http://revoluminary.com/blog Online talk for online tutors Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:36:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's right... check out E-Learning Queen's Corgi awards for cool e-learning sites: http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2008/06/e-learning-queens-corgi-big-bark-awards.html Susan Smith Nash blogs about e-learning on this Corgi-filled site. Several other great resources have been profiled on her site including Elluminate and Instructional Spice. Glad to see the word getting out about Revoluminary, even while ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/30/revoluminary-awarded-a-digital-dog/ Everyone - Thanks for voting on CoolSiteOfTheDay.com yesterday! We got a ton of visits to the site yesterday and ended up with a rating of 6.493… here is how it compares some other sites you may have heard of back when they were first discovered: WebMD: 7.245 (February 27, 2000) Google Earth: 7.101 ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/24/coolsiteofthedaycom-exciting-results/ As the word is spreading, more people are starting to hear about our site and our community.  And they're starting to tell other people, which is awesome. Today we're featured on Cool Site of the Day!  So take a moment to check out their review and vote for Revoluminary! - Pete http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/23/revoluminarycom-is-the-cool-site-of-the-day/ Since we deal with a lot of students on Revoluminary, we often find some cool resources for students and share them with our users. This week, we ran into MovingOffCampus.com, a site that lets students find housing around universities. The site is expanding, and recently added a searchable ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/21/great-resource-for-students/ I made a trip to San Francisco and Pete and I had quite the pow wow. The result: tons of exciting news from Revoluminary. If you received our newsletter, you've seen some of this: Pricing changes: We removed our 20% fee, and made it a flat charge of $3/class. Simpler. ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/19/pow-wow-in-san-francisco/ See something new? Our instructors are now featured on the homepage, making it easy for students to browse directly into the classroom. Whenever you open our homepage, you'll now see 7 instructors from around the world getting some free publicity for their tutoring services. Check it out ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/16/instructors-featured-on-homepage/ We're excited to see several more mentions of our site on a few popular blogs.  Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has a blog that talks about new e-learning tools available on the internet.  She was kind enough to give us quick plug here: http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/06/revoluminary.html Stephen Downes ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/13/more-blogger-mentions/ I’d like to extend my thanks to Chris Pund over at DormRoomBiz.com for getting us some attention on his blog about student entrepreneurship. While a lot of students go through college worrying about classes and interviewing for jobs, a self-selecting minority doesn’t wait for graduation to earn some cash. ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/09/dorm-room-entrepreneurs/ Things are progressing here at Revoluminary, and I thought I'd give a quick update. As several of you have noticed, we've spruced up the homepage recently! This is the first of a number of changes that will be unveiled over the summer as we continue to evolve Revoluminary ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/06/04/a-new-look/ With the headcount here at Revoluminary growing exponentially (with the addition of yours truly), we're excited to aggressively push to get the word out about our site. While students may be out for the summer, we'll be pushing hard to improve the site and provide more features for our ... http://revoluminary.com/blog/2008/05/29/getting-the-word-out/