Seward Incorporated

There’s no question that a strong vocabulary greases the track toward academic success. The question is, “What can teachers do to help students increase their vocabularies?” Seward Incorporated and Dr. Michael Graves have collaborated in developing two easy-to-implement products that help elementary school students build strong vocabularies.

The more I work with the content management system Joomla, the more I become enamored with how much work it takes off my shoulders. If you haven’t heard of Joomla, it is an open source software package that allows a user with no programming experience to setup a website and manage its content.

Here is a list of links we love this week. Use them for work or play!
Melanie Ruda
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Wordsmyth: Seward is currently working on its second vocabulary development program for kids. When I want to think about a word from a kid’s perspective, I go to Wordsmyth, an online dictionary and thesaurus. This site is among the [...]

One of the great challenges in the developing world is finding sustainable methods for improving teacher training. Two of the most common methods in use today for training teachers are Cascade Training and Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI).  While both of these methods have contributed to long-term improvements, they each have some inherent drawbacks and limitations.
Cascade [...]