Teachers & technology

Be an educator is not a simple job as you see. It needs a lot of patient and scarifies so many things. In daily teacher's busy day, and getting hit on all fronts, some teachers may just ignore the technology or seldom use it for real instruction. In fact, there is little written about the subject and I do admit that. There is no place to try and get how best to use some technology in the classroom. Teachers have been left pretty much on their own to use it or not. For an educator new technology is no use if they don't know how to fully utilize it through teaching and learning. The best way is to get help from other teacher who really use with all type of technology in the classroom and besides that,all this can be shared through the advancement of internet where people get connected and sharing ideas.

There is a lot of websites which can be as good reference for the teachers some of it:

http://www.freetech4teachers.com
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3752562
http://www.cikgublog.com/category/ict
http://www.sites4teachers.com

The good starts in implementing technology in education is always ask yourself: what, where, when and how to use the technology in the classroom. What do you do in your classroom on a daily or weekly basis.

For me,in order to utilize the use of technology in classroom what I can share is :
*using power point and projector

It makes me less writing while teaching, and the best is when it can be save and use for the next teaching.But it doesn't mean I do not need the whiteboard, it still needed as to write something or correction to the students.

*using e-mail as second medium of communication
E-mail can be as a good medium of communication to interact with the students as it is quite popular, clear message (black & white) & savings compare by phone.

*using video
sometimes video are great and so do with photos. If students need to be shown on a process a video can do that and they have a clear picture of what being learn.

Teachers don't feel distract when students paying attention better during new technologies as a sign of learning. Sometimes they just being entertained and technology is the starting point. For the teachers out there...."your goal is still for the students to be interested in learning and having desire to be engaged

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Internet Marketing Money Making

These days internet marketing is a broad way that can be defined as the 'use of the internet to advertise and sell goods and services'. Essentially anything that is a service and which can make money on the internet is and can be interpreted as internet marketing.
As a result, marketing techniques and strategies such as: cost per click advertising, banner ads, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, affiliate marketing, interactive advertising, search engine marketing (including search engine optimization), blog marketing, article marketing, and blogging can all come under the auspices of 'internet marketing'.

Over the past ten years, the internet as a global communication and exchange medium
has witnessed unprecedented growth. Globally, the number of websites increased from
23,000 in 1995 to more then 55 million in 2005 (Zakon, 2005).

The biggest advantage of online business is you can setup at any time and there is no compulsion of sitting in front of your PC for a particular period of time. Even if you are doing job somewhere, you can always use this as second option to make money on the internet. In online business, Internet marketing is one of the emerging trends now a days as companies around the world are spending millions of dollars to have their online presence and be on the top in search results.

Another great benefit is the low start up cost which is huge when you are setting up a business which has some physical existence. Also, the operational expenses and fixed cost are too high in a business where you are going for conventional business. Other than cost factors, it is more than a blessing when you are allowed to work in flexible hours. If you are doing Internet marketing, you have the flexibility to work from anywhere in flexible hours.
When you are starting an online business, you have to keep this in mind that initially you have to be patient and consistent in whatever you are doing. Internet Marketing does not give results overnight like any other business as you have to put the same amount of effort you were putting in your job. To make money on the internet, there has to be a plan of action and some goals which you want to achieve. The best way to do is to make a plan for the whole year and set monthly targets for you.

Through this way, you will be able to evaluate your performance and once you are consistently meeting your own performance criteria, you can increase it to earn even more. But again like mentioned earlier, this is not an easy job in the beginning as you have to work really hard in order to make your credibility among the people you are targeting. It is also not advisable to quit your main job and completely shift to online business from Day one. This would be an impractical approach to make money on the internet as initially you will be giving lesser time which you can increase with the passage of time when you are done with some successful projects.

So, with all the advantages and attractions you see in internet marketing, the consistency will lead you to success. As you will be handling clients from all over the world, you will have more experience and exposure compared to your colleagues working 9 to 5.

It is extremely rare these days to find any business that isn't utilizing the Internet in order to market its products or services. Regardless of whether you have a brick and mortar store on your local high street, whether you have a large multinational corporation, whether you simply run a small business from your own home, you should understand that the Internet is a crucial vehicle to use when generating traffic, visitors, and exposure.
There are loads of things that any entrepreneur can do in order to market their products and services on the Internet. To kick things off, it is a sensual to get yourself set up with a website. The website will represent your presence on the Internet and will be an excellent tool to expose you and your offerings to the local market.
Remember that your website is going to be pointless unless it is well ranked. If you set up a website and it appears on the 10th page of Google, it is never going to make an impact. To really stamp your markdown and to get people looking at your website, you need get it ranked on the first page, especially if you are targeting low keyword terms. Focus on optimizing your website and you will begin to generate organic traffic.
Write articles. Writing articles will be helpful both in building links to your website (something that is important in search engine optimization) and also in leveraging traffic. Article directories, blogs, and other similar resources will all accept the articles you write. If people are interested in these articles then they will read them and may even click on the link included in the resource box. This will direct them to your website, and will give you even more exposure.
Take advantage of online classifieds. Online classifieds will allow you to advertise your business, often for free. You can write a basic spiel regarding your business, services, products, and everything else in between. Submit these to all relevant classifieds and business directories and this also will increase your exposure.

References:
Zakon, R. (2005), “Hobbes’ internet timeline 1993-2005”, available at: www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Alexander, James, J. "The state of internet marketing research", European Journal of Marketing, vol.41,2007.