Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Opportunity Forecasting is Underway

Opportunity Forecasting is Underway

Where to go for week 5? If you haven’t already found it, the launching point for our Week 5 activities has been posted by the Classrooms of the Future Team. Bravo to them for conjuring this so quickly. Good luck! And please remember that your first assignment is due in two weeks (end of week […]

Founder’s Parade – Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce 

Founder’s Parade – Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce 

Venture Name: Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Salesforce, Inc. is an American company specializing in cloud-based software. Its offerings include customer relationship management (CRM) software and applications that cater to sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, and application development. Established in February 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Salesforce experienced rapid growth and […]

Founder’s Parade – Sridhar Rajagopalan – Educational Initiatives

Founder’s Parade – Sridhar Rajagopalan – Educational Initiatives

Sridhar Rajagopalan, Co-founder and Chief Learning Officer at Educational Initiatives The Venture  In 1996, three men in India (including Sridhar Rajagopalan) left their high paying tech jobs to start a school intending to teach students to understand deeply instead of memorizing facts. In 2001, they started their company Educational Initiatives (Ei) and launched their first […]

Founders Parade – Steve Kaufman of LingQ

Steve Kaufman is the founder of Vancouver based LingQ, a language learning app and community hub for language learners. Kaufman is an expected founder of a language learning tool; his background is not education, computer science or linguistics, rather, he worked in the forestry industry. He admits to having neither interest or experience in learning […]

Founder’s Parade: Ben Buckwold (Does ESL Library ring a bell to you?)

Founder’s Parade: Ben Buckwold (Does ESL Library ring a bell to you?)

Hi fellow classmates! For the Founders Parade, I chose to go back to my roots and feature a man who has helped me teach my classes. I’ve never searched anything about him until now. If you’re an ESL teacher, chances are you might have used a resource from his site or you might have encountered […]