⭐️⭐️In this issue⭐️⭐️

• Koala Teachers Family recap

• Keeping score in Playground

• AI text to video just went nuts

• Koala Business

• Support the newsletter

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😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap

Sporting equipment coming

Koala Business plan

Sortegories - The science of reading in Koala Go 

Emily Radecki and teaching IMSE OG in Koala Go

Playground Tricks

🛝🪄Keeping score in Playground

I had this idea about how to keep score in Playground or Playground Stories, So naturally, I had to build it…

Can you think of other uses?

AI Video

🤯AI text to video just went nuts

This new product by OpenAI is not available to the public yet as they state worries about (among other things) impact on the upcoming US elections. Yeah, really…it’s that realistic now.

below is a short presentation of this huge leap forward in the AI video arena.

Koala Business

🐨📈Koala Business

This was a big announcement for the future of Koala Go. Maybe it doesn’t do anything for you and your classes now, but it opens a doorway to Koala Go being more mainstream. Which does affect you, in a positive way. One day soon we might not have to explain what Koala Go is to students or parents and why we should use it.

Anyway, they had a launch webinar that I attended, and here is a summary:

•   The webinar began with an introduction to the format and encouraged participants to engage in the chat.

•   The speakers discussed participants' expectations and reasons for attending the webinar, providing an opportunity for audience engagement.

•   The Koala Business Plan was introduced, highlighting its features and how it addresses the needs of organizations with multiple teachers.

•   Demonstrations were given on the branded teacher and student portals, the dashboard, cloud recording feature, hourly system, and how to redeem a private training for the team.

•   The webinar concluded with an invitation for participants to ask any questions they may have, fostering an open dialogue.

If you have a team of teachers and are interested in Koala Business, I suggest you watch the replay.

For those with only a casual interest, here is the 10000 foot view:

• Koala Business is for Groups of teachers, they recommend 25 teachers or 300 hours of teaching during a month.

• You can white-label Koala Go, and replace logos with your own logos, including the 24/7 help chat.

• You can host it on your own domain.

• The rate mentioned was $1-2/hr of teaching time (not prep time). Charged by the minute.

• The cloud recording can be set to start automatically for all classes.

• The API allows developers to access most of the dashboard functions and build their own front-end.

• The Koala team does private training to get your teachers up to speed on the platform.

What does it all mean? It means that schools have a new option for online teaching platforms. We already know (by using it) that Koala is way better than the others, and the support is unbeatable. I see it starting to snowball, and this will benefit all of us.

Submissions

📬Submissions

As always, if you have an article or how-to video or playground launch you would like to share in this newsletter, click the button and send me an email to discuss it.

Support

How supporting this newsletter can be a Win, Win, Win…

If you have found the articles in this newsletter to be of value and would like to show your support, I have an easy solution:

Buy one or more of my playgrounds:

• You get a Playground or template to use for your classes-Win!🥇

• Koala Go gets a small share to support them-Win!!🥈

• You help me justify the time I spend on this project-Win!!!🥉

Bye-bye

👋🏾Well that’s it for issue 7

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