LTEC 5580 Blog

Interviewing is one of the most stressful events that a person will encounter in their lives.  It combines the fear of speaking in public or to strangers and the desire for the position that you are interviewing to get.  There are scores of websites, books, and seminars that promise to make you a better interviewer but the secret is inside each person.  As a former retail store manager, I have interviewed candidates for many positions from part-time cashiers to full-time assistant managers. The first big tip is to get comfortable with the skill set that got an interview.  Employers receive many applications for each position and only select a few to take to the interview step.  If an employer asks for an interview, that step has been cleared and the skill set is present to be successful in the job.  Many applicants forget that very important fact.  Too many times, the stress of the interview overshadows the step in the selection process that has already been cleared.  A second import

Twitter is a platform that has really helped me as an educator.  When I was still in the classroom, I was in a district that did not offer much in the way of innovative technology professional development.  I started a professional Twitter account and spent time on it each day looking at different things people were doing in their classrooms.  I was able to start reading blogs and use all of that information to change the things I was doing in my classroom.  It became my place to go for ideas.  This was a few years ago and now Twitter has become a place you need to check for ideas.  There are so many teachers sharing what they are doing in their classrooms.  It has a wealth of information there for you to use. It is also a good way to connect with other educators to have discussions.  Twitter chats are becoming popular and are great ways to have conversations with educators that you might not get an opportunity to talk to on a regular basis.  There have been some great conversations

Social media is something that is a large part of life today.  It allows you to keep connections with people around you and these connections are important.  It is also important to control your data and the online social media presence.  It has now become part of the job application and interview process.  Many job seekers use it to look for connections and jobs in their area.  Employers routinely search for their candidates online and look up what they are posting online.  It is important to make sure that your settings are correct to make sure that you don't share anything you don't want to share.  You also want to make sure your profile represents what you want people to see and your picture needs to be something appropriate.  It is a good idea to have your posts on Facebook set to friends only.  That allows you to keep posts private by default.  You can change a post to a different setting while you are posting.  You also want to look at the different search settings and h