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Goalbook: Transforming Special Education

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 3, 2012

GoalbookGoalbook is a secure platform for schools to manage and collaborate around student Individual Learning Plans (ILPs). Its goal is to help the educators to collaborate more efficiently, streamline communication, engage parents, and improve student agency through goal setting, which will in turn bring about a true individualized learning.

It aims to provide students a single, shared lesson plan. The basic premise is to have students a part of a connected network of educators, administrators, and parents by making a database of goals, strategies, and milestones. Read more of this post

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Korrio Makes Your Sports Life Simple & Organized

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 15, 2012
Korrio

Korrio

Korrio is a great new platform for kids who are into sports. They have the single focus on kids and sports. Their mission is to transform the sports experience and elevate the level at which sports are played by automating the things that come in the way.

According to Korrio, they are the most advanced sports automation platform on the planet. It harnesses the power of next-generation web technology to make tasks simper and automatic. Read more of this post

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SnappSchool: Know What Your Child Is Studying At School Every Week

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 6, 2012
SnappSchool

SnappSchool

SnappSchool is a platform that allows parents to know what their kids are learning.

The service understands that there are many ways to teach things. Co-founder of SnappSchool John Halloran explains, “To do long division, I don’t need the full lesson my fourth grader needs to get through it, but I do need a little reminder. It is not something I do everyday.”

SnappSchool knows that parental involvement directly affects student performance. To allow parents to know what their kids are doing at school helps the kids in their overall development. Interaction here is the key. Read more of this post

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Zentracker: Know Where Your Kids Are Anytime, From Anywhere

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 13, 2012
Zentracker

Zentracker

Zentracker is a tool through which you can keep tab on your family.

When your kids are outside, you worry about their safety. Calling them or messaging them seems like intruding on their privacy. Zentracker has come up with an unobtrusive way to know where your kids are, get alerts when they move or reach a destination so that you can be sure of their safety.

Zentracker uses location tracking to track in real-time the location of your kids’ mobile phones as captured by Google Latitude. Although this seems like spying on your kids, it is important for you to ensure their safety, especially if they are young and rebellious and can easily get into trouble. Read more of this post

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GradSave: Start Collection For Your Kid’s Future Education Today

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 26, 2012
GradSave

GradSave

GradSave is a wonderful online portal for parents who want to contribute to their children’s college when they grow up.

Every parent wishes that his/her child gets a good education, but with rising college fee parents and children are left with no option. With GradSave, you can plan your child’s future education easily and effectively.

It allows parents to connect with their friends and family so that they can contribute to the college savings plan of their kids. Anybody can contribute to your child’s saving plan and you can do the same for others. Read more of this post

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KinderTown: Find the best educational app for your kids

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 3, 2012
KinderTown

KinderTown

KinderTown is an education app store for parents. Here, you can find the best apps that you would want your kids to use.

Parents are busy. Apart from taking care of the household, they also need to take care of their kids. Sometimes, their busy schedules leave little time for them to teach their kids. That is why KinderTown has come up with a platform that helps you to find great educational apps that will help your kid learn new things without taking much of your time. Read more of this post

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2houses helps separated parents communicate, manage their children

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 4, 2012
2houses

2houses

2houses is a web platform that helps separated parents to communicate and manage their schedules for their children’s well-being.

Parents, even if they cannot live together, want the best for their children. But sometimes they find it difficult to do so when living in two different houses. 2houses is a platform that helps separated parents communicate about their children frequently so that they can take care of their children even when they are not with them physically. Read more of this post

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UrbanSitter brings parents to trusted babysitters & visa versa

1 Comment Posted by on December 6, 2011
UrbanSitter

UrbanSitter

Babies are life’s greatest joy. But when you and your partner want to spend some time alone, you wish there were somebody who could take care of your baby for a while, somebody you could trust.

UrbanSitter is a way through which you can get just that, and more. Through UrbanSitter, you can find a babysitter near you whom you can completely trust. Read more of this post

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MobileMinder helps you protect your child on their mobile

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 17, 2011
MobileMinder

MobileMinder

MobileMinder is a wonderful resource for parents who want to keep their children safe even when they are outside the home or on their mobile.

Any parent is anxious for their children’s safety on the mobile, but to stay connected children need a mobile. With MobileMinder you can make sure that your child does not have to bear the harms of using a mobile while enjoying its benefits. MobileMinder is a tool through which you can ensure your child’s safety. Here is how it works. Read more of this post

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Let your child explore and learn on Wonderopolis

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 18, 2011
Wonderopolis

Wonderopolis

Children love to explore; that is how they learn. Through exploration, children learn to react, to gather knowledge about the world. Therefore, it is important for parents to know what they explore. Wonderopolis is a place for children where they explore only those things that are important for their healthy development. It is a place specially created for children.

Wonderopolis helps your child direct his/her energy into exploring things that will build his intelligence in a simple and fun way. Through Wonderopolis, your child can pick up hobbies and discover his/her talents.

It is a fun and easy way to discover your child’s inclinations and talents early on so that you can work with him/her towards bettering what s/he loves doing.

Parents and busy are synonyms. Every parent has to spend many hours looking for a child to ensure his/her healthy growth. You always do not have enough time to take your child outside the house so that s/he may explore new things and learn from them. That is why Wonderopolis is a great way to help your child indulge into an everyday adventure.

Wonderopolis nurtures through the power of discovery, creativity and imagination. It brings out positive qualities in your child. Through Wonder of the Day, your child learns about everyday happenings at home and outside the home like dinner preparations, carpool, inside the school, the importance of education and so on.

You and your child can together learn new stuff, try out different ideas, test possibilities and create a masterpiece. And what’s best is that you do not even need to leave the room!

Wonderopolis is created and supported by National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL). It is also supported by many philanthropic partners. NCFL help families create better relationship between teacher, parents and children.

Verizon Foundation is the core financial supporter of Wonderopolis. The Annenberg Foundation, Better World Books and Humana are other financers.

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Babysitting cooperatives start with SittingAround

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 2, 2011
Sittingaround

Sittingaround

SittingAround is a resource that lets a parent trade babysitting with other parents. On the website, you will find hundreds of private group of parents in your neighbourhood who are ready to look after your kid when you are going out in exchange of your babysitting services when they are going out.

It is difficult to get a nanny for your kids who will take good care of your kid/s when you are not at home. With SittingAround community, you know the people of the neighbourhood. Moreover, the caretakers will be parents who know how to take care of a child. There will be other kids (the children of the parents you choose to swap the duties with) to play with your children. When your turn to babysit comes, it is never too difficult to take care of an extra kid.

SittingAround is a great way to trade babysitting where you are not worrying about your kids when you are out.

As of now, only 24% of parents know that babysitting cooperatives exist. SittingAround is trying to spread the word and making parents’ lives simpler. On SittingAround, there are many cooperatives to choose from. You can see all the cooperatives in your neighbourhood, talk to them and decide.

SittingAround started its operations in 2010 and has grown rapidly since. It has till now coordinated a number of coops, thereby helping families live easy. Creating an account on SittingAround is simple and comes free of cost! It is a free offer not many parents can refuse.

Erica Zidel and Ted Tieken, co-founders of SittingAround and co-parents were introduced to babysitting coops in 2008. The high-quality, free and secure way of babysitting caught their fancy. It resulted in SittingAround, a resource where any parent can free of cost find parents interested in swapping babysitting responsibilities in your neighbourhood! At the least, spread the word.

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Tutorhub – Online Tutoring Platform For School Going Kids

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 24, 2011

tutorhub logoTutorhub is an excellent UK based online tutoring platform focused on supporting school age kids with their homework. Tutorhub provides private one-to-one tutoring over the internet using instant messages which kids are familiar with and enjoy. All the tutors in Tutorhub are both CRB checked and experts in their chosen subjects and many of them are teacher and university graduate or undergraduate students. Tutors set their own rates based on their area of expertise. Parents can control their kids account if they wish and can view tutor’s performance on passed sessions.

Tutorhub‘s amazing web based learning platform is for both tutors and school going kids. Tutors can have a profile providing all the necessary information about the themselves such as name, charging rates, area of expertise etc.  Parents or kids can choose their tutor seeing tutor’s profile and select how much time they want to spend with the tutor. This way, people can easily get tutor from this website. If parents feel that tutoring session did not go as expected, there is a refund policy which is applicable if called withing 72 hours. According to Tutorhub, most of the tutors are available from 4 pm to 9 pm at weekdays and from 2 pm to 6 pm at weekends.

Another important feature of Tutorhub is, it provides the opportunity to ask free questions to all and answer to those questions. This helps people to learn many things by asking and answering. In addition, Tutorhub also provides necessary child safety features, so parents can be ensured about their child safety when they are using this platform and they can also report any inappropriate conversations. Tutors are allowed to get payment once a month and they can not request for payment until five weeks after the session.

Feature at a glance:

  • Create a free or paying account
  • Hourly charging rates
  • Payment once a month
  • Child safe design
  • Refund Policy

Finally, we can say that students can improve themselves doing homework, coursework, revising their study and other activity though proper use of this wonderful platform. So, we welcome you to try it yourself and let us know your feedback.

For more information, Learningfy and Kidzmet are two similar platform we have already reviewed about. You can also have a look at those two platforms and compare yourself.

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