The Online Tutor Toolkit

😀Look! Whiteboard features for online tutors!

Hi Reader! An easy-to-use online whiteboard is an important took in your online teaching toolkit. It's truly a blank canvas that allows you to to create and use an endless variety of your teaching activity PDFs and Powerpoints, upload images, and use tools that allow you and your student to write, type and manipulate objects on the page. Today, I'm sharing a short video that demonstrates some whiteboard features in Koala Go, by showing you how I create a simple teaching page for sight words....

11 months ago • 1 min read

Why I Switched from Zoom to Koala Go and Should You?🤔

Dear Reader, Confession time: I admit I’m biased. I switched from using Zoom for my online tutoring to Koala Go a few years back and for me, it was a great decision. Let me share with you my reasons so you can consider if it’s a good choice for you. Zoom has been the platform of choice for many tutors meeting their students online. Recently though, Koala Go has emerged as an alternative, offering tutors another choice for connecting and teaching online. Koala Go was created specifically for...

11 months ago • 1 min read

Hello

Hello! My name is Janet Menosky Smith and I'm an online reading tutor and the author of How to Tutor Online plus other tools designed to help fellow tutors like you reach and teach your students online. My goal in offering my Online Tutor Toolkit tools is to help other tutors learn to or become more effective teachers online. Also, I aim to grow my own online business in order to fuel my passion of developing my Reading Outreach project - a "How To" Guide on Starting a Reading Tutoring...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read