November 2011
1 post
Tutor Trove is upgrading!
The culmination of several weeks of long nights is upon us! From 10:00pm - 11:59pm PST today, we’re going to be switching to a rebuilt architecture - designed from the ground up to protect your data against any trouble!
Our new multi-server setup (for the technical, we’re implementing master-slave replication) will allow us to write changes in real-time, giving us two identical copies...
August 2011
1 post
Our First 1,000 Hour Month!
Back in April, we posted a major milestone for the company: 1,000 Lifetime Whiteboard Hours. Now, just four months later, we’re thrilled to announce that our servers saw over 1000 hours of online tutoring (and counting) in a single month! That’s over ten times our monthly average through April of this year, and nearly double our previous monthly high.
As the 2011-2012 school year...
June 2011
1 post
Desmos →
If you haven’t already heard, the Tutor Trove team has been busy launching a brand new company, Desmos. Desmos is a community for people to create educational content that works across platforms, from computers, to in-class touch screens, to mobile devices, with live collaboration built in. Desmos just launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC, and will be at ISTE 2011 starting June 26th.
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April 2011
6 posts
IWBs and Content Communities in the Developing... →
The link above details a pilot program to bring Interactive Whiteboard Technology to rural schools in Senegal. Using cheap, solar-powered computers, projectors, and cameras, a company called CyberSmart, with the help of USAID, is turning simple nylon screens into interactive Whiteboards.
These makeshift IWBs are now being used in schools that lack most other types of technology - even...
1,000 Hours of Tutoring!
Following close on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of 25,000 files uploaded through our Document Annotator, Tutor Trove just reached another major milestone: our users have just surpassed 1,000 lifetime tutoring hours on our Whiteboard! We’re proud to say that we’ve helped facilitate 60,000 minutes of live, online collaboration. 3.6 million seconds of teaching, learning,...
25,000 Files Uploaded through the Document...
Time to break out the confetti! As of today, over 25,000 documents have been uploaded using our Document Annotator through our stellar partner, Haiku LMS. That’s 25,000 homework assignments, lessons, and files that have been submitted, marked up, and shared by users across the country. We’re proud to announce this milestone in Tutor Trove’s history. Here’s to 25 million...
The Online Learning Debate →
The New York Times just carried this interesting article about the rise in blended learning in school districts across the country. The article focuses on Memphis, a cash-strapped district with many struggling students, which has turned to online learning for some of their students. This has infuriated many opponents, who see the move as a way for Memphis to save money and offer kids lower...
April Fool's!
February 2011
2 posts
So you want cross-platform solutions? Check out...
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One more reason to use Tutor Trove! Read this blog post from Educational Publishing. It’s mostly about the cool new products on display at TCEA (and the nearly 13,000 attendants). But there’s this gem at the bottom:
“As much as the attendees were interested in the new technology, though, the educators were concerned about being able to get products delivered on a variety...
WatchWatch Eli demonstrate Tutor Trove’s software on a PolyVision Eno Interactive Whiteboard at the Texas Computer Education Association conference! Out in Austin, Eli showed a group of teachers and other ed tech professionals just how easy it is to use our drag and drop functionality on the latest in classroom hardware.
January 2011
1 post
Tutor Trove is Conference-bound
Tutor Trove is excited to be attending two conferences in February—Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando and Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) in Austin. We’re already feeling fired up about these conferences, and not just because the heat is going to be a relief from the blizzards in the northeast. There will be thousands of vendors, teachers, and administrators...
December 2010
2 posts
Watch Tutor Trove's Dropbox In Action!
Haiku LMS’s fresh new version 5.4 is a tour de force with its latest addition, the Dropbox Annotator. Powered by Tutor Trove, this feature gives teachers and students the ability to exchange materials without using a single sheet of paper. Dropbox Annotator allows student to electronically send in homework to their teachers, who can then add notes and comments and then send it back to the...
New Addition to Tutor Trove!
2010 has been a banner year for the Tutor Trove team, earning sterling accolades (see below) and making progress in leaps and bounds. With the winter season fast approaching, founder Eli Luberoff decided to move boldly into the free agency market and acquire fellow Yalie Mark Cotter. Mark hails from the Los Angeles area and met Eli while they were undergraduates. At Tutor Trove he will be...
November 2010
1 post
Tutor Trove & TokBox
With OpenTok launched, we can finally publicly declare our love for TokBox, an awesome startup out of San Francisco.
TokBox will henceforth be powering audio-video chat in our Whiteboard. For our beta clients now, and all clients soon, the Whiteboard will have a button to activate your camera & microphone and share your video, right inside the page:
Here’s what TokBox has to say:
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October 2010
1 post
Tutor Trove is Connecticut's Most Promising...
On September 30th in downtown New Haven, Tutor Trove was honored by the Connecticut Technology Council as the Most Promising Tech Product of the year. Out of 115 eligible “Companies to Watch,” Tutor Trove took home one of the top prizes for our Whiteboard and Math Tools during the CTC’s 4th Annual Innovation Pipeline Awards. In the words of the press release:
“The event...
August 2010
1 post
What Follows the Fellowship?
The beginning of August marks the end of the 2010 Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Summer Fellowship. We need a moment to breathe.
For the last ten weeks, Tutor Trove joined 9 other ventures as we immersed ourselves in a gushing fountain of entrepreneurial knowledge, advice, and experience. Speakers from a whole range of backgrounds came to share what they knew with us - Lawyers guided us through...
July 2010
1 post
Ed Tech - the Mile High Perspective
Tutor Trove just returned from the 2010 International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE) in Denver. It was an experience. Some combination of the altitude and the 18,000 people in attendance left us a little breathless, but we’ve since recovered.
To begin with, the event was held in the Colorado Convention Center, one of the most cavernous buildings we’ve ever...
June 2010
1 post
Whiteboards and Autism →
In the last few years, Whiteboards have been emerging as a premier learning tool for students on the autism spectrum. The link above points to an article about a case study at the Spaulding Youth Center in New Hampshire. Once the school introduced interactive Whiteboard technology into its classrooms, autistic students demonstrated a significant jump in attention to daily lessons. With their...
May 2010
4 posts
Version 7 of the Whiteboard is Up!
The latest version of the Tutor Trove Whiteboard has officially been launched! The upgrades include:
1) A redesigned look - the Whiteboard is now full-screen, with collapsible chat and image toolbars
2) Searchable Image Libraries
3) A brand-new document uploader - this tool allows you to import and work on documents directly within the Whiteboard. Simply upload a file and then drag it right...
April 2010
6 posts
Tutor Trove's in the News! →
Tutor Trove made the front page of the New Haven Register Business Section today! Click on the link to read more.
Whiteboard Version 7 Sneak Peek!
In anticipation of the launch of the newest version of Whiteboard, the Tutor Trove Blog team has gained special access to some of the bold new features that will soon be available. Using our stealthiest skills, we were able to get behind the scenes, and we were blown away by what we saw. It’s official: the next level Grapher will be able to handle Polar Coordinates! If that doesn’t...
The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Summer... →
We at Tutor Trove are thrilled to be participating in the 2010 Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Summer Fellowship. The Fellowship kicks off at the end of May and includes a two-month program of speakers, workshops, and events. In our endless quest to provide the best possible Tracking software and the most powerful Whiteboard on the market, we know that the Fellowship will be the perfect...
Tutor Trove Tracker - Version 5 Up and Running
Hello from the Trove! We are thrilled to announce that the latest version of our Tracking software has been launched onto the screens of Tutor Trovers everywhere. The new features include:
1) More intuitive and fluid client accounts. In Version 5, clients are now grouped into Families. Any combination of students and parents or guardians fits seamlessly into the new model.
2) With these new...
March 2010
1 post
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February 2010
4 posts
Tuesday in the Trove
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The Tale of the Trove
Welcome to our blog! We at tutor trove are thrilled to introduce ourselves to the world. We are constantly working on new products and ideas, and this blog will keep track of it all.
Today marks the one-week anniversary of our arrival at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Incubator Space. We’ve quickly adapted to our new home, and so far, we’ve found that having an office has launched us into...