Skypathon

McKinney High School, Texas connected up wit  my team of online teachers, online learners, online entrepreneurs to collaborate and learn from each other.

Amal Mariyadas, a 13 year old high school student took the lead. The American students were excited to learn of Indian family life, school life and entrepreneurship. Thank you Brad Peach for connecting with us.

Skypathon

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Any school, college, clubs and associations interested in broadening their reach, network with people abroad are invited to contact Sebastian Panakal, Skype ID: sebastianpanakal, email: sebastianpanakal@gmail.com

Teacherpreneurs, Momtrepreneurs, Learnerpreneurs

Welcome to an exciting learning journey

21 Steps to a Web Business

Today, I have a session on the above topic. Teachers who attend this FREE PUBLIC CLASS shall network with teachers across the globe. Please do come. You're cordially invited.

Interested participants can take part in a Skypathon with students in USA, which will be recorded and uploaded on Blogs, Video Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis to promote the teachers.

Skypathon scheduled on 12 Apr 2011

Technology Integration in Education (TIE Members)

DO NOT MISS THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ONLINE ENTREPRENEURS.

Date: Friday 8 April 2011
Time: 8:00 PM Indian Standard Time
Wiziq FREE PUBLIC CLASS

Hope to meet you there

SuperClubsPLUS

I came across this wonderful resource for children: SuperClubsPLUS

Thank you for sharing this on FO2011 blog StevieBoy's Blog.

Facilitating Momtrepreneurs

Recently I used strategic soliciting on Skype and was able to connect with a wonderful new friend: Lynne Lehmer, 62 year old Momtrepreneur, a self-taught online English Language Teacher at iTalki.

 

Networking at LinkedIn  brought me in contact with Terasee Morris, another Self Made Online English Language Trainer.

 

Together, we have decided to try our hand at repurposing a training programme at Alison, an Open Educational Resource. Our project is simple. We use the "21 Steps to a Web Business" as our training material and give FREE PUBLIC CLASSES on Wiziq. We facilitate any teacher who want to practice teaching online. They can collaborate with us.

1. We shall facilitate budding online teachers: We have invited prospective online teachers to collaborate with us in teaching using this resource. We mentor the teachers into professional online trainers .
2. We shall facilitate budding online entrepreneurs: As we Educate, Understand and Implement the "21 steps to a Web based Business" and work as directed by the trainer, Chris Farrell, we plan to implement the instructions step by step and set up our own Web based business. We have already registered Domains of Sebastian Panakal, Lynne Lehmer and Terasee Morris, for this purpose.

We have invited the attendees to watch us in action and learn from our mistakes. They shall set up their own web based business ONLY after we succeed at our attempt. This way, we could overcome skeptics and ensure all round success.

 

An Indian Story: An old farmer was in his death bed. He was so sad! His sons were lazy and had not learned how to farm. He murmured to his eldest son, " I've hidden a treasure in our land. I don't remember where" and breathed his last.

 

After the funeral, his sons started digging all over. They didn't find any treasure. They were disappointed.

 

The mother advised, "Why don't we plant something, now that we have ploughed the land?"
The sons followed suit and had a plentiful harvest.

 

Mother said, "This is the treasure your father mentioned"

 

Likewise, once we have our websites up and running, we are sure to find some creative monetization there, even if the advise of Chris Farrel doesn't work for us.

 

We have challenged ourselves to achieve. We have burnt our bridges behind us. We have made a public announcement, we are going to make money using the "21 Steps to a Web Business".

 

Succeed we shall. Watch us in action. Thank you.

 

Anyone interested in joining this learning journey can register themselves at Wiziq and attend our lessons on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:00 pm, Indian Standard Time.

 FO2011

• A teacher, who needs facilitating online, can collaborate with us and learn FREE.
• An Entrepreneur,  who need facilitating online, to have a web based business, can learn FREE.

Facilitating Online Training FO2011

Yes, I have joined the FREE FO2011 training. I had joined last year, but could not complete it successfully. This year, I am there to win this challenge with flying colors.


Why do you want to learn to facilitate?
I have always been a teacher. I love teaching. As I am not a trained teacher, I have to improvise and teach. By trial and error, I have helped quite a few people become educated. As the world becomes tech savvy, I need to update my skills to reach my students spread across the globe. I may even be able to help them learn, once I have online facilitation skills. Hence I am here to learn by doing.

What are you doing now in terms of online facilitation?
I am a member of Skypes Education platform and have connected two classrooms online. Sacred Heart College at Cochin, India was connected to All Saints Catholic Girls College, Australia on International Womens Day by me. It was a fabulous experience. Now I want to connect even more schools and colleges with my leadership. To be successful in this dream, I need to polish my skills at online facilitation. Thanks to all my classmates here. I plan to learn from all of you.

What would you like to achieve, change or do more of?
I would like to be known as the person who brought digital democracy to India, my country. We have very poor and economocally backward people who deserve the crutches of technology. I want to reach out to them and empower them with technological goodies.

What do you need to do or make happen to achieve your goal?
I need to move to villages, meet the not-so-well educated people there and help them learn how to use computer and internet. Once they get a basic knowledge, I plan to get them online to network with peers across the globe. Heart-to-heart chat with people from other cultures will empower them with communication skills. Once they have become reasonably good at cross cultural communications, I plan to offer their chat friendship service to senior citizens all over the world for a nominal service charge to sustain them. This way, we could bring about more love between people, in a world without boundaries.

Congrats Sacred Heart College for Pioneering

SWASTI, the women's cell of Sacred Heart College connected with All Saints Catholic Girls College,  Australia. The proactive women's cell has shown colleges across the country how to lead the academic community to 21st century skills. Here is a video worth watching.



Any school or college interested in taking their students to virtual trips abroad, is welcome to contact us. WE, Wiki Educators:
Sebastian Panakal
Lizy Navin
Scaria T C
Shiji Subodh
Darsana Joseph
and SWASTI Women's Cell at Sacred Heart College)are ready to spare the time and energy to help you scale the skies.

Sickles Tickle Primroses

Primrose, the Nature Club of Sacred Heart College proudly reaped their reward at their coveted Harvest Festival: Land Paddy Harvest. Excited chatter of the team reflected their excitement. The college has a culture of agriculture: Principal brought out his personal sickle for the harvest.

This College with Potential for Excellence, by UGC Grading system today excelled its own excellence. “The best competition is with oneself with incremental improvements” advised Fr. Poulose Kidangan, Manager of the college, as he shared his nostalgia at the harvest festival. Principal Rev. Father Prasant Palakkappilly congratulated the members of the nature club for their whole hearted cooperation.

Click this link to see the video:

Dr. Dominic, who taught life’s lessons using this hands-on contribution to nature, advised the audience to do their best to protect ecology. More green activities are planned by the Nature Club, Primrose.

This land paddy project spanned 120 days from seeding to harvest. Primrose Club will serve “payasam” cooked using this rice, fruit of their labour, sweet sharing with everyone at the college.

Nature Club and Sacred Heart Alumni Association are to launch another green project: Waste to Wealth. Collaboration and coordination for this project will use Wiki skills. Sebastian Panakal & Lizy Navin, both Wiki Ambassadors of the Alumni held a seminar to explain this project to the day scholars during their presentation: Seniors Mentor Juniors.http://www.youtube.com/user/eschoolkerala?feature=mhum#p/u/6/fy3z8bXB_t8

Crosss Disciplinary Learning

Friends, watch this video. Want to learn blogging to generate passive income? Take this FREE Wiki course http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C49/Register / contact me.

eL4C49 Orientation Seminar

The concept and ideal of Open Education Resources was well received at Sacred Heart College. As a Wiki Ambassador, I invited the staff and students to join the WikiBuddy program. Rev. Father Prasant Palakkappilly, the Principal attended the program. Around 30 students too attended the program.

Wiki Ambassadors Lizy Naveen and Scaria T.C. too were there to support me. Scaria spoke of OER core values, Lizy spoke of advantages of Wiki as an academic tool.

As promised Sarah Stewart too came online. Wiki Ambassador Mathew Thambi, an Alumnus of Sacred Heart College spoke with Sarah on behalf of the staff and students of the college.

At the college we have started a "Seniors Mentor Juniors" program where the college will use their wiki skills to network and collaborate with the senior Alumni across the globe on Green projects.

Wiki Ambassadors Shiji Subodh, Reshma Suresh, presented OER values using Slideshare.

Reshma's friends Baseema and Ann Jessy from St. Peter's College attended the seminar online. Their excited Skype chat with Sacred Heart College students helped form a core team of Wiki Activists.

This team from Sacred Heart College and St. Peters College will introduce "A Gift of Knowledge" in all colleges in the state.

Students from both the colleges want to be Wiki Leaders. WE shall introduce Wikis in all colleges in Kerala, India.

Mrs. Rajitha Baiju, H.O.D., Department of Computer Science made the welcome address. Student leader Sony John did the Vote of Thanks.

Wallwisher - a tool to teach or to advertise

Hi friends,

I have just made a wall using Wallwisher, a vibrant wall to show off your digital portfolio. Here is a simple wall I made to promote my services. Below is a screenshot of the wall.

Any teacher can invite her students to use this wall for an online competition in content delivery.

If, as a teacher, you are trying to sell your service, why don't you look at this wall of mine?

I have also made an ePortfolio to market myself.

Wish to learn these? Call me on skype or add 'sebastianpanakal' as your skype contact

Ten reasons why technology is vital to education

During my sessions at Sacred Heart College, St. Peter's College and St. Teresas College recently, I explained why teachers should embrace Web 3.0.

Here is a very good article: Ten reasons why technology is vital to education
Here an aggregation of links you could use for your teaching: Free Tech For Teachers

See you next time.

Free Technology for Teachers: Raw Scripts - A Free Screenplay Scripting Tool

Free Technology for Teachers: Raw Scripts - A Free Screenplay Scripting Tool

Sarah Stewart: My PLE 2010

Hello, online teachers,

This is a wonderful link. I plan to hold a session on this for you

Sarah Stewart: My PLE 2010

Regards

Sebastian Panakal