SEO for Kids: How to Get Found Online
There’s a book called “SEO for Dummies.” But you’re not a dummy. This article explains why it’s so important for kids to learn how to find things.
Teaching & Learning – Collaborative Exploration Leads to Growth!
I teach. I believe Lifelong Learning should be the norm rather than an anomally. And I learn a lot from my students. If you want to learn something, then teach it. You’re often out of your comfort zone, but you really do learn much more than you will read or watching a lesson. Try things. Fail, and learn from that. You don’t need to pay to teach – you might even get paid!
Social Media for Graphic Designers: 4-Week Intensive Course
Social media course for graphic designers. Blends theory and skills with a hands-on project. Prepares you for real-world social media marketing challenges.
Dusting Off Those College Writing Lessons to Improve Your Blogging
Most of us have forgotten the writing principles taught in college. Revisit the 3-step structure and create engaging, well-organized articles.
The Monty Hall Problem and Other SEO Logic Traps: Behind Which Door is Your Keyword?
Monty Hall Paradox? Logical thinking in SEO = ditching gut feelings & embracing data. Analyse, research, and prioritise. Build a sustainable strategy based on facts, not fads.
Home Digital Care: The Intersection of Compassion and Technology for Senior Services
Visualize a community centre that serves as a hub for a digital revolution—a place where seniors can visit to receive assistance and where digital care workers zip out on mopeds to aid those who can’t.
Web Presence and Social Media Marketing Mastery
How can you quickly learn social media marketing and website creation in 4 hours?
Mastering Writing with AI and Emotional Intelligence
Enhance your writing skills by harnessing the power of AI and Emotional Intelligence. Combine both for impactful and authentic communication. A course proposal.
You are What You Learn: Tips for Teachers, Small Business Owners, and Seniors
Education never stops – even after we graduate and begin working. How is technology changing education, and how can we benefit? Find out more!
8 Ways to Promote Your Small Business Online for Free
Forget contracting an agency. Do you have a website? Do you have access to email and social media? Then you can promote your business, yourself, for free.
Grandparents Can Code Too
The Internet and digital technologies are becoming increasingly important in more and more areas of everyday life. How can we ensure the participation of older members of society in the current digital transformation? For everyone to benefit from these technologies, it will take more than the ability to download apps to smartphones or transfer money via online banking.
How to Plan, Structure, Write, and Market Your Own Book while Dealing with Writer’s Block
How Can You Plan, Write, and Market a Book While Dealing with Writer’s Block? This is not going to be the final word on the subject. More like a pre-penultimate teaser article. With revisions. Writer’s block is a myth. The real problem is often that you don’t take writing a book seriously enough. Don’t despair. You aren’t alone.
Schools Benefit from Customer Loyalty that Most Businesses Can Only Dream About: a Talk with Rob Cairns
Schools have an advantage over other types of businesses. A school is a brand that we’re going to be very involved with for many years.
eLearning Studies Got You Down? You Might Learn More About a Subject by Teaching it.
Education is changing. It’s moving further from the classroom and the fixed lesson plan to somewhere more ad-hoc and less physical. If we think about how our tech culture has changed over the last generation, education is probably going to undergo even more drastic changes as we enter the virtual world of research, teaching, and learning.
Online Marketing is important not only for your business, or your nonprofit. It’s also important for your school.
How do you first generate interest in your school and the programs you’re offering? You make sure you’re well covered in social media. You make sure you’re well covered for search engine optimization. Once you’ve got people’s attention, they’re going to go onto your website.
Spoiler Alert! We Rely on Our Web Students so We Should Pay Them More Money
We should pay for the real value in the services we receive. So why do we always pay more for perceived value?
Why You Should Add an Online Course to Your Current Website Today
Adding an online course is a win no matter how you look at it. People search the internet for solutions to their problems. Online courses deliver exactly that!
Who’s Afraid of Digital Thinking? A Conversation from the Center of the Universe
I was fortunate enough to talk with Rob Cairns this month about my book “Digital Thinking: Websites, Online Marketing, and more”. Check out this excerpt or listen to the podcast.
DigiBlogChat: eLearning and Teaching
Carol Stephens invited me to talk with her and others on her Twitter DigiBlogChat about eLearning and Teaching. How’s it been, and where is it going? his a change for the better or the worse, or somewhere in the middle? Let’s talk about it and see where it’s going! See you then!
We Spend Ninety-Nine Days a Year Online Watching Cat Videos
We used to use tools for a specific purpose, retrieving them individually from our toolbox or tool shed. Our mobile devices now offer us everything we require in one tool – information gathering, entertainment, problem solving, security, communication, and ultimately – gratification and self-confidence.
Online Teaching and Learning
For some of my friends, Home Schooling was always a reality. For many of us, digital teaching aids were a way of supplementing what we considered below average teaching. This is not to criticise our teachers most of whom are amazing. It is simply an answer to the way this generation of children learn and live. Digital Natives are simply born multi-taskers.
Education and Learning in our E-World
Education and Learning, Culture, Business, Politics – Technology is reshaping our world! What learning objectives should we set in our Digital Age?
The Internet is Not Free
CERN announced, on 30 April 1993, that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone. Free is a relative term. The Internet has been valued at around 1 Trillion dollars a year. By most standards, a Trillion dollars is a bit north of “Free”.
See Jack Code. See Jane Code. Code Kids Code!
To prosper in our digital world, to participate in its development, coding skills will be of great importance.
To Code or Not to Code …
Computers aren’t going away any time soon. You should know how to code – or at least write some HTML.