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Issue 53
2024 wrap-up
David Skaife
December 31, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap
Still slow for the Holidays
Happy 2025
Teaching Tools - Koala Go Whiteboard
👩🏻🏫🛠️The fantastic everyday utility of the Koala Go Whiteboard
How I use it everyday, plus some things you might not know.
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Quickly add things to your lesson
AI Tools
🤖🛠️Google AI alphabet maker
This was a fun discovery.
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Custom alphabet sets
Koala Go Playgrounds
🐨🛝What’s on my workbench these days?
New colors for my latest template
What do you think?
Editorial
✍️🃏Editorial: The year in review and what’s next
Last year at this time I was busy thinking about what I would work towards in 2024 and decided to give Preply a solid try, and that worked out pretty well. I have built up a good reputation and a decent list of students. It’s not exactly what I envisioned in the beginning but it did work out, and I will continue on with them in 2025.
The one year anniversary of Koala Bites is coming up on January 22. Hard to believe I haven’t missed a week. Back then, when I started to publish I didn’t have very many classes or other projects on my plate so I could spend a lot of time (too much actually) on learning the platform, remembering how to write and meet deadlines, plus learning how to convert something I found interesting into an article that at least one other person might find interesting. It was definitely worth the effort.
"2024 in Review: Lessons Learned and New Paths Forward" - Image by Gemini, image prompt by Claude, caption by Grok
For this coming year I have 4 other projects I want to work on and there are just not enough productive working hours in my day. Therefore, something has to give, since Preply is currently my sole form of income (not good to have all my eggs in one basket) the only thing left is Koala Bites, since I don’t really want to give it up, I will soon be switching to a 2 week publication cycle and see how that works out.
Koala Bites has been a great project, a great learning experience, a great motivator and a catalyst to start other projects, however, it is not a money maker, it actually costs me a little money every month, much like a hobby, which in reality is how it needs to be treated until it can generate more than it costs.
I see some difficult times ahead for online tutors considering the seemingly endless inflow of new tutors willing to accept insanely low hourly rates and the exponentially improving AI capabilities. I am quite often wrong with my timeline estimates and how severe the effects will be, but I usually guess the direction of change correctly. This, and the fact that I am actually really interested in AI (you probably already knew this, lol) encourages me to pursue that interest and learn much more about it in 2025.
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