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By: Leigh Murrell

Leigh Murrell — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:19:56 +0000

Dan, thank you for your posts. You have given me a lot to think about. I am/have been working at making my presentations better and you have provided me with inspiration. I agree with Jen,”I despise 99.5% of powerpoints that I see. I hate having my time wasted. I hate being read to. I hate seeing pictures that have little or nothing to do with what I’m learning about.”
The problem is lack of skill and time. I really like the idea of an educational skills bank. Another solution is what you have been saying, asking people for criticism of presentations we post and learning from that so we can develop the skills needed.

By: A. Mercer

A. Mercer — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:58:58 +0000

By: Ian H.

Ian H. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:07:33 +0000

Fair enough – I apologise for assuming you were being sarcastic.

I’m a little leery of registering a domain for everyone, particularly when there’s horror stories of sites like Lumberjack’s Exchange (www.lumberjacksexchange.com – eep!) out there. Teacher Skills Bank could possibly be read Teachers Kills Bank (which is grammatically incorrect, but still kind of funny). Just don’t look up teachertrade.com… trust me, it’s not what you think it is.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:18:58 +0000

Take me at face value. I’m 100% sincere. I dig the concept of an educational skills bank, too. I’d hop on that domain name pronto.

By: Ian H.

Ian H. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:29:24 +0000

Well, I'd love to take your response at face value, but my snark meter pegged out. Anyway. As the list you linked to on Dean's site alludes to, no one will ever be perfect in each of the slices of teaching (great analogy, BTW). Maybe we educators should just do what the business world does when there's an acknowledged lack of skill: outsource. We can trade favours with people who have a skill we lack and lack time to develop. I'll get my friend to correct grammar mistakes while I build her a WPMU intall. Professionals recognise and admit that they won't ever be great at everything, and they hire someone to fill in the missing pieces. We can recognise that teachers don't have the budget (personally or institutionally) to actually pay someone to fix those things, so we establish an educational skills bank, with people willing to trade x number of hours of skill y every month in return for equal consideration in an lacking skill area.