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Podcast: Kickstarter and Geography

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Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
Read More About: crowdfunding, education, kickstarter, open source
Two weeks ago the world learned about Zombie-based Learning, a geography teaching tool envisioned by a middle school teacher from Seattle. He used crowdfunding site Kickstarter to ask the world to support his project. He had $5000 pledged in just four days. What other geography related projects, educational and otherwise, are appearing on Kickstarter? What is getting funded? What isn't?

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