Perhaps you have been busy organizing your classes or preparing for the end of the semester! If so, you may have missed some of the tips, resources, and tools shared on Teacher Reboot Camp.
What you might have missed…
Your favorite posts this month based on comments and overall traffic:
- Educators as Collaborators: 25+ Resources– Are you thinking of having your students collaborate in teams? Check out these tips and free resources for getting your students to collaborate with their peers in their classroom or worldwide!
- Education Needs Reflective Educators– Read about the Blog 4 Edu (The Blogging for Education project) project, a Twitter account (@Blog4Edu), wiki, Posterous blog, and Facebook page to help support bloggers, blogging projects, and blogging challenges. Our vision is to persuade as many educational stakeholders worldwide to blog.
- My personal favorite post this month was, Sharing Our Voices & Reaching Our Audience– In order to get buy-in from other educators, our administrators, and the general public, we have to show them the impact of our online professional development on our teaching and the impact on the students. We need to communicate our passion effectively. We have to persuade, convince, and change minds. Changing minds means we have to get folks to listen. Therefore, I’m collaborating with other educators in starting a virtual Toastmasters to improve our speaking skills! Our first meeting will be on Saturday, December 18th at 12noon EST, 9am PST, 5pm GMT, 6pm Paris, 7pm Athens/Istanbul, 2pm Argentina Time! Enter the Elluminate room here, https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/dropin.jnlp?sid=vclass&password=LPCBZLAT4D3Y921591JT! Thanks to Edublogs and Elluminate for the opportunity! Fill out this form if you’d like to receive updates or help organize the event!
- My Favorite Tech Tools, Apps, and Resources This Month–
- Posterous– The easiest way to blog through e-mail. Watch a video tutorial here!
- Dragon Dictation– I work on so many projects, it is awesome I can use this app to give my fingers a rest and speak my tweets, emails, and blog posts. It’s a free iPhone app!
- Interviews!
- My Guest Posts!
- Passion: PASS It ON– This post was part of the excellent Passion series on Angela Maiers’ blog.
- How Do We Motivate Students to Collaborate with Peers Worldwide?– This is the #Edchat summary posted on Berni Wall’s blog!
- #Edchat: The Education Conversation– If you’re new to #Edchat, the largest education conversation on Twitter, then read this post with tips and ways to participate from the Really Good Stuff blog!
- Learning Beyond Walls: Games and Wikis– This was a repost on the Project PLN Ezine that comes out monthly.
- Goal Setting with English Language Learners and Motivating Adult Learners Using Skype– This post was shared in the BE/ESP Blog Carnival by Anne Hodgson.
- Goal Setting with English Language Learners and Motivating Adult Learners Using Skype– This post was shared in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival by Sabrina De Vita.
- I write the weekly summaries for Parentella’s #PTChat, the parent and educator discussion, which occurs every Wednesday at 9pm PST. I also write posts covering the educator panels at the 140 Conferences.
- Guest Posts
- Everybody Can Paint by Sabrina De Vita– In this post, Sabrina shares an incredible classroom learning experience when one of her students took over as the teacher.
- If you would like to contribute to this blog, please follow these instructions in this Google Doc.
- My Wikis and Presentations:
- Blog4Edu– Several Blogging resources! If you need help gaining a wider audience or would like to have a crew send anonymous feedback on how to improve your blog please visit this great project!
- We Connect– Updated the ELT page! This is my PLN wiki where you will find several resources, tutorials, videos and more on helping educators join a PLN. Please feel free to use the resources in your presentations on PLNs and social media.
- Technology 4 Kids– Updated with new resources for Global Collaboration and Drama Resources!
- Other NEWS!!
- Thanks to American TESOL I will be conducting free 30 minute online workshops on various topics every Friday at 4pm EST (New York Time), 3pm Austin, TX, 1pm LA, California, 9pm London Time, 10pm Paris Time, 11pm Athens, Sat 8am Sydney time, and Sat. 6am Tokyo time.:
Join me in this Adobe Room at the time http://americantesol.adobeconnect.com/terrell
- Thanks to American TESOL I will be conducting free 30 minute online workshops on various topics every Friday at 4pm EST (New York Time), 3pm Austin, TX, 1pm LA, California, 9pm London Time, 10pm Paris Time, 11pm Athens, Sat 8am Sydney time, and Sat. 6am Tokyo time.:
Thank you so much for your support of my free 30 Goals Challenge E-book. Over 4000 of you have read it and I am truly grateful! Download your free copy here, print it out, share it with your staff! Join our new Facebook Group, 30 Goals to receive support and mentorship! Thanks to Lisa Dabbs, @teachingwthsoul, for her help in co-moderating this group!