You will learn about the toolkit that is essential to teaching English online successfully, including the hardware and software, and most of all, the importance of you.

It's not just about Skype! You will look at some of the different ways you can communicate with your students, and how to use the tools that comes with them.

You will find out why an online whiteboard is your friend, and how to use some of the best online whiteboards on the Internet.

IDroo is one of my favourite online whiteboards. In this video I will show you how to use all the basic tools on IDroo.

NOTE: since making this video, IDroo has reduced the tools available on a free account, so some of the tools I show can no longer be used on a free account. However, I've left the video up as an example of how online whiteboards in general can be used.

Learn about the extra tools in IDroo, including how to add images and documents to the whiteboards, and how to share the whiteboard with your students.

Watch me create an activity for a student using an IDroo; in this video I show you how to create a simple anagram activity which can be used as a 3 minute warmer activity.

In this lecture I'll help you decide what kinds of lessons you could teach, why you should do this before you even start looking for students, and the core idea of value in your lessons.

You'll learn why teaching to a specific niche of students is the most lucrative and easiest way forward, an area I call Niche English. I'll lead you through the process of thinking about what niche you could teach and the kinds of lessons you can offer, lessons that meet the needs of a particular part of the massive English language market. Do you want to teach doctors and nurses, to prepare students for exams, to teach business English...or even Star Wars fans? This lecture explains how you can do it.

In this lecture I will take you through some of the most effective strategies for finding students.

Learn how to use social media to find students...and it's not just Facebook!

In this lecture I will provide you with a model for deciding what rates of pay you want to charge based on how specialized your course is and how you found your students.

You will get 5 great tips for getting paid effectively, including a suggestion to offer courses rather than lessons.

In this lecture I'll take you through some of the more common, and less common, ways of getting paid online, from PayPal to Western Union and beyond.

Online English teachers can work from the comfort of their own home, but it's also something you can do on your travels. I'll explain how you can do both, and take you through the concept of location independence and explain how you can live cheaply while taking on the highest paying students in the world.

This lecture gives an overview of the second half of the course, which focuses on helping you teach the different language skills of English. It also gives a quick overview of how languages are actually learned, and how this impacts on your role as a teacher.

Knowing what your student wants and needs, and what their interests are, is an important first step in creating successful and effective lessons. In this lecture I'll tell you how. You can also download a couple of needs analysis questionnaires to send to your students.

You will find out some key tips and techniques for teaching speaking effectively, including how to use open questions and how to develop your student's accuracy and fluency. You will also learn how to make the most of conversations in a lesson.

Here are 10 of my favourite and most effective activities for helping students develop their speaking skills in your lessons. These include a 'describe and draw' information gap activity, reformulation and ranking activities.

This lecture will explain what role plays are, and how to use them in your lessons.

In this lecture you'll learn some essential tips and techniques to help you develop your students' listening skills. I'll take you step-by-step through a typical listening activity and tell you what to do if your student still doesn't understand. In the downloadable resources section, there's a list of great websites where you can find high quality listening materials.

In this lecture you'll learn how to put a reading lesson together, and how to make a text more comprehensible for your students.

"Breaking News English" is an excellent, free website to find reading materials and activities. In this video I give you a quick tour of the website and look at some of the texts, interactive activities and text-based lessons available on the site.

Text sorting activities are simple but effective ways of helping your student improve their reading skills. In this screencast, I show you a text sorting activity, set up using an online whiteboard, IDroo.

To see how to create this activity, watch my IDroo user guide videos in the section entitled "The Essential Toolkit"

Paragraph sorting activities are very effective ways of helping your student improve their reading skills. In this screencast, I show you how to create and use a paragraph sorting activity, using text from a coursebook PDF together with the online whiteboard, IDroo.

In this video I go through some more reading activities, including matching, prediction and comprehension activities, plus some activities that use pictures to support students' reading skills.

Find out some great reading materials that you can find online to use with your students. Check out the resources section for links to these resources.

I'll take you through some key concepts in the teaching of writing, including the different types of writing your student may need to master, and the problems students have when they write. Then I'll show you how to take your student through a four stage writing process, including how to help your student plan their writing, giving feedback during a lesson, and how to help your student do a rewrite. I'll explain the feedback and rewriting process by showing you some writing by one of my own students.

Read this article where I describe an approach to teaching writing that puts your student's language at the heart of the lesson.

Here are some short activities that you can use to help your students develop their writing skills in your lessons. These include sentence expansion activities, shared writing and some suggestions for using postcards and application forms in lessons. Plus an extended section on using a great activity called a dictogloss which will get your students thinking about their grammar as well as their writing.

Find out what grammar is actually about, why it is so important and how you can teach it in your online lessons. With a special guest appearance from Godzilla!

Discover a great way of teaching grammar within the context of a communicative task. I'll explain what a task-based approach is, I'll take you through the six stages of a task-based lesson and I'll go through a sample task-based lesson based around ordering food in a restaurant. Finally, I'll explain why using a task-based approach is great for your students and great for you as an online teacher.

In this lecture I'll explain to you how to teach vocabulary. I'll show you why it's important to teach vocabulary in context (language 'chunks') and I'll give you 5 tips for explaining vocabulary. I'll also talk about what students need to know when coming across a new word.

Here are some activities that you can use with your students to help them develop and consolidate their vocabulary. They include matching, cloze (fill in the blanks) and categorizing activities. These are best done on an online whiteboard, but they can also be used by sharing your screen or by typing the words and sentences into a chat, such as in Skype.

Learn about some of the problems that students face when it comes to pronunciation, including stress and intonation, and get to understand why this is such a critical area of a lesson.

Find out some great ways to help students improve their pronunciation skills.

In this lecture I'll go into detail about teaching the IELTS Test - or, rather, helping students to prepare for the IELTS Test. I'll give you an overview of the test, why it's a perfect niche for online English teachers, I'll explain where you can find IELTS students online, you'll get some essential teaching tips and I'll tell you some ways to find out more information. In the resources section there are some useful documents and links to more information to help you get to grips with this teaching niche.

In this lecture, I put together many of the ideas we've covered so far to create a lesson with 9 stages that takes your student from a warmer activity, through to a free production task.