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GroupTable Makes Top 10 Best Classroom 2.0 Applications List

David Brim — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:50:34 +0000

GroupTable has made Huddlemind’s Top 10 Best Classroom 2.0 Applications List. Huddlemind is a specialist social-media education and eventing company. They also own and operates a Social Network of Educators and Organizational Development practitioners at huddlemind.net.

Here’s Dave Duarte (Co-founder of Huddleminds) list:

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1. Udutu: Easily author and publish courses online

2. Engrade: Web-based tools for educators – including tools to keep track of marks and publish assignments

3. Haiku LS: Easy, elegant learning management system

4. Grouptable: GroupTable is a web-based software and success network developed specifically to help student groups improve document management, project planning and communication.

5. Edufire: Learn online with live video

6. Global Classroom: Create elearning centres to train staff or clients.

7. Adobe Connect Pro: Host classes live via the web

8 . Schoolrack: Manage class mailing lists, calendars and assignments in one place for both teachers and students.

9. Studeous: enhance courses with tools like live chat, discussion boards, podcasting, and text messaging.

10. Edmodo: Free private micro-blogging (like Twitter) for teachers and students.

Thanks for including us in your list Dave!

Did You Know- Education in the 21st Century

David Brim — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:15:59 +0000

This video- “Did You Know” is about the changes in the world as a result of technology and the importance of providing an education that prepares students for the 21st century work place. This is a challenge because many of the jobs we’re preparing today’s students for don’t even exist yet.

Lots of interesting facts and very thought provoking, definitely worth checking out.

GroupTable Update- What do you bring to the table?

David Brim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:05:57 +0000

November was a great month for GroupTable. With no funding, nobody on our staff working full time and a lot of late nights GroupTable now has over 1200 students using our software, and we’re still in beta! You can also see our unique visitors to the right. All of our marketing, minus one promotional event at UCF during the summer and a few email campaigns, has been through word of mouth/social media. On a limited budget it’s amazing what having a quality product that solves a need and tech savvy users can do. You’ll notice a small dip during the summer months, but a strong rebound when school started. By the way this graph includes November and there is still a week and a half left in the month.

This month there were also a lot of great posts written about us on various education and technology blogs Here’s some of my favorites:

We really have a perfect product for the time. College enrollment is rising, especially with the economy the way it is. On top of that, students are staying school longer for their mba and doctorate degrees. Group projects are often required in classes and it’s proven that study groups improve grades, however students are busy and/or lazy and getting all group members together and focused at the same time is challenging. Many students face this problem and neither social networking sites or course management software systems solve this need, however GroupTable does. Below is a message sent to us via twitter.

Besides our strong user traction and growth, we have a number of companies that want to partner with us that can really add value, an enhanced design ready to be integrated, several campus representatives at different locations across the country and a solid revenue model. We are in the process of raising capital, which will allow us to really ramp up. If anyone knows of any investors passionate about education and technology please connect us. The sooner we obtain resources, the sooner GroupTable’s staff will be able to give this venture our full attention, build our team and grow GroupTable to it’s full potential…What do you bring to the table?

Contacts? Capital? Comments?