Gogokid: Inside Perspective From a Current Teacher I’ve happily been teaching online since 2016. In just a couple of years, online language learning and ESL has transformed and the opportunities have multiplied. As more and more companies take a share of this market, I, [...]
Medinas and the Mediterranean: A Moroccan Adventure Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Morocco is a country which many have heard of, but don’t know too much about. The name is evocative of mystery, romance, and great adventure. I, too, wanted to immerse myself [...]
BREAKING NEWS! FeedbackPanda Is Now Integrated with the VIPKid Teacher App! In recent months, VIPKid has announced that teachers will no longer be able to teach from Chrome or any browser. You will have to download the desktop teaching app in order to [...]
How to Avoid Double-Booking with Multiple Companies Whether you prefer digital or analog, keeping your own calendar will help you with managing your online teaching schedule. Many of us online teachers work for more than one company. Why we do this varies from [...]
The Best Computer Specs for Online Teaching Your brand of computer doesn't matter as much as the specifications do. Doing your homework on specs and why some components are better than others is really important in our line of business. The CPU, amount [...]
VIPKid Journey: In the Windy City The Hilton in Downtown Chicago was all set up for VIPKid. This hotel's interior dates back to the 1920s, when the Beaux-Arts architectural style was very popular in affluent society. After teaching with VIPKid for over two [...]
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 [...]
