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It depends what you're using it for, but 64GB of RAM is probably overkill and the faster CPU will probably be more useful. Make sure to get one with an SSD.

Note that before you can do this, you first need to turn on Live Captions in the accessibility settings in Chrome.

Tip Tuesday! Chrome can generate captions for any audio or video in your browser.

1️⃣ Play audio or video.
2️⃣ Click the Media Control icon (≡♪) in the top toolbar.
3️⃣ Toggle on Live Captions.

A black box will appear, transcribing the spoken words in real time.

Investing in Human Capital During Wartime: Experimental Evidence from Ukraine This paper provides insights into human capital investments during wartime by presenting evidence from three experiments of an online tutoring program for Ukrainian students amid Russia’s invasion of ...

Even in war, learning can grow. In 3 experiments with ~10,000 Ukrainian students (2023–24), 3 hrs/week of small-group online tutoring raised achievement (+0.49 SD math, +0.40 SD language) and lowered stress (−0.12 SD).
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Screenshot of Post Interaction Settings with an arrow pointing to Reply Settings

Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky.

Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨

We have updated to the latest version of Desmos in Groupworld, which gives access to new features such as regression functions. All interactions with Desmos are synchonized in real-time with any other connected users in the Groupworld room.

Tip Tuesday! Want your AI chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to better match your expectations? Paste or upload examples to give it context for a stronger response.

Not all prompts need examples, but it's handy for when you're having it draft something similar to what you already use.

Groupboard/Groupworld newsletter August 2025: background+grid colours, google drive transcripts, improved Safari audio + presenter options. www.groupboard.com/support/news...

Today's First Five Collection - Edtomorrow [...]Read More... from Today’s First Five Collection

First Five from EdTomorrow gives teachers free daily activities that foster fun and connection in the first 5 minutes of class. #EduSky

Along with versions for Grades 2–5 and 6–12, there are now options for PK–1 and Spanish!

www.edtomorrow.com/today/

This means that Chrome, Firefox and Safari now support all Groupworld features except for sharing audio from browser tabs (which is only supported by Chrome, but users with Firefox and Safari can listen).

News from WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 beta Welcome to WWDC25!

Safari 26 (currently in beta) now finally supports AudioEncoder and AudioDecoder, giving high quality audio in Groupworld recordings, as well as the ability to play audio from Chrome tabs shared by other users. webkit.org/blog/16993/n...

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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

Google shut down their link shortener in 2019. Links made with goo.gl have continued to work ever since. But that’s about to change. On August 25, goo.gl links will stop working and show a 404 error. #EduSky #EdTech

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ur...

Two new room configuration options added to Groupworld control panel: ability to hide trashcan icon for non-presenter (student) users, and ability to only start recording once a presenter and another user is in the room.

Other than flowery language, buzzwords and perhaps repetition of ideas, those all seem to be traits of good writers.

Google ISTE Product Guide PDF thumbnails - 22 pages.

Google announced lots of new features at #ISTELive last week. This PDF describes the upcoming features, when they will be available, and who can access them.

I'm most excited for teachers to be able to share and assign Gems (custom chatbots) with students.

services.google.com/fh/files/mis...

Probably not, if your customers are happy to pay. Those are just the average rates, and the average tutor likely isn't terribly experienced or knowledgable.

Average Tutoring Rates USA: How Much Do Tutors Charge Per Hour? tutorcruncher.com/blog/average...

This looks interesting, and if anybody has a subscription and can post screenshots, that'd be great.
#MTBoS

This problem is now resolved.

A global godaddy outage is affecting access to groupboard.com and groupworld.net . For the moment using 1.1.1.1 as your DNS server will resolve the issue.

Seeing reports of some kind of #GoDaddy DNS issue preventing sites from loading. Add one of the sites I support as a likely datapoint. Hope it gets fixed soon!

Enhancing video navigation and accessibility with Google Drive video transcripts What’s changing  Last year, we announced that users can automatically generate captions for any video uploaded to Google Drive, improving t...

Google Drive now automatically adds captions and transcripts to videos for all users. If you have configured your Groupworld session recordings to upload to Google Drive, this will apply to them as well: workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/02/goog...

Safeguarding/Wellbeing Concerns | TutorCruncher Help Center Learn more about our Safeguarding/Wellbeing Concerns feature here.

TutorCruncher adds safeguarding/wellbeing concerns feature: help.tutorcruncher.com/en/articles/...

Tutoring Contract Essentials: 8 Things to Include tutorcruncher.com/blog/tutorin..., from TutorCruncher

Free printable Math and English worksheets and games from TutorBird. All for free! Download them now at: resources.tutorbird.com

Minor update to the gridlines feature in Groupworld: you can now change both the grid colour, and the background colour.

Yeah, there isn't really any substitute for human tutors. AI is fine if you know how to verify and fact check.

Cognitive Science Says the 10-Minute Rule Is a (Literally) Effortless Way to Learn Faster, Improve Recall, and Boost Memory Research says you really can rest your way to better long-term memory and recall.

Cognitive Science Says the 10-Minute Rule Is a (Literally) Effortless Way to Learn Faster, Improve Recall, and Boost Memory www.inc.com/jeff-haden/c...