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Dr. King Recognized: National Speakers Association


Teaneck, NJ--  June 30, 2009
The National Speakers Association announced that Dr. Kathleen P. King of Transformation Education LLC and Fordham University has been accepted as one of its prestigious professional speakers.

Dr. Kathleen P. (Kathy) King is an interactive, motivational keynoter and public speaker who invigorates and empowers audiences on a variety of topics. Read on to review the selected list of some recent session she has conducted around the globe and recent comments about her presentations. Visit blog.transformationed.com for her upcoming conferences.

Some of her popular transformative and visionary sessions include

Surviving Tenure: Ten Lessons the TV Show Survivor Teaches Strategic Perspectives

Dr. Kathleen P. King, EzineArticles.com Expert Author

Every time I share my analogy of tenure to the TV show Survivor™ faculty colleagues start laughing, nodding and poking each other like school children. Why do they react this way? Because the comparison strikes home so squarely and exposes the extreme pressure, high costs and yes, some, absurd, but necessary, strategies to successfully navigate the tenure process. 

Opening Scene

  • The camera zooms in on a dark room, quite mysterious, and with wisps of smoke dancing in the air.
  • The chanting theme music of the TV show Survivor™ plays in the background with the drum punctuating the darkness with looming fear, even dread.
  • Our eyes are drawn to the glowing torches positioned around the campfire and empty benches...
  • The music crescendos as the tenured faculty enter (in full academic regalia of course). They keep their eyes cast downward and walk in solemn<< MORE >>

42 Million U.S. Women Use Social Media: Blogs Most Influential

Shared with our Transformation Education Newsletter and Ezine readers from

From Dr. King

The findings are not what you might expect! This exciting article provides valuable information to support faculty need to have a web-based professional voice and image. Social media is where a lot of global communication, and information seeking occurs today.

If you need help developing your social media or web-based professional presence,please contact us. Our Faculty tune Up will provide the tools to identify your needed direction, next steps as well as the resources and skills to accomplish as much as you desire!

For more information about these services in general visit www.TransformationEd.com/mentoring, or email or phone Dr. Kathy King personally Kpking (at) transformationed.com

42 Million U.S. Women Use Social Media: Blogs Most Influential

By Anita Campbell

Is the jury still out in your mind as to whether social media matters in business? If so, a recent survey might make you change your mind. In fact, it may cause you to re-think your entire marketing outreach, especially if you market to women.

The study found that 42 million women<< MORE >>

Digital Texts Rule! New Episode of Teachers Podcast Posted (40)

Another 2-part episode begins with Episode 40 of The Teachers Podcast. This episode is packed with free resources and more discussion related to the realities of budget crunches. But Mark and Kathy spin to the positive side! Join us for a full slate of ed tech resources to reinvigorate your classrooms and your professional learning!


CLICK to play or download TTPOD Episode 40


Bing, Google Wave, Facebook transformations? 


How about

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Getting Search Engines to Rank Your Blog-- SEO Useful Tricks Even for Faculty Blogs!

EzineArticles.com Basic Author

10 SEO Tricks to Attract More Traffic to Your Blog

As fancy as the term "blog" sounds, it's actually just a website that uses a content management system. While most blog software is more search engine friendly out of the box than many web sites, the opportunities for blog optimization are .......<< MORE >>

Call for Submissions- New Book on Women's EmBODYment- You Are Invited!

 
  



Our Stories, OurSelves:

The EmBODYment of Women’s Learning

Mev Miller, Ed.D. & Kathleen P. King, Ed.D., Editors

Click to Download COMPLETE Call for Submissions 

Rationale…

How do women’s bodies matter in adult literacy and basic education? Our Volume 1 (Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience) focused on empowering women in the classroom and primarily addressed intellectual and personal barriers to and growth for women’s literacy learning.

However, we are aware of the many ways in which women’s bodies and whole selves are integral to the womanhood we celebrate, yet are ignored, or even silenced, in traditional adult ABE, ESOL, and literacy classes. Even when we do recognize or talk about women’s bodies, these discussions generally focus on sexual violence, childcare/parenting, or health. Educators and students seek expression as embodied women, but find these realities difficult to include in current programs and classes. Read on.....<< MORE >>

Tenure Tune Up -Exclusive Faculty Coaching Webinar with Dr. Kathy King 6/18/09

 You are invited to join Dr. Kathleen P. King, professor of education at Fordham University and CEO of TELLCDr. Kathy King,  for her newest 
webinar series.
This exclusive series focuses on the need for faculty to reflect on their current positions and ramp up their skills and strategies for success in the tenure process (now and in the future). The Faculty Coaching Webinar Series on June 18, 2009 from 11am-12pm EST will be a very small group to afford specific discussion about your needs, and will share vital, models, strategies and resources from this award-winning expert in the adult and higher education fields.

Participation in the 1 hour "Faculty Tune Up: Keys to Faculty Success" session is open to all college and university faculty members, and professionals seeking careers in academia. Seats are limited to only a handful of participants, therefore interested individuals are encouraged to register immediately by emailing kpking@transformationed.com.

Webinar participants will engage in this intimate discussion with Dr. King about
  • The keys to  faculty success
  • Time management strategies for life on the tenure race track
    • Templates to be used for academic time management
  • A new paradigm for viewing professional relationships in the academy
  • Strategies to overcome fear, time management, disorganization, writers block and panic.
  • Free resources for continuing professional learning
  • Inspiration and Strategy: Suggested readings for inspirational and strategic perspectives of the professoriate
  • Two of the specific needs you face in your academic/professional career at this time:
    • perhaps within: research, publication, teaching, service, or other areas.
Registration and Cost

The cost of this exclusive session with the noted academic, researcher, author,  and mentor is the summer rate of $99 per person.  Registrations are limited, but once accepted by written confirmation from Transformation Education LLC, they are guaranteed.

Technology Connection
Participants have the choice of 2 modes of attending the online session.
1. Phone in to the designated conference call number and join in the presentation and discussion.
2. Access the presentation simultaneously online and use the phone to participate in the audio portion of the session.

About Dr. Kathleen (Kathy) King
“Theory is wonderful but if it remains by itself, it becomes stale. It gathers its lifeblood in research and practice.” - Kathleen P. King

Kathleen P. King, Ed.D. is President and CEO of Transformation Education, LLC. She is also a Professor of Education at Fordham University and former director of the university’s RETC Center for Professional Development. Dr. King has extensive experience designing multi-partner projects, innovative programs, distance learning, staff development and educational technology integration plans across grades and content levels k-12, adult education, training, higher education, and corporate organizations and settings.

Dr. King is recognized for her unique expertise in combining her knowledge of adult education with technology, online learning, digital media and publications for faculty and staff development, and educational innovations. Dr. King makes numerous invited keynotes and refereed presentations each year at local, national, and international conferences on the topics of distance education, new media in education, adult learning and training, faculty development, transformative learning, and instructional technology.

Dr. King has authored seventeen books (as of 2009) recently including,

  • A Model for Planning for Effective Faculty Development: Using Adult Learning Principles (with P. A. Lawler, 2000),
  • New Perspectives on Designing and Implementing Professional Development of Teachers of Adults (with Lawler, 2003).
  • Empowering Women through Literacy (with Miller, 2009),
  • Handbook of Evolving Research of Transformative Leaning (2009),
  • Building Workforce Competencies in Career and Technical Education (2009) (with Wang)
  • Fundamentals of Human Performance & Training (2009) (with Wang)
  • Innovations in Career and Technical Education (2008) (with Wang),
  • Podcasting for Teaching (2007; 2nd ed. 2009) (with Gura),
  • Comparative Adult Education around the Globe (2007) (with Wang),
  • Bringing Transformative Learning to Life (2005);
  • Keeping Pace with Technology: Educational Technology that Transforms, Vol 2 (2003),
  • A Model for Planning for Effective Faculty Development: Using Adult Learning Principles (with P. A. Lawler, 2000),
  • New Perspectives on Designing and Implementing Professional Development of Teachers of Adults (with Lawler, 2003).
In addition, King is founding editor of the adult education journal, Perspectives; The New York Journal of Adult Learning. Kathy received her Ed.D. from Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania. She also has a M.Ed. in Adult Education from Widener, a M.A. from Columbia International, Columbia, SC and a B.A. from Brown University, Providence, RI.



Additional Sessions may be held as time permits in the summer.
However, Dr. King has a heavy speaking schedule and cannot release firm dates far in advance. Future topics will span a variety of key areas for faculty in higher and k-12 education. Participants in the first session (June 18) will secure their $99 per hr price for the duration of summer 2009 (June 18-Sept 1, 2009).

Be sure to sign up for the Transformation Education LLC newsletter to be assured of receiving these future  announcements are delivered to your email in-box.


~~TELLC 6-14-09

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New Article about Netbooks, Open Source and Budgets! by Dr. Kathy King

Penguins & Netbooks - Budget Solutions For Education Birthed by Innovation!
By Dr. Kathleen P. King
Dr. Kathleen P. King, EzineArticles.com Basic Author Scanning technology adoption trends of the last few years, reveal that schools, teachers, parents and students can all benefit from the low cost options now gaining popularity. This article defines and explores the roots of this trend....<< MORE >>

New Book Announced on LGBTQ Issues: Discounted Price forPre- Publication Only

Prepublication Announcement
Adult and Higher Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy

Robert J. Hill & André P. Grace (Editors)
   


From the “Forward”
By Stephen D. Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
“...The colleagues I work with in adult and higher education and the learners I serve and study with are neither tamed nor ideologically hoodwinked. This volume of spirited commitment—defiantly hopeful, seriously playful, and placing matters of desire and resistance at its center—is an apt representation of the enduring radical spirit of the best of adult education...<< MORE >>

Exclusive Faculty Mentoring Webinar with Dr. Kathy King 6/18/09- Tenure Ramp Up Time

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Transformation Education LLC (TELLC) is excited to share the following invitation with our TELLC Newsletter subscribers and blog readers.

You are invited to join Dr. Kathleen P. King, professor of education at Fordham University and CEO of TELLC,  for her newest webinar series. This exclusive series focuses on the need for faculty to reflect on their current positions and ramp up their skills and strategies for success in the tenure process (now and in the future). The Faculty Mentoring Webinar Series on June 18, 2009 from 11am-12pm EST will be a very small group to afford specific discussion about your needs, and will share vital, models, strategies and resources from this award-winning expert in the adult and higher education fields.

Participation in the 1 hour "Faculty Ramp Up Time: Keys to Faculty Success" session is open to all college and university faculty members, and professionals seeking<< MORE >>