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The husband and wife team, Tami and Rick Porter, founders of GradeCam, has been developing educational products for over ten years. GradeCam was conceived in 2003. by Tami Porter, former middle school teacher. She, along with her husband and their son, fully developed GradeCam over the next three to four years. The goal of GradeCam is to improve education by reducing the stress of everyday teaching. This has been the organization’s theme, as it developed GradeCam, as can be seen in the timeline below.
 * GRADECAM INNOVATION-DECISION **

Innovation-Decision Timeline
 * TIMELINE || //2003 // || //2004 – 2005 // || //2006 – 2007 // || //2008 // || //2008 – Present // ||
 * INNOVATION-DECISION || //KNOWLEDGE // || //PERSUASION // || //DECISION // || //IMPLEMENTATION // || //CONFIRMATION // ||
 * COMMUNICATION CHANNEL || Technology conferences and expositions || T<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">echnology conferences and expositions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Individual (Teachers’ feedback) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Internet

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Individual (Teachers’ feedback) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Internet

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Individual (Teachers’ feedback) || GradeCam can reduce the stress that the teachers at my school are undergoing. It is a solid and reputable organization that can be trusted. It will also offers free support to the teachers if they are having trouble using it. The teachers, I believe, will be convinced, and will appreciate the gesture, if given the opportunity. Performance of the students will improve overtime, as the teachers will now have more time to be engaged in tutoring, a badly needed focus, at this time. As I have been emphasizing, GradeCam is relatively inexpensive, so its affordability will not harm the school’s budget. So, members of the school board, I implore you to take up the offer and adopt this innovation for, not only the teachers, but the school, knowing that in the long run we will all benefit as the main stakeholders of this prestigious institution.

It’s worth mentioning that since 2008, Rick Porter has been CEO of the GradeCam Corporation, operating out of California. On January 13, 2010. the company launched GradeCam Online, a new Internet GradeCam product. Also, later that year, August 24, 2010, the company formed a strategic partnership with Califone, another technology company that has been in existence since 1947, to promote informed instruction.

Members of the board, as I mentioned above, Internet access is now available with the use of GradeCam. Therefore, if you are wavering, still not knowing whether to adopt the offline innovation, the online one is now available, and the cost is extremely inexpensive. It only cost $1.50 per student per year. Now, that’s what I called a bargain.


 * Reference**

GradeCam. []

GradeCam: Support. []

GradeCam: Save Time.[]

GradeCam: Save Money. []

Media blog. Califone alliance. []