Resources for Professional Development

Ok so I have had some great teachers in my life but my best learning experience last year was from watchign this video on line of a guy called Randy Pausch, it was his last lecture on achieving your childhood dreams and it showed me some of the best qualitied of a teacher.

Take a look for yourself and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Happy learning and I hope you achieve your childhood dreams.

Best,

Kate

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In an unexpected move, the G20 summit today proposed the introduction of a new currency based on academic qualifications.

Our friend Pippa has decamped to Berlin and is doing some very interesting things with DIY education. She's started her own "DIY Masters" programme to learn everything she wants on her own terms and give her studies the same status and support as a formal masters degree.

Softscripts was established in the year 2003. Our main motto is to help in eradicating illiteracy from the world ,so we developed a platform connecting tutors ,teachers and professors with students and renting books online in an easier way . Teachers can showcase their classes to the world. Students can reach teachers in a better way .

Find-guru.com started online quiz for students, teachers. Any one can play weekly quiz and win exiting prizes $50 gift hampers.

I wish I had learned to touch type.

Keyboard skills are so valueable now.

I think it is time touch typing was considered to be an essential learning skill and included on the National Curriculum for primary schools.

Another essential learning skill that should be taught is how to ask questions. That sounds daft, I know , but children are not given sufficient opportunities to ask questions.

Research continues to show that the avereage number of questions asked in a school year per pupil is one a month!

I watch hours of telly each day. But I was once told that I'm allowed to watch anything I like as I'm productive at the same time.

Just to explain...I'm a knitter. It's what I do for a living. But once the pattern writing bit is done, there are hours of repetitive knitting, during which I need to be kept entertained and awake.

I know lots of knitters who listen to the radio, but I need something to look at - I'm one of those annoying knitters who can watch subtitled films whilst knitting (sorry!)

My 12 part Beginning Meditation podcast. If you are interested in booking a live online session with me to connect with that stillness inside yourself and have your questions about meditation answered, please visit my profile: www.schoolofeverything.com/martincosgrove

We are recruiting CRB checked freelance artists
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We are recruiting CRB checked freelance artists who can deliver workshops for after school clubs around Sheffield (starting Feb/March 2009) Please send CVs and details to openminds@revisionsuccess.com

Good rates of pay.

This week a couple of friends of mine asked me to teach them how the web works, and the basics of what they'd need to know to commission their own websites. So I found myself in the strange position of being their teacher for the evening. I think I did okay, so here's what I did, and what I learnt:

1. I asked them what they wanted to learn. (Easy to miss this one.) They basically had enough questions to build a clear map of the lesson, and it meant I could use examples from their lives to illustrate my points.

Nice piece by respected VC Fred Wilson on how the web is giving 'power to the people' and what this could mean for education.

I noticed recently how much new stuff I'm learning these days. In fact, it feels like I give myself more homework now than I ever used to do when I was at school or university. For example, in the past week I've been:

- teaching myself to transcribe 17th century manuscripts
- helping a friend rewrite a research report on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (which meant getting my head round enough of the science not to mess up the meaning of what I was editing)
- editing a magazine about "commons" and "common sense"
- taking part in an extended email discussion about copyright and ethics