hotairballoonist Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 A Hot Air Balloonist Balloon School Membership. The Hot Air Balloonist Balloon School Membership is simply one of the most impressive memberships in this entire online community! Your balloon School can operate entirely inside this site. No more hassles trying to run a website or deal with someone else who is supposed to be taking care of your site. No more costly fees. Instant access for student members and complete control of School content! You can even conduct online testing. At $8 a month or a one time yearly fee of $90 you will be extremely challenged to find a better deal. Customize your personal space. Ad a School logo or photos of yourself so everyone knows who you are. Set your local time so postings will have a real time stamp on them. Add information on the different ways other members can contact you outside the HotAirBalloonist.com site. Add Age and gender and birth dates if you wish. Set background photos or custom colors for your personal area. Create a custom signature with logo and email and contact information, so each post or topic you start will have your custom imprint on it. Create a friends list. Customize your space anyway you want. Create Topics your own custom Category. We will create a custom category for your School. We can create customized forums inside your School Category for you to post unlimited topics for your Students. Create a forum for a student newsletter. Create a forum for your school events. Create a forum for your students with links to study assignments. Upload diagrams for study or balloon photos and contact information. The topics are unlimited. With the viewer bread crumb trail you will even know what students have viewed each topic. Custom School Calendar! We will create a calendar just for your School. You can upload events and make as many event listings on your personal calendar as you like. Update and add more events at any time. Include links, contact information, times and locations and any information you would like. You are in complete control of your custom Calendar. PASSWORD PROTECTED FORUMS. Want to have forums that only your Students can view. We can make any of your custom forums require a password before it can be viewed! This is a biggie! You can have public forums so the general public and potential student members can view and you can have PASSWORD PROTECTED FORUMS that only your students with the proper password can enter. Create a photo gallery all about your ballooning. Link your photo gallery to your School Forum! Add descriptions of the photos about where and when they were taken. Create a blog about your ballooning or an event you are attending. Our Blog center is quite complex and will allow you to be quite creative in sharing your adventures Use the Online Chat Room. Stop in and see who is there. Join or start a conversation with other balloon enthusiasts. Create a PRIVATE Chat room for only your Students. That’s right. You can have a private chat room just for you club. Pick a time and date for all your club members to get together and have an online meeting. You can even save a transcript of the chat room if you wish to post in your private forum for other members who could not attend! Stick a pin in the Member Map. The Member Map is a Google powered map with pins from members all over the country. Have a look around and see where other pilots and events are around the country. Browse the Equipment 4Sale category. Look for things you may need. Respond to topics started by others and ask any questions you would like from those who have equipment for sale. Help your students find that perfect starter balloon! Online Testing. Have questions you want your students to answer. Create an online poll. Ask questions and then give mutable choice answers just like on the real exam. Custom make each poll for any student you want or let them all take the quiz at once. Best of all your students can see the results instantly at the completion of the quiz. This one is a great and fun feature of the site. Start a private poll in your password protected Forum. Have a few questions you want to find out what your students think? Ask those questions in a poll. Get honest answers from your since the poll is completely anonymous. See the votes without knowing who voted for what. Best of all you can do it in a private password protected topic where only your students can participate. Check on current news on the Current Events page. See new articles written by other balloonists and see what news is in the headlines from all over the world with our continuous news feed called In the Headlines. Have a look around the online BALLOON STORE. Find items you may not find elsewhere. Load a link to your favorite online balloon video in our Media section on the Current Events page. Download or upload applications, maps, forms, and many other items available in the Download section of the site. Have forms or maps or study guides that you would like to make available to your Students. Upload them into your custom category in the download section of HotAirBalloonist.com. Upload them one time and they are available to your students at any time. Have a look at the member page to see if your friends are also members and interact with them by sending them a note or an email. Look on the calendar and find upcoming balloon events, festivals, safety seminars and many other things listed on several calendars available on the site. Interact with any of the dozens and dozens of categories on the topics page. Help answer a question from a student pilot in the Student Lounge. Spread your knowledge and help others become better pilots. Start Topics in the Balloon Owners and Operators Category. Share your tips and advice for maintenance. Help your students from making costly mistakes and shortening the life of their balloon. Start a topic in the tips and tricks category. Tell us about a learning experience you have had and spread your knowledge for the entire balloon world. As you can see the Balloon School Membership can offer the ability to run your School almost completely within the HotAirBalloonist community. This allows you to have a private password protected area for your Student activities and be connected to a much wider balloon world at the same time. The most value comes from your ability to have private password protected areas and ability to create sample testing for your students and the document center for file downloads. At $8 a month or a one time yearly fee of $90 it is nearly impossible to find a better deal or more simple way to operate a balloon school online. Call us any time and we can explain this fantastic membership and answer your questions about how it can work for you. This really is an amazing site with so much potential the pricing to become a member is honestly extremely cheap to have all of functionality and resources in one location. Become a member NOW! You will be glad you did. Our support is fantastic. If you have troubles you can get answers most often in minutes. A Balloon Site built by Balloonists for Balloonist's Become a Member Today Jeff A Thompson. Admin@HotAirBalloonist.com 407-421-9322 ? 44 year LTA pilot, BFA member since 1977, BFA Level DA-8, Ed Yost Master Pilot. 6500 flights, 5650 Flight Hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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