Monthly Archives: March 2010
Three Services that make College Life easier
In this post I will take a look at three services that aim to make the life of college students easier. As students today are more and more connected and used to take decision on their own with the desire … Continue reading
Posted in First Look At...
Tagged college application, delivery service, food2dorm, roommate, scholarship, uroomsurf, zinch
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First Look at – YongoPal
YongoPal – Make Money by Making a Difference! Sounds great, right? But what exactly is YongoPal? Apparently the site offers a service that connects Korean university students with native English speakers who will get paid for having a chat in … Continue reading
Posted in First Look At...
Tagged conversation partner, efl, esl, language learning, yongopal
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italki reworks SpeakENG offer – adds Sampler and Levels
Language learning community / marketplace italki reworked its flagship product, the Eleutian SpeakENG course by adding different levels and the SpeakENG Sampler.
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Tagged eleutian, italki, pearson elis, speakeng levels, speakeng sampler
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Using ChatRoulette in Online Education
No, I don’t mean sexual education although ChatRoulette is famous for its normal people to weirdo ratio. But if you put all that aside the concept itself could work tremendously well in a controlled environment.
TeachStreet launches powerful new Search Features
As you know TeachStreet recently opened its platform to teachers from around the globe which means to online teachers. As a result TeachStreet launched a new version of its search. The changes consist of an in-depth filtering system and a … Continue reading
The recently launched LearnerConnect Feature on WiZiQ gets an Extension for Students of the Platform
About three weeks ago WiZiQ introduced its new LearnerConnect feature to the premium members of the platform which allows teachers to track students who are potentially interested in taking a lesson. Now WiZiQ opened the feature towards the student’s side, … Continue reading
Myngle breaks the Trend and forces Teachers to take higher Prices
Since language learning platform Myngle have promoted Stefan Booy to Head of Education there is a lot going on. Apparently Stefan is trying to catch up with issues that had been discussed for a while in the forum but never … Continue reading
Review of the TechCrunch Paris event #tcparis
As some of you might have noticed from my Twitter stream last Wednesday, I attended the TechCrunch Paris event hosted by Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch Europe. What can I say? Nothing, because the event left me speechless. I lost … Continue reading
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Tagged english attack!, hypios, mike butcher, techcrunch europe, techcrunch france, techcrunch paris, yoocasa
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Supercool School will launch at DEMO – wants to become the Ning of Education
Today Supercool School will officially launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event in Palm Springs. DEMO is one of the most renown event in the tech sector and Supercool School is one of only 65 companies that will pitch during the … Continue reading
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Tagged demo spring 2010, ning, supercool school, venture beat
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Babbel launches Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese – Offers Language Flex
Language learning community Babbel adds two new languages, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese, to its portfolio which now includes a total of seven languages. Until March 26th members can also buy a special offer called Language Flex which allows them to … Continue reading