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WAT Christmas dinner

WAT Marketing / Community team Christmas outing

Last night the DFW WeAreTeachers marketing & community team went out to dinner to celebrate the season and enjoy good friends, food, and let's not forget the desserts.

Here's wishing you a safe and Merry Christmas / New Year!

Share your great writing tips

Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through January 1, 2009, teachers who submit tips at http://contest.thewritingteacher.org and garner at least ten votes will win a copy of any book in the LearningExpress English Language Arts series. The top eight finalists will win a full classroom set of any single title in the series and two winners who receive the most votes will each win a Flip Video camera.

This is a great opportunity for you as writing experts to share your strategies and get free resources and a chance at a really cool prize.

This program is hosted by Mitchell Weisburgh, a WeAreTeachers community member and works with educators and education companies to promote literacy and writing practices.

Get great ideas, videos, resources, blog posts from teachers who have submitted their ideas in this collective library of writing tips. These are great for enhancing your writing activities with your students.

Share your writing tips. Get free stuff.

David Armano & Brand U.O

"Interactions + Feelings = Brand"

Products are brands, Celebrities are brands and even ordinary people are building their own brand with Web 2.0. Influence and interactions can catapult your brand. David Armano provides a very practical overview of building your own personal brand leveraging social media.



5 Tips for Branding U.
1. Be Ubiquitous
2. Be Social
3. Be Interesting
4. Be Remarkable
5. Be Yourself

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Las Posadas

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Dance.

Preferred Student Communication Tools

I've discovered this information first hand when I first turned on text messaging on my kid's cell phones. My son, a freshman in high school, managed to rack up 3,500 text messages in one month, and that's having been grounded from his phone for two weeks that month. My daughter is much better, she still calls us, old timers, but chooses to text her friends in college.

Only 12% of students currently check email on their mobile, but eROI predicts that number will increase quickly, especially given the recent explosion of smartphones on the market. In the meantime, though, it's text messaging that remains supreme with 37% selecting that as their preferred method of communication. Email is second at 26% followed by social networking IM (15%) , IM (11%), and social networking email (11%).

Read the full post at:
ReadWriteWeb
Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting. Written by Sarah Perez