A Spooky, Successful CLA!

It’s not every day that you get to see zombies, ghosts, and vampires roaming the halls of the California Library Association conference, but as this year’s conference came over the Halloween weekend, at the beautiful Pasadena Convention Center it gave attendees a chance to really get in the spirit!

Gargoyles on watch from the State Library booth

At our Tutor.com booth we gave out treats and orange Gerber daisy boutonnieres to say, “We appreciate you!” to all our loyal libraries who offer our award-winning Tutor.com services – the Learning Suite and Ask a Librarian.

Mono County library stops by and gets the daisy treatment!

Our booth had many frightfully fun raving fans new and old stop by who wanted to share stories about their outreach, media attention, and tell us they love the service.

Camarena Memorial Public Library's Assistant Director dons our famed blue boa

A few conversations overheard at the booth…

“When are the next Resume Workshop webinars? We had a full room for September’s webinar.”

Answer: February and April 2010 – look for details in our emailed newsletters, and read our blog entry called 150+ Libraries Broadcast Tutor.com’s Resume Writing Webinar.

“Wow, wow! I love the new look of the new Learning Suite marketing materials. Where can I find more of these?

Answer: Go to the Client Resource Center website at http://clients.tutor.com and look for Marketing Kits - ask your Client Services Center manager for a passcode for access

My patrons ask me to talk about who the tutors are. Can you help?

Answer: Yes. First, please let patrons know our tutors are part of an exceptional award-winning service. We’ve won the Parent’s Choice Gold Award, and Homeschooler Top 100 Educational Website awards, to name a few. Our 2,000 tutors go through an extensive certification process, and each have a mentor who coaches them towards constant improvement. Want to see profiles of some of our amazing tutors? Meet our tutors.

We are also very honored that San Diego City Public Library’s Vanassa Goodman chose to present about their program in a talk called, “Got Homework? We’ve Got Help: Pooling Community Resources to Deliver Quality Homework Service”. Great job Vanassa!

Congrats L.A. Public Library on your successful program!

Thanks to all the organizers, especially to Ellen Fusco, for arranging a lovely Halloween meal on short notice, and to Cindy Mediavilla for stopping by to offer a chocolate eyeball.

Jennifer Hinton
Client Services Manager and the Tutor.com team

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By JHinton – November 6, 2009

Texas Instruments and Tutor.com Team Up

A math tutor helps a student graph a problem using the TI-Nspire calculator in the Tutor.com Online Classroom

Helping students prepare for an exam, understand a difficult algebra concept or just get through their nightly homework assignment is what our tutors do every night. Tutors have many tools to help them teach in our online classroom and now thanks to Texas Instruments our algebra tutors have one more –
access to the TI-Nspire Teacher Edition graphing software.

Tutor.com is the first online tutoring service to offer this special integration of TI graphing software within the online learning environment. Algebra tutors working with our consumer customers can load the software to illustrate math problems four different ways on the student’s computer screen. Showing the same problem four different ways enables students with different learning styles to grasp the concepts in terms they understand.

We’re very excited about this new feature. To celebrate we’ve put out a Tutor.com and Texas Instruments announcement and we’re going to be tweeting excellent math tips from our tutors for the next month. These tips will be helpful for both parents and students. So if you don’t already follow us on twitter find us today at www.twitter/tutordotcom.

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By Jennifer Kohn – November 5, 2009

We’ll do anything for candy!

Some of these pictures had to be coaxed out of the Tutor.com staff with promises of candy corn and freshly baked cookies but it was worth it! Enjoy some costumes from the Tutor.com family.

Tutor.com loves animals!

Adam Masur’s pup Briscoe is the dog park sensei.

briscoe

By day, my cat Sid is a docile house cat. But on All Hallow’s Eve? The meanest chicken you’ve ever seen.

sid

We all know where our CEO George Cigale’s baseball loyalties lie. Let’s just hope his dog Suey isn’t a secret Yankees fan.

Met Suey

Normally, mild-mannered Frank the Wonderpug loves treats and sitting in the sun. But on Halloween, he becomes “Frank-a-langelo” (the lost member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.)

frank-the-turtle