Elementari (Funding), My Dear Nicole Kang: Sustainable Funding Vlogcast for Media, Educators & Tech
Channel: StoryToGo
Date: 2020-03-08

Elementari – a Sustainable Funding Case Study : https://storytogo.ca/2021/01/elementari-a-sustainable-funding-case-study/

In this first episode of the Sustainable Funding Vlogcast for Media, Educators, Technologists, and Creators in general, we speak to one of the founders of Elementari (https://www.elementari.io) - Nicole Kang - about Elementari funding solutions that they've been using and the sustainable funding model that they are working to build for Elementari. Scroll down for a time coded breakdown of key chatting points from this interview.

-------------------------------------------

Our thanks to BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology) for funding this series.  You can learn more about the school and both their in-person and online courses here: https://www.bcit.ca/

We teach four courses at BCIT: Building Your Digital Media Presence (https://www.bcit.ca/study/courses/bcst3073), Social Media Storytelling (https://www.bcit.ca/study/courses/bcst1193), Creating and Marketing Your Own Web Series (https://www.bcit.ca/study/courses/bcst0108), and Travel Writing: Your Journey from Branding to Monetizing your Travel Stories (https://www.bcit.ca/study/courses/bcst0107).

---------------
A Chaptered Breakdown of Key Topics in the Vlogcast:

1:59 - Nicole Kang on being an edtech entrepreneur. 

3:31 - Meet Nicole Kang

6:41 - What is Elementari?

8:21 - Working with Elementari as an Artist

14:29 - Which aspects of Elementari are Open, Free or Paid?

20:13 - Elementari's Origin Story - Initial Financing

24:41 - Sustainable Funding Model for Elementari

25:31 - Future Strategies for Elementari

29:52 - Elementari's Ambassador Program

31:39 - Elementari Analytics

33:37 - Creating Diversity with Build Your Own Characters

37:40 - Nicole Kang on Being an Entrepreneur

---------------

We highly recommend visiting the Elementari site: https://www.elementari.io/ and spending some time experimenting with the platform.

Elementari is an online platform that connects artists with writers to create and share interactive stories. There you will find over 13,000 illustrations and sounds with more added each week by the community to jump-start your story. Stories published automatically credit and promote the artists whose art and music you have used.

While this is a story tool that could be used by writers, artists, musicians, marketers ... etc, the creators built Elementari with school age children and teachers in mind, as a tool to help them learn to read, write, code, share, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds. Elementari's goal is to promote the arts, literacy, and computational thinking in an engaging and collaborative way.

---------------

We'd love to connect with you, your stories, and your creative and educational endeavours.  You can discover more of the research, stories and creators we are exploring on our website: https://storytogo.ca  Engage further with the StoryToGo Community via our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/storytogo  Connect with our team from Ahimsa Media on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AhimsaMedia  Get a glimpse of our world and stories via Erica's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericahargreave/ and Lori's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoenixmoments/

--------------------------------

#SustainableFunding #CreatorFunding #edtech #StoryToGo #Elementari