Comments on: One Million Euro Backing for Myngle and the Hot Teacher Affair

By: boston movers

boston movers — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:41:34 +0000

nice post

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:23:46 +0000

I think it has something to do with this new sentence on the Myngle teacher list:

“All teachers have been selected and trained by Myngle”

Selection does not equal quality. It may imply it but…

By: China_Mike

China_Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:02:21 +0000

The big question, assuming the CV is an attempt by Myngle to evaluate quality, what kinds of quality should they be evaluating?

If it isn’t an attempt to evaluate quality, then why ask for the CV?

By: China_Mike

China_Mike — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:09:05 +0000

The weather:)

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:58:17 +0000

Would be easier if Myngle itself would give us an explanation. But then, what should we talk about ?

By: China_Mike

China_Mike — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:24 +0000

Interesting words flying around these days to describe Myngle- a school, a managed market, a talent agency, a manager. Like you, I am searching for a definitive description. I like to think it matters.

By: KirstenWinkler

KirstenWinkler — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:32:07 +0000

First of all, I contacted the author of the post, Robin Wauters of techcrunch.com. I told him about the effect his post had in the teacher community of Myngle and asked him what he really meant. This is his answer:

“lol, seriously? I was kinda making fun of the video primarily, that it was cheesy and only showing the kind of people you’d see in an orange juice commercial.

People need to get a sense of humor.”

I think there is nothing more to add.

As I am always referring to teacher Rockstars (it’s like a mantra these days) I see Myngle or other platforms more as a manager. The manager tries to get us some gigs and “promotes” us and for this he gets a percentage of the payment. I will write more about this in the second episode of my “documentary”.

By: China_Mike

China_Mike — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:25:15 +0000

Another interesting post. As always you ask some interesting questions. The more I try to define Myngle the more I think in terms of a talent agency- not a market, not a school. They are nurturing a pool of talent and they rent that talent out on an hourly, weekly, yearly basis.

In a school it would be inappropriate to use the word “hot” to describe a collective of teachers. But talent agencies often use the word “hot” to describe properties (i.e. people) that are currently quite “popular”. In a talent agency “hot” is used to describe popularity. Most other places, especially used in conjunction with a pretty girl, it suggests “sexiness”.

Maybe the use of this word revels more about Myngle than they themselves understand.

By: Kirsten Winkler

Kirsten Winkler — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:39:12 +0000

New Blog Post: #Myngle got One Million Euro Backing from Radobank and the Hot Teacher Affair http://TwitPWR.com/7r1/ #Techcrunch