THE THREE MUSKETEERS
No not Athos, Porthos, and Aramis but Aniya, Kay and Kirsten making us The #teachertuesday team, you may have noticed the initials AKK on the teachertuesday Twitter page, so now you know what they stand for. From an idea of mine after the success of #followfriday I thought that it would be nice to congregate other teachers, educators and anyone else in the education sector, I mentioned this to both Kay and Kirsten who thought it was a great idea, they backed me up and Kay invented the blue owl logo and designed our website which collects all tweets from teachers, educators etc., allowing anyone to look up info regarding education and find it all in one place, we have had some great feedback from teachers and the idea is steadily growing. And so @teachertuesday was born a month ago now.
The idea of writing this post is to introduce my colleagues, Kay, the shy one, well he’s not really, but he’s that smart guy who gets on with his work and doesn’t like to be in the limelight, he’s a fantastic web designer and both Kirsten’s and my sites have his personal touch in them, I won’t say anymore about him in case he’s blushing ;-). Kirsten on the other hand gets all the limelight lol, she possesses a lot of talent, from her teaching 3 languages to coaching too. Her newest venture is what looks to be a great investment for new and not so new online teachers E-Teacher’s Academy. The gates will open next week and you can also follow updates on Twitter, so don’t miss out! During the first month only subscription will be offered at a reduced price.
“All for one, and one for all!”
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MOBILE ESL LEARNING
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BlackBerry LESSON
A few months ago I wrote an article on how to spell BlackBerry (the device and not the fruit) after reading about it on Twitter. Yes it’s me who writes perhaps more about BlackBerry devices than my teaching, some of my followers probably love to hate me, but others love to love me, so to [...]
ONLINE LEARNING
What are the main differences in teaching in a traditional classroom to e-learning?
Traditional Courses
Online Courses
Instructor-focused
More “passive” learning
Instructors “deliver” knowledge
Outgoing, verbal, high-achieving, students participate the most
Technology may be used, but is not central to the role of being a learner
Various media may be used, but most delivery is by the spoken word, with some written support
Learner-focused
More [...]
TEACHERS NEED FEEDING!
Calling all teachers on Twitter, if you have a blog/website and would like me to add your feeds, please leave a comment below, my feeds are all pushed via my BlackBerry.
The use of RSS (the most common translation is now “Really Simple Syndication”) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently [...]
TEACHER TUESDAY
Last Tuesday marked the start of #teachertuesday on Twitter. What does this mean? The hash mark (#) before a word in a post allows you to tag that post for that word. However, in order to get tracked via a hash tag, you need to opt-in and follow. Once you’re following hash tags, every time [...]
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
agreement 1
Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
agreement 2
Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others [...]
THE ABC’S OF ONLINE TEACHING
The ABC’s of Online Teaching
A
Allocate time in preparing and administering your online course.
B
Build confidence in your ability to teach online.
C
Communicate with your students at least 2 - 3 times a week using tools such as Announcements, Calendar, Discussions, Chat, Mail and Who’s Online.
D
Discuss issues and topics with your students using tools such [...]
THE DOS AND DON’TS OF FACEBOOK
Credit to www.catepol.net Source www.youtube.com and www.facebook.com
CONNECTED SPEECH
What is connected speech?
When we speak naturally we do not pronounce a word, stop, then say the next word in the sentence. Fluent speech flows with a rhythm [...]
