Scribd for Teachers: How to Publish and Share Your Documents Online

February 7, 2012

Today’s webinar, offered through ISU Workforce Training, was, Scribd for Educators and Trainers: How to share your own documents, writing and resources on line.

Scribd is the world’s largest online social reading and publishing site. Anyone can join. You can read others work and contribute your own materials, too. Well known writers and thought leaders such as Seth Godin and major publishing houses such as Simon & Schuster have Scribd accounts.

Whether it’s the novel you’ve always wanted to publish or a grading rubric for a science project you’ve developed, you can share your work with others who are keen to learn from you.

Here is what the webinar covered:

  1. Learn the basics of how to set up a Scribd account. It’s easy and it’s free.
  2. Learn how to upload documents. Get tips on what works and what doesn’t.
  3. Learn how to categorize your documents appropriately for maximum exposure.
  4. Learn how to make your documents freely shareable or restrict the reader’s ability to copy and paste your work.

I told the participants that “by the end of this webinar, you will have knowledge that you can apply immediately to set up your own account and start sharing your work.”

Here is the manual that I shared with today’s participants:

View this document on Scribd

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Sarah Elaine Eaton is a faculty member in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.


Webinar: Harry Potter in Translation: Make language learning magical

January 18, 2012

Harry Potter in Translation by Sarah Elaine EatonDid you know that the Harry Potter books have been translated into more than 70 languages? A project through the Language Research Centre brought together dozens of native speakers who recorded a portion of the first Harry Potter book. These recordings are available free of charge for language teachers and students everywhere.

In this professional development webinar for educators, presented by ISU Workforce Training, you get an introduction to the Harry Potter in translation project at the University of Calgary’s Language Research Centre. You also get ideas on how to use this free service in your own language classes.

This program includes 5 lesson plans for teachers to help them use Harry Potter as a teaching tool for second languages.

Make your language class magical by using Harry Potter in translation!

Webinar date: January 19, 2011

Webinar time: 4:00 p.m. MST

Register here.

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Sarah Elaine Eaton is a faculty member in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.


New PD webinar: Twitter for Teachers

January 11, 2012

I’m teaching a new professional development webinar through ISU Workforce Training next week:

Twitter for Teachers

Twitter is a hot tech tool for teachers. But how can you, as an educational or training professional, use Twitter in an effective and efficient way that helps you

Objectives:

  1. Learn how to use Twitter in a meaningful and strategic way. There is no point in having a Twitter account “just because”. Learn how to develop your own personal vision about what Twitter means to you and why.
  2. Learn how to manage your time on Twitter effectively. There’s no question that social media can be time consuming. In this session we’ll talk about ways to minimize the time you spend on Twitter while still using it to its fullest potential.
  3. Bust the myth that you need more followers. You don’t need more followers. You want more engaged followers. Learn what it means to have an engaged following and how to develop one.

Here’s a downloadable one-sheet flyer for the program:

View this document on Scribd

This course is open to educators globally. Teachers in the U.S. may be eligible to earn continuing professional development credit for taking ISU’s webinars.

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Sarah Elaine Eaton is a faculty member in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.