Tag: teaching
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Reformsymposium – Your Professional Development Excuses are Over
There’s no way you can keep finding excuses for not learning with other educators around the globe. This is your chance, so grab it and enjoy the ride starting tomorrow, July 29th. http://reformsymposium.com Info about my presentation available at http://brazilbridges.pbworks.com/RSCON3
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No Excuses for Educators to Go Beyond – Professional Development
I truly believe that institutions are not able to provide all the professional development opportunities an educator needs. In the past, workshops, training sessions, lectures with invited speakers were the only way to go for professional development, and we thought that this would suffice. Certainly not true anymore. One-size-fits-all kind of training seems to me…
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Planning Instruction – Don’t Forget the Basic Principles
Still on the topic on how to stomp our classes, this video from Dr. David Merrill is a reminder of what we really need to have effective instruction. With three basic principles, we can stomp it, but sometimes it seems we just forget it… I’m taking a very nice course on Instructional Design with professor…
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The Google Wave
I’m here watching Google’s Wave demo to be released at the end of the year. WOW. As an educator, I couldn’t help but see the applications it could have in our classrooms. It’s just like having a single platform to perform many many digital tasks we do in different online spaces. Of course we’ll have…
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Cybersurfing with Young Learners
I had the great opportunity to present for the IATEFL Young Learners SIG invited by Dennis Newson, who moderates the list. What a pleasure to explore one area that is dear to me, but I´m not an expert at it. The presentation reminded me once again that there is no need to be an expert.…