Year: 2013

Nov

Kinderloop in a Home Child Care setting

Home child care providers usually have some type of daily communication with parents.  The format of that daily communication varies greatly though. Some prefer to just give or receive a verbal update at drop off and pick up times, some use a written daily journal in a notebook, others send a quick email off in […]

Oct

Technology in Childcare, an Australian perspective

In all aspects of life, technology has made life easier. Why wouldn’t early childhood be the same? I think in years to come, we will look back at the debate of technology use in early childhood and wonder why it was ever such a huge concern? Children learn from example; they see their parents engaging […]

Oct

Child care and social media, is there a risk?

Social media is changing the landscape of personal and professional risk.  Using blogs, social networking and personal websites to communicate is now common place. Much of the appeal with social media is the relative anonymity and the speed with which information can be shared. Users can impart their views on any subject to a worldwide […]

Sep

Child care providers, just what is best practice?

In an effort to understand how child care is evolving throughout the world, we asked our Superloopers what ‘Best Practice’ means to them. In the first of this series, we welcome an awesome response from Hannah Benitez-Moatt from England. Of course we encourage feedback from all child care providers, lets start a conversation… The quest […]

Jul

Case Study

Corrimal Community Preschool For the past 8 weeks, BFS Corrimal have been using kinderloop to communicate with their parents and the results have been fantastic! Kinderloop case study Saving time and money Corrimal Community Preschool have been trailing kinderloop for almost 3 months now and the results have been fantastic. Averaging 25 posts per day, […]

May

Kinderloop + Mamabear = Awesome!

So imagine our delight when we found out that while we were over in San Francisco exploring the US market and demo’ing Kinderloop to many interested parties, 500 Startups was organising Mamabear, one of the biggest family tech conferences in America! Of course we went and boy what a fabulous day! We met some amazing […]