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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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Zopler: Collaborate with Fellow Writers

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 7, 2012
Zopler

Zopler

Zopler is a social network for writers, authors, teachers, and students. It is a place where they can easily collaborate on writing stories together as a group. So if you’re one, you can get help with the story you’re working on. Just by posting your work on the site, your fellow writers can easily assist you. They can either give their opinion or continue the story for you. Basically, Zopler makes everything much simpler for you to work together with other writers.

Getting collaboration work in Zopler is actually quite easy to do. You can post your story, or even just the title of your story, on the site and writers will fire up with great ideas. In fact, you don’t need to provide a synopsis, a title alone will do. Read more of this post

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TeachingChannel: Find Inspiring Teachers And Teaching Videos

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 27, 2012
TeachingChannel

TeachingChannel

TeachingChannel is a website about amazing teachers and a platform where you can connect to them.

Every one of us has our favourite teachers. Those are our earliest memories. TeachingChannel  is a place where you can re-live the experience of learning from great teachers. The videos on TeachingChannel are on different topics. Cooking, mathematics, science, planning, technology, you name it and they have it. For easy access, you can check out the different topics. Everything is neatly categorized into subjects, grades and topics.

TeachingChannel was started to cherish the memories about remarkable teachers. They believe what makes teachers inspiring is how they became experts – the hours and years they have dedicated to improving their craft for the benefit of their students. 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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ClassPager: Interact With Your Students via SMS

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 22, 2012
ClassPager

ClassPager

ClassPager is the answer for those teachers who find it difficult to relay important information to their class. If you are a teacher and have experienced this kind of problem, you will find this site valuable as it lets you connect with your students through SMS, announce class update both during and after classes, and ask them certain question in real time. In addition, your students will be able to interact with you whether to ask for help or inquire updates for your class. 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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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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Kidzmet – Find Perfect Teachers, Tutors And Coaches For Your Kids

1 Comment Posted by on March 11, 2011

kidzmet-logoKidzmet is an awesome platform that facilitates communication between parents and tutors so that parents can find the perfect teachers, tutors and coaches for their kids easily.  A well trained and experienced tutor is essential for kid’s future improvement and shiny carrier.

Parents always strives to provide well-formed lives for their children by ensuring proper education but because of tight schedule, it is quite impossible for them to take care about their kid’s progress in study. Kidzmet is helping you to find the local teacher for your kids using the Kidzmet‘s MentorMatches. According to Kidzmet “we can match students with teachers who are instinctively “tuned in” to your kids and uniquely qualified to help their seeds of passion, potential and purpose blossom”.

Moreover Kidzmet is also offering complimentary trial classes to new students that allow you and your kids to evaluate how you feel about Kidzmet member teachers. The process of finding tutor is very easy. First you have to sign up for free.  Secondly you will allocate 10 minutes to take Kidzmet’s Spirit Assessment with your child. And finally find the local teachers, tutors and coaches based on personality, innate talents and learning style.

Kidzmet is committed to help you to find the perfect teacher in local area with equality and experience. After the trial classes you will have an opportunity to rate the teachers so you can enroll in Kidzmet with confidence that you will get capable and skill teacher for your child.

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