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Dying for More Privacy at the Office?
In aims of achieving the highest levels of employee cooperation and transparency, many companies have decided to follow in the footsteps of Google and Facebook and adopt open-space work environments,...
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Freemium in the Education Marketplace?!
Freemium can be defined as a product or service that is delivered free of charge with advanced features and functionality available for an additional cost. From software to games to media to software...
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The Story behind Vocab-a-splat
Vocab-a-splat, Seward’s first foray into app development, was made available on the App store on April 12, 2012. As of July 8, it has been downloaded 1852 times and has received some great reviews,...
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What We’re Reading – Summer Reading 2012
Summertime is the perfect time to take a break and read a good book. Not sure what to read this summer? Check out what some of our staff members are reading. Brian Thompson - A Storm of Swords by...
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Welcome to Edmodo
Recently Seward embarked on the task of modifying our First 4,000 Words program to be accessible to teachers in the Edmodo marketplace. For those of you who don’t know, Edmodo is a social networking...
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Dot Com 2.0 - For Real!
Back in May 2011, I did a post (Dot Com 2.0?) about the “echo of the tech bubble of the 90s” – six companies slated for IPO over the following 12 months. Since then, Facebook, Groupon, Zynga, Zillow,...
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Is the Traditional Corporate Website Dying/Dead? - Part 1
This week’s blog post was going to be about why you should care about Pinterest. However, there are a lot of articles out there about Pinterest – here’s one that I thought was head and shoulders above...
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Is the Traditional Corporate Website Dying/Dead? - Part 2
Last week I posed the question “Is the traditional corporate website dying/dead?” This week I want to share the thoughts of our own Seward team of experts. Here is what they said: Melanie Ruda: I use...
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Additional Tools from The First 4,000 Words: SMART Board Mini-lessons
In April, Seward announced our first product developed from the innovative vocabulary development tool, The First 4,000 Words. Vocab-a-splat applied the vocabulary-development research and many of the...
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Will an iPad be on your child’s next back-to-school shopping list?
A popular trend this year has been the emergence of more and more BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs/initiatives in K-12 education. These programs, similar to those already relatively commonplace in...
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A New Kind of Tool: Storyline
All right, I’ll admit it: I miss Authorware. Maybe that’s because it was pivotal to a major career transition. In the early 1990s I was a teacher-turned-instructional-designer, and my programming...
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A New Kind of Tool: Storyline (Part 2)
All right, I admit it: I don’t miss Authorware one bit! Please excuse my response to Melanie’s post last week (A New Kind of Tool: Storyline). Over the years I’ve seen many technologies and products...
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Seward Funnies #1 (vol.1)
Print media may be on a downward spiral, but that’s no reason to leave you bereft of your comics. Seward Inc. is stepping into the gap left by the receding newspapers to bring you some good, topical...
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Photon: Bringing Flash to an iPad Near You
With all the talk about Flash not being supported for the iPhone and iPad devices and the corresponding negative effects on developers, it was only a matter of time before technology found a way to...
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A Guide to What’s Not Online
A while ago, I wrote a post about how far we’d come with the internet. With most of life’s certainties (life, death, and paying taxes) now being represented online, I wondered what’s NOT online. Here...
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The Most Important 21st Century Technology
While I was in Honolulu for a conference on Data Use in the Pacific, I had the opportunity to stop by the Schools of the Future Conference. I was impressed by the enthusiasm as the teachers and other...
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Let’s “Talk”
The other day I said I’d talked to someone and then I remembered I had emailed them and they emailed me back. We have so many ways to communicate now - text, email, instant messaging, online chat...
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The Emergence of the Teacher-to-Teacher Marketplace
In recent news, a Georgia teacher made headlines for reportedly making over $1 million dollars selling educational resources on Teachers Pay Teachers. Teachers Pay Teachers - an open marketplace for...
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Test-Writing Basics
Today we’re going back to the basics—test-writing basics, that is. Regardless of whether a test is on paper or online, the test questions need to unambiguous and be clearly written. Today’s blog is...
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