Web Conferencing Finds a Niche in the Elementary Grades

The elementary school classroom looks very different to students today than it did for Gen X and Millennials.  Forget how it looked to the Baby Boomer Parents of today. Technology is sneaking into the classroom and generation O students (born beginning in 1997) are learning more......and learning it faster!

Classrooms across the globe are connecting through Web Chat Conferencing expanding the world to our youngest students.  At the speed of light and sound.   The Web Chat Challenge is shaping the elementary learning experience helping to prepare these youngsters for jobs that don't yet exist and future classes without textbooks.

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Franchisors during the International Franchise Association(IFA) annual conference February 2010  found that social media continues to be a huge topic of interest to the franchising industry.  Not a surprise!  It seems like anyone in small business and big business alike are trying to find the social media formula that fits their business awareness plans.

Social media has been a growing subject interest over the past four IFA annual meetings.  I have been in all the sessions.... learning.... contributing to the conversation. In the beginning it appeared that most franchise systems were afraid of social media.  The lack of control that business owners had over it.  No matter how you sliced it, social media was something that was not going to be controlled.  In business you have to get comfortable with the ability to get involved in the conversation and learn how to engage with your consumer and build a network of people interested in what your business has to say.  Simple enough?  

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