Getting Started – Teaching on Line
Having your own website is important if you want to
have a long-term career teaching online, because it gives you control over your
hours, teaching style, rate of pay, and more.
Google
Sites for Teacher Web Pages and Student Projects
However it’s completely fine to start your career by
teaching for another site. You can work at an established site and slowly
transitioned into working freelance.
Here are a few reputable websites to use. I recommend doing your own
research before accepting a job with any online company.
Italki – This is a great marketplace for
teachers and students to meet. Depending on your credentials, you can register
as a teacher or an informal tutor. You set your own hours and pay rate. Students
book classes through the calendar system and the classes are held through
Skype.
WizIQ –This is a web-conferencing website
that allows teachers to create public classes that multiple students can join.
It is more than just a website; it is also a community of dedicated teachers
and highly motivated students.
Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build
Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary
Amazon Book $2.49
Gets good reviews.
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Sell Online Courses
Just
as you can teach and sell worksheets and lesson plans online, so too can you
create and sell courses. The benefit of this approach is that you can put in an
investment of time and energy up front, and then focus on less intensive
marketing efforts while your course sells indefinitely. The more courses you
offer, the more revenue streams you’ll create.
Great sites for this include
Gumroad, Digital Chalk, WizIQ, and many more.
15
Platforms to Publish and Sell Online Courses (and Counting)
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Write an eBook
Yes,
writing a book is never an easy or quick process, but it may not be as labor
intensive as you think, as long as you choose a subject about which you already
have a fair amount of knowledge. Have you, for example, developed a radical new
teaching method that any teacher within your subject area would benefit from
learning? How about compiling your lessons and worksheets into a more formal
kind of textbook so that you’ve put together a course, rather than selling your
materials one by one? Or how about writing down your lectures to be read on the
go?
The
deeper within the how-to genre your eBook falls, the quicker it will be to
construct – all the more so if your topic fits neatly within your day-to-day
subject area. With self-publishing tools like Create Space, you can sell your
eBook on Amazon, or you can either sell or give your book away for free as part
of a course you post on a site like Udemy.
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Tips for Using YouTube to Promote
Most
people are afraid to use YouTube to promote their business. But you shouldn’t
be and here’s why: the most popular videos aren’t professional productions.
They’re just a girl or guy, that gets in front of a camera and talks about what
he/she knows best. No expensive equipment required.
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We are curating the
best learning material on the web and making it accessible on our platform.
These resources are carefully reviewed and categorised for a high quality
experience.
Our search engine cuts
through the clutter and allows you to search on a wide range of extra variables
such as purpose, age group, format, time to learn and source.
Each day thousands of
teachers search for learning material through TeachPitch. They each have their
own personal library system to save, share, rate and review all the material
they find.
Each resource has a
content page that gives you lots of useful information. Take a look at our
usage data, reviews, ratings and other learning suggestions before actually
clicking on the link.
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K-8 Intro to Computer
Science is a free course that aims to demystify computer science and show K-8
students that it’s fun, collaborative, and creative. The course is designed to
motivate students and educators to continue learning computer science to
improve real world relationships, connections, and life.
Code.org® is a
non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing
participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Our vision is that
every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer
science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. Code.org organizes the annual Hour
of Code campaign which has
engaged 10% of all students in the world, and provides the leading curriculum
for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States
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Every young person
should have the opportunity to learn computer science skills and, by extension,
gain a better understanding of how the technology works, since it will impact
so many aspects of their lives. A grant announced
today will help more
youth get that opportunity.
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A
Plan to Teach Every Child Computer Science
A group
of nonprofits and educators wants all students, even kindergartners, to know
the fundamentals.
A group of nonprofits,
educators, tech companies, states, and districts want to change that. And after
more than a year of work, a carefully crafted yet adaptable framework for what
computer-science education should look like at each grade level went live this
week. The writers hope it will help more states craft standards and ultimately
bring the subject to classrooms across the country.
The K-12 Computer Science Framework is a
“response to the history of inequity in computer science,” said Pat Yongpradit,
the chief academic officer at Code.org,
one of the organizations steering the initiative.
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Teaching Kids Computer Science
Below are a few of my finds for primary
and elementary aged children.
Resources
·
Code.Org offers
tutorials, curriculum and many more resources to students and teachers (k-12)
·
Mitch Resnick’s Ted Talk creates
the sense of urgency and makes us understand why we should focus on computer
science education
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Kahn Academy is a
supporter of teaching computer science on many levels and offers many resources
·
Marshall Brain: Teaching Kids How to Write Computer Programs
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Edutopia
Online Fun
·
Code Monsters – As an adult who knows
nothing about computer programming, I learned a lot from this game. It is very
visual. Code on the left and the result on the right. The game also offers
prompts that truly help the user learn the connection.
·
Magic Pen – Be
patient with this one loading up! It is worth it.
·
Fantastic Contraption –
there are a lot of ads on this site but again be patient the free online game
is worth it.
·
Tynker Games has tons to offer children
across a range of a
The folly of
teaching computer science to high school kids
Well the good news is that the test scores of New York City
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Teach on-line and Make Money http://get.thinkific.com
On this site create your
own courses and make money.
Free 'Starter' accounts
available, with core features only +10% transaction fees
There are 3 subscriptions plans available:
Essentials - $39 per month (paid annually) or $49 per month (paid monthly), +5% transaction fees
Business - $79 per month (annually) or $99 or month (monthly)
Advanced - $219 per month (annually) or $279 per month (monthly)
There are 3 subscriptions plans available:
Essentials - $39 per month (paid annually) or $49 per month (paid monthly), +5% transaction fees
Business - $79 per month (annually) or $99 or month (monthly)
Advanced - $219 per month (annually) or $279 per month (monthly)
NO experience required
We take
care of the technology so you can get back to teaching.
You’ve spent time and energy learning the ins and outs of your topic, so why not earn money with your ‘know-how?’ There are people out there willing to pay for your knowledge. Create an online course and earn revenue from your expertise, even while you sleep!
The
hard part is over!
People spend years becoming experts and
gathering enough content in order to teach. Well, good news. You have the
content and you have the experience. Now learn how to take that content and produce
online courses that work for you.
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The G Suite for Education (formerly called Google Apps for
Education) core services are the
heart of Google’s educational offering to schools. The core services are Gmail
(including Inbox by Gmail), Calendar, Classroom, Contacts, Drive, Docs, Forms,
Groups, Sheets, Sites, Slides, Talk/Hangouts and Vault. These services are
provided under the G Suite agreement.
Schools can use G Suite core services in compliance with
COPPA and FERPA. G Suite core services contain no advertising and do not use
information in those services for advertising purposes.
More than 50 million students, teachers and administrators
in almost every country in the world rely on G Suite to learn and work
together. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of all our
users, including students.
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How
teachers can use social media to boost
their CPD – live chat Continued
Professional Development
Join
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media for CPD. Our experts will be online during the time noted above, but
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Teachers hear it all
the time: Using
social media will help increase professional development opportunities, it
will engage students, and it can help students make real-world connections
between what they’re learning and future career paths.
But how, exactly, can
teachers begin? Some are quite social media-savvy, and others are unsure of
where to turn. An infographic containing information from Edudemic, the
National Education Association, Facebook, and more serves as a useful social
media resource for teachers, curriculum directors, and technology integrators.
Educators can use
social media to connect, notify, teach, and curate.
Facebook, one of the most
widely-used social media tools, can help teachers improve their communication
with students through Facebook group messages or group chats. Teachers can
create a Facebook page for a class and can post events, notes, and assignment
due dates, and can go one step further and ask students to engage in
discussions about what they’re learning.
Through Twitter, teachers can post
supplementary materials, such as links to relevant articles and videos, that
students can access outside of class on their mobile or home devices. Choosing
and using one hash tag with tweets will let students follow a conversation and
see every tweet on that topic, as long as the tweet contains the chosen hash
tag. Setting up a specific feed this way lets an entire class monitor the
discussion–they can even reference older discussions from previous units or
semesters.
Twitter also lets
teachers and students connect with other students and educators. Maybe more
importantly, it can link students with subject matter experts and professionals
in certain fields–helping students form links between what they learn in the
classroom and where that knowledge can take them in college or the workforce.
Create a series of Youtube lessons….make
it private and share only with students.
Learn about how one
teacher, Mike Christiansen, a 9th grade social studies teacher at Kent-Meridian
High School in Kent, WA, uses YouTube in his classroom to transform it into a
21st century learning environment.
Students of all ages - learn something new today at YouTube.com/Education!
Students of all ages - learn something new today at YouTube.com/Education!
