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How to work a 40 hour week as a teacher A 40 hour week for a teacher is almost unheard of. The growing number of teacher-bashers out there have somehow gotten the idea that we work far fewer hours that. And of course, anyone who’s ever worked in the field knows that the time spent at school combined with the time spent on paperwork at home often averages out to 50-70 hours a week…or more. I believe there’s a healthy balance between the perception of teachers working only from 9-3 and the unfortunate reality of them working 7-7.
HOW TO: Optimize Your Content for the Cloud PJ Gurumohan is the co-founder and CEO of GENWI, a cloud-based mobile presence creation and management platform. He holds two patents in wireless technology, has authored several journal articles, routinely speaks at technology conferences and has held various engineering positions at IBM and US Airways. The smartphone is increasingly becoming the interface through which people process the world around them. Welcome to Generation Wireless! This increasing popularity of the smartphone is also coming up against another interesting trend.
Cool-инструменты печати для учителей ~ Образовательные технологии и Дистанционное обучение Today while I was printing some journal articles, it dawned on me to share with my readers my favourite printing tools that I use almost everyday. Probably some of you are already familiar with these tools but for those who are not , this could be a good opportunity to learn about some cool printing tools to use . Check them out below. PDF Annotation Apps: iPad/iPhone Apps AppGuide Overview PDFs have become the default format for sharing formatted documents across platforms. If you only want to read PDFs, iBooks will likely meet your needs.
French in Action Due to licensing agreements, online viewing of the videos for this resource is restricted to network connections in the United States and Canada. Orientation An introduction to French in Action: its creation, its components, and its functioning. How to work with the video programs and how to integrate them with the audio and print components. How to Set Your Social Media Strategy and Measure It In this video I interview Dave Fleet, vice president of Digital at Edelman in Toronto. Dave shares how social media measurement impacts businesses today. You’ll learn what strategies businesses are using to measure their social media marketing efforts.
eFront Learning: Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. I am sure that the most of us work with tight budgets and limited resources. To take a digital camera and take my own images wasn’t an option. As a result, I had to do a research and find the best FREE stock photo sites. I hope that the following list of 23 (Update 06/02/2011) 14 Free Stock Photos Site for e-Learning will be valuable to you. You should be sure that the e-Learning community will very much appreciate if you write a comment with links to FREE stock photo sites.
Teacher`s Digital Kit ( 50+ Educational Web Tools ) 9inShare I just came across this excellent treasure trove of educational web tools organized into different categories. This work has been done by Learning Through Digital Media, a great website to check for edtech tools and tutorials. Oppia: Google's New Learning Tool By Anne Collier Google+ @annecollier This may be the next step beyond tutorials on YouTube, MOOCs (massively open online courses), Google Play for Education and YouTube EDU. It may even be signaling the next step for education. It’s called “Oppia,” and it’s a learning teaching tool. Top 10 Educational Technology Blogs for Teachers The importance of this list;lies in the fact that it provides teachers and educators with an easy to access collection of educational blogs they can follow or check to keep updated about educational technology and to learn how to integrate this technology into their day-today teaching. We sharing with you the top ten blogs featured in this list and you can head over to the original article to learn about the others. 1- iLearn Technology 2- Around The Corner
Tips for Effective Presentations My coworkers and I have been giving a lot of presentations lately, for a variety of reasons: explaining OpenSesame to buyers and sellers, sharing tips and information about the keys to successful elearning development and promoting OpenSesame. We’ve developed some rules of thumb for captivating presentation audiences and focusing on the key information. If you cover the main points of your presentation effectively, you will leave your audience energetic for discussion and questions. Here’s our checklist for making sure our presentations are effective: .
Tree Looking for Strategies and Activities? Click Here! The tree can act as a metaphor to help us see the relationship between theory and practice in second language learning and teaching. The ROOTS represent concepts and theories to be considered in teaching in general and in second language acquisition in particular. The TRUNK represents what the student brings to the learning context – their attitudes, learning styles and intelligences, their cognitive and affective abilities. The BRANCHES represent what the student needs to learn (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture).
Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks Flat World Knowledge, a publisher of free and open college textbooks for students, announced the release of a new platform called MIYO (Make It Your Own). The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats. MIYO (mee-oh) transforms a static textbook into an adaptable learning platform by combining a digital-first architecture with Flat World’s open licensing model that grants faculty the right to revise, remix and share its textbooks. Once a professor's changes are saved, MIYO automatically reformats and publishes the new version in multiple formats without any human intervention. Contributors’ edits are identified and highlighted.