Archive for category Website Developments

Look Who’s Talking

Thanks for returning! I have a Facebook Fan page and Twitter account that you may be interested in too.We don’t have a huge budget for marketing so we rely on our users to spread the word. We’ve also been very fortunate in the past few months to have received mentions in a number of great [...]

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Developing Awesome Virtual Classrooms: A Case Study

This case study is an example of how a teacher can make a virtual classroom a powerful tool for learning, collaborating and yes even fun. In this case study I’m going to show a small sub-section of what a teacher & students can do in an ETG virtual classroom using one assignment as an example. [...]

Getting Parents Involved With ETG

I’ve been contacted a few times with questions and comments about how parents can and should be involved in their kid’s studies. Parents and teachers have asked;  Can parents keep track of their student’s workload using ETG? The answer is a definite YES. The issue is that some students aren’t very organized and need additional [...]

Exciting Enhancements

You may noticed that there have been some big changes to the site in the past few weeks. We have been working hard to make the site easier to navigate and for people to collaborate. I’ve been motivated by Mark Suster’s blog and in particular this post which strongly suggests that startup companies should blog [...]

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The Website has Launched; EnterTheGroup.com is here!

After a lot of hard work the website EnterTheGroup.com is ready! The delays in the site were due to the fact that I wanted to add a few more features to it as well as make sure we fixed any bugs. The site is in beta which means it’s still a work in progress, but [...]

Love me, Hate me, but Just Rate me

The emergence of the internet has given people the opportunity to become as visible as they want to be. Visibility means people can spill their guts and reveal themselves in so many new ways. We can post our opinions on blogs, update our ‘status’ as often as we want on Facebook, Tweet about things we [...]

Virtual Classrooms and the Future of Education

This is an interesting read in the NYT. I think it is inevitable that technology and education will become more and more intertwined. This is just another confirmation that we don’t need to sit in classrooms to learn and collaborate with people and professors. Let’s hope for my selfish sake that this applies to group [...]