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Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin Megan Padden-Shin has successfully built a tutoring and teaching company during the past two years.

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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

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What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion. Zuckerberg’s interest in virtual reality is nothing new.

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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

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COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. Here’s a look at some of the education-related companies “presenting” among the 197 companies in YC’s winter 2020 batch. Able Jobs promises companies no payment until a candidate is hired.

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Don’t Fall Out of the Boat: Lessons for Life with Vicki Davis

The CoolCatTeacher

Visit coolcatteacher.com/tutor , sign up for a demo and use the coupon code COOLCAT50OFF for 50% off your first month. I recommend Trilogy Mentors because they not only have an outstanding platform but offer the training, educational content, and technical support to help you easily transition online.

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How I Plan My Lessons Digitally with Planboard

The CoolCatTeacher

As we investigated, tested, and demoed with several products, we were looking at a few things. All of our teachers also received training–and we were up and running within one week. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. Her degree in psychology and education from Emory, along with her training and experience as a Montessori teacher, fuels her interest in wide-scale education improvement.

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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer

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CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. Before Festo, he served as an operations leader for various companies. For more information or to request a demo, please go to CoderZ. DERRY, N.H.

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