Monthly Archives: January 2012

Social Media & Education: Teaching with Youtube

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We already had a look on facebook and twitter for teaching purposes and learned how to use a self hosted website/blog for that matter. Now it is time to get some more interaction into the whole education thing with videos! Videos are a great way of interact with students and make students learn without actually

Teaching Diary: Dark Horse Classes

nomadteacher.org at work

Even though teachers should be unbiased when it comes to ‘favorite’ or ‘less favorite’ classes everybody has classes in which he puts more hope or expectations than in others. We don’t advantage one class over the other but we simply have different expectations. There are those classes that you already know or that have students

Teaching Diary: Sing it out!

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The other day I finally did something, I always wanted to do. I sang with all my English classes ‘Man in the mirror’ by Michael Jackson. While it was far away from being perfect, it still was a great experience for different reasons. First I practiced this song with my classes separately. At the end

Educate your students – giving out passwords is stupid

I just came across an article over there at RWW (read write web) which states that more and more teenagers tend to give out their passwords when they are in love. This thought to be kind of an intimate thing – having your significant other on your own facebook (or twitter or whatever) profile, sharing everything

Social Media & Education advice for teachers: Don’t take it personal

This is just a short tip / advice for the ones of you who just start to connect with students in social media. I said it before and implemented it in all of my social media & teaching posts but I say it out loud again: Social Media is not thought to be a controlling

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