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
Taking All the Difficulty Out of Cooking
Hello, remember me? It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write a post here because things have been so hectic in both life and work, I’m sure you understand. Well with all this stuff going on what could make me want to stop, sit down and write a new blog post? A great … 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
Who Needs Words Anymore Anyways? The Evolution of Online Search
In today’s modern world of iPads and Facebook, we often times find ourselves relying more on visuals than text. As an undiagnosed victim of Attention Deficit Disorder, I consistently rely more on images to tell a story then the actual words in articles, after all why read? I have a theory that everyone now a … 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
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
Blogs: The New Frontier of Online Marketing
Perhaps I’m a bit biased, and maybe this post might become a little self indulgent, but blogs have become an almost necessity in the marketing game over the last few years. The term “blog” is basically a shortened version of the words:“web log” (because that’s so hard and tedious to say). Some of the original … 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
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
