Ok, that last video I posted was not true. Plain as that. This is not as easy as sitting in front of your computer. This is hard. Really hard. I’ve been at this for 5 hours and I am still nowhere close to being ready. Maybe this is not for me after all.
In a recent board meeting, I heard the phrase “teacher affiliate.” Having been to Affiliate Summit, my ears perked up and I wondered if my worlds were colliding. Here’s how this works in the teaching world: There are national professional development groups. These groups need teachers as members. Therefore, they national professional development groups form …
I can’t say that I’ve caught the wave of Pinterest pandemonium. Maybe it’s the facebook posts repeating so many of the same things found on Pinterest that make me feel like I am already experiencing what it’s like or maybe it’s the suspicion that Pinterest, like Branded, is using woman for marketing research…well, actually it’s not …
I read a lot of blogs. A lot. When I was starting out, that’s really how I started with reading and reading and reading. After I got in the habit of reading, there was something in me that wanted a place, a space to record my thoughts about what I was reading. I didn’t start …
It’s interesting to find a gem in the middle of a podcast where you don’t understand half of the conversation, but I did! They were talking about the ins and outs of producing and referenced the polishing of the track as “adding twinkles.” As a female blogger, I am finding that there are a host …
In my research and reading, there is a one absolute certainty in creating student success… Student engagement. So how does student engagement start? By creating and building relationships. This idea that educators have been fostering for years (it’s why you still remember where you sat in third grade!) is now entering the business world: Jeff …
If you have ever been a middle school teacher on lunch duty, you realize that some absolutely absurd information gets shared, but it’s a phenomena that aspiring blogs and affiliate marketers would benefit from exploring. What gets shared and why? This framework describes the three criteria that must be met before someone will spread an …
There are many middle schoolers who are being told to be quiet in class, to sit still in class and to not be distracted by all their technology. For 6 hours a day, they are often unengaged and disconnected. Then they go home. They pull out their iPods, turn their phone off of vibrate, check …
Content curation is going to continue to be a part of conversations in the classroom and out of the classroom because of the availability of so many different resources. In the classroom, many teachers are lamenting the fact that students are going first to the web for information rather than perusing the library and using …
After visiting a conference that like Affiliate Summit, it is easy to think that you need to rest and recoup; however, if you take too long to start acting on what you have learned it may not get done at all. It’s not unlike teachers’ argument for homework: if students don’t practice what they have …
