Description:<\/p>\n
BiblioNasium,\u00a0Where Kids Flex Their Reading Muscles, is a fast growing EdTech Startup\u00a0company based in New York City.<\/p>\n
Awarded \u201cBest\u00a0Websites\u00a02013\u00a0for\u00a0Teaching\u00a0&\u00a0Learning\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0the\u00a0American\u00a0Association of\u00a0School\u00a0Librarians\u00a0(AASL), and Winner\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Erudient\u00a0Prize\u00a0for\u00a0Innovation\u00a0in\u00a0Borderless\u00a0Education, this digital platform is an online social network that supports and\u00a0extends the independent reading activities of children in K-8th<\/p>\n
BiblioNasium connects children to the 3 constituents that most influence what they\u00a0read: their friends, educators and parents and creates a virtual reading gymnasium,\u00a0where kids can set goals, practice and get rewarded for completing reading challenges.<\/p>\n
Additionally with its mission to engage, encourage and excite young children to read,\u00a0BiblioNasium sits at the exciting intersection of two industries that are in the process of\u00a0transformation: Children’s Book Publishing and Education Technology.<\/p>\n
Internship\u00a0Overview<\/p>\n
We are looking for motivated, fast learning Interns to work directly with the Founder,\u00a0CEO.<\/p>\n
Our Interns will need to wear many hats and be able to move quickly between\u00a0assignments and juggle multiple projects.<\/p>\n
Interns should have great writing skills, be resourceful and be creative problem solvers.<\/p>\n
Knowledge and passion for children\u2019s books is a huge plus.<\/p>\n
Start Date: February 2014<\/p>\n
Hours: Minimum 15 hours<\/p>\n
Compensation: Paid Internship \u2013 (Depending on background and time committed)<\/p>\n
Our interns would engage and gain experience in any of the following areas depending\u00a0on how many hours they have available.<\/p>\n
Marketing\/PR\u00a0Intern<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We will focus on increasing our user base by engaging and reaching the educator and\u00a0parent community through<\/p>\n \u2022 Social Media Engagement<\/p>\n \u2022 Writing and Administering Email Correspondences and Newsletters<\/p>\n \u2022 Interacting with Top Bloggers and Existing Community<\/p>\n \u2022 Building Relationships with Literacy Organizations<\/p>\n \u2022 Creating and Administering Surveys and Feed Back forms to Existing Community<\/p>\n \u2022 Researching Best Practices and Following Competitors<\/p>\n \u2022 Monitoring and responding to user communications<\/p>\n Internship-Writeups-Jan2014.docx Page 1 of 2 1\/29\/14<\/p>\n Digital\u00a0Product\u00a0Intern<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We will focus on improving our digital platform and our user experience through<\/p>\n \u2022 Regularly Review, QA and Analyze Product \u2013 Document Features<\/p>\n \u2022 Researching best practices and competition<\/p>\n \u2022 Following up with Power Users and getting product Feedback<\/p>\n \u2022 Use Agile Methodology & Pivotal Tracker to Interact with developers<\/p>\n \u2022 Monitoring, Responding to Help Desk\/Feedback\/Contact Us Issues<\/p>\n \u2022 Aggregating Requests and Issues and Providing Input in Product Prioritization<\/p>\n \u2022 Creating YouTube \u2013 \u201cHow To\u201d videos<\/p>\n \u2022 Writing Tips for best practices<\/p>\n \u2022 Administering Weekly Student Log Winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Description: BiblioNasium,\u00a0Where Kids Flex Their Reading Muscles, is a fast growing EdTech Startup\u00a0company based in New York City. Awarded \u201cBest\u00a0Websites\u00a02013\u00a0for\u00a0Teaching\u00a0&\u00a0Learning\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0the\u00a0American\u00a0Association of\u00a0School\u00a0Librarians\u00a0(AASL), and Winner\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Erudient\u00a0Prize\u00a0for\u00a0Innovation\u00a0in\u00a0Borderless\u00a0Education, this digital…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}