Month: March 2011
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eFacilitators
A number of people I know are learning how to facilitate online learning. At first glance you may think, well apart from the technology there isn’t a great deal of difference. To a certain extent this is true as you are still teaching, still attempting to explain new content and achieve certain learning outcomes but…
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Make your own book and sell it
Here is another one of those simple but effective ideas. At this site, blurb, you can make your own book, share it or sell it. Great idea for classes, your kids or creating that special book for a special occasion. Try it out and let me know what you think.
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Can’t Cope with Computers?
Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s a training participant, maybe it’s your parents or a family member but if you can’t cope with computers and just don’t know how to use them or you don’t know how to begin to explain to someone else how to use them, try this excellent and growing website setup by…
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What aren’t you teaching?
I was surprised by this article. Maybe I shouldn’t be as it is in the USA. Read it here. Basically a survey found that 60% of biology teachers skip around the topic of evolution. Do you think that could be happening in Australia? What about at our many religious orientated private schools? What it got…
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Sell your lessons NOW!
Here is a great new website which allows you to take learning classes and setup your own classes and charge people to take them. It looks easy and I will be having play with this in April when I get a small break. I found this through a blog post in Mashable which did generate…
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Job Satisfaction
When I was younger I thought that the whole point of work was to get paid as much as possible and to do as little as possible. This view changed over time and gradually as my working life took on a range of different jobs, roles and organisations I realised that even though I had…
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Changes – they never stop
A number of you may be mentors. Often as trainers we are asked to be mentors or setup mentor programs. Right now some of you may be studying mentoring as part of the new Certificate IV TAE program. Today mentors provide expertise to less experienced individuals to help them advance their careers, enhance their education,…
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Free webinars – What? How?
Great site check it out. One of the greatest things about the Internet is the instant access to so many resources and information. One of the most frustrating things is my first point. So much, so useful except you can only find some things if you know exactly what you are looking for. Today I…
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No more bad presentations
A lot of my students and many others are tackling the competency unit Make a presentation as part of their Certificate IV in TAE. For some this is their first, real, out in front of a strange audience, presentation and that can be a daunting task. Here is a good link to some very good…
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Learning Theory – what do you know?
First off, sorry for this delayed blog post. I have been really busy this week and just haven’t had a spare moment to keep up with posts. I am making some fairly radical transitions to my career and life and, well, it has taken up a lot of time. Best thing about this is that…