http://www.eteachersacademy.com/
I’d like my first post to be about something simple but essential. Our own learning. I find this time of the year the most tiring - not because I’m rushing around teaching all over the place, but because I’m tired. The scholastic year has sucked almost every last drop of energy, but as I slow my routine, I start twitching, wondering what I can learn. What input, to recharge my batteries, I can have to put to good use?
Many teachers, like me, are thinking about going into online teaching …. but where do we start to find out about it, how it works, what it is and so on? There’s a lot of information around but many of us won’t know where to start, who to ask, etc. This is when I discovered a brand new site for teachers like us which literally takes us back to the classroom to learn how to teach online and much more…. see for yourself at :
http://www.eteachersacademy.com/
Quote:
The E-Teachers Academy will offer a 360° program to their students including:
- Using Language Teaching Platforms
- Virtual Classroom Training
- Creating Lesson Material for Online Lessons
- Methodology
- Video Editing
- Graphic Editing
- Podcasting
- Marketing
- Creating Revenue Streams
- Content Monetization
- Product Development
- Social Media
Doesn’t it sound great!!!? It is not free and it’s not cheap…. and that may put some teachers off - not used to paying for information these days seeing as there’s so much free stuff around on the web, like Russell Stannard’s award-winning site, but I think, as time goes by, this will become the norm… distinguishing quality from quantity….
This E-Teachers Academy is about teaching both those teachers who are interested in setting up online themselves and those willing to incorporate more technology into their teaching.
The website is extremely new but promising, i think. I’m certainly going to recommend it to my trainee teachers on the next CELTA course.
Let me know what you think!
