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What Noises Do Animals Make In Other Languages? Here Is An Important Guide. Text analysis, wordcount, keyword density analyzer, prominence analysis. How We Learn What We Learn. Welcome to EFL 24 7. A free community for all teachers and students.

Welcome to EFL 24 7

Teachers Join our community with thousands of colleagues from more than 100 countriesDownload hundreds of printable grammar exercises, news activities, themes, etc.Share EFL/ESL worksheets and other activities at all levelsCreate and share interactive web exercises Students Access hundreds of worksheets and other activities for students of English as a second or foreign language. Prezi - Log In. Education Online Platform. Badgeville, The #1 Gamification Platform for Customer Loyalty and Employee Productivity. "Who Goes to Work to Have Fun?

Badgeville, The #1 Gamification Platform for Customer Loyalty and Employee Productivity

" Oliver Burkeman thinks the answer is no one. His anti-fun-at-work NY Times editorial caught my eye making the opinion rounds on LinkedIn earlier today. The Fun Theory Stockholm. Gamification for the Enterprise with Bunchball Nitro. How to Embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint to Gamify Your Course. Gamification means using the principles of game design in another context; for example, a training program or an e-Learning course.

How to Embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint to Gamify Your Course

An e-Learning course that has been gamified will include elements such as challenges, rewards, and repeated attempts. There are many benefits to gamification, but one of the greatest is the way a gamified course can engage and motivate learners. How can a video help gamify my e-Learning course? The Gamification of Education Infographic #gamification #edtech. Gamification in Education: Top 10 Gamification Case Studies that will Change our Future. New to Gamification?

Gamification in Education: Top 10 Gamification Case Studies that will Change our Future

Check out my post What is Gamification & my Gamification Framework: Octalysis Education Gamification in Action. There’s a lot of potential in the field of Education Gamification. Alternative Education Resource Organization. Open Online Learning – A Paradigm Shift.

Entrepreneurial opportunities in Open Online Learning A new age rushes towards us like an unstoppable tsunami. A global information age, rising from the combined effect of the prior tectonic plate shift inventions of the microchip and internet. It is an age that will usher in the ‘Neo-Renaissance Man’ capable of human capital output many times greater than that of their singularly specialised industrial-age predecessor. 5 Things to Remember When Designing an Online Course. Personalized Teacher Training Packages Available in January 2015.

Photo credits Marc Falardeau; www.flickr.com As it is almost the end of the year, and a number of teachers are charting out their dreams and aspirations, allow me to share with you some of the ways in which I believe I can be of service to you and how my work can empower and encourage your teacherpreneurial endeavors.

Personalized Teacher Training Packages Available in January 2015

My passion for training teachers comes from a deep conviction that no teacher must be underpaid, overworked, and stressed out, that there’re ways for us to find sustainable source(s) of income that give us multiple choices to do what we love and be paid fairly for it. I also believe that teachers have the right to do what brings them the most pleasure and to have the time to develop new skills, to learn new strategies and implement them. Designing and marketing an appealing online course on udemy.com. A few years ago I came across one challenging statement on a LinkedIn forum.

Designing and marketing an appealing online course on udemy.com

The participants were discussing the process of online teaching – how to get started, how to scale it, what platforms to use for webinars or online lessons, etc. They went back and forth talking about the advantages and disadvantages of using Skype and other similar applications, and then somebody posted a comment that etched into my memory and made me acutely aware of where I was and where I had to be.

The person said something like, “Limiting yourself to teaching only skype lessons is a dead-end street. Job hunting or teacherpreneurship. Picture credits: Some time ago I came across this article on LinkedIn titled “The Toughest Job in America is Being Unemployed” and in my mind I went back to the days when I was anxious about keeping a job, looking for a job, and perhaps losing a job.

Job hunting or teacherpreneurship

My fears were not based on my performance as an English teacher or on the low demand for English lessons, but most of the time the anxiety crept in because of the circumstances that were out of my control: recession, school licensing, redundancies, etc. 5 blogging tips for online teachers. Credits: Christian Schnettelker, www.manoftaste.de When I first started my professional ELT blog for Russian-speaking students about 5 years ago I had doubts that it would ever get any traction.

5 blogging tips for online teachers

I knew nothing about SEO, wrote about everything I could think of, and had no idea how to promote what I had written. Over the last 5 years I have gone from 20 page views a day to about 1,000, and even though my focus has changed slightly and my writing has significantly improved, I still have limited technical knowledge on promoting my blog aggressively, and my traffic has been growing naturally.