Teacher Preparation Videos

Over the in conclusion few weeks I’ve been exploring some of the content on Russell Stannard’s http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ website. The videos aren’t pedagogical type classroom videos of teachers working amongst students, equally y'all mightiness at offset assume from the title, but are video tutorials which demonstrate how to usage diverse software together with websites to develop your teaching.

What’s on the site
The site is aimed at ELT teachers who are interested inward developing their applied scientific discipline skills for instruction purposes. The top dog content of the site is dissever into 3 top dog categories, which y'all tin uncovering inward the left-hand column of the homepage.

• The offset is ‘General instructor grooming videos’
  This contains video tutorials on how to practice some pretty useful stuff from how to usage ITunes together with download podcasts to how to practice a Blog together with PowerPoint tips. There’s a really useful serial on how to practice a Wiki together with I actually enjoyed the ones 1 PhotoShop basics ( H5N1 plan that I direct maintain tried to original a let on of times!)
• The 2nd is ‘ELT instructor grooming videos’
  This department is peculiarly aimed at the ELT instructor together with looks in-depth at some ELT related sites together with how best to usage them. There’s a actually useful review of some of the best ELT podcasts equally good equally a serial of videos on how to usage Podomatic to practice together with upload your ain podcast.
• The concluding department is ‘Multimedia learning videos’
  This contains videos that volition move peculiarly useful for anyone who wants to larn how to usage some of the major authoring programs existence used to practice e-learning materials. The top dog focus at the instant seems to move on Flash together with Director. The videos acquire from the basics of agreement the tool laid to some of the to a greater extent than demanding tasks, such equally animation.

Each 1 of the topics higher upwardly is covered past times a whole serial of equally many equally twenty brusk two infinitesimal video tutorials amongst sound narration which direct maintain y'all through the processes involved pace past times pace showing y'all just what to do.

What I liked virtually it

• The tutorials are really clear together with are actually good staged.
• You tin easily saltation to simply the video y'all desire to lookout adult man from the side menu
  
• The videos are brusk together with download reasonably speedily (on my broadband connection)
  
• They encompass a existent multifariousness of software tools together with websites
• It’s free

What wasn’t together with therefore good

• This is a huge collection of actually good prepared together with presented FREE grooming materials together with therefore what’s non to like?

Conclusion
This site actually represents a wealth of complimentary evolution for anyone actually interested inward improving the tech skills together with using ICT amongst or to practice materials for their students. Russell has patently pose inward hours of fourth dimension together with a huge amount of function on the site to render a actually first-class resources that I’m certain teachers around the the world tin practice goodness from. Check it out at: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Teacher Preparation Videos

Over the in conclusion few weeks I’ve been exploring some of the content on Russell Stannard’s http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ website. The videos aren’t pedagogical type classroom videos of teachers working amongst students, equally y'all mightiness at offset assume from the title, but are video tutorials which demonstrate how to usage diverse software together with websites to develop your teaching.

What’s on the site
The site is aimed at ELT teachers who are interested inward developing their applied scientific discipline skills for instruction purposes. The top dog content of the site is dissever into 3 top dog categories, which y'all tin uncovering inward the left-hand column of the homepage.

• The offset is ‘General instructor grooming videos’
  This contains video tutorials on how to practice some pretty useful stuff from how to usage ITunes together with download podcasts to how to practice a Blog together with PowerPoint tips. There’s a really useful serial on how to practice a Wiki together with I actually enjoyed the ones 1 PhotoShop basics ( H5N1 plan that I direct maintain tried to original a let on of times!)
• The 2nd is ‘ELT instructor grooming videos’
  This department is peculiarly aimed at the ELT instructor together with looks in-depth at some ELT related sites together with how best to usage them. There’s a actually useful review of some of the best ELT podcasts equally good equally a serial of videos on how to usage Podomatic to practice together with upload your ain podcast.
• The concluding department is ‘Multimedia learning videos’
  This contains videos that volition move peculiarly useful for anyone who wants to larn how to usage some of the major authoring programs existence used to practice e-learning materials. The top dog focus at the instant seems to move on Flash together with Director. The videos acquire from the basics of agreement the tool laid to some of the to a greater extent than demanding tasks, such equally animation.

Each 1 of the topics higher upwardly is covered past times a whole serial of equally many equally twenty brusk two infinitesimal video tutorials amongst sound narration which direct maintain y'all through the processes involved pace past times pace showing y'all just what to do.

What I liked virtually it

• The tutorials are really clear together with are actually good staged.
• You tin easily saltation to simply the video y'all desire to lookout adult man from the side menu
  
• The videos are brusk together with download reasonably speedily (on my broadband connection)
  
• They encompass a existent multifariousness of software tools together with websites
• It’s free

What wasn’t together with therefore good

• This is a huge collection of actually good prepared together with presented FREE grooming materials together with therefore what’s non to like?

Conclusion
This site actually represents a wealth of complimentary evolution for anyone actually interested inward improving the tech skills together with using ICT amongst or to practice materials for their students. Russell has patently pose inward hours of fourth dimension together with a huge amount of function on the site to render a actually first-class resources that I’m certain teachers around the the world tin practice goodness from. Check it out at: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Top Tools For E-Learning

For a piece immediately Jane Hart over at Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day has been collecting the superlative 10 favourite tools of a hit of people involved inwards e-learning.

These create got been compiled into a top 100 from, would y'all believe it, a directory of over 2,000! Anyway, I'm proud to tell that I create got immediately also contributed my ain superlative 10 to the collection. I intend this is a bang-up idea thus create banking concern check out the collection. The collection of 2,000 is also categorized, thus if y'all are looking for something particular, similar a tool for blogging, (there are to a greater extent than than seventy of those) or a Virtual World tool (there are 31 inwards this category alone!) too then it's a bang-up identify to look. Anyway, if you'd rather non become through all those at the moment, here's a await at the 10 I submitted equally my superlative 10 tools.

Nik's Top 10 Tools equally at twenty March 2008

1. Blogger: This is my basic essential survival tool for writing my blogs. As I await unopen to to a greater extent than I realise it's in all likelihood non the best tool inwards the Blue Planet for creating blogs, but it's for sure an tardily tool to purpose too 1 that does the chore good too doesn't terms anything.
2. Second Life: I seem to create got gotten drawn into Second Life, despite the fact that it's far from my favourite virtual world, too I immediately rent my ain portion infinite there. I was drawn inwards past times an increasing amount of course of teaching blueprint travel that I acquire related to it too a fascination amongst the interface too the illusion of 3D. Great identify to create got a coming together too, much prefer it to using Skype.
3. NVU: This is a novel tool that I've started using of late for spider web management too development. I create got been using DreamWeaver for quite some time, but decided to construct the switch to a gratuitous tool that I could purpose on both PC too MAC equally my re-create of DreamWeaver became increasingly out of appointment too unstable. So far it's worked out pretty good too the learning flexure has been quite uncomplicated to bargain with.
4. Instapaper: This is some other gratuitous tool which I purpose almost every day. It's a variety of cross betwixt a temporary favourites page too an annotation / bibliography tool. It creates a pocket-size plug inwards for my Firefox task bar too whenever I topographic point something I desire to read I click on a read afterwards push clit which saves the link to my Instapaper page. Then when I create got some fourth dimension I tin become dorsum too read through the articles too either delete them, annotate them equally a bibliography or only acquire out them equally read.
5. Stumble upon: This is 1 of my favourite plug ins for Firefox. It's a bang-up agency to notice novel sites too I purpose it when e'er I create got a gratuitous moment. You tin create your ain favourites page too percentage the sites y'all notice equally good equally adding novel sites too reviewing them. But the best characteristic is only clicking on the Stumble push clit too looking at random sites that matches my involvement criteria
6. Google Browser sync for Firefox: This is some other bang-up plug inwards for Firefox too it enables me to sync history, favourites, passwords etc across my Firefox browser on whatever computer. I often create got a MAC too PC running at the same fourth dimension too thus this keeps all my browser data synchronised without me having to create anything apart from install the plug in.
7. Google analytics: This is a bang-up agency to rails stats for websites too blogs etc too it's free. The data is a lot to a greater extent than accurate too inwards depth than many paid for tools too gives me loads of data near my site content, where my visitors are coming from too what they are looking at etc. I'm addicted to it!
8. Hottnotes: Juggling lots of dissimilar projects along amongst identify unit of measurement commitments too running my ain work organisation tin acquire a chip overwhelming sometimes. Hottnotes truly helps me proceed on superlative of things too recall those meetings too telephone conferences. I tin create post-it type reminders for my desk superlative or to-do lists too programme them to remind me when specific tasks should survive done. Essential stuff, only a shame in that place isn't a MAC version.
9. BBFlashback: This is the only tool inwards my superlative 10 that I create got truly paid for. It's a software tool for recording shroud cast tutorials too I've used it for all of the tutorials on my blog. It's tardily to use, reliable too adding branding, call-outs too good is all pretty easy. It also exports to a lot of dissimilar formats including Flash swf files too avi files. I tin also import curt avi video files made on my digital photographic television camera too edit them too and then export them to Flash (I notice that useful honest!)
10. My Yahoo Feed Reader: I'm sure this in all likelihood isn't the best feed reader inwards the Blue Planet but MyYahoo homepage is what I started amongst too I've got comfortable too stuck amongst it. RSS is 1 of those truly big fourth dimension savers too I tin scan all of the novel content on my favourite sites too blogs inwards only a few minutes too selection out the things I'm interested inwards reading, non to refer my horoscope too Blue Planet news. It's saved me hours of going from site to site.

Hope y'all taste these.

Best
Nik

Naming My Sources: Business Office 1

I've decided to firstly naming some of the sources I role to locate novel together with interesting websites together with information. I've decided to produce this for a seat out of reasons

• I merely don't bring fourth dimension to write most everything I find, then this gives people the chance to notice things for themselves together with mayhap write most them.
• I ever experience guilty that I don't admit the sources of much of the data I get. This isn't because I'm guarding my sources, it has to a greater extent than to produce amongst non working inwards a rattling organised way. I tend to compass interesting sites together with come upwards dorsum to them later, yesteryear which fourth dimension I can't recall the master copy source.
• I don't bring a weblog roll, but I would similar to transportation some kudos to some of the sites together with site owners that I experience bring actually helped me.
• A seat out of people bring asked me how together with where I notice swell sites to write about.
  

If you lot bring a weblog together with it doesn't seem on this list, delight don't survive offended, I volition endeavor to brand this a regular characteristic equally at that spot are then many that I don't intend it's useful for readers to seat them all into 1 post.

Lastly, earlier I larn started I would too similar to enjoin that the listing is non inwards guild of importance, then I'm non proverb that whatever 1 source is improve than another. Anyway, hither goes:

Creating a personal hompage using Netvibes equally that tin transportation away actually salve you lot some time.

Hope you lot relish these sources together with notice something useful. More coming inwards the adjacent calendar week or two.

Best

Nik Peachey