The Blogger's Meal Plan: 5 Secrets for Well-Balanced Content. 14 Tools To Help You Add Images For Your Social Media Posts. It wasn’t long ago that Twitter added inline image previews to its official apps, including the web view.
Now, Twitter is including more image focus in the latest redesign, as you can see above. On the left-hand side of Twitter’s new web view, your profile and header images are now visible. We’ve done tests on our own Twitter account previously that showed images make a huge difference to engagement: Images aren’t just useful for Twitter, either. Facebook and Google+ posts look great with images in them, and Pinterest and Instagram are all about images. In particular for looking at Twitter, in a recent research study we conducted, we found that images can increase retweet rate by up to 150%: To make the visual side of your social media strategy a bit easier, here are some tools to help you create awesome pictures. 1. PicMonkey is a really easy-to-use photo editing tool that runs in your browser. How to Write a Professional Social Media Bio. 4.5K Flares Filament.io 4.5K Flares × Talking about yourself is hard.
Doing it in 160 characters or less is even harder. That’s probably why so many of us end up stressed about crafting the perfect professional bio for Twitter – or LinkedIn, Facebook or other social networks. How (And Why) Teachers Should Blog. Gone are the days when academic institutes used to shy from integrating current technology into their education system.
Now, almost every school, college and university in US, UK and other developed countries are using current techs to foster effective education round-the-clock. As internet plays a huge role in making education more interactive and streamline than ever before, blogging has opened dozens of doorways for teachers to make their teaching endeavors more productive. It is observed that more and more teachers are turning to blogging platforms and learning how they can set up blogs for both personal and professional (teaching) use. How to Make Posts Sticky in WordPress, Kidblog, and Edublogs. When you're using blogs in your classroom there may be some posts that you want to keep at the top of the page rather than letting them get pushed down by new entries.
For example, if you're students are contributing to a group blog, you might want to keep the instructions post pinned to the top of the list of posts. Or you might want to keep a reminder about an upcoming due date posted at the top of the page. These kinds of posts are called "sticky" posts and they're easy to create on WordPress.com, Kidblog, Edublogs, or any other blog running on the WordPress.org software. Files.solution-tree.com/pdfs/Reproducibles_TTiG/previewinganasynchronousconversation. 8 Simple Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Writing. There are lots of times when I’m stuck on a title for a post, or the perfect word for something I’m writing.
Fortunately, we’re pretty keen on experimenting and testing here at Buffer, so I can try lots of different ideas and see what works best. A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking. My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as “providing experience, provoking reflection.”
He goes on to write, … to reflectively experience is to make connections within the details of the work of the problem, to see it through the lens of abstraction or theory, to generate one’s own questions about it, to take more active and conscious control over understanding. ~ From Teaching With Your Mouth Shut Over the last few years I’ve led many teachers and administrators on classroom walkthroughs designed to foster a collegial conversation about teaching and learning.
Brainology Program - Mindset Works®: Student Motivation through a Growth Mindset, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D. Welcome > Brainology Program.
Mobile Site Preview. Rita F. Pierson: WATCH: How A Teacher Encouraged Her Students With An 'F' TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk.
This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post from the featured speaker, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below. Become part of the conversation! This blog was produced in collaboration with TED for the TED Talks Education Special. The one-hour special, which will include talks by Sir Ken Robinson, Geoffrey Canada and Bill Gates, will air on PBS on May 7 at 10pm EST.
Teachers don't make a lot of money. Blogs.hpedsb.on.ca/ec/bloggingpilot/files/2010/11/Teacher-Guide-WordPress-MU.pdf. Blog Sites. 64 Interesting Ideas for Class Blog Posts. QuizBuilder - Make a quiz for your blog or website. 10 Unexpected Ways to Come Up With Fresh Blog Post Ideas. Are you a blogger?
Blogging Prompts for Teacher Candidates.