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He clears away distractions and allows himself to focus on the task at hand

More isn’t necessarily better.

focus on quality, on innovation, on creativity.

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technology is just an amplifier” - technology doesn’t change the quality of teaching or learning, it will only amplify it, either in a positive or negative way. What we need to be looking at is changing our approaches to learning, not modifying our curriculum to a “newer” version of what we’ve already had for the past 20 years.

1. Together we’re better

Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons.

2. Global or local: you choose

Will a virtual bank for teachers to share ideas revolutionise lesson planning or stifle creativity?

At present, most teachers wince at the very mention of virtual learning platforms. Most VLPs are a horrific combination of required - the government has declared that all schools must have one - and useless. Unconnected and underdeveloped, many VLPs are devoid of content: empty cathedrals, monuments to technological failure.

"The students we teach come from a media age; they are visually bombarded from every angle. As teachers we have to compete against their entertainment. A worksheet is not enough to engage them any more."

Participate in the discussion with them. Prod them when they’re being vague

make the forum worth a total of 20 points, then subjectively rate the quality of each post on a scale of 1-5

forum becomes a tool for shaping students into better, more persuasive writers.

f you are looking for solutions that would allow you to set up a professional web TV channel of some kind, one for which you have a budget to spend and hope to sell advertising and sponsorship for, you have no choice but look for a professional white-label video publishing and distribution service.

Much less exciting is the moment when you want to start controlling the ads that are displayed on your video clips, or you want to set up a day-by-day video programming schedule while monitoring and analyzing traffic, views and clickthroughs.

The times are ripe for serious and economically capable video publishers to step up significantly above the generic, amateur Internet video publisher, and to strengthen their online video presence by providing extra quality, reliability, speed and monetization options which are so critical to their own future survival.

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