My New TEFL Project
It’s break time so that means it’s time for me to get some real work done and get some new sites up and rolling. One of the sites that I am doing is a Freelance TEFL site. Most of it will be new, but a good chunk of it, at least at first, will be a rehash of some of the work I’ve done in the past. The defunct TEFLWatch forum will be resurrected as a base for the Freelance TEFL forum. Some of old school ratings and Hall of Shame postings from the TEFLWatch blog will be resurrected as well.
While none of the work is ready to go live yet, the content is looking good and it won’t be long until I am back helping teachers get ahead.
Cheap and Easy Way to Sell Ebooks
I am in the planning stages of my first ebook. As I put together my plans, I’ve been trying to figure out out how to handle the sales of the book when I am finished. I had looked into Clickbank, but you have to pay to get listed and then it still doesn’t easily handle the sales. I didn’t want to go to the hassles of making my own secure downloads and then putting up a shopping cart. Luckily I discovered E-junkie
Basically, they handle the downloads for the product and they provide a simple shopping cart. This means that you can stick some simple code on your site and people can easily buy the ebook and download it, without any work on your part. They even have affiliate programs built in so that it’s easy to get people selling for you. A big bonus is that their basic fee is just $5 /month. That’s a good deal that is difficult to pass up.
I will certainly be using them when I start selling my ebooks. They make it easy to get started selling digital content.
How To Silk Screen Print Your Own Shirts
I have always been interesting in learning new skills. My wife was talking with me the other day about possibly doing silk screen shirts to sell at the flea market on the weekends for extra money. I always thought that making silk screen shirts would be difficult until I came across this video.
It’s a great tutorial on the process involved in silk screening shirts. The tutorial is pretty straightforward, but I do suggest watching it a couple of times to get in all of the information. There is a lot to take in, but once you do, it’s all good. I suggest trying it out on a few shirts before you think about doing it as a full time business.
Anyways, enjoy the tutorial video.
Learn Something New With Open Courseware
One of the best resources out there on the web for helping you learn some interesting new topics is the Open Courseware Consortium. MIT started by putting their course notes and lectures in an attempt to make their information more accessible to teachers around the world. Thanks to the push by MIT, other universities have gotten into the act in order to help people throughout the world.
You can get lecture and class notes on many different courses and subjects. Instead of giving you a list of courses, it’s better just to go and take a look yourself so that you can browse the listings and see what interests you or is useful for your classes. You owe it yourself to take a look.
GCompris Educational Suite
Gcompris is a great program for helping kids learn. It is great for ages 3 up to about 8 or 9. The upper age level kind of differs by the maturity and English level of the kids. I find it very useful for my own childrenin fact, they just love it!
Gcompris is a powerful suite of educational programs. They have a paint program, several games of skills and of thinking and best of all for us TEFL teachers, they have some really nice vocabulary study modules. Kids can practice their ABC’s or they can practice finding words that are spoken to them. It’s fun and educational so spending a few hours on it can be a real blast for your students. My kids liked the math tutorial modules the most.
The best thing about Gcompris is that the Linux version is free. A limited Windows version is also available for free, but the full version is limited to people wishing to pay for the full version. Why? In order to encourage people to adopt Linux. You can find more about Gcompris on the Gcompris site.
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