Testimonial: "High Quality Trainers"

Here's some excellent praise that came in for our own, Thom O'Brien:

Shoreline [Public Schools in WA] subscribed to Explore Learning for three of our schools this year (2 middle - 1 high) after having done a limited pilot last year. Our teachers are enthusiastic about having this tool. I'm writing, however, to report that this enthusiasm escalated considerably due to Thom O'Brien's wonderful training session today. I've dabbled with EL for over a year and learned more in the first 20 minutes of Thom's presentation than in all that time on my own — and I reckon others felt the same way. Thom combined an easy-going style with solid practical implementation tips and some marvelous ideas on how to integrate Gizmos with other applications we use. I had to literally kick our teachers out of the room at 3:00 to free up the room — else I think they would have stayed well beyond the scheduled time …

I have already spoken to Thom about his possible return for another session with other teachers, and the teachers from today were in favor of the idea.

Thanks for the great product and for having such high quality trainers available to your clients.

Jim Golubich
Professional Development/Instructional Technology
Shoreline School District

Thanks, Jim, for your kind words. We're glad to hear that the implementation is off to a strong start.

Thom is quite a guy. By the way, if any of you happen to meet Thom when he visits your school as part of ExploreLearning's Professional Development and Teacher Training on Gizmos, be sure to ask him about a very interesting job he had in the past. (Hint: "Three rings. Big Show.")