As a technology teacher last year, I was frequently asked the question, “How does Twitter help?” Inherent in my teaching colleagues was a time analysis approach to a new idea for their classroom. They wanted to know how much time it was going to take and if the time was going to be worth investing
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The world of education has changed drastically since the passing of No Child Left Behind. Since that legislation was passed, schools have slowly and systematically shifted to standardization. Teachers were consulted about the legislation or the resulting curriculum purchases to ward against a debilitating “failing” label. My teaching career began just one year after the
I fought hard to try to increase teachers’ awareness of the reliable resources that could be accessed through Google and to get them to open their minds to the possibility that web resources were just as valuable as internet resources, so this is hard for me to write, but I was wrong. Well, at least
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The most hotly debated topic in the realm of education at present is the standardization of teaching. Teachers who have added their experiences to the classroom in order to engage and connect with students are being asked to drop that and stick to the Core Standards. Some would argue that standardization means that we know
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When I was trying to work on implementing a one-to-one program with iPads at my school, people often asked me why iPads. After answering this question numerous times, I resulted to this It creates a unique individual experience. And that’s the gist of it. It’s not about the iPad or the technology behind the iPads.
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As I have listened to many advent sermons, I have been struck by how many contain the message of the resurrection within them. I understand their reasoning, but when I read the Christmas story, I read myself into the story. I recognize the miraculous events that surround his birth and I recognize that something is
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After your ideas have simmered and you have a good idea about what you want your affiliate marketing experience to be, then you have your wings. You are ready to create content, to pursue affiliate programs for you and you are ready to invite others to experience that with you. In other words, you are
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Once you have read and crawled around in the world of affiliate marketing, you have to let the ideas simmer. This is where I am in the process. I know the basic terminology. I know the reasoning behind affiliate marketing, but I am still working on where I fit in the world of affiliate marketing.
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Once you realize that you have some applicable experiences as a teacher that would serve you well in the world of marketing, you have to crawl around in the affiliate marketing world. First, you have to think of what you have to offer to this new environment, which means you have to have something to
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In order to envision yourself as a marketer, you have to consider how many applicable experiences teaching has given you for the marketing world. You know how to sell. How many students have you convinced to try something that they claimed they “hated?” How many parents have you persuaded that you were really working with
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