In this issue

• Koala Teachers Family FB Weekly Recap

• Combining AI tools for an engaging, fun and different online class

• The importance of starting new projects, even if you don’t finish them

• What’s on my workbench these days?

• Editorial: Koala Go is quietly slaving away behind the scenes

• Interesting Links

Facebook

😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap

• Thanksgiving is coming, do you have your Playground yet?

• Emily is looking for ideas for her upcoming decodable readers

• OG or Barton template from Oct. 31 Webinar is now on the Marketplace

• A bump for How to use a document camera with Koala Go

• OOOh, Mystery Maze, looks awesome!

Teaching Tools

 👩🏻‍🏫🛠️Combining AI tools for an engaging, fun and different online class

I combined the use of 2 AI tools to teach a weekend class.

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Story creation on-the-fly

Teaching Tools

👩🏻‍🏫🛠️The importance of starting new projects, even if you don’t finish them

I only finish a few of the projects I start building, why is that ok?

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Build, build, build

Koala Go Playgrounds

🐨🛝What’s on my workbench these days?

I’m starting to get really excited about this project, wish I had more time to work on it. Incase you don’t remember this is the upgrade of the link storage classroom I use in the Co-browser. The Canva presentation is converted to a website. Anyhow, check out the video.

A marriage of Canva and Playground

Editorial

✍️🃏Editorial: Koala Go is quietly slaving away behind the scenes

You may have noticed there haven’t been many new things added or updates to Koala Go for the last few months. Well, there is a reason for that. The Koala Go team has been working overtime on the backend of Koala Go.

What does that even mean?…My interpretation is that they have gone back in to rebuild the foundations of Koala Go. Not many companies are brave enough or even willing to tackle a project like this, they just continue to patch and patch and patch until the thing collapses under the weight of all the patches. I certainly give them credit for this and when the new version is pushed out I’m sure it will be worth the effort.

We may not even notice the changes as they have said they are focussing on stability, and for me Koala go has been been reasonably stable or just as stable when compared to other classrooms I use or have used.

So if your Canny request is sitting idle or you desperately want new gem items introduced or you have fantastic ideas to improve the Whiteboard. Just be patient. The team is not on vacation, they have their heads down working on making Koala Go better for all users.

Personally I think we have more than enough tools already to keep us busy creating for the time being. Try using what you have, look for workarounds to issues you may be experiencing and most of all, let your creativity out using the tools you already have.

Stability is a good thing

Links

🧐⛓️‍💥Interesting Links

These are links that I found interesting but haven’t written about, there is simply too much happening these days.

Enjoy!!

👋🏾Well that’s it for this issue

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