Category: professional development
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Good Teacher – Good Manager
I think that you have to be a good manager to be a good teacher and vice-versa. Here is a recent article that has lots of good tips and is humorous. I’ll bet you can see some managers or teachers who have carried out some of the traits in the video. Read the full article…
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Reading
I posted an article yesterday about story telling. To become a good story teller it really helps if you read. Reading is also essential for just keeping in touch with your profession, your content areas and stuff. Stuff that gives you ideas and resources. Here is an article about how to be a better reader.…
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Sunday Zephyr – Being a story teller
All good teachers and trainers are excellent story tellers. So relax on this great Sunday and read a good story and learn the process of being a good story teller. Watch a good story online. Below is a slideshow of 10 great story tellers. Do you agree? Who would you add into this mix? 10…
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Paying teachers
I have always found the topic of teacher pay interesting. The article below does a good job of describing the difficulties and why we still haven’t see the issue resolved. I personally believe paying for performance is essential but it should not be on student results as this is not an accurate measure of good…
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Virtual World Conference
Every year I remind people to enrol in the Virtual World Conference. It really is worth having a look at as it gives you some idea of just how some people are using virtual worlds to teach and educate. The conference is on the 24th to the 27th July. If you have never tried a…
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Online courses
For some strange reason I think it is time to do some serious study. For me it’s going to be online as I just don’t have the time to attend anything on a regular basis. Here is a good article on online learning which provides three online databases of online learning. Maybe you will find…
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Get into Coding
Here is another free course which gets you softly into coding and explains how this could assist your training/teaching. Try it out. Click here to access Coding is for everybody.
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EduTECH is on and you can be part of it.
EduTECH looks good. I wanted to go as there are some excellent presenters but I am in Perth working. Even though I can’t go there are some excellent resources online. Click here to access the resources.
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What is the point of University?
I’m not sure that my University education really assisted me to be the person I am and hold the career that I now pursue. How about you? The article below is an excellent overview of the University system and it’s usefulness. Read the article here.
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Social Media and Teaching
I know that some of you have got this covered but I have delivered a number of sessions now to teachers, educators and trainers who still do not have much of an idea of social media and because of that do not have much of an idea of the application of these tools to their…