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😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap

Noteworthy posts

• Webinar for the new Koala Go Whiteboard

• Webinar showcasing Leanne’s Koala Go Literacy Classroom template series

Koala Go

Koala Go Whiteboard Update Meeting

In case you didn’t see the notices about the possible updates to the Koala Go Whiteboard.

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Don’t miss it!!

Teaching Tools

 👩🏻‍🏫🛠️I made a Koala Go FAQ AI expert using Google's NotebookLM

The Koala Go FAQ resource we always wanted and needed, but it’s only the beginning.

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I wish I could share it

AI Teaching Tools

🤖🛠️AutoDraw and Quick, Draw! by Google

Two new tools from Google that you can use on their own or in the Co-browser.

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Fun drawing activities for your Koala Go Co-browser

Koala Go Playgrounds

🐨🛝What’s on my workbench these days?

A little more work this week with the story generator, I refined the lengths for the age ranges and added options to include grammar points and vocabulary words, worked pretty well so far, but it still uses more difficult vocabulary words than I would like. I will add more grammar points to choose from in the future, it’s still a prototype. It now runs as a Chrome extension so I dont have to switch tabs

Adding random vocabulary words is fun

Editorial

✍️🃏Editorial: Maybe not everyone is cut-out to be an independent teacher

Several months ago I was feeling a certain amount of pressure to start my own tutoring business from scratch. It seemed like the correct path because “all the cool kids were doing it”, all the training courses are geared towards it, and most of the platforms that I read about or had experience with just plain sucked. The most reasonable and obvious solution to most of these issues is to follow the path towards a private tutoring business, so naturally, being me, I resisted and procrastinated.

For months I planned, collected information and tools, learned new skills, did research, set up accounts, all the steps to “Go solo”. However, I just decided for many reasons, both logical and personal, NOT to pull that trigger.

I don’t feel that pressure anymore, I think I’m relatively stable where I am for the moment and deep down never really wanted to follow that beaten path, maybe it’s a personality flaw, maybe it’s past experience, maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s just laziness. 

Regardless, I’m going to take a break from bushwhacking down that path for now and see what I can do to optimize where I am now with Preply and take a breather for awhile while regrouping and looking for directions that more suit my interests and skillsets. Something is bound to come up, it usually does.

I feel like I need to choose my battles more wisely these days

Links

🧐⛓️‍💥Interesting Links

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

That’s it for this issue, Enjoy!!