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How can You be a Successful Teacher Online?

Meri Walker interviews Mark Cruthers on her episode, "Teaching for a Living". Mark discusses how he has been successful using WiZiQ for teaching online. Mark has been teaching Advanced Placement History online on WiZiQ and his students scored top grades.

Mark shares his success in this podcast; just click on the play button to listen:

Meri writes about this interview on her own website, Mawstoolbox, in her latest post: How to Make an Extra $25,000 A Year Teaching A Few Homeschoolers Online

If you want to share your own online teaching success story using WiZiQ , please let us know.

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Posted by Jagdeep Singh Pannu

Free Webinars Online by Educationists on WiZiQ

Our endeavor is to make WiZiQ a generic brand in online education. WiZiQ has gained significant recognition in education segments including IIT/JEE, AIEEE, PMT, CAT, GMAT, GRE, TOEFL, CLAT, CBSE Class Xth and XIIth, Civil Services examination, Management, Personality Development, Meditation and the list goes on…

Till now, we have organized over 80 ‘Public Sessions’ (online webinars) on WiZiQ. Public sessions are free live web seminars on recent interesting topics.  These are presented by prominent educationists having a huge fan following. The portal has been endorsed by celebrity teachers, authors and educationists. Some of our Public Session presenters on WiZiQ:

1.       Dr. HC Verma – The most read author of Physics , professor at IIT Kanpur

2.       Dr. P Bahadur – The most read author of Chemistry, professor at DAV college Muzaffarnagar

3.       Dr S Biswas, Dr A Biswas – Authors of Pradeep’s objective Biology

4.       Dr. DC Pandey – Author of numerous books on Physics

5.       Mark Cruthers – History teacher and Home Schooling expert, California, United States

6.       Manoj Tyra – Author of the best selling book on Quicker Mathematics.

7.       Gaurav Tekriwal – President, Vedic Mathematics forum of India, mentee of Shakuntla Devi.

8.       VP Gupta – Director, Rau’s IAS study Circle, New Delhi

9.       Sanjay Singh – Mathematics Mentor for IIT/JEE AIEEE aspirants

10.   Ananya Ganguly – Chemistry teacher for  IIT/JEE AIEEE aspirants

11.   Dr. ID Shukla – Phonetics, Linguistic and Communications  expert

12.   Rajesh Pandey – Director of  People Factor and Ex VP of HR at the Quark Media house

We have successfully connected students to the finest educationists throughout the world and are in process of establishing a relationship with educationists in varied subject areas. WiZiQ invites you to take the best advantage of our Public Sessions initiative. Check www.wiziq.com/public for viewing live, upcoming and archived public sessions. And if you are an expert in your subject you can apply for giving your own public session.

Mayank J Kumar

Your Online Teaching Business on WiZiQ

Dave has an informative presentation in the content section on WiZiQ, which I thought can be very helpful for everyone who would like to start their online teaching business, or if they have started already but need some more tips to get it better.

He has provided some starting tips but of course you can always use other channels and ideas. This is not a state-of-the-art user guide, but has some useful tips which should not be overlooked. After the introduction it talks about the importance of your profile on WiZiQ. This is like your CV, and as the students choose teachers after seeing their profile, it must be professional and unique.

Then it has some tips about online and offline marketing - how and where you can market your sessions to have more attendees. Your blog is a great place for posting about your coming session, and also other opportunities are mentioned like forums and classifieds. But of course in promoting yourself you have to be creative! Lastly, this presentation also suggests that before you start to make sessions for a bigger audience, you should practice on WiZiQ's free Virtual Classroom because practice makes perfect!

We also recommend that if you are a subject expert, you should hold your own public session on WiZiQ. If you would like to hold public sessions, you just have to fill in a form, and after review, it will appear on the public session page. We will help you in promoting your session, connecting you directly with potential learners. You can apply here.

Tamas Toth

Maria H Anderson's WiZiQ Demos

Practice Sessions on WiZiQ

Maria H Anderson will be doing practice sessions on WiZiQ for instructors to help them discover how they can use WiZiQ for e-teaching.

Maria writes, "There was a lot of interest at ICTCM in this little program called WizIQ and I offered to do a demo this week to let instructors try it out."

Directions and Tips

Maria has also given step-wise directions on what to do before these sessions to help attendees to prepare themselves for a smooth experience. I would like to add that to avoid echo issues, it is best for attendees with speakers to not activate their microphones; virtual classroom protocol is as important for a smooth session as is protocol in traditional classrooms. Also, I tried to answer a question recently: what's the "best" web conferencing software; this post includes some tips on what to expect in virtual classrooms and how to avoid probable issues that could be encountered in all web conferencing systems.

Session Links:

ICTCM Demo - Friday, March 14 [3:30 PM To 4:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)]

ICTCM Demo - Sunday, March 16 [7:00 PM To 8:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)]

Public Sessions on WiZiQ

If you are an expert in your subject and want to publicly share your sessions with everyone, it is a good idea to get these listed on our Public Sessions page. Subject experts can get visibility on WiZiQ this way. We also try to publicize your sessions by reaching out to audiences that are interested in your subject. You would need to send a request for us to help you with that.

Jagdeep Singh Pannu