12 May 2013
Tweet For Mother’s Day we wanted to celebrate our favorite mothers from some of our favorite books. Upon investigating we found it a bit trickier than expected. Many of the books we’ve read either had a non-existent or negative mother figure featured. So we decided to bring in the experts. We got on the phone [...]
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10 May 2013
Tweet Last week Tutor.com tutor and military spouse, Laurel B., had the opportunity to attend a White House celebration honoring the work of Joining Forces and the Military Spouse Employment Paternership (MSEP). Joining Forces, founded by First Lady, Michelle Obama, and Dr. Jill Biden, asks companies to pledge their commitment to hiring military spouses and [...]
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09 May 2013
Tweet Maker spaces are in. From libraries to 11 year-old web series stars, everyone is inviting everyone else to get in on this movement. Alternatively, as that new trend takes center stage we are seeing more articles about MOOC skeptics. Once the golden child of the higher education market, MOOCs are seeing resistance and some [...]
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25 April 2013
Tweet When Olga R.’s priorities shifted to focus on caring for her preemie twins, she said goodbye to her day job and became a stay-at-home mom. But with a degree in Math, she still wanted to put her expertise to work and joined the Tutor.com team in 2010. Three years later, she loves the satisfaction [...]
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10 April 2013
Tweet Libraries and their staff are on the move. We’ve written about the changing landscape of libraries across the country, and can’t stop reading articles about the digital direction the community centers are taking. So Library Journal’s 2013 Movers and Shakers Awards certainly caught our attention. The tech leaders and community builders that made the [...]
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04 April 2013
Tweet There are some books that do nothing more than share a moment in time. Rather than devote pages to character descriptions and back stories, they instead focus on the experiences of the present. This was precisely the premise of our latest read, The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, yet we didn’t even realize it [...]
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01 April 2013
Tweet Tutor.com is pleased to welcome Katherine Vander Vennet to our library team! As our new Sales Director for Libraries, Katherine has been enjoying getting reacquainted with folks she knew at public libraries from the days when she worked at Information Access Company (now part of Gale and Cengage Learning). Katherine has a strong background [...]
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12 March 2013
Tweet “Working for Tutor.com for the past five years has made me a better teacher”, says Russell C. Learn why tutoring with Tutor.com for the past 5 years has helped Russell stay at the top of his game in the classroom, both virtual and physical. His dedication to teaching and student achievement is why he [...]
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08 March 2013
Tweet We have seen tons of articles lately on the changing resources, goals and even building blocks of America’s libraries. These exciting changes are redefining the definition of what a library is. From massive digital library projects to new benchmarks and goals for libraries to reach, it is an exciting time to be in the [...]
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20 February 2013
Tweet It’s a Tutor.com Reads first! We loved Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow so much that we decided our next pick should be its sequel, Children of God. We just finished up discussing both of the novels after getting hooked on tales of Rakhat for two months and with debates on religion vs. atheism, good [...]
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14 February 2013
Tweet To celebrate Valentine’s Day we’re sharing the top 5 reasons we and our students love our tutors! 5. Patience, Patience, Patience: Yes, it’s a virtue that our tutors have in spades! They take their time to really understand what a student needs and work with him/her until they get it. 4. Enthusiasm: It may [...]
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07 February 2013
Tweet “Digital learning will never replace good teachers. Instead it empowers them to enrich learning experiences,” tweeted Arne Duncan during Digital Learning Day 2013 on February 6. Check out the other top reads and trends we took note of while following all the activity through Twitter, blogs and live chats! Project 24 via All4Ed.org What [...]
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