While my beautiful wife is more than busy with her “NO Sex in the City” excursion in New York, I have dug a deep technological trench working diligently on our new venture, “The International School Teacher 2.0”. The site is through Ning.com, a social/professional network. It is our hope that TIST 2.0 becomes a widely used resource for international teachers near and far. This is the part where I include the not-so-official official press release.
This social network was created as a forum for teachers in international schools, and educators interested in teaching abroad to convene and discuss pertinent topics, such as:
- Sharing instructional strategies
- Insights on specific international schools
- Questions and concerns about IB
- Integrating instructional technology, web 2.0
- Cross-curricular and cross-continental projects
- Job fairs and the recruitment process
- Advice about future teaching destinations and cultural adjustment
- Keeping up with old colleagues and making new contacts
We also plan on including a number of in-house resources such as live broadcasted webinars and a podcast.
Notice, you did not read bimonthly, or even biannually regarding the podcast… first things first. Oh, but we have a real cavalcade of international school circuit heavy weights lined up for the podcasts.
Have a look, sign up, reply to posts, and by all means contribute some of your vast knowledge to the site. I think if we get it up and running according to our action plan TIST 2.0 could be a real success.
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