SOS: Sell Online Skills

Malayala Manorama publishes a weekly update: Login to Success. Successful entrepreneurs, excited young graduates, affirm this is the right time to tap the world of opportunities in cyberspace.

Innovative mobile applications designed and deployed by these successful entrepreneurs are taking the world by storm. Manorama recently spoke of stay-at-home mothers working as Online Marketers on facebook. I plan to conduct a series of online sessions to invite my team to mine the internet diamond mine.

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Petitioning for Promotions by Sebastian Panakal

Get your own Virtual Classroom

We walk on acres of diamonds, never knowing what is afoot! On Monday, 9 July at 8:00 p.m., I have arranged a training session. It will be collaborative. We will use Skype for the audio chat and wiziq's whiteboard and other resources.

Online YouTube Workshop on Google Plus

Today, I plan a collaborative learning session: Using YouTube in the Classroom.
The lesson will be based on the following slideshare by Lucy Gray.
Learners may please play the slideshow, visit the links and be ready to contribute at the learning journey.

Exploring Instructional Use of YouTube at #ISTE12

View more presentations from Lucy Gray

The lesson is on Google Plus although we will have Skype in the background until Google Plus is mastered. Lesson is at 3:00 pm on Sunday 8 July 2012.

Starting a Spcial Entreprise

I have decided to go for all the courses at Alison, a WikiEducator Project.

Study a course and get a badge to display it on the blog.
I should be able to learn and walk tall.

Twitter as a PLN

The simple micro-blog Twitter has been used to worked marvels by its users.
Twitter has become an important part of 21st century skills.



Project of WikiEducator has a portal named Alison that has thousands of online training programs to help anyone upgrade their employable skills for FREE!!

Each One Teach One

My friend Govinda Prasad Panthy, Nepal has set up a school to help the marginalized poor people there. He is an active member of Hello Little World Skypers and Global Classroom 2011-12. These two educational networks have change agent teachers dead bent on forestalling the digital divide.

Govinda's school needs faster Internet and more computers. His daughter has promised to work as my co-facilitator to teach Vedic Maths FREE to members of both groups. She is sure, her service will bless her school with faster internet.

Devaraj Raju and his friends have launched a simple project to help their Nepalese friends. They have launched a project where they will be teaching GeoGebra to students abroad and use the honorarium collected to help Govinda's school.

How to Create Your First Website

 A great training program to help newbies create a website.
Any online teacher can create a website and use it to market online teaching, teach online, collect money and court financial success.

Viral Marketing Using Facebook

Alison, a WikiEducator Project, has thousands of FREE learning materials any teacher can use to teach online.

As facebook is blocked in schools and colleges, the students are using it behind the screen. It is high time academic community accepted the program for what it is and started teaching how to use facebook for marketing.

80 Educational Alternative to YouTube

Teachers and Learners all over the world can download and use this book for visual learning.


What a great resource. Thank you Med Kharbach for sharing.

Here is yet another resource; now about Google goodies


To download Great Free Educational Kid-safe website ebook as a pdf click here

WOW!! How blessed our children are!!

Train Online Online

Raghunathan, a life skills trainer working for Bharat Petroleum Corporation arranged me an opportunity to connect with his friends and family. It was part of his Personal Social Responsibility. I invited them to join Global Classroom and Hello Little World Skypers. As a Wiki Ambassador, I shall facilitate him and his team to learn wiki editing skills and participate at global platforms to grow international brotherhood.



In my effort to introduce schools in Kerala to connect with global classrooms, I skyped my friend Michael Graffin and connected Reghunathan's team. It was a wonderful experience.



Michael was his usual cordial self. He won the hearts of the group. All those students and teachers now have a story to tell: their Skype experience with Michael Graffin and Sarah Stewart.



Sarah Stewart is my mentor. She taught me wiki editing skills at "A Gift of Knowledge" FREE online training by WikiEducator. She is a wonderful facilitator. She made me want to be like her. Imitation is the best form of admiration. I became a Wiki Facilitator, through her guidance, support and motivation. Thank you Sarah, thank you for being YOU.

Michael is already popular in Kerala education circles. Thanks to his interaction with our Finance Minister Sri K M Mani.



Michael and our Minister co-inaugurated Learn English Online program in Government Higher Secondary School, Pala, Kerala; the Minister in person, Michael in camera, on Skype!

Thank you Michael for your cordial interaction. We now have four new members in Global Classroom group.

1. Reghunathan, Life Skills Trainer
2. Aswin Baburaj, student
3. Elizabeth Tresa Thoppil, student
4. Rita Palaniappan, online teacher

 They will all be doing their bit in promoting international connections in their schools and communities.

Social Networking Stories

1. I invited the following members of my Personal Learning Network today for our Regular Online Get-together.

Online Teacher Trainees

1. Subramanya (Skype Name: subramanya8554)
2. Raghunath (Skype Name: raghunathan123)
3. Marina (Skype Name: marinakurian)

Online Teacher Hopefuls

1. Geetha (Skype Name: geetha.gnanasekar1)
2. Diptey (Skype Name: diptiey.majumdar

Online Mathematics Teacher

1. Martim (Skype Name: ktmartin15)

Martin, as an online teacher explained how he became an online teacher. A one day training "using Skype in the classroom" by Sebastian Panakal and a few hours on Skype with sympathetic supportive learners did the trick!

He is looking for learners from all over the world. He has thirty plus years experience as a Mathematics Teacher for K-12. He offers FREE sessions to evaluate mutual compatibility. Parents / students may contact him over his Skype Name: ktmartin15


I decided to role model Educational Networking. I logged on to my Personal Learning Network, Hello Little World Skypers.

Too late for Dr. Jayan. He is offline.

Vincent Mespoulet from France was online. A few months ago Vincent was in Paris, UNESCO for a conference about how to teach Ethics in schools. I invited Vincent to Life Long Learning Convention 2012.

Yasir from Pakistan too was online. Niceties over, I started my educational networking. 

Kathie has a 100 parents ready to interact with us!! Wow!

SNEHOM: Social NEtworking HOMe

Social Networking Home

View more presentations from eSchool Kerala.

A Social Educator embraces networks of teachers and learners to create academic value. Your PLN connects pupils to expertise. You enable learners to form networks to generate new sources of innovation, foster creativity, and establish greater reach and exposure to new educational opportunities. You establish a foundational level of trust across these learning networks and, thus, a willingness to openly share information. You empower these networks with the collaborative, gaming and analytical tools needed for members to engage each other and creatively solve educational challenges. A key element to the success of a Social Networking is trust. First, you need a certain level of trust to empower yourself to share your ideas and expertise – and you must demonstrate this trust by rewarding the behavior. By the same token, you must trust your network to maintain an open dialogue with them.

Follow your heart when you network and you will be empowered by your social network.

Reflections for Learning Deeper

Thanks to Blogs, we can reflect our learning and connect our experiences with the lessons.
We can even use News clippings/ Web page clippings/video/audio etc on our blogs:

Purpose of a Learner's blog

1. Learners write a blog to record 
2. Their opinion of the class to give feedback to teacher and co-learners.
3. Their reflections on what was taught
4. To create their own meaning to ideas discussed and points explained

Resource named Alison
Alison is a WikiEducator Content that helps in life long learning.

Members here can use the content to learn together and then use the same method to teach and earn.
The content is regularly updated to include new topics and fields of knowledge relevant to day to day business

Resouce collections
I also explained in depth about the links that link to the links given. The aggregated information rich links must be treasured by the members using a Social Bookmarking program viz. http://delicious.com/rajettan

P2PU
Teachers and learners can join here and co-learn.

I have joined a Mathematics training program here, by Maria Drjkova.

Watching Educational networking in action
The back channelling was interesting. I could watch networking among members here, inviting each other to connect and contribute.

Watching the little girl in Marina. Marina's personal power may be the adorable little girl she still nurtures inside.
Marina may need a little more time to get used to the method as she has to unlearn her years of practise as a teacher

Introduced Pretty May, an extension to Skype, that records the conversation
Introduced Vod Burner, an extension ot Skype that records the video

Marina will explain today about digital and visual literacy as she is given the challenge to Google it.

Reghunathan and Subramanya have been giving motivational push to Marina.
Introduced URL shortener like www.bit.ly and www.goo.gl that enables us to shorten the URL for distribution through Twitter

Points for discussion today

1. Around the world and here in the India., education increasingly promotes curricula and teaching methods that foster economic growth over personal growth. Our schools promote marketability and maximize profitability, rather than critical thinking, personal accountability, tolerance, cooperation, and compassion. And it's always the humanities that get cut in a crunch.
2. A democratic society demands broad knowledge, informed judgment, equitable distribution -- in short, a kind of morality that does not come from the study of science, technology, economics, and marketing.
3. Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill used by everybody in the middle of 21st century
4. Computational creativity can happen only when we use it effectively until tech is used like electricity.
5. Computing and computers will enable the spread of computational thinking

Connected Learning

16 Jan - Participants at my Personal Learning Network

1. Diptey, Kolkatta
2. Geetha, Chennai
3. Subramanya, Karnataka
4. Raghunath, Kerala
5. Marina, Kerala

I invited Geetha to explain Twitter to the group and sent the following resources. Various links relevant to the session and gift links were sent.
Resource for English language trainers: http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/CoolTools+Vocabulary
I added more links inviting the team to help Geetha, expecting the team to complement her explanations with the details from the following websites.

1. http://stumpteacher.blogspot.com/2010/12/twitter-tutorial.html   
2. http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2011/05/ten-twitter-tips-for-teachers/
3. http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/04/04/top-10-twitter-tips/    
4. http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/blog/index.php/twitter-for-teachers

Added a link on how to extend Skype as a conference tool
http://murcha.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/10-ways-to-take-skype-beyond-meet-and-greet/


Anyone can use Alison as training material to teach paying students online: http://alison.com/course/all.php
Resource for teaching Math: 

1. http://illuminations.nctm.org/
2. http://mathsfirst.massey.ac.nz/links.htm

English Resource

1. http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/10/shakira-and-beyonce-contrasting-writing.html 
2. http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=47DD1A50-1289-90A6-448A-6A98602818D9

Chemistry
http://www.periodicvideos.com/


Twitter video from Common Craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Further videos of Common Craft can be searched and watched I added

Using Delicious for link building: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyFDlKmesMA
Online Teaching Platform: http://wiziq.com
Online Whiteboard extension for Skype: http://idroo.com


Sebastian Panakal's blog: 
http://rajettan-eteaching.blogspot.com
http://snehom.pbworks.com


The team will learn on how to use Twitter today and teach each other. The complementary learning is sure to bring results sooner.


Please click on each link to learn: how an average graduate can teach using the links and the collection of resources available at each link.
http://wikieducator.org/Learning_to_Teach_Online