Visual Teaching Alliance
M Saraswathy / Mumbai Nov 07, 2011
You would expect a pre-school to engage toddlers with the customary building blocks, colours, alphabets and numbers. In a bid to stand apart from the rest, many schools now sport digital blackboards, tablet PCs, digital audio-visual mediums and interactive boards — replacing the abacus, blackboards and charts. Enter the age of ‘smart classrooms’ for toddlers. Leading the way are schools like EuroSchool, Vibgyor, TreeHouse, KidZee and Kangaroo…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on November 6, 2011 at 9:11pm — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 27, 2011 at 11:48pm — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 26, 2011 at 10:59am — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 23, 2011 at 3:55pm — No Comments
From left: Carol Podedworny, Joyce Zazulak, David Price, Erin Frotten, Maria Deleon-Matsuda, Lennox Mirander, Puneet Seth, Meng Lu, Faiza Upal, Andrew Smith, Karen Scott Booth, and Hannah Staniszkis (Jennifer Kagan not in photo). photo: Richard Zazulak
Last week we celebrated the opening of a new exhibition at…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on October 23, 2011 at 10:40am — No Comments
Reading body language is something we all do, consciously and unconsciously. Sometimes it can be a lot of fun, I'm sure we could all agree that the art of flirtingis an incredibly engaging pastime. Now, precisely because flirting is such a celebrated and rich field for body…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 21, 2011 at 12:17pm — No Comments
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
By Ron White
There are many theories as to how to make memorizing easier. You can employ amemory expert, such as myself, to help you with the basics; you can buy cd’s with memory lessons; and you can take classes in speed reading and other …
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 20, 2011 at 5:24pm — No Comments
10/15/2011 - NSTA Reports—Mary Bigelow
Editor’s Note
Mary Bigelow was a middle school life and physical science teacher for 16 years and a high school computer science teacher for 11 years (also a district technology coordinator). She had a brief…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on October 19, 2011 at 7:43pm — No Comments
Published: Monday, October 17, 2011
Time is the governing force of all we know, and the way we fill our time can directly affect the direction life takes us.
Have you ever taken a mental note to your time allotment during a typical day? I have, and it showed my…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on October 17, 2011 at 4:37pm — No Comments
By Fazeena Saleem,
Huda N V and CHRIS PANGANIBAN
Conventional concepts and methods of education are changing fast with the development of new technologies based on computers and the Internet.
Today, technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 16, 2011 at 11:24am — No Comments
Updated
Sophie now regularly uses programs and games on a tablet to help improve her literacy.…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 14, 2011 at 11:19am — No Comments
2nd ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL AT THE
BLUFF COMMUNITY CENTER
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Master of Ceremonies: Gary Lichtenstein, back by
popular demand.
Dolores Porras, Artista Artesana de Barro details the
life and work of Dolores Porras, a Zapotec ceramic artist who
lived in the clay-laden valleys surrounding Oaxaca,…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on October 13, 2011 at 12:50pm — No Comments
The world of children’s digital books is quickly becoming as densely populated as the rest of the app world, if not more so. And why shouldn’t it? People who love to tell and publish stories to children will obviously go to…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 7, 2011 at 8:56pm — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on October 5, 2011 at 8:50pm — No Comments
posted Sep 22, 2011
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful… |
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 29, 2011 at 2:13pm — No Comments
Shannon Flaum, Ph.D.
SKF Educational Services, LLC
The students of today’s classrooms are bombarded with visual and graphical information: television, billboards, gaming systems, computer interfaces, cell phones, and IPods, for example, contain powerful images and symbols that require an entirely new technological vocabulary. Yet, mere exposure to images does not necessarily lead to understanding, and in fact, students often lack the…
ContinueAdded by Timothy Gangwer on September 28, 2011 at 11:53am — No Comments
I’ve always been a big fan of change. That’s why I teach overseas. That’s why I teach middle school. That’s why I teach. Change is good. And I’m the kind of teacher who is constantly seeking out new ideas, the latest research, and ways to be better at what I’m doing. I know there are many teachers who are afraid of change and set in…
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 27, 2011 at 4:41pm — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 25, 2011 at 11:18am — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 22, 2011 at 5:04pm — No Comments
Added by Timothy Gangwer on September 21, 2011 at 4:52pm — No Comments
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Welcome to
THE VISUAL TEACHING NETWORK
© 2024 Created by Timothy Gangwer.
Powered by
