Teacher vs. Student: How We Both Won Who's being naughty and who's being nice? 😂 Baobao Challenges I’ve known one of my students for almost the entire time I’ve been with VIPKid (more than two years). Baobao, as I [...]
Cocktails and Conversations at VIPKid Journey Danielle Simpson, founder and CEO of FeedbackPanda, made an unexpected appearance in Chicago for the VIPKid Journey event. We at FeedbackPanda love our teachers because we are teachers ourselves! This was the first time that Danielle was able [...]
Taxes for Online Teachers Taxes - inconvenient and not fun, but necessary to live in a civilized society. While we online teaching professionals love our jobs, being an independent contractor comes with its burdens--especially taxes. I’m not a tax professional, so I cannot [...]
FeedbackPanda's Fantastic Features We couldn't fit all of FeedbackPanda's attributes into a concise blog post. We had to narrow the list, which doesn't even include the calendar for keeping track of Chinese holidays and students’ birthdays, your very own statistics page, and a mobile [...]
📚 Recommended Reads 📚 Are you looking for that next can't-put-it-down book? Look no further--a few V.I.P.andas gave us some great suggestions for these titles, some of which are available as audiobooks too. Krista Kate Goodwin The Life-Changing Magic of [...]
The Budget-Friendly Starter Kit for Online ESL/EFL Teachers My entire background cost $2 USD - from my local dollar store. The other props I already had or acquired slowly as I started teaching more. You’ve passed the application process for an online ESL [...]
Podcasts for ESL Teachers The History of English by Kevin Stroud Kevin Stroud explains how English inherited words and grammar from ancient Sanskrit. Linguistically speaking, English is perplexing. Here is a language that is grammatically simple but difficult to master in areas of [...]
Spain: A Digital Nomad’s Paradise A stunning view from my cousin's house in Palma de Mallorca. I had the fortune to travel to Spain in December of 2018. I didn’t know what to expect, and I don’t like to have expectations when I [...]
FeedbackPanda Isn't Just for Feedback Minimize clutter and busywork by trading in the handwritten notes for FeedbackPanda. Before FeedbackPanda, I was teaching about 150 to 250 classes a month, using the VIPKid portal to keep track of my students and their rewards. As [...]
FeedbackPanda vs. Spreadsheets I just googled the person who created the first electronic spreadsheet. His name is Dan Bricklin, and he started the spreadsheet movement in the late 1970s. This is an incredible accomplishment; programs such as Excel and Google Sheets have completely changed [...]
