Supercool School

Example: Startup_School - A Supercool School For Entrepreneurs World-Wide

Hey folks! After our exciting launch I'm planning to let you know about all the cool use cases we see with Supercool School.

Today I want to introduce you to Startup_School - The first live online school for entrepreneurs world-wide! The goal of this Supercool School is to empower entrepreneurs globally to connect and educate each other about starting and running a successful startup business. Teachers and students are all entrepreneurs and the curriculum and classes are being organized by the community from the bottom up!

Startup_School allows people to tag, comment, rate and share classes with each other:

Entrepreneurs on Startup_School are using the live online classroom for exciting demo session, talks, presentations , pitching classes and founders interviews:

A next generation online school for entrepreneurs world-wide. Pretty cool huh? :-)

Here the Startup_School Blog 

Here the Startup_School Twitter Account 

Here the Startup_School Facebook Page 

And here finally the link to Startup_School !

Startup_School is free but an invite only school. If you are interested to join pls leave a comment and I'll make sure you get it ;-)

Cheers,

Steli

Letting a Thousand Flowers Blossom - OR - Creating The Next Generation Education Infrastructure!

The vision behind Supercool School has always been to democratize education and empower people world-wide to come together to teach and study from each other. We always believed that there must be a better way to learn today - online, real-time, social and from the bottom up!

We put a lot of effort and time into building this next generation education app and started working with some of the most innovative tech companies in silicon valley to test our product internally (empowering employees to teach and study from each other in a better way) resulting in thousands of classes and tons of new and unexpected lessons that we learned about learning within organizations and how people interact on a platform like Supercool School.

What we want to announce today is that we are opening up our platform to allow EVERYONE to create their own next generation online school. Yes I said it! Starting this week people from all around the world will be able to create their own Supercool Schools and educate people in a whole new way :)

Check it out on http://www.SupercoolSchool.com or Take Our Tour

If you are curious if people really want to start their own Supercool Schools the answer is YES - check out:

• Business-cum-Academia School (BcAS) and
• Nachhilfeschule (German Tutoring) for a start...

and have a look at our own two schools @

• StartupSchool & 
• Educators 2.0 

This was a natural step in the evolution of our idea ( to democratize education and empower people to teach and study from each other over the web)...it's one of the most progressive steps that the world of online education has seen in a long time (uhhh....I know...) and to hit you with the right analogy - we want to do for education what blogs have done for publishing - decentralize & democratize it :)

This means that we now offer to individuals and small businesses the same platform that we are selling to large enterprise customers. Why? Because we are expecting to see lots of great new use cases that will hopefully result in thousands of new schools world-wide powered by Supercool School.

Image thousands of people starting their next generation online school in the next years - what kind of an impact could we have with a movement like this? How would this change the power structure of education? How many people would we reach? All questions that we are eager to explore with you... 

Are you one of those pioneers who was waiting for an opportunity like this? Why not start your own Supercool School today! ;)

Now I can't wait to see all the new amazing schools that are going to launch soon and would love to hear your feedback/comments/ideas/critique about all of this...please let us know what you think and spread the word about this new idea in online education.

Much power to all of you!

Steli

PS. We are going to have a lot of great session all around Supercool School and other innovative technologies in education on our newly launched Educators 2.0 School! Please join us there and help us build a powerful community around education and technology:

If you want to look Supercool

If you want to look Supercool, you now have to chance to obtain an official Supercool School t-shirt!

But it doesnt stop there. If you feel creative please don't hold back: We invite everybody to come up with other Supercool T-shirt designs! We'll happily add them to our spreadshirt site.

PS: if you need the supercool logo or just want to touch base with us regarding your designs, please write to [email protected]

3 Minute How To Video About Supercool School

This is the new 3 minute screencast about our Supercool School App. Expect a new and improved version this . Thanks again to Max "The Voice" Senges for recording it. It's tough because we change so much these days that we need a new screencast almost weekly ;) So stay tuned for more to come!

Blog Posts, Top Ten Tools, Friends and more...

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

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!

Supercool School Facebook App - Join Us If You Like

Wow - I'm so excited to tell you guyz that we're about to launch the Supercool School App on Facebook in the coming weeks. For real!!! It's the first step in a long journey for Supercool School and we are honored to make this step with all of you! But bare with us...we are still tweaking the sauce and your feedback is going to be the last and essential ingredient for Supercool School's success.

The first ten thousand members who enroll with Supercool School will become a unique "Founding Fathers" Award ( and a special place in our hearts...ohhh...I know I know). So here is what you can do to become one of the founding fathers of this new kind of Global University:

First - friend me on Facebook! I'm always happy to get in touch with you and get to know each other better :-)

Second - join the Supercool School Group and the Supercool School Page  &

Third - If you're not on the email list yet - go and join us

Looking forward to a wild ride in 2008! This is going to be a big year for Supercool School and education worldwide. It's great to have good friends like you with us. We couldn't do it without you! Thanks.

P.S. I know it says "Founders Father" on the design ...hehehe...I thought I share this "limited edition" here for your personal amusement. The one you get will have it right - ya know those Greek guys can't get their English together ;-)

Upcoming Posts: Introducing the new Supercool Team ; CES Las Vegas ;  Infinite Learning Powerz

There is something missing...

...in the 'information age'

If wikipedia is the encyclopedia in a library called internet, organized by the librarian google and all the people of the world are students doing research and getting access to all information in this massive library, where exactly do they go to school? ( now THIS is a looong sentence)

Don't you think there is a difference between information and education - consuming and learning?

We do. We believe the full potential of the internet is still unrevealed. We believe that the information age was the first step towards the 'education age'. And in case you wondering - we're on the job ;)

P.S.

We're about to launch Supercool School. We'll soon start to invite people into a closed beta round. If you're not on the list yet - email me at steliefti [at] gmail [dot] com and you'll receive an invitation as soon as we're ready.

Supercool Goals - Better Late Then Never!

Oh boy...it´s quite some time ago when Peter tagged me to write about my goals and what can I say...I´m late!  You can read the original Alex Shalman’s Gotta Get Goals meme here.

My personal goals in life:

• Do good
• Stay hungry
• Keep learning every day of my life
• Make every moment special
• Spend some time every day to think, laugh and cry ( see Jimmy V´s Speech)
• Learn to speak more languages like Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese...
• Change the world to the better

Goals for Supercool School:

• Launch in the next 2 months
• Learn, change and grow every day
• Make a difference in the life of many people and help them learn & grow every day
• Give over 100,000 people the power of education before the end of 2007
• Open the first Supercool Learning Center in a third world country in 2008

The long term goal of Supercool School is to end the education problem world-wide...

And what are your goals? I tag PixelHead, Sindhu, ApOgEE, Jemille & drsharna. I´m looking forward to learn more about you guyz & your goals!