Guest Blogger: The Death of Monolingualism
Chris Jefferies works as an online language tutor for a new online company called Squarko. Based out of the UK, Squarko offers in-depth courses for a number of different foreign languages. Essentially you’re in a one man virtual classroom interacting with friendly and knowledgeable tutors who are easily accessible and work around your schedule. In … Read more
Guest Blogger: Changing Times in Video Production
Brian Wardyga is a trusted name in digital media education. With a background in audio/visual production he took his expertise to the classroom where he has taught at numerous schools and has been able to build up a program and turn it into a truly interesting and hands on experience for students. Brian acknowledges the … Read more
Guest Blogger: Homeschooling In the Digital Age
Angie Knutson is the creator of an insanely popular blog “My Four Monkeys” a product review site for moms and dads. Angie has (you guessed it) four kids which she home-schools. Her blog chronicles the life of a home school while offering up tips and suggestions for other like minded parents. She also offers tons … Read more
Two Innovative Products…One Great Solution
Innovation, the dictionary defines it as “a new way of doing something.” Now a days businesses and schools often times find themselves looking for innovations to help expand productivity and making the learning experience better. In the blog we’ve already covered a bunch of classroom and business innovations, and one of my guest bloggers even … Read more
Guest Blogger: Collaboration & Innovation – Getting Your Teams to Step Up!
Out of the 400,000+ products I have to market for US Markerboard one of my favorite is IdeaPaint. One of the main focuses of this blog has been innovative products and services for schools and businesses, and so far they’ve all been applications or websites. IdeaPaint is good old fashion creativity that has a cool … Read more
The Rise of PTOs and PTAs
Since beginning at US Markerboard I’ve learned a great deal about the education system in our country. It’s amazing how much research goes into marketing to schools and educational outlets. Schools and teachers are the toughest to market to because of the stringent guidelines they are forced into due to their incomprehensibly tight budgets. So … Read more
Going Green While Saving Green
As Earth Day came and went, we saw a week of innovations in the green initiative. Since Al Gore’s Oscar winning movie “Inconvenient Truth,” the world has been obsessed with revitalizing the economy through means of a more socially conscious way of life…or “going green.” Corporations have embraced the new social experiment as a way … Read more
Guest Blogger: Technology – Leveling the Playing Field for Children with Learning Disabilities
As we discussed in yesterday’s post, technology is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s classroom. As the internet, video games, and television take over the lives of kids, its no surprise that their attention spans while at school are minuscule to non-existent. One way to combat this is to include all of those aspects … Read more
The Role of Technology in The Classroom
As the internet and technology become more prevalent in our daily lives, there seems to be one industry that hasn’t quite got the message yet, schools. It’s a bit confusing and almost ironic that these places for knowledge and expansion haven’t really caught on to the tech wave like just about every other industry, ever. … Read more
National Geographic: Why Geography in the Classroom is Crucial
An interesting study was sent to me by Brent Douthit at National Geographic. Brent specializes in maps and geography at National Geographic, a company synonymous with quality in education and exploration of the earth and beyond. Needless to say geography is the name of the game for “Nat Geo” and in a recent study they … Read more
