Monthly Archives: March 2009

Demand-Driven Teaching #teach-me #edufire and #i-teach

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

eduFire.com is famous for its Guerilla Marketing Strategies which are really effective, by the way. I think basically 90% of eduFire’s marketing is done with those strategies and and driven by the enthusiasm of their community. The newest idea comes … Continue reading →

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italki officially launches its Language Tutoring Marketplace

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

A few days ago I received an email from Toffler Niemuth of italki.com about their announcement of launching a language tutoring marketplace on their site. Back in january I already did a brief post about this platform but I think … Continue reading →

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Content not Faces?

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

I recently started a new video lesson series for my free Deutsch Happen project. It’s about the most often used verbs in German and I conjugate them in four different cases. The interesting part for me is that those videos … Continue reading →

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Partnerships – a new Trend in Education 2.0

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

In one of my last blog posts I wrote about the partnership announcement of Livemocha.com and Pearson.com. One day later I came across the announcement of FriendsAbroad.com that they are now a part of the language learning platform Babbel.com. Then … Continue reading →

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Myngle wins again!

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Another trophy for the shelf of Marina Tognetti and the guys at Myngle.com. Today Myngle won the “People’s choice Award” in the Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2009. The people seem to love Myngle. So lets see what the future will bring. … Continue reading →

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Livemocha and Pearson Announce Partnership for Online Language Learning

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Livemocha.com and Pearson.com join forces to co-develop a number of conversational English language courses which will be accessible on Livemocha’s online platform in August 2009. This partnership will further transform the language learning marketplace, empowering and engaging anyone across the … Continue reading →

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Sparrows vs Falcons

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

No, I did not change the topic of this blog from online education to ornithology. This is more like one of these psychological tests in women’s magazines “Which animal are you?”. Infact, it is a metaphor I made up from … Continue reading →

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A Historic Day for Online Education

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Sunday, March 8th 2009. A truly historic day for the online education sector. This day will be remembered as the day the first group lesson on Myngle.com took place while on eduFire.com the first participant took part in a lesson … Continue reading →

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One Million Euro Backing for Myngle and the Hot Teacher Affair

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

First of all the news that started this affair about “hot teachers”. Myngle.com got a backing from Radobank about 1.000.000 Euros. I first heard about it via Twitter and yesterday Myngle got a post on techcrunch.com. Well, just another post … Continue reading →

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Myngle introduces Waiting Lists for Teachers

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

This topic rumored around amongst the teachers in the Myngle forum for a while. On saturday Marina Tognetti, CEO of Myngle announced officially that there is such a waiting list for new signed in teachers. And today Elisa Delaini, the … Continue reading →

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