A presentation prepared for a WizIQ live class on using the internet and free resources to obtain professional development in online and other forms of teaching technology.

1. Learning Online
Some Tips for Finding
What You Need Online

2. Helpful Attitudes
O Willingness to …
O Explore at your leisure
O Drink in the style as well as the content of a
resource
O Watch everybody until you find the best
O Be taught
O Leap in and try it out
O Learn by teaching
O Think first free, then low cost, then worth it to
you

3. Page 1
0f a
Google
Search

4. Page 6
of a
Google
Search

5. Style and Content
The value of
watching a little
bit of everything

6. The obvious places to start:

7. Not so obvious place to start:

8. Narrow your choices to the best for you:

9. Letting yourself be taught

10. Letting yourself take that first leap

11. Learn by teaching …

12. Sustaining habits of mind:
O Admit you have a passion you can turn
into a learning experience for someone
else!
O Know that your teaching efforts don’t have
to be perfect to be useful!
O Concentration, attention, immersion, abso
rption can all yield joy!
O Developing a community of friends and
colleagues makes the journey even more
worthwhile: We’re all in this together!

13. Thanks for you attention! 