Bill Tudor Interviewed by Scholastic Administrator

See below for an interview of Bill Tudor from Learning Plans on Demand by Scholastic Administrator magazine's tech editor, Ken Royal.

Bill discusses how his diagnostic tools are integrated into Learning Plans on Demand and now make it easier to pinpoint the exact skills students are missing on the learning ladder. Bill talks about how learning is a step-wise process. If a rung on the ladder is missing, then it is very difficult for students to stay up with their peers. Learning Plans on Demand is specifically designed to locate that missing skill (or skills) and provide all the tutorials and remediation necessary to get students back on track.

Writing Traffic-driving Tweets -- From PRSA

As a member of the Public Relations Society of America, I receive an excellent newsletter, Tactics. If you are even remotely connected to PR or marketing, you should belong to this association if only to have a subscription to its two monthly publications.

An article this month is about the key words that will increase the pass-along rate for tweets. A summary is linked here.

The key point is not to focus on yourself. Use key words like: retweet (duh!), post, blog, social, FREE, media, help, great, 10, follow, how to, top, check out. The losers? game, going, haha, lol, work, home, sleep, gonna, hey, tired, bored, and a few others.

Gee, seems like the difference between professionalism and egotism.

If you would like to see the entire article, send me a message or email. Or better yet, join PRSA!

Brainchild's Jeff Cameron Interview at Scholastic Administrator

Ken Royal, the senior technology and products editor for Scholastic Administrator magazine, interviewed Jeff Cameron of Brainchild while we were at the Florida Educational Technology Conference. Click here for a four-minute introduction to Achiever! and the Study Buddy.

News Release - Brainchild Academy Concept Employs Multimodal, Data-driven Instruction for Struggling Students

ORLANDO, Florida — January 13, 2010 — With 24-30 students or more in the typical classroom, it is tough for teachers to give students individual attention, especially struggling students. Brainchild (www.brainchild.com)—an educational publisher of assessment and intervention programs— today launched the Brainchild Academy Concept, which combines its technology resources with direct teacher observation into a three-station instructional plan.

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See Brainchild in booth 323 at the Florida Educational Technology Conference this week.

News Release - Brainchild Achiever! Habla Espanol

ORLANDO, Florida — January 12, 2010 — Brainchild (www.brainchild.com) announced today that Achiever! —an online assessment and instruction program used to evaluate student performance on state standards—now offers test questions and tutorials in Spanish or English. Students may change the text on their screen or select audio narrations in either Spanish or English and then may toggle between to the two as needed.

“If we hand a teacher a report that tells what each student needs to work on, she might be able to differentiate instruction for one or two students but an RTI program is about doing this for every student. It is only possible to do this with a total package like Achiever! where the assessment automatically jumps the student into the activities they need.” Dr. Geeta McMillan, Cassville Elementary School, TN

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See Brainchild in booth 323 at the Florida Educational Technology Conference this week in Orlando.

Learning Plans on Demand Enhanced With Quick Diagnostic Assessmen

Learning Plans on Demand Enhanced With Quick Diagnostic Assessment

Assessment Helps Teachers Differentiate Instruction and Tie Into Embedded Tutorials

STUART, Florida – January 8, 2009 – Learning Plans on Demand™ (www.LearningPlansOnDemand.com) today announced the release of new diagnostic assessments that make the system easier to use and more helpful to teachers. With these new features, LPOD is a more powerful assessment tool that ties directly into hundreds of embedded tutorials for individualized learning.

Learning Plans on Demand (LPOD) is known by teachers for its ability to quickly make differentiated instructional plans based on individual student needs such as those required for “Response to Intervention” (RTI).

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