FunnelBrain’s Study Widget gives learners on FunnelBrain the benefit of hosting review materials in the form of flashcards and quizzes anywhere on the web. Learners can now use FunnelBrain’s user generated content tools to create multi-media flashcards and quizzes and embed those materials on any website, blog or social networking site including Facebook.

Review materials on the new FunnelBrain Study Widget are presented in an easy to use flashcard or quiz player that is available for any content created and hosted on FunnelBrain’s website. Learners simply click the embed link and copy the embed code to add the Study Widget to their website, blog or social network. The Study Widget can display materials created with text or images using FunnelBrain’s user generated content tools. Quizzes have the added benefit of displaying analytic information including community stats and the quiz leaderboard.

You can check out a couple examples below…

Embedded Quiz about the Environment

Embedded Flashcards about United States Presidents

Powered by a new platform built with proprietary technology and FunnelBrain’s user generated education content database, FunnelBrain search results are now easier to navigate while providing access to learning materials from thousands of students, teachers and publishers.

“A primary objective for the redesign was to create a search experience that connects learners to study materials created by other learners, “ said Joe DeTuno, FunnelBrain CEO. “Today’s launch solidifies our position as the trusted collaborative learning source for todays active learners.”

Study materials on the new FunnelBrain search page now presents information so learners can better scan, evaluate and identify flashcards, quizzes, people and study groups of interest. As part of the redesign, the search results now provide a categorized at-a-glance summary of each flashcard deck, quiz and study group that better displays the title, number of questions, rating, tags and more. The new design also provides dynamic search options that support filtering and sorting the result set to make the learning materials even easier to find.

We invite you to visit FunnelBrain.com and see the power of collaborative learning first hand. Browse through thousands of flashcard decks, quizzes and study teams. Test your knowledge on popular subjects you find and then challenge your friends!

You have 60 seconds to answer each question by feeding answers into FunnelBot, a robot with unlimited learning potential. Answer wrong and your lives are transformed into the dreaded dunce caps. If you don’t know the answer or run out of time…KaBOOM! and game over.

KaBOOM! is designed to be challenging for audiences of all ages – because its social in nature and supports virtually any question/answer content you can create. Test your smarts against FunnelBot on everything from the GMAT to important facts surrounding the world’s current events.

Here’s your chance to give KaBOOM! a try: Test your knowledge on important facts about the Japanese nuclear power reactors now in danger. Click here and select “Play KaBOOM! on the next page or click the game below.

Today we launched a new user generated quiz engine for FunnelBrain’s online learning community. FunnelBrain Online Quizzes help learners of all ages work together to improve test scores and academic performance. The quiz platform, available free of charge on FunnelBrain, provides access to the thousands of existing quizzes or allows you to create your own.

The new quiz brings social gaming concepts to the learning process with  real time leader boards, instant score analysis, and the ability to share quiz challenges with friends across the social graph and compare your results against various data points including your location.

“We are dedicated to providing users with collaborative products that help students of all ages learn more effectively, ” said Joe DeTuno, FunnelBrain CEO.  “We know working together is more fun and helps people learn more effectively. Our new collaborative “game-based” quiz experience will enable students and teachers to learn and have fun in the process.”

FunnelBrain’s new quiz engine provides another level of interaction between test takers. With the highly anticipated new challenge feature, FunnelBrain users can create a quiz, post their results, challenge their classmates and instantly compare how they rank against their peers.

Today we’re introducing several new features:

The improvements to FunnelBrain Online Quizzes are just the beginning of our continual efforts to provide enhanced study tools for today’s active learners.

We invite you to visit FunnelBrain.com and see the power of collaborative learning first hand.   To view a list of existing quizzes click here or to create your own, visit www.funnelbrain.com.

FunnelBrain LLC announced the launch of a new series of quick, self-assessment quizzes for students preparing for standardized tests such as the GMAT*, GRE* or SAT*. The new quizzes are designed to allow students to quickly determine whether they have the core knowledge and skills necessary to score well on the exams. The quizzes will be available free of charge on FunnelBrain beginning with a quiz of basic math tested on the GMAT.

Practice exams typically mimic actual exams to help students get comfortable with the unique styles and formats used by testing companies such as The College Board or The Graduate Management Admission Council. FunnelBrain’s new self-assessment quizzes take a different approach. The quizzes present, in straight forward, simplified form, the basic knowledge tested by the exams.

“These are not practice exams,” explained Joe DeTuno, CEO of FunnelBrain. “These are self-assessment tools to let students quickly and easily find out if they have the basic knowledge of math, grammar and vocabulary that the testing companies assume in constructing their tests. For example, the GMAT assumes you know certain geometric formulas, such as the formula for the volume of a cylinder. Rather than burying that in a complex word problem, our GMAT math quiz pulls that out and tests it directly.”

A student who struggles with a practice exam may not immediately know whether the difficulty stems from the unusual style of the exam or a lack of knowledge. “With our self-assessment quizzes, the student knows immediately whether to break out the geometry book or take another practice test,” explained DeTuno.

About FunnelBrain LLC

FunnelBrain is an academic question and answer site that is created, edited, and organized by the students, teachers and life learners who use it. FunnelBrain is a trademark of FunnelBrain LLC.

*GMAT, GRE and SAT are the registered trademarks of the Graduate Management Admission Council, Educational Testing Service, and the College Board, respectively, none of which are affiliated with or endorse FunnelBrain, or FunnelBrain’s self-assessment quizzes.

Los Angeles, CA, May 17, 2009 – FunnelBrain, LLC. announced a partnership with DemiDec Corporation, the leading provider of independent curriculum materials for the U.S. Academic Decathlon.

FunnelBrain will host DemiDec’s 2009–2010 Decathlon flashcards online, giving over 10,000 DemiDec subscribers the opportunity to join the growing FunnelBrain student community and to benefit from FunnelBrain’s learning management application, the FUNNEL.

On FunnelBrain.com, a student-driven academic question-and-answer site founded by education experts and seasoned Internet executives from Move, Inc. [NASDAQ:MOVE], students create and share multimedia flashcards to enhance their learning experience. They can form study groups and collaborate on flashcards with other students around the world.

“I was really impressed with FunnelBrain’s innovative approach to student collaboration,” said Daniel Berdichevsky, DemiDec’s CEO. “It fits perfectly with DemiDec’s student-centered approach—students learn best when we give them the tools they need to work together.”

Daniel will also join FunnelBrain’s advisory board. He founded DemiDec in 1994 and obtained his undergraduate and first master’s degrees from Stanford, and his second master’s degree, in Public Policy, from Harvard. Daniel also directs the World’s Scholar’s Cup, an international academic competition with participants in over 30 countries.

“We’re excited to partner with a proven company focused on student educational resources and experiences,” said Joe DeTuno, FunnelBrain’s CEO. “We’re especially excited to have Daniel join our advisory board.”

About FunnelBrain LLC
FunnelBrain is an academic question-and-answer site that provides an environment for team-based learning and multimedia flashcards. Learn more at http://blog.funnelbrain.com or http://www.funnelbrain.com, or email contact@funnelbrain.com. FunnelBrain is a trademark of FunnelBrain LLC.

About DemiDec
DemiDec has been the category leader in student-centered learning experiences since 1994, reaching more than 100,000 students in 32 countries: DemiDec’s learning solutions range from curriculum for the Academic Decathlon to college prep courses at the DemiDec Academies in South Korea. To learn more, visit http://www.demidec.com or e-mail contact@demidec.com. DemiDec is a trademark of the DemiDec Corporation.

About World Scholars Cup
With participants in over 30 countries, the World Scholar’s Cup is the world’s leading team academic competition. Teams learn a unified global curriculum spanning multiple subjects and skills, from science and art to writing and debate; they participate year-round in the World Scholar’s Cup online community and compete in person at regional and world tournaments. The 2009 World Finals will be held June 13-14 in Singapore.

Click Here to read the the release on PRWeb.

Environmental Law - Saint Mary's Hall

Students collaborate to create online video flashcards for their classes

FunnelBrain, LLC – May 13, 2009 – Flashcards are not just for memorizing vocabulary words anymore. On www.FunnelBrain.com, a student-driven academic question-and-answer community founded by education experts and seasoned Internet executives from Move, Inc. [NASDAQ:MOVE], students create and share multimedia flashcards to enhance their learning experience.

AP Environmental Science students in San Antonio, Texas, recently used FunnelBrain to develop video review materials for their study of environmental treaties and laws.

“I’m always looking for new ways to drive engagement in and out of the classroom,” said Brian Kaestner, AP Environmental Science teacher at Saint Mary’s Hall in San Antonio, Texas. “FunnelBrain’s video flashcards are the perfect way to have students apply the same social tools they already use in their personal lives in a fun and educational way.”

On FunnelBrain, flashcards don’t have two sides anymore: students can add a third side to any flashcard to explain a difficult concept or to share a favorite mnemonic device. They can also include videos, photos, voice recordings and math equations.

FunnelBrain users can then share their questions—and collaborate on creating complete sets of flashcards on any topic of interest—with classmates and other students around the world.

“The power and versatility of online video flashcards coupled with group collaboration adds a new dimension to the learning experience,” said Joe DeTuno, CEO of FunnelBrain.  “Students are interacting with the FunnelBrain learning community in very creative ways—the most dynamic of which is recording collaborative video questions, answers and explanations for their classes. “

About FunnelBrain LLC
FunnelBrain is an academic question-and-answer site that provides an environment for collaborative learning. For additional information visit http://blog.funnelbrain.com or http://www.funnelbrain.com, or email us at contact@funnelbrain.com.  FunnelBrain is a proud sponsor of the World Scholar’s Cup, a team academic competition for students around the world. FunnelBrain is a trademark of FunnelBrain LLC.

Daniel Berdichevsky, a member of FunnelBrain’s Advisory Board and co-author of The Psychology of Facebook , recently spoke to a group of business leaders in Chile about the marketing and educational opportunities with social media.  Speaking to over 1,000 business executives, Daniel described how Facebook and social media offer a significant opportunity to transform marketing for business and education in the region.

You can read more about his talk in The Santiago Times or for the spanish version, check out an interview with Daniel on Emol.com.

Robert Dennison is the Advanced Placement (AP) Science Lead Teacher for the Houston Independent School District. He has taught all levels of high school biology during his 30-year career in Houston, Texas, and has been a consultant for the College Board since 1995. He is a frequent presenter at local, state, national, and international science and science teacher conferences.   He is a past President of the Texas Association of Biology Teachers and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of National Association of Biology Teachers for 2009-2011. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award from NABT, the Honorary Life Membership Award from TABT, the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement, an Advanced Placement Special Recognition Award from the College Board, and the HEB Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching.

You can review AP Biology Questions and Answers sets on FunnelBrain.com.

Los Angeles, CA  – January 6, 2009 – FunnelBrain, LLC announced the private beta launch of www.funnelbrain.com, a new academic question and answer website devoted to collaborative online learning.   FunnelBrain, founded by seasoned Internet executives from Move, Inc. and education experts, has been quietly developing the new site for a year.

“Our focus is on fostering online collaboration among students,” said Joe DeTuno, CEO of FunnelBrain. “Students use sites like Facebook and MySpace to connect with friends and classmates, but the existing social networks lack some elements that are essential for effective collaborative effort.”

On FunnelBrain.com, students work in teams to create review questions and answers, paired with video explanations, for academic subjects.  Wiki-style content creation tools and easy to use video, audio, text and images empower the group collaboration.  “Group effort not only makes the task of assembling a comprehensive set of review questions for a given class much more manageable,” said DeTuno, “it also makes it a fun, social activity.”

FunnelBrain also provides students with a learning management application known as the “Funnel” that maximizes the effectiveness of time spent studying.  The Funnel tracks and monitors learning progress and focuses the student’s attention on the right question at the right time with a spaced repetition algorithm.

“The potential for productive online collaboration has barely been tapped,” said DeTuno.  “We think collaborative learning is a perfect use of that potential.  Students already connect and communicate on Facebook.  They already create and publish content on YouTube and Wikipedia.  We are taking activities that students are already engaged in and applying them to collaborative learning.”

The private beta currently features review questions for popular high school advanced placement classes including: Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, U.S. Government, World History, Psychology, Literature, and Economics.

ABOUT FUNNELBRAIN, LLC.

FunnelBrain.com is a community of students working together to create great learning materials for all academic subjects.  The Company’s mission is to organize the world’s knowledge and make it universally engaging and memorable.  FunnelBrain and its members believe that learning is most fun and effective when it’s a group effort.  For more information on FunnelBrain, please visit www.funnelbrain.com or send an email to contact@funnelbrain.com.