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Education Has Changed - Can Everyone Start Their Own Online School Now?
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Zach Mrtin replied to bjoernlasse's discussion Education Has Changed - Can Everyone Start Their Own Online School Now?"Supercool School is a tool for people to connect based on interest and knowledge. Also everybody can request and organize classes, meetings and brainstorming in virtual classroom environment. It is a good way for informal and practice based learning."
Education Has Changed - Can Everyone Start Their Own Online School Now?
Salut Classroom 2.0 fellows,The short answer is YES! If you want to learn how to start your own online school - visit SupercoolSchool.com :)For those of you who are still trying to figure out what all of this means let me explain...Supercool School just opened up its platform in an effort to allow everyone to create their own next generation online school.We want to do for education what blogging has done for publishing - democratize…See More
"Wow - you are using Elluminate??? How did you decide to use it?"
"good point!"
"I would recommend to simply do a virtual event on a blog. Every hour you post a new piece of art and have a discussion around in the commenting session of the blog."
"Michelle,
I have some French teacher friends. If you have a quick introduction email I can forward it. Please send it to bjoern@supercoolschool.com
Regarding the tool - I can offer you a free version of Supercool School. It allows you to do video…"
"I would love to take the survey and find out more about the topic of informal mentoring.
We just started a small platform for educators call educators 2.0. Its supposed to become an informal hotspot for teachers to share their experiences with each…"
"Katherine,
Education needs to be blend in with todays reality and prepare kids for their future. Therefore Ebooks should be part of the classroom of course :).
I guess its more a question of money than of necessity."
"Jesse, web 2.0 technology was really a marketing buzz word to help the internet industry to get through their economical struggle. If you have a certain problem set in your classroom - for example writing essays - then blogs can be a helpful tool to…"
"Andrew!
I think thats a great idea :)
You might want to check out Supercool School. We used it for some peer to peer tutoring for students.
It may fit your purpose as well.
cheers,
bjoern"
"agree :)"
"I guess it all depends on
1. What you want to teach
2. On your personal style & philosophy of teaching
3. On the age of the kids/adults
The means for education are really secondary I believe :)"
"I wonder if a Supercool School would be a good collaborative tool for teachers to learn from one another check out www.SupercoolSchool.com
What do you think?"
"fully agree!!
Web technologies are simply new tools to solve old problems ;)"
"I guess most importantly you engage with other teachers through twitter - this way you always stay up to date ;)
my twitter is bjoernlasse"
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- I am a purpose driven person striving to make the world a better place. Currently I am with Supercool School. In the past I worked in Audit, Marketing & Consulting in Germany and Russia. I initiated and led a number of Education and Development related Non Profit initiatives in Germany and Bangladesh. Plus I am an economics graduate student in the University of Mannheim.
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