Empressr has been privileged to have users from most every neck of the woods imaginable. The INSANE variety of stories posted every day never ceases to amaze us and reinvigorate our excitement for the application.

Well, beyond business implications, among the largest constituents of all presentation tools are students and teachers. Where once teachers were more apt to use classic educational methods, these days it seems more and more base their entire course plan around presentations they have made.

In fact, many are taking the initiative, getting their students engaged with new programs as they come out.  They are not only using technology to facilitate education but positioning their students to be ahead of the curve.

A perfect example popped up in Empressr today.  Teacher/Empressr user “Iritzel” posted an assignment for his students to review a recent tech article, create a basic Empressr about it, and then use the variety of tools we provide.

Check it out!

Last week at Web 2.0 Expo #w2e Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd and Oliver Marks @olivermarks used Empressr as their tool to create and present their story on Enterprise 2.0. This presentation is a warm up to the bigger Enterprise 2.0 event that they are presenting in, taking place in Boston June 22-25th. The two took advantage of some of the cool new features, namely the Twitter FrontChannel to spearhead the Q & A session.

Stowe loved it because it gave him a chance to be able to choose the Tweet that was shown on the screen, users loved it because they got a chance to participate in the presentation. Stowe is going to be using Empressr around the world speaking during the next few months, I’ll keep you posted.

The Empressr

The Dashboard

Some of the features are:

• A timer so you can gauge the length or your presentation.
• You can show the hash tag on the presentation so your audience knows what hash to use.
• You can autorun the tweets, or select manual, in this mode you would launch each tweet to the screen.
• Presenter Notes, you see previous, current and next slides, they are also click-able as an additional navigation element.

Update:

A recent post on the Enterprise 2.0 Blog by Stowe Boyd
Open Enterprise 2009: Some Tweets From Web 2.0 Expo

The Empresr team of @globalcitizen and myself are heading to Sunny California on Monday the 30th for a week long immersion into the Web 2.0 Expo. Unlike the past years at #w2e where we presented or exhibited, this year I will be there checking out what new technologies and ideas are being presented and blogging back about them. This is a slightly different approach, but what happens when you are involved with the conference is that you never get a chance to listen and see what is going on in the rest of the event. I am excited at this opportunity, I even started to make a schedule of who I want to see, that, for all that know me, is a rarity!

I am also doing demos for all that want to see what’s new with Empressr, to schedule some time with me just follow @empressr on Twitter then DM me your availability.

Also don’t forget to follow my personal Twitter @bryanthatcher

I like when I see a review that the reviewer spent some time with the product and provides a though opinion. Mr. Byrne does a great job with this review, Thanks

The web based element of Empressr is very useful for students that need to make visual aids for presentations, but do not have a computer of their own to use all the time. Students can work on their presentations from any computer connected to the Internet.

Free Technology For Teachers to read the review in its entirety

Is this the beginning of the mainstream use of the cloud as a place beyond finding your news, friends or entertainment? Whenever I read such a basic description of a technology in layman’s terms, mainstream is not far off. This excites me and we will be there for the masses with the best visual story telling tool in the cloud.