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Occupation:Small Business Owner
Expertise:Teaching, Coaching, Consulting, Media Production, Instructional Design
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I'm convinced the time is ripe for teachers of all kinds to use Web 2.0 tools to work directly with learners online! My new ventures, “Teaching for a Living" and "MAW's Toolbox," are aimed at helping teachers, trainers, coaches, consultants, and subject matter experts of all kinds revive the joy of teaching and learning … and make a decent living while they're at it.

Location:Ashland, OR
Country:United States

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I'm a WAT Pioneer! 
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I help people whose passion is teaching and learning do what they love most AND make a decent living while they're at it.

Please join me here at WAT for "Teaching for a Living, Not Just a Paycheck," and learn how you can use free - or very cheap - Web 2.0 tools to convert your file boxes of lesson plans, coaching routines, and informational presentations into engaging, content-rich  learning products that you can sell directly to online learners who are looking for just the kind of help you already know how to provide.
3 Minute Survey + a FREE Report!

A Free Gift in return for your help! 

 

This Spring, I’m launching my new, bi-weekly internet radio show called “Teaching for a Living, Not Just a Paycheck.”  The show is sponsored by WAT and will be aimed at helping teachers, trainers, coaches – and subject matter experts of all kinds - recharge our teaching careers AND our bank accounts.

 

I’m really excited about this series! And, instead of guessing what it’s going to take for participants to get the most out of it, I decided to ask YOU – someone who is already exploring new frontiers in teaching and learning – what would serve you best.

 

So, at www.mawstoolbox.com/WATsurvey1.html I've posted a short 3 minute survey.

 

As a thank you (bribe) for filling out the survey, I will personally send you a FREE GIFT – a report I’ve just completed titled, “7 Places Teachers, Trainers, Coaches and Consultants Can Turn YOUR EXPERTISE into CA$H Today.”


This report covers seven places teachers – of all kinds - can start making money TODAY in the global knowledge marketplace. None of these places requires you to have your own website, understand shopping carts or be able to take credit card payments online. They just make it EASY for people like us – people who have spent our lives building our expertise and teaching skills - to use those skills to MAKE REAL MONEY – online.  One of them, of course, if this WAT site!

 

Thanks so much in advance for your help! I’m really looking forward to learning with and from you on “Teaching for a Living…not Just a Paycheck.”

 

More soon…

Meri

Goodbye bureaucracy. Hello curiosity!
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Goodbye bureaucracy. Hello curiosity!

Listening to Mark Cruthers talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you? (If you haven't yet heard this interview, use the audio player up in the top right-hand corner of this page to access it. )

We Are Teachers, the WizIQ free virtual classroom, Elluminate, Kasamba, Moodle, and the new tutoring environment at LearnHub are opening doors to brand new possibilities for teachers - of all kinds - and learners - of all ages.

We truly can teach and learn whatever we want, anywhere and anytime we're ready. Some of us want to enjoy this freedom now. But there's WAY TOO MUCH information to decide where to start. We want reliable tools and strategies that will work for each of us. And we're different.

I recommend that my clients use these 9 questions to chart their own best course:

  1. What do you want to learn live and online with others?
  2. What could you teach in a free, virtual classroom?
  3. What would be the most fun to teach and learn with a group of people with whom you're not co-located?
  4. What might you need to translate about the way you teach face-to-face so that you can create a trusting, vital, collaborative learning relationship with others in a virtual classroom or office?
  5. What will you need from live teachers and co-learners for you to achieve your best performance?
  6. What kind of help do you want navigating collaboratively with others? What would you prefer to explore alone?
  7. What other questions come up for you when you think about teaching and learning whatever you want online?
  8. Where and how will you evaluate the answers you find?
  9. When would now be a good time to start experimenting with some new possibilities?

WHAT TO DO NEXT:
As you're considering these questions, please choose one or more of them and share your thoughts and feelings with me by mail. You can reach me at mawstoolbox@gmail.com.

Alternately, you can add your thoughts using your microphone, telephone, or webcam to this online VOICETHREAD.

Soon, I will convene a live session, using WizIQ, where we can explore our thoughts and share our experiences in this brave new world of live, online teaching and learning.

Watch this space for an announcement of the date and time.
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