Monday, April 28, 2014

Blog Promotion - 100 ways



Came across the article - 50 ways to promote and market your blog posts. There may not be anything special in the post but it shows, a blogger with the desire to have good audience cannot just post and forget about it. He has to use multiple online and offline channels to promote his blog and blog posts.

1.Facebook
       Post
       Pages
       Communities
2. Twitter
        Post
        Reply
3. Google+
         Post
         Page
         Community
4.Pinterest
5. Stumble upon
6. Linkedin
         Home page post
         Groups
7. Scoop it
8. Forum discussions
9. Triberr
10. Pligg
11. Slideshare
12. SEO
13. Comments on Others' blog posts
14. Ezine
15. Signature in your Email
16. YouTube video
17. Instagram
18. Press release
19. Fiverr
20. Webinar
21. Emails

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/05/29/50-ways-to-promote-and-market-your-blog-posts/


Yes 50 are in this article itself. 50 more will also be there.
I just wrote the above line.
Now I came across the article 99 ways to promote your blog
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/blog-promotion/99-ways-to-promote-your-blog-for-free/


See the infographic - 120 ways to market your blog
http://www.blogsrelease.com/index.php?module=Blog&mode=sharemode&share=46

Monday, April 21, 2014

100 and More Ways to Motivate Yourself



Well I came across a Google Book and I can flip through many pages.

I came across the page as I am searching for the statement using Google search "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" by Voltaire.

The suggestions are interesting

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ezNRZVVnPGUC



I am trying to compile 100 ideas myself.

1. Have an exciting vision
2. Visualize that you succeeded in achieving the vision.
3. Make a plan to reach the vision
4. Think of adventure. Don't fear failure
5. Think you found a key that is going open the door to success.
6. If you achieved what you planned move your goal post.
7. Think of using all your faculties
8. Think of playing the character you adore.
9. Think of enjoying yourself. Get excited to feel happy.
10. Forget your past failure. Think of them as stepping stones to success now. You will succeed now as you learnt many things from your failures.
11. Perform you will be happy.
12. Feel your are also Einstein- Great ideas can come to you also.
13. Remember your successes and feel  good to do more.
14. Accept will power. If you want to do it you can do it.
15. Help people and grow rich in the amount of help you provided others.
16. Become curious. Explore some thing.
17. Talk to yourself and encourage yourself
18. Believe in your comeback to do a thing right. Forget the failed attempt.
19. All your right brain to provide positive thoughts.
20. Finish things and feel happy. Let tasks flow to completion. They provide motivation.
21. Plan to achieve small goals every day. They become big achievements cumulatively.
22. Advertise to yourself your projects.
23. Remembers the stories of heroes. They will inspire you.
24. Perform rituals. Once you start they just happen and let you do what you plan to do.
25. Try to talk to your best friends about your plans. They encourage you and you will feel motivated.
26. Become the change. Don't worry about others. Whenever you want a change in the situation, you change yourself.
27. Do things up to the point of failure. Failure of the point of stopping and it strengthens your success muscles.
28. Do rehearsals and it will help you to succeed in the real drama.
29. Respect your knowledge and increase it.
30. Enjoy the fragrance of your success. Celebrate successes with flowers that give fragrance.
31. Don't worry about two steps forward and one step backward. You are still one step ahead.
32. Think of your past success through a specific way. Try it now again.
33. Remember. Only one in ten will listen to you. Keep telling many to get what you want.
34. Only one in ten will help when you want. Keep helping more people.



http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/06/13/25-simple-ways-to-motivate-yourself/


http://www.zentactics.com/how-to-motivate-yourself.html

Friday, April 4, 2014

Teaching is Going Beyond the Prescribed Text Book

Teaching is Going Beyond the Prescribed Text Book

Teaching is Going Beyond the Prescribed Text Book

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Text book is a learning aid for the student. It is the primary source of learning. There are many other sources.
Text book is a teaching aid for the teacher. The knowledge base of the teacher is much larger than the text book. This fact is ensured by appointing persons with higher qualifications for teaching. For example in India. primary classes are taught by person with 10 years of school education with further training in teaching. Higher education, from 6th class onwards, or especially from 8th class onwards is taught by graduates with teacher training. 11th and 12th classes and undergraduate classes are taught by persons with post graduate qualifications. Post graduate classes are taught by people with Ph.d. qualification.

Teachers have to use their knowledge base in teaching. They should not depend only on the text book for conducting their teaching assignments. Recently,  there was a conference of research alumni of IIT Bombay. In that conference, 91 year old Dr. Bhattacharya stated that if the teacher refers only the same text that the student is going to use or prescribed to use, such teaching will be mediocre teaching. A teacher has to consult many more sources and bring the important issues from those sources into his classroom teaching by integrating with the material in the prescribed text book.

One of the scholars in teaching recommends that a teacher has to be like an iceberg. What is visible is his command on the material in the text book that he is using in the class. The knowledge base of his is invisible. Like the ratios in an iceberg between the visible and invisible portions, which could be anywhere between 1:5 to 1:10, the teacher's knowledge base has to be many more times compared to his class room delivery.
How does a teacher accumulate the knowledge base? One way is by having a higher academic qualification. A higher academic qualification ensures that the teacher has depth. There are instances wherein teachers have to teach subjects that themselves have not learnt in a formal way. This happens in higher education institutes. The needs of the institute are to be satisfied or fulfilled by existing faculty members and therefore the teacher has to take up subjects with which is familiarity is low. What is the prescription for such teachers or teachers in general to acquire depth?  A teacher  has to study one full book for each chapter that he is taking in a class. To elaborate the prescription, we may say a teacher has to read a book on "heat" or thermal physics to teach a simple chapter on "measurement of temperature".

Teacher also needs to have breadth. To acquire breadth, he needs to study six different books written for the same syllabus. This study will give him alternate ways of explaining things. This will enable him to try an alternative way of explaining whenever his students find it difficult to understand the explanation given in the text book.

A teacher needs to have familiarity. For this the prescription is that a teacher has to study the lesson that he is planning to teach at least six time including rehearsals.

Case study method is being promoted in business schools. Unfortunately, proponents of case study method talk more of failure of the method and less of its success in class room. The proponents blame the teacher community, that they go to a case study class without adequate preparation. But any teacher does not go to a lecture class without adequate preparation. He should not and does not normally go to the case study class also without adequate preparation. Hence the prescription, for the case study class also is  that the teacher should read the case and the suggested teaching note six times including some rehearsals.

A person with higher qualification becomes in practice a person without qualification if he is not refreshing his knowledge. Teachers have to revise and update their knowledge bases even if they do not teach that entire knowledge base in their class. This is the argument put forward by many for not keeping their knoweldge up to date. Your teaching becomes mediocre if you are not keeping your entire knowledge base up to date.


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Narayana Rao - 06 Sep 2011
Updated 4 April 2014