Posts Tagged ‘Education’

Edutopia Webinar – How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Cool video on how the brain learns.  Information from Neuroscience that can help educators.

Neuroscience is a complex field that educators don't often turn to for inspiration, but knowing a few basic concepts can help you plan teaching strategies that will prompt your students to be more receptive to learning.

You can read more about this topic and view more webinars on our website: www.edutopia.org Host: Grace Rubenstein, senior producer, Edutopia Date: April 9, 2009 Presenter: Judy Willis, middle school teacher and neurologist and authority on learning-centered brain research and classroom strategies derived from this research

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Big Thinkers: Henry Jenkins on New Media and Implications for Learning and Teaching

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

This video is an interesting take on Learning and Teaching in the Modern age of the Internet.  Leave your comments below. 

USC media Professor Henry Jenkins describes the role of digital media in cultural transformation. For more information, please visit: www.edutopia.org

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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

From Ted.com (www.ted.com )  In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com

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Learning & Teaching English : How to Teach Adults English As a Second Language

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Teaching adults English as a second language is very similar to teaching children because the foundation of the language is learned through labeling things, drawing pictures and pulling from personal experience. Teach English to adults with information from an experienced English tutor in this free video on teaching. Expert: Katie Chasey Bio: Katie Chasey is an experienced ESL and English tutor. Filmmaker: Kevin Haberer

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Successful Blogging – Free Ebook from TheTeachingBox

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

You can have a successful blog without being a writer.  This e-book will help you get started.  A free download compliments of TheTeachingBox.

I ran across this e-book and found it worth my time to read.  It is less than 20 pages, so it is not a large commitment of your time.  It is in Adobe .pdf format, and you can download it free in the Library from the link below or just click on the graphic to the right:

Blog Without Writing

As the graphic says, "Not a Writer? – Not a Problem".  This ebook will walk you through creating a successful blog even though you may not be a great writer.  Blogging is not all about writing, actually a successful blog is about Content.  TheTeachingBox is all about Education and Technology.  Here is a quick way to get some new ideas! 

Web search engines love content, and if you have superior content on your site you will get a good ranking on the search engines.  There are many places that you can find content to place on your blog.  

  • Guest Writers
  • Article Directories
  • Video and Audio
  • Training Topics
  • RSS Feeds
  • PLR Content
These are just some of the suggestions and topics covered in this book.  The author goes through the advantages and pitfalls of finding quality content to add to your blog. 
 
As with most e-books the goal is to make money online (doesn't everyone want to do that?).  TheTeachingBox doesn't make anything for me, It is a hobby more than anything, nevertheless you will find good ideas in this book that you can use immediately on your blog.
 
I discovered a few new ideas to help me find content for TheTeachingBox.  If you have been following the site for a while you will see that I focus on Teaching and Technology.  I try to keep the content interesting by using multimedia such as video tutorials as well as reviews for software that I find useful.  
 
An interesting point, I recommend writing content on Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  I started posting a set of video tutorials a few weeks back concluding with this one.
 
I have gotten more hits to TheTeachingBox on these three posts than any other content I have used.  Of course the content is good, so the hits come. 
 
A friend of mine has a blog dedicated to helping people learn more about "how to blog".  It is called Path to Success.  Visit her website for a bunch of good posts on getting started as well as tips and tricks once you have your blog going.  Tell her TheTeachingBox told you to stop by!
 
Give this ebook a quick read, you may just learn something new.  Where do you find good quality content for your blog?  Let me know what you think.
 
-Loren

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