters or if it wasn’t really context that does, I have been looking deeper into curation and its opportunities in an educational context over the past few months. Out of … Continue reading →

Livemocha is strengthening its footprint in Latin America. Abril Educacao bought 5.9% of the Seattle-based startup and is planning to build a platform for the rising Brazilian middle class. Babbel is going to expand its mobile offers by acquiring the application … Continue reading →

I did this episode of KWestions in the course of the EDUKWEST interview with Jeffrey McManus on his company CodeLesson and my general interest in the growing startup scene around educating people how to code. As you know, instead of focusing on … Continue reading →

The Ministry of Education of Ontario in Canada is offering free online math help for students grade 7-10 via a platform called Homework Help. All teachers are employed by the state and students connect via live chat and interactive whiteboards. … Continue reading →