Jasmin Brand (@brandpointe) Football fanatic, lover of cupcakes and social media. She created Brandpointe, a company based in Dallas, TX, that connects individuals & businesses with learning solutions that improve job performance & efficiency. She believes learning should be affordable and accessible to anyone at anytime so she dreamed about an online learning community that connected people 24 hours a day to learning content that was actually useful and her baby, er, community Ovation was born. Don't try to change her mind. The Dallas Cowboys will be in the Superbowl next year. www.brandpointeonline.com www.beovation.com
One of the most exciting things about working in education is how much technology is making it easier for people to learn. Students are no longer chained to stacks of books at their school’s library. The “library” can now be found at their fingertips on their favorite search engine. Teachers are no longer confined by [...]
There’s a real bad epidemic going around. You may have already been affected. It’s called TMI or Too Much Information. It seems I can’t go a day without hearing about Foursquare or one of the other location based social media tools that everyone seems to be using. On little sleep and a lack of sugar, [...]
As if I don’t already need 26 hours instead of 24 hours in one day. I have found yet another way to take my procrastination to the next level. Please don’t blame me if you get hooked. Dogbook allows your pet to have his or her very own Facebook page. Ok, I know you’re thinking [...]
I like Twitter. Ok maybe that’s not accurate. I really like Twitter. I constantly update and I’ve connected with some really awesome people so I guess I shouldn’t complain. There are some things about Twitter, however, that annoy me a little. I go on Twitter to connect with like minded individuals that like some of [...]
A friend of mine suggested that I check out Chatroulette, a site that connects you via web cam to an endless amount of complete strangers from around the world. Yes, she’s a good friend. It was started just three months ago by this 17 year old Russian kid, Andrey Ternovski. First of all, when I [...]
I am not your typical girl. I watch football, drink beer and use pretty foul language… especially when watching football. And drinking.
Here me out. I believe that education and how we learn as a society has reached an awesomely creative apex due to the use and implementation of social media in course and curriculum design as well as in just overall communication between individuals. People who never had access to learning before, now have an abundance [...]
