I have a unique viewpoint on StudyBlue, in that I work for the same company that I rely on for my own study needs.  I hope to share my work and study experiences with you.

Bottom line: I’m like you.

StudyBlue guides me through exams, papers, and presentations just like you guys. In my posts, I want to share some ways in which StudyBlue helps me become a better student every day. Furthermore, I would love to tell some of your stories too.  If you have great stories about StudyBlue shoot me an email at: saul@studyblue.com

Here’s my tip for the week:

I’m really loving the flashcard tool right now. The communication arts test that I’ll be taking next week will probably be heavy in vocab content, so I’m in the process of creating decks for each chapter. Using StudyBlue is way faster than writing out each card by hand. Plus, I can print these flashcards out and take the hard copies with me when I’m traveling this weekend.

The decks are just one of many tools that I use a lot on StudyBlue, and I’ll be sharing more with you guys in the days to come. So keep checking back, and maybe you’ll see something that sparks a new study habit for you.

I’m not the end-all authority on everything StudyBlue, though. I’d love to hear about all the ways you guys use the site. To that end, part of my work will involve beefing up our Facebook and Twitter conversations.

Check out our fan page on Facebook.

Become a fan and post on the page. Post what you like about StudyBlue, what you’d like to see improved, how you use the site, other study tips, a good joke, whatever you want. I want to hear from you.

Follow us on Twitter, too.

I’ll be tweeting daily on a wide spectrum of subjects. It’s an easy way to stay connected with StudyBlue and discover a bunch of other useful links and information about college life.

That’s all for right now. I will be back again soon with some juicy StudyBlue chatter. Thanks for reading.

-Saul

Let me know what you think. I am considering “vlogging” more often. I had a lot of fun and think it is a great way to speak directly to you, our users.

Thanks for watching,

Ben

World E-Learning Conference

There are some really cool classes and schools out there are now that are experimenting with this very idea ( http://openhighschool.org/ or Free Online College).  However, as you can imagine many schools and administrators have issues with these sorts of learning environments because it is difficult to monitor the ciriculm and even more so, it is difficult to monitise this sort of adventure.

Chris

Hicham

This is where Academic Networks like StudyBlue.com come into play.  Here are pictures of Chris Klundt and Hicham Bouabdallah our President and CTO, both hard at work at StudyBlue.com. 

StudyBlue.com offers students a place that they can openly express their ideas, share their information, and learn from one another.  We have created a forum for students and educators to work together to share knowledge…not to mention a great place to study for finals…thats right folks, finals are right around the corner…better start studying today.

I digress, all in all, the conference was very productive.  I met a lot of informed and interesting people, heard some exhilarating discussions, was able to present and give some people some insight into StudyBlue.com.  The thing that was very promising was that we are certainly on the right track.  Education is headed in a more open direction and StudyBlue will continue to help students study utilizing the tools that need to study smarter not harder.

So, I finally left Vegas -

Jumped on a plane back to Madison, with a stop in Minneapolis -

Leaving Madison

Vegas baby!

Governor Jim Doyle

Oh, and on my way back from Minneapolis, the Governor of Wisconsin, Governor Jim Doyle was on my flight, sitting a couple of rows behind me,in COACH!!!

All in all, it was a very productive trip, lost a bunch of money, met some very interesting and people, and learned a great deal about the future of open education.

Thanks-

Ben

This has been a crazy semester for the Class Connection staff. We are growing very quickly and have many of you to thank for this extensive growth! While we continue to grow, we look towards you, our users to give us feedback. Many, of the features we have added this year has come from user feedback. Be it the SHOUT OUT chat room on the homepage, the flashcard reminders, or the textbook outlines, all of these features have come, because one or many of our users thought it would help them study more efficiently.

That being said, we are continuing to grow and to do that we are adding Campus Representatives at colleges around the country. We have already hired a few representatives. If you are looking to represent the Class Connection on your campus, check out the Jobs Section of this blog. This will give you more information about the position available.

We would like to welcome our new Campus Representatives:

• Penn State University – Marianne
• Tennessee – Kelli
• Iowa State University – Emily
• Wisconsin – Chloe
• Kansas – Jamie
• Texas A&M -Andy
• Iowa – Jared
• Minnesota – Sam
• Michigan – Kerri
• Michigan State University – Chelsea
• Florida – Shannon
• Ohio State – Tom

Take Care!