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Jayesh Mistry

Interview Skills: 10 Tips to Improve Interview Performance - 0 views

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    As much as we think that interviewers are trying to pull information from us, they are also delivering us interviewees with a wealth of information. Martin discusses, briefly in this article, that the majority of the information and interviewer delivers you with is at the beginning, either directly or indirectly. Therefore, it is vital to be extremely attentive and listen as much as, or more than you plan to speak. Key takeaways: Interviewing is a cultivated skill that not everyone has at the beginning of their job-hunting career. The presence of non-verbal communication is also something that is learned through experience and cannot necessarily be taught.
Jacob Nemirov

What is Crowdsourcing - Daily Crowdsource - 1 views

  • Crowdsourcing & Quality: The principle of crowdsourcing is that more heads are better than one. By canvassing a large crowd of people for ideas, skills, or participation, the quality of content and idea generation will be superior.
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      This will remain true as long as instructions given to participants are clearly understood and that the results they give are monitored effectively.
  • Crowdsourcing is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. The word is a combination of the words 'crowd' and 'outsourcing'. The idea is to take work and outsource it to a crowd of workers.
  • Famous Example: Wikipedia
Sohyun Kim

Twitter as a Powerful Educational Tool - 1 views

  • Eventually, the people on the street, armed with nothing more than a cell phone and a free social media site, changed the course of history. If you are a middle or high school social studies teacher, and you wanted to provide your students with a close-up view of the events unfolding in Egypt, you could turn to a traditional news service. Or, you could follow the hashtag #Egypt on Twitter and tap into the real-time pulse of unfolding events by people on the streets of Cairo.
  • examples of classrooms using Twitter as a way to share learning opportunities with others outside of the classroom. For example, supplementary photo and video tools provide the ability to share learning from anywhere someone can access an Internet connection
  • Teachers should have the skill set to build their own personal learning networks to be global. Teachers should be able to leverage their PLN to bring the challenge of authentic conversation to their students. Teachers should be able to use social media to connect their students to real-world problems. Like Mrs. Caviness, we believe that educators should be powerful role models and provide examples of how to use the most powerful social media tools to expand the boundaries of learning.
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    This article puts Twitter and education together and demonstrates that both can be connected to create a much more valuable and rich educational experience. The teacher in this article used Twitter to strengthen students' current knowledge as well as build a growing library of material for future lessons.
Brooke Meehan

Wordpress Tips - 0 views

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    This blogger looks at the different ways to utilize word press and how to optimize the site. This could be helpful to skilled word press users to help them find new tools they can use. It also is useful to new users as it gives step by step tips on how to operate the site.
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