10 Ways to Make Money Online and Earn Healthy Income

The Internet offers great moneymaking opportunities for Individuals with computer knowledge and skills required to thrive in this online medium. There are a number of ways to earn money online but the ten best possible ways to earn money online are:

Try selling things on the Internet. That is the simplest way of making money online using the Internet. Selling products on the internet through online shopping portals, virtual auction sites, or setting up a web store in your own website provides a great income opportunity to everyone who has something nice to sell to potential customers online. This is ideal for generating the required amount of revenue on a long-term basis and is the simplest of moneymaking options available online.

For all those who believe that their photography skills can impress anyone, there is a great option to sell photos online and earn money. There are numerous stock photography agencies present online, which help you in selling your photos online. These agencies offer great incentives and income opportunities to budding photographers. The amount is paid on a per-download basis to these photographers after getting the royalty payment rights from them. This is a very useful way to earn money online if you have the required skill set.

Several message boards have many visitors to their sites. These message boards are dependent on regular contributions from the forum members to keep the community alive and the conversation growing. As the message boards get popular, there are chances that more members that are new will join the forum and get their queries solved or contribute towards the discussion. These message boards get the sufficient advertisements to pay to their most active members, who have been posting on a regular basis, thereby giving them a chance to earn some money.

Through various social networking sites, it is actually possible to earn money while going through different profile of people who are members of these sites. Some social networking sites pay its users money to improve page impressions in their profile to attract more visitors. These sites also offer money for uploading and sharing pictures and referring new members to the social networking site. The money given to an Individual depends on a proportionate payment structure setup by the site that distributes almost half of its advertising revenues to its members.

Filling up surveys is another way to earn money online. Filling up market research survey may look like a very boring activity but the opportunities to earn money in this type of work are endless. There are thousands of research groups online, which would like to take your opinion about various things and in that process, pay you for presenting your opinion. For each survey completed, there are certain points or money given out to the users. Once the money-earning limit is hit, the survey team allows the user the opportunity to take the money or exchange the points for a certain amount of money.

Another great way to earn money online is through blogs. The process of blogging can help users earn lot of money online by putting in creative content in their blogs. There are two ways of going about this blogging activity: one is to create your own blog and write all the content on your own. This is a painful process where you need to do all the hard work to earn money. The second one is to setup a sponsored blog where you write reviews about products for companies wanting to promote their business. These blog sites pay you money for providing favorable opinion about a certain product. This is one of the best income opportunities present online.

The internet provides the perfect platform for freelancers to earn money by providing services based on their skill sets. These may include talent such as writing, programming, graphic designing, and training. There are many websites where buyer posts their requirements for a particular assignment and freelancers can bid for that assignment. The buyer then selects the service provider for the assignment and assigns the task to them. This is one of the safest ways to earn money online and the website takes a certain cut from your payment as the intermediary to have got you the job. It is more or less a win-win proposition for everyone involved.

The three other ways to earn money online is by betting, setting up an online business, or by playing computer games. Each of these options provides different sort of earning potential and requires different amount of effort to set the ball rolling and generate the required amount of income for you.

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Top 5 Education Trends in 2013

So the world didn’t end, and now we’re all excited to pop open the champagne, eat way too much food, and ring.

Despite the number 13’s unlucky reputation, we’re all super excited for 2013. Not only internally, where we here at Noodle are working hard to improve our product and give our users a top-of-the-line educational experience, but big changes are also happening externally in the education field.

So we’ve put together a list of the Top five trends in education that we’re most excited to see in 2013.

1. Social media will play an even bigger role
Social media has made its way into most sectors, from advertising to sports to the entertainment industry. So naturally, it was bound to become popular in the education field sooner or later. From student-created YouTube videos to SMS marketing to professors creating classroom focused blogs and Facebook pages, both teachers and students will continue to benefit from social media inside the classroom. Although social media has become increasingly popular in the past year or two, in 2013 we’re expecting it to make an even bigger splash in the classroom.

2. More universities will offer online learning
From free podcasts and online learning tutorials, the internet has made it possible for people to push their educational boundaries and access some of the best resources from the comfort of their own home. Now in addition to paid online classes and degree programs, some universities are even offering free non-credit online courses. Top schools like University of California – Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University are currently offering free courses, and we only expect to see this trend grow in the coming year. Noodle has also jumped on the online learning bandwagon, with a collection of over 450,000 free online learning materials, available to our users anytime, anywhere.

3. The MOOC trend will carry on
What’s a MOOC you might ask? No it's not a character from Dr. Seuss. It actually stands for “Massive Open Online Course” and has been all the rage in the ed tech sector since the term was coined in 2008. MOOCs are revolutionizing the way students learn, and this trend is making its impact across the globe. These courses are typically free, and only require a computer and, of course, the internet. For the new year, there is even talk that MOOCs will become a mechanism for students to receive official college credit. Currently the MOOC methods reach nearly 200 countries in 44 different languages, and have 4,500 testing centers around the world.

4. A better job market for college graduates
The recession might not be completely over, but upcoming college graduates can (hopefully) look forward to a less stressful job hunt than their predecessors. According to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers said they expect to hire 9.5% more graduates from the class of 2012 than they did from the previous graduating class. And students getting their degree in one of the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), will be especially valuable to employers hiring in the new year. So to the class of 2013, take this as a sign to brush up on your interview skills, update your LinkedIn profile and score your dream job in 2013!

5. Game-based learning will gain popularity
Who doesn’t love a good game? Game-based learning (GBL) is becoming increasingly popular inside classroom walls, as teachers become more and more familiar with the process and its many benefits. GBL can be anything from learning simulations, to serious games, to using video games in the classroom. It’s understandable that parents might be skeptical (“Video games at school? Seriously?”) But GBL is designed to balance gameplay with subject matter, and help students retain and apply what they’ve learned in the real world. Although it’s still in the early phases, in 2013 we’re sure to see games being used more frequently in the learning process.

This article originally appeared on Noodle.org

UK faces Desperate Shortage of Science and Maths Teachers

More than 100,000 secondary school pupils will be taught maths and science by teachers untrained in the subjects because of a chronic shortage of new recruits, education experts will warn today.

They predict the shortfall in expertise will discourage sixth-formers from studying the disciplines – which have been identified by the Education Secretary Michael Gove as “national strategic priorities” – at A-level.

Research by Professor John Howson of Oxford Brookes University and Datafor Education, which specialises in analysing recruitment trends, has revealed that up to 30 per cent of maths places on PGCE teacher training courses due to start in September remain unfilled, potentially leaving schools 700 recruits short next year. There is a similar problem with physics, where courses have attracted 386 fewer recruits than in 2012, while other key subject areas such as modern foreign languages and English are in a similar position.

Chris Waterman, co-author of the research, said that every missing maths teacher meant 150 secondary school pupils would be taught the subject by a non-specialist, putting 100,000 pupils at risk of receiving their education from someone who has no specialist maths training.

Professor Howson explained that when the jobs market is improving – as it appears to be at present, albeit slowly – potential candidates often turn their backs on the teaching profession.

He said: “The Government got complacent after the recession [in 2010]. Secondary school rolls were falling so we didn’t need so many teachers; we were coming to the end of the high spot of teacher retirements and we had all those people who wanted to come into teaching because there weren’t any others jobs available. The danger, though, was that this wasn’t going to go on.

“We’ve now had successive years when public sector wages have been held down, and regular stories about the problems facing the profession.  No wonder graduates in the Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects are accepting jobs elsewhere. That was always the risk.”

The way in which the top candidates are recruited has also undergone significant change in the past year, with fewer entering teacher training institutions and more being recruited directly by schools.

Professor Howson’s research is based on published recruitment figures for PGCE courses, plus data on the number of teachers recruited directly by schools from the Department for Education’s website.

It shows the number recruited in maths has fallen by 709, physics by 386, design technology by 350, chemistry by 345 and English by 343. English was one of the subjects that over-recruited last year, meaning the 343 shortfall left it just 113 teachers short of its recruitment target for 2012.

By contrast history courses have recruited 75 more candidates in 2013 than the year before, which is 170 more than 2012’s target.  The number of primary school recruits has risen from 20,760 to 23,380, coinciding with a bulge in the birth rate which has meant that the sector needs extra staff.

Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “We’re very concerned about [the shortage of maths and science recruits]. The sort of feedback we’ve got from our heads is that recruitment directly to schools has been very, very patchy across the country.”

Under the new arrangements, schools can either recruit trainees or take on salaried staff who are aiming to switch careers, but Mr Lightman said the calibre of some of those seeking to switch was “very variable”.

“We’re seeing big gaps in recruitment – particularly in the Stem subjects,” he added.  “It’s a very big cause for concern considering their importance for the future of the economy and it means that some schools have got difficulties in filling places now.

“One would hope much of this would be about teething troubles that can be resolved.” A spokesman for the Department for Education said that new School Direct scheme – under which teachers train on the job – was “proving extremely popular”.

“By May, around 22,500 people had applied for 10,000 places and applications continue to rise,” he said.

“Of course it is right that headteachers are selective and choose only the brightest graduates best suited to their schools.”

Case study: If you haven’t mastered maths, doors close

Carol Vorderman chaired a report on SATs tests for the Education Secretary Michael Gove in 2011

You wouldn’t want me teaching your child PE or music as I’m pretty useless at both and by the same reasoning I guess you wouldn’t want your sons or daughters to be taught maths by their PE teachers. Or music teachers, or whoever.

Maths has to be taught in a very clear way and cannot be fudged. When taught brilliantly, maths is easy and beautiful. With maths you need a deeper understanding. Mathematics is not just any old subject, it is a language, it’s the language of commerce, industry, finance, science, engineering, the internet, communication and all technology. It’s such an important subject that a First World society cannot afford to teach it to any other standard than first class. Understanding it opens so many doors. But equally, if you don’t understand it, doors will slam shut. But the problems in teaching maths lie much deeper than just a shortage of trainees. Part of the problem is that almost all of those people going into primary school training, as shown by Professor Adrian Smith’s 2006 inquiry, gave up maths at 16.

In a report I chaired for Michael Gove, we found that of those children who achieved Level 4 in their SAT tests aged 11 – Level 4 is the government target – just over half went on to achieve their GCSE at grade C or better. Of those who failed to get Level 4, almost all of them failed. In other words, if you are on the mathematical scrapheap by the age of 11, there you are likely to remain. Secondary school is having little effect on the outcome for these children. My concern is that the potential shortage of qualified maths teachers at secondary level can only compound these problems.

But perhaps the biggest problem is our society’s attitude to maths. It is regarded as  “too hard for me” or “geeky”. This is very much a British malaise. We undervalue maths at our peril.

Six Technology Challenges Facing Education

By David Nagel

Despite increasingly widespread adoption of technologies in virtually every aspect of K-12 education, significant challenges are preventing widespread effective implementation. According to researchers, though some of those challenges are systemic and some related to the technologies themselves, teachers and education leaders share in the blame as well.

"The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition," put together by the New Media Consortium as part of the Horizon Project, identifies key emerging issues in education technology using primary and secondary research and input from an advisory board comprising "internationally recognized practitioners and experts" in ed tech. Among those issues are challenges that represent significant constraints on the adoption of technology in education.

In past reports, those challenges have centered largely on reluctance on the part of administrators and teachers, lack of preparation, and lack of support or funding. This year's findings followed largely along those lines as well, though some new challenges were identified as well.

Challenge 1: professional development. Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.

"All too often, when schools mandate the use of a specific technology, teachers are left without the tools (and often skills) to effectively integrate the new capabilities into their teaching methods," according to the report. "The results are that the new investments are underutilized, not used at all, or used in a way that mimics an old process rather than innovating new processes that may be more engaging for students."

Challenge 2: resistance to change. Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo." According to the researchers, teachers and school leaders often see technological experimentation as outside the scope of their job descriptions.

Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling. New in this year's report, new models for teaching and learning are providing "unprecedented competition to traditional models of schooling." In particular, the MOOC (massive open online course) - probably the hottest topic in higher education right now - was identified as being "at the forefront" of discussions about new modes of delivering K-12 education.

"K-12 institutions are latecomers to distance education in most cases, but competition from specialized charter schools and for-profit providers has called attention to the needs of today's students, especially those at risk," according to the report.

Challenge 4: Delivering informal learning. Related to challenge 3, rigid lecture-and-test models of learning are failing to challenge students to experiment and engage in informal learning. But, according to the report, opportunities for such informal learning can be found in non-traditional classroom models, such as flipped classrooms, which allow for a blending of formal and informal learning.

Challenge 5: Failures of personalized learning. According to the report, there's a gap between the vision of delivering personalized, differentiated instruction and the technologies available to make this possible. So while K-12 teachers seem to see the need for personalized learning, they aren't being given the tools they need to accomplish it, or adequate tools simply don't exist.

Challenge 6: Failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments. The report noted: "Assessment is an important driver for educational practice and change, and over the last years we have seen a welcome rise in the use of formative assessment in educational practice. However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes. Simple applications of digital media tools, like webcams that allow non-disruptive peer observation, offer considerable promise in giving teachers timely feedback they can use."

Small School, Big Wonder

By Alexa Smith-Rommel George Washington University

My high school graduating class has 23 people — or about the same number many of you have in a single classroom. Here are five reasons why attending such a small school has been an unforgettable experience.

For the last four years, I have attended a school few have even heard of.

Typically, when it wasn’t worth hoping people would recognize its name, I would describe it as “the school under the bridge that looks like Hogwarts.” Usually, that would give me a few more comprehending nods.

But today as I’m a senior reflecting on what has felt like a lifetime of beautiful memories in a place so small it blows minds, my school’s name is Doane Academy, in Burlington City. I am graduating with 22 other individuals — a number other students my age have not been able to fathom. Sometimes, they laugh or ask questions like “But can you have any friends there? What do you even do?”

While it seems to them my options or opportunities are limited, I wouldn’t change my high school experience for the world. Since second grade, I attended small private schools and the journey they offer is incomparable.

Of course, every single private school brochure claims to offer one-on-one student attention: You aren’t just a number! Develop character in our rigorous curriculum!

While none of this is incorrect, there is a lot more to a small school than the sales pitch:

1. Teachers are friends
Maybe this is one for the brochures, but faculty-student ratios don’t even scratch the surface. The extra academic help can make all the difference, but teachers at a small school always have their doors open. I have teachers I can run to in blind panics, in helpless sobs, or in the most exciting moments of my life.
You can pull up a chair, and they are there to laugh with or cry with. If you’re having a bad day, your AP language teacher can pull you aside and tell you why you should be smiling. And not to be too sentimental — they might also make fun of you whenever they remember that time you nailed yourself in the face in a soccer game.

2. There is always food
Although not every school’s dining hall is staffed by such beautiful human beings as mine, who are known to offer entire meals to hungry students during break, a small student body and friendships with faculty can get you far. Huge baskets of fruit hang around various parts of the school and our Patron Saint lunch director sends food out to sports events — or, well, literally every time someone is hungry. And, yes, you can have a carton of that Hershey’s chocolate milk.

3. There is always a place to explore!
Pre-renovation to my school, my freshman year is filled of fond memories running through the basement connecting building to building in the hopes of escaping inclement weather. Senior classes travel up to the attic from nearly two centuries ago, scribbling their names alongside those from the 1800s.
While public schools are large physically, I believe the feeling of wandering an old and creaky building after dark is one unique to a small school. You can find a window to sit at in a forgotten corner, and know no one will disrupt your reading until your late ride arrives.

4. Your school becomes your second home
Because of the small pool to choose from, you likely are involved in most activities. Quite possibly everything. Three sports, drama, academic competitions, student government, band, choir and everything in between. Because of your commitments, being at school becomes more frequent than being at home.
As horrifying a thought as this sounds, school stops feeling like school. It becomes a magical place where you can feel comfortable and happy, but no one is telling you to fold the laundry. All the responsibilities, without those responsibilities.
Like at Doane, there might even be a school dog who wanders in and out of psychology classes.

5. Every person in school becomes your family
Teachers are second parents - parents who learn more and more about you every day, and support you in every way they can. Yet, the best part is your peers become your siblings. When I graduate, I’m not leaving a class of 500 people I’ve never talked to and will have an easy time forgetting. I will be leaving 22 siblings - siblings who have achieved with me, tested me, cried with me, and have been absurd with me.
There is not one person who hasn’t had an impact on my life, and just for that fact, I would never want to change the past and attend a huge school.

The uniform may have been uncomfortable and I might have been stretched to do too much at once, but these five points were worth it all.

Homeschooling Might Not Be the Answer

Homeschooling can be a wonderful option for people looking for an alternative to traditional school. However, homeschooling is not for everyone and it might not be the right choice in a number of circumstances.

Homeschooling: Requires Time

Homeschooling requires time. Homeschooling is a full time job, and if there is not an adult in the home that can dedicate full time to homeschooling, then homeschooling will be difficult to achieve. Homeschooling becomes a lifestyle, not just an educational choice. Of course, there is the possibility that two adults in the home could share homeschooling responsibilities and also maintain their jobs outside the home but it will require work and dedication.

Some states allow homeschooling by people other than parents, and if you live in one of those states it is possible to employ someone to home educate your children. Homeschooling rules are different in each state, and you should research if your state allows others to home-school your children.

Homeschooling requires a fair of time to plan lessons, and in record keeping. This time is in addition to the actual educational time. While it is not required to participate in field trips, time should be allowed for those also. Every opportunity that can enrich a child’s education should be taken advantage of, but travel and actually participating in field trips does require time. In reality, if you cannot home-school with the idea of providing your child with a better education than he could achieve in traditional school, then perhaps homeschooling is not for your family.

Homeschooling: Responsibility

Homeschooling is a large responsibility. As the homeschooling parent/teacher, you are taking on the responsibility that is normally handed off to a teacher and an entire traditional education system. As the parent/teacher you will be responsible not only for planning the lesson, but for teaching the course work, and grading the course work. You will be responsible for keeping the academic records, and recording progress.

Additional there is the fact that as the parent/teacher you will be required to make sure you and your child are in compliance with state and local education requirements. This responsibility also comes with a time commitment. Research must be done to determine the legal requirements to home-school in your state. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and this is never more true than when determining how to stay legal with your department of education when homeschooling.

Homeschooling: Not all students thrive

Some students actually thrive in the traditional school setting. They need the competition aspect of having other students around them. These students are driven to do their best by having others around them to fuel their climb to the top. Homeschooling might not work for these students because homeschooling, even in a co-op setting is generally aimed at the individual student and does not generally include other students. Even when there are other students in the home, they are usually not in direct competition with each other.

Homeschooling might not be for students who require a lot of special assistance or have special needs. These students might need reading labs, or occupational therapy, or speech therapy. Sometimes it is possible for students with these types of needs to get assistance at a school because of the requirements that public schools provide for these needs.

Schools can sometimes provide this for much lower cost than private therapies because the services are provided for more than one student, or in group settings.

Homeschooling: Everyone on Board

Homeschooling requires a lot of time, responsibility and flexibility. It also goes much more smoothly if the entire family agrees that homeschooling is the right answer for the family. If one parent is for homeschooling and the other is not, then every bump in the road becomes a point of contention. Every setback can become a reason to stop homeschooling.

Homeschooling is individual for each student. Sometimes more than one method must be tried before the right method is found. It becomes necessary for both parents, even the whole family, to understand that setbacks happen, and one setback does not constituted failure. If all members of the family are not in agreement then minor setbacks can be used to declare homeschooling unsuccessful.

Homeschooling might not be for every family, or every child in every family. However, if you have looked through the items mentioned and decided that they do not pose a problem for your family then homeschooling might be for you. There are many positives to homeschooling, but each family should go into homeschooling knowing that it is still not considered mainstream, that there will be obstacles to overcome along the journey, and that it is not for everyone. If you think you can overcome the obstacles listed, then go ahead and consider homeschooling. It just might work for your family.