Malaysian Teachers & Education

Over the last eighteen months I've created and offered seven free ebooks for teachers. In those ebooks I've covered Google tools, web search, video creation, blogging, and other resources of interest to educators. All seven of those ebooks are available in the right hand column of Free Technology for Teachers. This morning I'd like to highlight some other free ebooks created by others for teachers and parents.

More and more high schools are embracing online courses to reach more students and all times of the day. While you can spend a lot of money for online course software, you don't have to. Here are seven free platforms for teaching online courses.

While you may see Facebook as the enemy during your computer lab time, it doesn't have to be. Facebook can actually help students learn if you tap into the more than 200 Facebook applications designed to educate. Here are some of the popular Facebook applications used inside and outside the classroom to help students learn.

Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links.

For Teachers of English as a Second Language articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links

Through the Lens of Social Justice: Using the Change Agent in Adult Education, a recently-published book, celebrates The Change Agent paper's first 10 years of providing social justice resources to adult educators. The book is both a gathering of its best and most timeless pieces and a guide for educators in how to use the paper. It addresses the needs of both new and experienced ESOL, ABE and GED practitioners.

The Change Agent is a social justice newspaper published twice a year in March and September. The Change Agent provides cutting edge resources for teaching social issues, powerful student writing that inspires discussion, and many ready-to-use lesson plans - all oriented toward a multi-level audience.

Children can no longer afford to be ignorant of how complex financial products work. The world of finance and money is becoming rapidly more complex and requires an integration of education and safe financial products to ensure children grow up knowing how to manage money and debt. From this year, financial literacy will be included in the national school curriculum and will be rolled out across a range of subjects during the next three years.

Help create a humane, sustainable, peaceful world for all people, animals and the planet. Use our programs & resources to transform yourself, the world and to connect with others who are working for a humane world.

Helping classrooms and comunities worldwide link the past to moral choices today

Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.

Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo.

Planning for technology integration in classrooms needs to be done with a big pair of binoculars, ones that preferably can see into the future. I can remember when I planned my first suite of computers in a school all I talked about was "future proofing" everything. It was like some rubber stamp I had marked everything with. But planning for the lifespan of the hardware is one thing, where it fits in with your school's vision is another. Sometimes schools can get a bit fixated with provision. We like to reel off a list of the various and wondrous hardware that adorns every nook and cranny of the school building. But it is not simply about provision. I have often heard that "an interactive whiteboard does not make a poor teacher any better". well in the same vein, "technology provision alone does not make independent, confident learners."

Teaching may best be defined as the organization of learning. So the problem of successful teaching is to organize learning for authentic results. Teaching may be thought of as the establishment of a situation in which it is hoped and believed that effective learning will take place. Teaching is the organization of learning. Thus it follows that a teacher is essentially an organizer. The task of any organizer is to enable a group and the individuals in it to function effectively together for the achievement of a common purpose. This is precisely your proper role as a teacher.

According to Wikipedia, "collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance." While language learners can build knowledge of collocations through extensive reading and listening, this is not something that we can do effectively by design in the classroom. Here are a few things for teachers to keep in mind when they consider teaching collocations.

Looking for a great way to engage and stimulate students in even the most tedious subjects? There are many online tools, games, activities, learning aids, and even web apps designed to make learning fun. Here is a list of 20 sites to try when the new school year begins:

I just returned from a few days of vacation, only to find myself trying to catch back up with all of the new websites and applications that I have discovered/been shown in the past few weeks. It took me some time to find all of these, and even more time to figure out how to best put them to use. Maybe it would be helpful for me to share the collection with others, with brief descriptions and links.

Teachers who want to put web 2.0 technologies to work for them can find many different free options online. There are tools for creating online classrooms, social networks, student podcasts, web-based flashcards, elearning modules, and much more. Here are 10 free web 2.0 tools for teachers to try in the classroom this year.

Gone are the days when learning a new language was a big hassle. In this information age, you could start learning it on the internet and could even master it if you are a dedicated self-learner. This article informs you about 20 great tools and resources available on the world wide web that could help you get started with learning a foreign language. Check them out.

I always see a lot posted about different learning strategies, but a lot less posted about different motivation techniques, and I'm curious what people have come up with to make sure they stay on track. What do other people do?