Many online schools start with an enrichment class that is meant to ease the student into the process. The majority of the online students are older people who may have been away from school of any kind for many years. In addition, for many of them this is their first real use of the computer, adding even more anxiety to the process. If you are getting ready to start your very first online class, first of all congratulations! You...more
One of the first things children learn is how to imitate. With these imitation skills, children use this as a foundation for behaving properly, being self-sufficient, and developing physical and verbal skills. Children are very impressionable, as they watch you, the parent, up close and look up to you as the perfect role model. The things you say and do would become your child's blueprint when it comes to their attitudes and actions leading to...more
A new generation of hand-held electronic devices have entered the children's educational toy and game market.By James TweedieApart from Nintendo's DS and Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP), hand-held electronic devices such as mobile phones, MP3 players and readers (characterised by Apple's iPhone, iPod and iPad ranges) have so far been made for and marketed to adults and teens. Now a new generation of pocket consoles have been launched specifically for chldren, including Fisher-Price's iXL Learning System, Leapfrog's Leapster Explorer and VTech's MobiGo.Available in Green or Pink, Leapster features a touch-screen display and built-in stylus, and retails for less than 40. Aimed at children from toddler and preschool age to nine years old, Leapster features educational games covering subjects from art and music to geography and maths. Games come in the form of slot-in 64 Megabyte cartridges, but you can also buy and download software 'apps' called 'Leaplets' from an online shop by connecting the device, with it's 512Mb internal storage memory, to a PC or Mac computer.Leaplets come in various forms: e-books to teach vocabulary and spelling, videos to teach counting, language flash...more
If there has ever been an idea whose time has come, it's the idea of taking steps to green our homes, schools, workplaces and bodies. Greening your school can not only improve the health of your students and staff and lessen your impact on the environment, it can also create a great sense of school unity and pride as everyone works...more
When you are discussing your future, do you see the quiet garden of your retirement days or do you see an older, hunched-over version of yourself heading out to a minimum wage, part-time job to help you try to eke out a living for yet another month? Do you see trips in your golden years? Or do you see anxious days counting out pennies...more
Have you ever wondered who makes the better online student? Older students dread returning to college or other types of education, simply because they are older. Sure, they can learn as well as anyone else in that class and they paid the same tuition. They may even have had the same dreams that the other students have had at one time or another in their lifetimes. But, for many older students it is a shock to look around the room and see all of the fresh-faced youths around them. It may be impossible for them not to feel that they just somehow do not belong there. In an online education, the older student can feel just as welcome as anyone else because distance learning can be the great equalizer. Find the best online degrees available to start your new career. An online education ends the designation of not only age, but gender, religion, race and other factors that can color a classroom-based education. In many of the distance learning situations, your interactions with other students will be limited and you will base responses on their answers to questions posed by the instructor, not on any of their personal attributes or other identifiers. Older students do...more
Goals for education often times center on the attainment of a degree. A online bachelor's degree is obtained after enough credits, usually 4 years worth, are acquired. It can be a long road to getting these credits, especially for a...more
Want to go Green? The buzz color lately seems to be green. Everyone is looking for ways to be more green. Living green is living with environmental efforts in mind. It is using paper instead of plastic, or better yet using your own...more
Online post-secondary schools are becoming more prevalent every day. There are numerous ads on television, advertisements in newspapers and pop-up ads that offer school information on the Internet. Distance education is a main source of...more
One of the qualifications offered by British educational institutions, Cayman Islands, Cameroon, Wales and Northern Ireland is the A-level or advanced level. A-level courses are offered in a British school spread over two years. These courses are...more
Rituals. When we think of them, we often think of church, temple, or synagogue. We think sacred and mysterious. However, rituals are really important parts of everyday living that sanctify the ordinary. Seemingly ordinary experiences...more
Being a teacher is a troublesome job. With moody children and angry parents, it is not a profession for the weak-minded. However for an educator, the simplest gifts will create their day, especially if they are available from the youngsters they...more