Category Archives: General
The Magic Whiteboard
No, this is not another virtual classroom software. So it is not education 2.0, you might say. Well, not on the first look but I found this product on an education 2.0 website I am currently reviewing for this blog, … Continue reading
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Tagged languages out there, languagesoutthere.com, Magic Whiteboard
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The Purpose of Things
I think we can all agree on this definition: Everything that is invented, build, manufactured is made with a certain purpose in mind. If this thing does not serve the purpose it is broken. A car is made to bring … Continue reading
Online Teachers – Mercenaries of Education
This is the first post of a series of thoughts about online learning platforms. I will focus on problems and chances I see for these businesses. In this post I’ll be talking about online teachers. What do they want and … Continue reading
Content not Faces?
I recently started a new video lesson series for my free Deutsch Happen project. It’s about the most often used verbs in German and I conjugate them in four different cases. The interesting part for me is that those videos … Continue reading
Doodling and Note-Taking = Winner
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
Just a quick Update
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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Tagged edufire, edufire.com, myngle, myngle.com, sanbit.com, shmoop.com, wiziq, wiziq.com
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Free German Lesson tomorrow
Tomorrow, thursday 01/22 at 4pm CET I will be offering my first german lesson. It’s free, it’s live, it’s fun! I hope you can join me there!
Relaunch of kirstenwinkler.com
Hello world Just wanted to let you know, that I am working on the relaunch of this site. During the last month I was thinking what I can do with this domain. Finally I decided to use it as one … Continue reading