Category: professional development
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Your Career – Are you making good art?
It was a rainy Sunday and I had plenty of spare time so I spent (was going to say wasted) some time watching random YouTube videos. You can learn a great deal by doing that. You can also watch a lot of really crappy stuff. I came across a great speech by Neil Gaiman. I…
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Sunday Zephyr – Your Future
I hope you are having a great, relaxing Sunday. While you are relaxing today drift off and think about what is the future of your job, your role and your organisation and business? Is it going to remain the same over the next few years? Most likely not. What can you do to re-invent your…
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Programming
Education and technology (already here) are inevitable. I have said it before but you will need to understand the technology and you will need to be able to use it. For some, learning some basic programming skills would be very beneficial. I am currently working on a project with a number of designers and programmers…
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More MOOCs
I am enrolled in a couple of MOOC’s right now. Personally I think they are great but I can see why some might not think so. I really don’t see their long term viability as they are free (maybe not for long). Would I pay to do one? Depending on the price I think I…
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Creative Training
How do you become a creative trainer, educator, teacher? Basically hard work, belief and lots of practice. Don’t worry about mistakes and failures. That is part of the process of getting better as long as you learn from them. The video says it all. Can’t see the video – click here
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Web design
I think that many educators would like to have a crack at web design but think that it is too hard. It might be a business website, personal site or a site for your students. You can do it the hard way and design it all from scratch but most of the hosts like hostgater…
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Networking with Linkedin
So you want to grow your business, enhance your professional profile or just learn stuff from other people in your field. Well, time to join LinkedIn and get your profile setup properly. Here is a good article (At Jeff Bullas .com) on how to create a great profile. If you want to read the ebook…
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7 Tips to Using Google+ as an Educational Tool
Guest Author: David Miller The use of video feeds and social networking as an e-learning tool has in its own way revolutionized online education due to the unlimited opportunities that can be tapped from direct communication between educators and students. These unlimited opportunities range from the educator being able to gauge a student’s actual responses…
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Basic computer programming skills
You have probably read it a million times (I have) that everyone should know at least some computer programming or have some coding skills. As educators I do think this is essential. You should know enough at this point to be able to converse with computer programmers who are going to be putting your learning…
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Technology and Tools
Another year ahead and many of you will be asked to design a particular elearning training solution and be a little lost on what tool to use. Here is a good list of just some of tools available and what they do. For some this will be a reminder, for others it may introduce you…