Steli Efti

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Hey supercool folks!

Just a quick update on what's going on :) We had a couple of really cool folks writing about Supercool School in the last week and I wanted to share some love and mention them really quickly here:

• The lovely Florence Meichel wrote about us on the french Apprendre 2.0
• Marketing Genius from SA Dave Duarte wrote about us on HuddleMind
• CEO of RateItAll.com  Lawrence Coburn mentioned us on his blog as one of the presenters who stood out at the PlugAndPlay Expo 08!
• A new blog post about Supercool School's Alpha Launch on the dutch blog Buitengaats
• E-Learning Expert Jane Hart blogged about Supercool School on her E-Learning Pick of the Day and...
• We got selected as one of the "Top Tools" for elearning on Facebook from the Center for Learning & Performance Technologies :)

Thanks to everyone who took the time to write about us! You guyz ROCK and we're working hard to get you more and more things to write about and to constantly improve the experience @ Supercool School ; )

Much power to you!
Steli

P.S. We are going to release two new key features and many many little improvements to our Supercool School Application by the end of next week! The feedback and input that we received so far is overwhelmingly positive and you guyz are keeping us busy with tons of great ideas! Only one thing to say about this: Keep Them Coming!!!! :-)

P.P.S. I need to learn Dutch and French to be able to read all those cool posts!!! Anyone willing to teach me? ;)

ATTENTION: Supercool School just released as public alpha on Facebook. You can be one of the first users to test it and give us feedback! Just click this link to have a look :)

Supercool School Song!

One of our greatest supporters of all times, Eleftherios Hatziioannou ( aka Mr. Lefti from BioSquared ) produced and written a rap song about Supercool School( he is the handsome guy in the right)!!!!!!! Can you believe this?!?! Oh man....THANK YOU SOOO MUCH BRO for the inspiration and motivation you send our way with this. We are all having a big smile on our face today :-)

Lefti told me he worked secretly together with the cool guyz from DeinRap.de (Rap on Demand) to make the track and surprise us. Thanks again to everyone involved in this! We really do appreciate it :)

Download Supercoolschool.mp3

Supercool School now officially launched the public Alpha

Dear supercool folks

Yea it's true we are live! You can request, learn and teach classes through our Facebook application. We will of course remain Beta as we keep innovating and pushing ourselves for your best online learning experience - so please send us your feedback, constructive critique and praise ;-)

Naturally we have milked our supercool heads to develop a fundamental revamp of the FaceBook interface, so for those of you who have already signed up to the application, there are some very exciting functionality improvements which make it even easier to cruise straight to supercool learning.

1) CLASSES OPEN FOR TEACHERS TO SIGN UP FROM THE BEGINNING
We listened to what many of you requested - NOW classes dont have to be full with 8 people before the teacher seat can be taken. Instead the teacher seat is open for sign-up right after the class is created. This will greatly increase the turn-around time before a class is happening.

2) IMPROVED EASY CLASS SCHEDULING
When a class is created the learner indicates one or two dates when it suits him/her best to participate in the class. This way all other students and the teacher have a point of departure as to when the class should happen.

Also we added the functionality to make it super easy for you to add the class date to your preferred calendar (Google-Calendar; Outlook, etc.)

3) BETTER BROWSING & POPULAR LEARNING THEMES
On the main navigation we added a browse classes feature. There you can go through all the classes and get an overview of what are the hot learning requests.

4) SCREENCAST
The best way to get a quick overview of how Supercool School works is by watching our *new* screencast.

Let's spread the word and make supercool learning part of everybody's daily routine

Steli Efti
Supercool Principal

Max Senges
Supercool Housemeister

"Behind The Scene" Pics

Hey guyz...we are just preparing our official beta launch on Facebook next week :))) To give you a visual impression of what's going on behind the scenes right now I thought I post some pictures of our new office in San Francisco, a pic from the Supercool Team presenting @ the Plug And Play Expo yesterday and one from a recent story in the famous brand eins magazine in Germany! Thank you all for your support during the last months...it's been a hell of a ride and we're excited to see you on Supercool School next week >) Steli

A tiny little sneak peak...

more to come next week ;)

Supercool News!

To all supercool people:

Supercool School is just about ready for Prime Time. Expect us to invite you soon to the Grand Opening.
Today, we have three treasures we'd like to share with you:

1) Sneak Preview
we produced an screencast video explaining How To learn & teach in Supercool School. The video allows you to see all the current supercool features in the Facebook application and in the Supercool School live classroom. Watch it to learn how to participate as student and as teacher. We would love to get your feedback about it and include the best ideas in our next version coming soon.

2) Want to know the Hip Hop Millionaires Secrets??
our Supercool Principal Steli Efti has open-source-published his book "Hip Hop Millionaires Secrets" which is a great example of how supercool learning is about following your passion and learning from best practices. Check it out and share it with your friends.

3) Supercool Coder Job Opportunity
Supercool School is leaping forward and that means we have an urgent need for programmers looking to work in a vibrant San Francisco start up. If you know how to teach a computer by feeding it code, or if you know someone who'd be interested - please contact us!

Stay tuned for more news as the coming week we will be revealing the finest Treasure of the All

Your Supercool Team

P.S. Stay tuned for some pics of our new office!!!!

A Ebook For Kids Who Love Hip Hop

Ok, I haven't posted in a long time on this blog but you know what that means...we're getting ALOT of things done at Supercool School ;)

In the meanwhile...I decided to publish an ebook online that I had written a long time ago called "Hip Hop Millionaires Success Secrets".

My motivation to write this book came from seeing all the kids who love Hip Hop music and worship their rap stars. I though...hmm...there must be a way to use that motivation and admiration from kids to teach them some valuable things in life.

So I did some research on the TOP personas in the hip hop biz and tried to extract some valuable and common sense business and success strategies from them. Things that you could find in an Donald Trump book but that are based around celebrities that the kids really care about.

So if you have or know children (or anyone else for that matter) who loves hip hop...you might want to give them this ebook to read. I promise they're going to learn some really valuable things for their lives.

Enjoy!