Posts tagged skype
How To Skype Better: 5 Tips For Professional and Daily Calls
Skype is not just a software. It’s a verb. As the Oxford Dictionary informs us, it can be used both with an object ”When is a good time to Skype you?” and without as in ”We skyped before we met in person.“ Skype is a word that is understood by grandmas and expat toddlers all over the world….
How To Stand Out to Capture & Hold Students’ Attention
Capturing a person’s attention is hard to do in this day and age. Between TV, the Internet, advertisements, politics, world hunger, animal rights, general plight and even what to have for dinner, our attention is in a constant state of flux. So, how do you go about capturing the attention of students? With everything going…
Online (Cooking) Classes for The Masses? Here Comes The Google+ Cooking School
One of the most basic TV-formats that has been with us since the beginning and shows no signs of extinction is the televised cooking show. The first one in history aired in 1946, was hosted by James Beard but even before there were cooking shows on the radio (here’s a timeline). While the ratings aren’t…
Why Skype Is The Simplest Way To Get Started Teaching Online
“Online teacher leaves the confines of virtual classroom comfort zones to ‘brave’ it on the wild west of skype & world wide web.” Report from the field by Silversal…aka Sylvia Guinan. As an online teacher who has used virtual classrooms up to now, it’s ironic to think that I was more comfortable with clunky technology…
How Social Media Is Changing Education [INFOGRAPHIC]
In this infographic (source: Course Hero via edudemic) you can see some updates on the slow but inevitable integration of Social Media into traditional education. It is interesting to note that while many people are shown to have Twitter or Facebook accounts, the percentage who uses them for educational purposes is relatively low. What do you think? Is…
The Top 3 Myths About Online Teaching
1. Online Teaching is impersonal In 2010 I wrote: “One of the most common responses I get when I tell people what I do (teaching & coaching online), is that they say they would miss the “real connection” to people around them. That this would not be for them, because they need a personal connection to people!” What…