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How to complete an online course?

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For a while now I've been sharing ideas on free online courses you can take up every month - hopefully you find them inspiring at least as much as I do. One of the comments I get is that while it's easy to find a nice course and sign in, it's far more difficult to complete it. Some people say that's why paid courses are a better option as you feel the pressure on finishing something you paid for.

"Authentic Learning in the Digital Age" - can we connect technology and better education?

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Larissa Pahomov is a part of Science Leadership Academy, and the book she wrote offers not only her insight on creating an authentic learning environment, but also bears the mark of a true practitioner and some of the answers are the ones that make this book more than a guide for other SLA teachers.

Role Playing Teaching (Part 4: Games From Distant Worlds)

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Today I want to share some examples of the environments and systems you may enjoy with your students. You may take your students to the adventure in the Wild West followed by a crime story a'la film noir in an urban fantasy setting.

Tell them what we're doing! (guest note by Ewa Torebko)

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I met Ewa last August during workshop where she shared her way of lesson planning and sharing it with her students. I found the idea just brilliant, so I asked her to write a guest post for my blog, so that you have the opportunity to learn from the master herself.

New Year, New Me? 5 ideas on how to make 2018 more organised

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Today I want to share some of the ideas I've practised in 2017 which made my life considerably easier. The reason I chose to write about my personal experience is due to my work as a teacher trainer - the longer I work with new teachers, the more noticeable it is to me that a lot of teaching-oriented problems stem from poor time management.

What school leaders need to know...

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I found some parts of the book a little bit outdated, however, the majority of the articles shed new light on some of the digital tools I've been using for a while. If you want to read a book that gives you a moment of reflection on your technological approach - that's a great book for you.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 3: Being a teacher and being a Game Master)

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In my previous articles I briefly described a phenomenon of Role-Playing Games and shared the reasons for which people play games - and enjoy it. Today, I want to demonstrate similarities between teaching and playing RPGs which will help me prove why RPGs can be the ultimate answer to Game-Based Learning approach.

7 free online courses in October

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September is over, and October brings long evenings when you can drink tea or hot chocolate and read books... or learn, of course! With leaves falling in many beautiful colours, let me shower you with lovely online courses, that are free to participate and open for everyone. And if autumn cosiness makes you slightly lazy, the courses I want to show you will wake you up and inspire for a nice change!

5 things I should've been told when I was a rookie teacher

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Being a DoS means also recruiting new teachers, and then training them to meet up the standards of our school - and this inspires me to share 5 things someone should've told me when I started teaching years ago. Someone should have - but I had no DoS, and even though teaching runs in my blood, there are some things I had to discover by myself:

Summer school madness - 8 tips from a survivor

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A friend of mine is joining a summer school in England for the very first time and asked me to write some tips for summer school virgins. Here we go, then - if I managed to survive, so will you!

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