Monthly Archives: February 2009

Doodling and Note-Taking = Winner

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Today I came across an interesting article in the Time magazin about an experiment that shows that if you doodle during a meeting or presentation you are able to remember more details afterwards. And that reminded me of an interesting … Continue reading →

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WiZiQ opens Public Class Scheduling to all Teachers

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

In their blog WiZiQ announced  that from now on every teacher can schedule public classes on his own. Before you had to apply for a public class and a WiZiQ member set it up for you. Therefore let us have … Continue reading →

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Teacher Rockstars Part 1/3 – The Early Years

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Since my presentation on the eduConference of eduFire.com about “Turning Teachers into Rockstars” I have been thinking about this picture. The more I thought about it, the more I found out that this is indeed a very good picture of … Continue reading →

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Soon on Myngle: Classes with up to five Students

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Today Myngle announced that they will launch the possibility of class sessions on their platform. The feature will be available somewhere around the 2nd of march according to their announcement. This makes Myngle the third provider of group lessons on … Continue reading →

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Short Update on my Livemocha Experience

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Yesterday Livemocha announced via Twitter that they cracked the 2.000.000 members barrier. If I am right this is only six month after they had 1.000.000 members. Quite an impressive growth rate! Today Livemocha announced some improvements they have implemented now … Continue reading →

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Check List for On-line Teachers

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

This is a comment provided by China_Mike which I think is too important “to just be a comment”. Therefore I made a blog post out of it. Kirsten In the future language tutors will need some guidelines about when and … Continue reading →

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Converting Offline Students to Online Students

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Shall you convert your offline students to online students? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? I came across this question in a community forum of an online teaching platform. The biggest problem of those platforms seems to be: … Continue reading →

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Just a quick Update

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

I took some days off and headed down south to Bordeaux just to relax a bit and sort some thoughts I came up with in the past couple of weeks. There will be a recap of my trip in my … Continue reading →

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Review: an Inspirational Evening on eduFire

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Last sunday eduFire.com was hosting the second eduConference under the headline “Turning Teachers into Rockstars”. This great and inspirational meeting was followed up by a very interesting and even a bit frightening presentation of Jon Bischke, CEO of eduFire.com who … Continue reading →

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Myngle introduces New Lesson Packages

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Kirsten Winkler

Today Myngle introduced three new lesson packages and discontinued the  5 lesson package which was the smallest a teacher could offer to their students. So what do the new packages look like and what are the conditions for teachers and … Continue reading →

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