Be it your first job out of college or a job change, eventually most people will have to look through job postings. You can try searching the general job posting websites like Monster, but those sites are often cluttered with jobs in the “education” category that aren’t really the kind of teaching job for which you’re looking. K12 JobSpot might be a better place to look for your next job in education. K12 JobSpot lists job postings from thirty-three states. On K12 JobSpot you can search for jobs by job title, by location, or by a combination of both.
-
-
Talk Shoe
One of the more interesting services that I forgot to use in my classes this summer was Talk Shoe. Anyone with experience using this one?
TalkShoe™ – About the TalkShoe company that creates Community Calls
TalkShoe is a service that enables anyone to easily create, join,
or listen to Live Interactive Discussions, Conversations, Podcasts
and Audioblogs. These hosted Community Calls can be discussions, conversations, talk shows and podcasts. Recorded Community Calls can be listened to, downloaded, or subscribed to. And if your Community Call becomes popular, you can make money too. -
Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower
Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower
I am not sure that I am going to read this book, but I really like the Overview in any event. It gives one pause to think.
Tap into the power that cool thinking generates—learn how going slower can actually help you get more done, faster.
Before you check your wireless e-mail for the fourth time this hour, ask yourself, is this truly helping you get further ahead? Or is the pressure to address the immediate actually pushing you backwards?
-
50 most frequently looked up words on the NYTimes
N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to be sanguine: The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary.
-
TightProjector
TightProjector is a software that can transmit the screen of a particular Windows computer to other computers in the same local-area network. The data is transmitted continuously, in real time.
Usage examples:
- broadcasting a presentation to multiple networked computers
- showing a class of students operations performed by a teacher