Web Hosting: Put Your Teaching Portfolio Online

It’s popular to have a blog and a website these days for teachers. They serve many useful purposes. It’s a way to reach out to potential employers and to students. It’s a great way to have the look of a professional teacher. It’s also an important to control positive information about yourself since you can combat any negative information a former employer has left about you.

One reason that teachers should have web hosting is that they can put their resume online complete with information, photos and teaching portfolio. By having it all online, it’s easy to let employers see for themselves the teaching quality that you can offer.

Another reason to go with web hosting is that you can keep in contact with your students. A blog is great for disseminating information about yourself and your teaching while a forum is a great way for students to stay in contact with each other. By maintaining the website yourself, when you change schools, you can still maintain the same site and the same contacts with students.

When buying webhosting, you’ll also want to buy a domain. I have looked through a lot of companies and Netfirms usually has some of the cheapest prices combined with the best services. That why I suggest that teachers get their domains from Netfirms. They have a special offer on inexpensive and cheap domains. Check them out for sure.

When it comes to hosting, I suggest HostGator. They have some really great reviews and they have a lot of plans to choose from. I particularly like their most popular hosting plan. It’s a pretty good plan and certainly worth a look. They have several to choose from so you are sure to find what you are looking.

Once you have your domain and hosting, you are set. You can start making your online resume stand out.

Find An Online Teaching Degree Program

With the economy tightening up in the US and Western Europe, one of the best ways to situate yourself to get ahead is by returning to school and getting a new degree. If you are a TEFLer, you may not already have a teaching degree, but that can be easily fixed these days.

You don’t have to limit yourself to studying in a brick and mortar university. In fact, these days, you can study online. There are so many great opportunities to study online with reputable universities so it’s never been easier to get your teaching degree.

A great place to check out the various teaching degrees that you can get online is Elearners.com. They have a great list of online teaching degrees that you can get. Not only do they have listings of general teaching degrees, they also have listings for online degrees in many different specialties including educational technology.

All in all, if you are looking to get ahead, now might be a great time to look into online degree programs.

Saving Money On School Printing

There is always a lot of printing to do at a school. It seems like we always have to print brochures as well as tickets, calendars, manuals, notebooks, and folders. They all need to be printed with care. It seems like there is no end to the number of things that we need to print. I recognized this when I was TEFL teaching and now that I am teaching in the states, there is even more printing work to do.
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Build Your Vocabulary

I remember when I was back teaching GMAT and GRE classes just how important a strong vocabulary was. We would always chastise our students to improve their vocabulary if they wanted to get a good score.
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Using Social Networks For Teaching

There are so many social networking sites out there these days. They are a great way to connect with friends and family back home, but more than that, they are a great way to connect with students. It’s a great way to get your students practicing their English in a fun and interesting environment. Setting up a social networking account for your teaching is a great to really connect with your students and communicate lessons and homework.

As you know, there are several social networking sites out there. I am impartial to Friendster. It’s a great place to set up a full featured page to communicate with your students and put up videos, music and even a blog.

A good runner-up is Hi-5. Hi-5 has many of the same features as Friendster and your students may already be a Hi-5 member. This could be good or bad.

So what is the deal? Do you use Social networking sites in your teaching? Which sites do you use?

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