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John Bischke: World Wide Learning

Jon Bischke is a co-founder of eduFire, a tutoring resource for users who need access to educational platforms via the web. Bischke talks about the direction his company is headed and why classic marketing techniques are not necessary for his company.

Tags: marketing, Web

Videos 2008-04-15

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Riekes Center Receives $95,000 Grant Funding from Sequoia Healthcare District

Monies Will Benefit Center's After-School Student Fitness Program MENLO PARK, Calif. -- The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement announced today the receipt of $95,000 in grant funding from The Sequoia Healthcare District SHD to support the Riekes Center's After-School Student Fitness program. The Riekes Center is a nonprofit...

Articles 2008-06-25

MICHAEL STANDEN

Novelist and poet Michael Standen was an integral part of the literary scene of the North East, as novelist, poet, co-editor of the journal Other Poetry, an organiser of the invaluable Colpitts Poetry readings, and much else besides. He was born near London in...

Articles 2008-06-25

Peer tutors deserve praise

I was privileged recently to witness my daughter's graduation. Many wonderful team and group accomplishments were highlighted during the ceremony. However, one group of students never received recognition: young men and women who volunteered as peer tutors. I grew up excelling in sports and lettered all four...

Articles 2008-06-16

Brook escapes tutors' long shadow by crushing Jones

*BOXING Kell Brook finally walked from the shadow of his tutors Naseem Hamed, Brendan Ingle and Ryan Rhodes on Saturday night at York Hall, London, when he stopped Rhondda's Barrie Jones in the seventh round to win the vacant British welterweight title. Jones lost...

Articles 2008-06-16

Brook escapes tutors' long shadow by crushing Jones

*BOXING Kell Brook finally walked from the shadow of his tutors Naseem Hamed, Brendan Ingle and Ryan Rhodes on Saturday night at York Hall, London, when he stopped Rhondda's Barrie Jones in the seventh round to win the vacant British welterweight title. Jones lost...

Articles 2008-06-16

Brook escapes tutors' long shadow by crushing Jones

*BOXING Kell Brook finally walked from the shadow of his tutors Naseem Hamed, Brendan Ingle and Ryan Rhodes on Saturday night at York Hall, London, when he stopped Rhondda's Barrie Jones in the seventh round to win the vacant British welterweight title. Jones lost...

Articles 2008-06-16

Radio

In Living Memory Wed 11am Radio 4 In 1971, two Danish schoolteachers, Soren Hansen and Jasper Jensen, published a small paperback called The Little Red Schoolbook. Loosely modelled on the famous Maoist bible The Little Red Book, it tutored teenagers on how to assert...

Articles 2008-06-14

Another side of Bob Dylan

Pied piper, poet and now painter, his artworks are the subject of a much-anticipated exhibition. But are they any good? Michael Glover offers his verdict When you spend so much of your time on the road, there are so many spaces between the spaces. So, some time...

Articles 2008-06-10

AT&T and OASIS Host 'Cell Phones for Seniors' Event in Albany - June 13th

AT&T Volunteers Tutor Senior Citizens, Providing Tips Such as How to Text Grandkids at a Series of Free Educational Seminars ALBANY, N.Y., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. and OASIS announced today the launch of a new public service initiative designed to benefit the Capital Region's...

Articles 2008-06-10

School of rock

The Roundhouse isn't just a legendary venue - it also tutors troubled teenagers in the arts. And this week some of Britain's biggest stars have been enlisted to help. Simon Tait reports Kyle Thorne, a 24-year-old unemployed Londoner, will be one of the greeters at the Roundhouse's...

Articles 2008-06-09

Slate of volunteers honored at UVSC

OREM -- Utah Valley State College honored several people and groups at the school's annual Volunteer Appreciation Banquet. Also, for the first time, the school gave a Community Partner of the Year award. "We try and highlight people here at Utah Valley that have...

Articles 2008-06-09

U.S. didn't learn from the '70s

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of my favorite newspaper comic strips as a child was the Katzenjammer Kids, about two mischievous boys who were always getting caught red-handed and spanked. The final frame of the cartoon often showed a wily kid named Rollo, who would point to the...

Articles 2008-06-08

Istanbul Charity Receives Herbalife Family Foundation Grant to Support Nutrition Program

LOS ANGELES -- Children from Istanbul's AIP, Urgent Need Project Foundation UNPF, ran side by side with Herbalife independent distributors and employees in a fun run to celebrate the opening of a Casa Herbalife program at the center. The grant will allow UNPF to help provide healthy meals and nutritional...

Articles 2008-06-05

Can the Pope save Greyfriars?

UNIVERSITIES Campaigners trying to rescue a private hall at Oxford from closure are taking their case to Rome. Peter Stanford reports on an unusual and bitter battle The peculiar green copper upside-down ice-cream cone that sits atop Greyfriars in east Oxford is not...

Articles 2008-06-05

The Princeton Review and NationalTeacher Offer Online Video Training to Help Educators Certify for Federal and State-mandated Training Requirements

NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Princeton Review has partnered with NationalTeacher to offer a series of state-specific online videos to help school employees certify for federal and state-mandated training requirements. EVON Educational Video Online Network offers professional development and training in such topics as child abuse...

Articles 2008-06-04

Pro-Literacy Detroit Announces Facility Relocation

Larger Capacity to Provide Increased Amenities for Metro Detroit Residents DETROIT -- Pro-Literacy Detroit (www.proliteracydetroit.org) a non-profit organization with the mission of creating literacy awareness and helping to improve people's reading skills, today announced that the organization will be relocating from their present facility in the noted Fisher...

Articles 2008-06-02

Apangea Learning's SmartHelp Math selected by the Idaho State Department of Education for State-wide Math Intervention Program

42,000 students throughout Idaho to receive one-to-one differentiated math instruction PITTSBURGH, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Apangea Learning, a leading provider of supplemental online math tutoring, was selected by the Idaho State Department of Education as a partner for its 2008 Idaho Math Initiative, a comprehensive effort to...

Articles 2008-06-02

Sending a message Pronto

Wimba Pronto by Wimba, an instant messaging platform for academia, creates an online informal learning setting to foster more student communication and collaboration. Designed specifically to connect students with peers and their professors, the customizable system automatically populates the names of classmates and faculty by their courses. Users can interact...

Articles 2008-06-01

Photography

The Lion and the Dragon: Photographs from China 1903-1905 Shandong Province stands today as a bustling testament to China's economic strength, yet vast tracts of the region were under European rule at the turn of the 20th century. The images in this show capture the remarkable experiences...

Articles 2008-05-31