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This week, we decided to take our “What We’re Reading” theme and give it a bit of a fun twist. Here are our picks for Seward’s Summer Reading List.
 Nell Kauls’ pick: Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
 I am loving this book. From Library Journal: “Hope Clearwater lives alone in a beach house in an unnamed African [...]

Here are some of our favorite things that we’ve read lately!
From Nell Kauls:
Web Content Strategist’s Bible
Managing the creation and maintenance of this huge volume of web content requires an understanding of not just web writing, but of detailed, well-planned, realistic content development processes. This book by Richard Sheffield breaks it all down for you. Bonus: [...]

The First 4,000 Words is a program that Seward Incorporated has developed for first- through fourth-grade students to help build vocabulary for struggling readers and English Language Learners. The web-based lessons use interactive reading activities and games to teach the 4,000 most frequently used English words. The site can be licensed to individual teachers, or [...]

We love when there’s content on the internet that we can actually use in our work! Here are some blogs and sites that have captured our attention in the last week or so:
Great Websites are Boring to Manage
In this blog post, Gerry McGovern helps you analyze, “Who is your website for?”.
Rediscovering Communication
This post on Colleen [...]

One of the biggest challenges for a web development company is developing its own web site. Here’s a detailed account of how Seward Inc. conceived, mapped, designed, constructed, wrote, and coded a web site, integrated with social media and store and blog functionality in 61 days.

Currently, several members of the Seward Inc. staff –including blog contributors Greg Sales and Vicky Frank—are in Oman. They are working in cooperation with the Omani Ministry of Education and staff of Sultan Qaboos University to prepare a course on Child-Centered Methods for future teachers. The end result of this project will be a pilot [...]

How a thorough front-end analysis can help you determine the most effective method for addressing a learning need.

As any blogger, social networker, or internet aficionado in general  would probably tell you, the web is full of great resources if you know where to look. In recognition of this, we’ve decided to share “What We’re Reading This Week.” These posts will feature content that we’ve found to be useful, enlightening, or just plain interesting. For [...]

Welcome to Seward Incorporated’s official blog! This will be a place for us to share news, developments, and observations about the worlds of E-learning, Digital Marketing, and International Development of Education Systems. We will also provide practical information that will help you understand these topics, such as best practices and how to’s.
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