For a long time I did not cover all the new partnerships that were made in the education 2.0 sector. One reason for this is the huge amount of new companies which enter the game.
Really exciting times but nevertheless lets have a look at the “grown up” rebels. You will see that there is lots [...]

Since the first ETCon back in July Second Life, or SL as the cool cats refer to it , has been an ever upcoming issue on my agenda. There seems to be a virus that especially infects ESL teachers and draws them into the depths of the cyber space.
I checked out Second Life two [...]

This week I had the pleasure talking to Christopher Grant, Senior Vice President of Barcelona, Spain, located startup Sclipo.
The company was founded in late 2006 as an educational video sharing platform as you might have guessed from the name already.
Since then it has rapidly grown and can today be seen as a full set teaching [...]

On my daily surf through the web I came across this fairly new language learning community called lenguajero.com. What immediately caught my eye is the fact that they “only” offer language exchange between Spanish and English speakers. That’s what I call targeted.
Reading a bit through the blog I learned that the site was developed by [...]

15 Entrepreneurs to Get You Inspired
is the title of the email I received a couple of minuts ago. This is really big news. After receiving a $1.3 million dollar funding eduFire is kicking it off again.
They launched an eduFire Business Channel with a tremendous lineup of high end entrepreneurs who will share their knowledge with [...]

Nice coincidence. Today I got a new Twitter follower called @Mingoville. When I checked out their website I was quite amazed. Mingoville.com is a free online community plus virtual world for kids to learn English.
A great use of Social Media strategies, matches perfectly today’s #Edchat Social Media topics.
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Today on the #Edchat poll there are two topics rivalring closely in popularity and votes . The good thing is that I think they are related to one another, so I would like to cover both questions in this post.
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Last wednesday WiZiQ organized a mini workshop about Twitter for Teachers. They invited Enza Antenos-Conforti (@iVenus), Alexandre Enklerli (@enkerli) and myself to give some presentations about how teachers can use microblogging.
It was a great event and I learned a lot from my co-presenters there. Below you can watch our presentations as well as some links [...]

This morning I read a very interesting article in the NY Times.
[...] Education moved from a bespoke craft to a more industrial approach. [...]
[...] Still, one-to-one tutoring is the learning method proven time and again to sharply improve a student’s measured performance. A good human tutor can deliver a “home run,” educationally and statistically, explained [...]

On Wednesday I was kindly invited by Clint Schmidt, VP of Marketing and Product to have a first private sneak peak preview of the new Pearson powered Livemocha Active English course.
Livemocha and Pearson announced a partnership back in March 2009 to build an online English course based on Pearson content. The release was previewed for [...]