TEACHERS OFFERING INFORMATION PRODUCTS DIRECTLY TO LEARNERS
 
MAWS TOOLBOX, home based in Ashland, Oregon, offers teachers, consultants, trainers and coaches tools and ideas to help turn your lessons plans, coaching routines, and information presentations into learning products and services you can sell directly online.

The products and services MAWS TOOLBOX recommends and sells are focused on fast, free or very cheap Web 2.0 tools and strategies that make it easy to create engaging interactions with online learners.

Our vision is one of teachers and other subject matter experts inventing a new public education. Education that happens 24-7, whenever and wherever learners find themselves needing to learn something. In other words, in public. And this new public is a place where the quality of teachers and learners lives, productive inquiry, and critical thinking have both the highest priority and the lowest workable price.
 
INTERVIEWS, TUTORIALS, AND LINKS TO RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE LEARNING IN PUBLIC
 
After a lifetime of passionate, self-directed learning, MAWS TOOLBOX founder, Meri Aaron Walker (MAW) sees little value in solo teachers and groups of learners limiting their attention to the accomplishment of individual goals inside conventional classrooms. Experience has convinced her it takes at least a pair and often a much bigger team to conduct a productive inquiry that ends up solving a real-world problem.
 
Nevertheless, despite the fact that we have evolved to a place where we may no longer need schools, learners still need thinking partners! And people who love to teach still need to do what makes them feel most alive teach! Maybe more than ever.

To support the evolution of ever more productive learning partnerships, MAWS TOOLBOX provides interviews, tutorials, and recommendations of Web 2.0 tools and strategies that enhance quick, meaningful engagement around relevant data.

We intend to attract people into dialogue here from every corner of teaching, training, coaching and consulting. We want mawstoolbox.com to be a place where a growing network of people who love learning in public help each other manage independent teaching/learning businesses and partner together for special ventures and mentoring.
OUR CUSTOMERS
 
So far, the traits that MAWS TOOLBOX customers seem to have most in common are
  • a passionate, inquiring spirit,
  • the desire to see teachers make a decent living,
  • an unflagging hunger to connect with other curious, creative individuals, and
  • a sense of deep enjoyment helping learners quickly turn their questions into new solutions.
 
WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER
 

MAW is fond of reminding folks that back in the late 60s, when she and her friends were first earning their teaching credentials, the Beatles were singing, I get by with a little help from my friendsGonna try with a little help from my friends

Lets try again, friends.