

Online Teaching:
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions ! -Anonymous People decide to become online educators for endless reasons. The opportunity to share your expertise, remain relevant and current in your field, earn extra money, have a flexible job while taking care of family and countless other reasons make online teaching a viable and intriguing job or career for many professionals. From stay at home parents to busy professionals looking for side work; from fa

Why should teachers use social media for professional development?
‘’Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all’’ – Pericles Pericles and the rest of the ancient world may not have had the likes of Facebook and Twitter but you can bet if they had done, they would have considered it to be an effective approach to impart learning and convey to one another. So what makes social media such an effective tool for communication and by extension, professional development ! It’s easy t


How Internet Technology Is Helping Education:
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." –Benjamin Franklin The world is an endless sea of knowledge that only moves forward with time, and with it so must we. The only way we can evolve to our full capacity is if we learn. It is not just about gaining information, it is about getting an education. An education the values of which extend beyond paper and are integrated into our everyday lives. An education that fills curious minds, not just

Character Building
"Character education is not one more thing in your plate, it is the plate." WHAT IS CHARACTER BUILDING EDUCATION ? “Effective character education is not adding a program or set of programs to a school. Rather it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.” (Dr. Marvin Berkowitz) The wonderful thing about character and integrity, which are intimately related, is that they are one of the few things in life that no one will ever be able to forcefully take away f