Guest Blogger: New Media and the Internet Savvy Bride
Noelle Schiller is a friend of mine who works in the chaotic world of planning weddings. If you’re married or have been married and are reading this, then I’m sure you feel her pain. If you thought planning your wedding is tough trying coordinating one and doing it regularly…that’s Noelle. Not only does she have … Read more
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
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
Guest Blogger: Non Profit Events Get Companies Noticed
Emily Locke is the Development Associate for Distinguished Event at the American Cancer Society. Most of her job involves the behind the scenes work that goes into creating some of the coolest events in Boston. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health concern. … 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 New Wave of Social Media In Politics
Before working at US Markerboard, I worked in politics in. Politics is a fascinating atmosphere especially for marketing; I would even argue that it’s a marketer’s dream industry. You have the ability to take this product (candidate) who is virtually unknown and build him/her into a household name within a matter of months. Now a … Read more
Guest Blogger: CSMC Relieves a Principal’s Headache
As you may recall we talked about the growing trend in Charter Schools on Wednesday. In that article we discussed one of the obstacles plaguing charter schools and even considered it a potential reason to shy away from some of them. The issue of course is management; in a typical school system the principal covers … Read more
Guest Blogger: The Education of Lyrical
PM Plourde is the poster-child for this blog. The week he is our guest blogger and you can learn his story through his own words, but when I say his influence as an educator has affected many, its an understatement. His rap alter-ego “Lyrical” is the darling of the Boston hip hop scene, one of … Read more
