FOR ALL THOSE READERS who, like me, have an interest the sales and marketing of games and educational products, here are some must reads:
EricaBiz, writes “It’s time to completely change your Marketing Strategy!“, speaks about the need for a fundamental change in marketing due to the financial crisis.
In terms of targeting your audiences, I have [...]
Larry Ferlazzo offer us The Best Internet Sites for English Language Learners 2008 survey. You can vote for your favourite, or you can simply use the list as an awesome springboard for amazing English Language learning sites. He is quite frequently posting up surveys, and another useful one would be ‘Best online learning games 2008‘.
One [...]
Isn’t it time you talked to your Neighbour? A recent survey on Neighbourhoods by Full of Life, shows what I think is a very worrying trend (though hardly unexpected).
8% of people don’t their neighbour’s name
20% have hardly ever spoken to their neighbours,
58% think that neighbor are becoming more distant
However, in contrast to the ever-constant barrage [...]
NSC-Tech is one of those resources that every teacher should spend time browsing. Here are two of the many gems you can find on this site: Science for Kids, which is a free collection of experiements compiles by the American Chemical Society; and Lab Out Loud, a site with the tagline ’science for the classrom [...]
The American Psychological Association (APA) has been busy lately doing research into how gaming boosts cognitive skills. “A host of studies suggest that video game build cognitive skills. Even a relatively simple tiling puzzle like Tetris has been shown to boost brainpower”, they write. They also comment on experiments that show that laparoscopic surgeons who [...]
CopyBlogger tells us the “3 Secrets to massive online marketing success“: Take action. Have a plan. And …well, I won’t spill the beans on all the secrets!It is another one of those articles that remind us that having good ideas really doesn’t count for much unless you implement them — and implement them well.
Another cool [...]
The derivative matching game‘, by The MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library”, offers one of those maths activities that you think, ‘this is so simple, but effective, why hasn’t this been done before?’ It consists of showing graphs of a few functions, and the graphs of their derivatives, and you have to match them up. Simple, [...]
The Wisconsin online Resource Center, “a digital library of web-based learning resources,…is available to colleges, universities and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world with permission.” has some pretty impressive stuff. Also, Curriki , which aims to allow teachers to collect lesson plans, contribute teaching resources and connect with other educators is [...]
Paul Graham, one of my personal gurus, offers and insightful essay on “Six principles of making new things“. I recommend reading all of Paul’s essay. Most of them are timeless.
Harvard Business in an article “Visionary Entrepreneur” gives the basic formula and a poignant and very admirable case study for basic entreprenuership: “Understand a problem, grasp [...]
