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  • Matt LeClair on 19 Mar 12
     
    "Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique - it's a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership."
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aXmag - Page Flip Magazine software, PDF to Flash Converter - 1 views

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  • Matt LeClair on 15 Aug 12
     
    aXmag has been dedicated to working in the PDF field for a decade. aXmag converters and services are designed to make PDF conversions easier and simpler for everyone. aXmag uses vector technology in PDF to Flash page flipping magazine conversions. PDFs are converted to vector type of flash files, which are smaller in size and transfer faster via network. Most important, your new vector files will always look crisp and clear even at the highest magnification.
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BeKnown: A Conversation with Monster.com | Talent HQ - 0 views

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  • BeKnown allows you to manage your professional and social connections on one site, Facebook.
  • It’s been designed to keep these two distinct networks separate from each other.
  • BeKnown users can follow company job and network activity,
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  • I asked about why a company would want to claim a page and build a network / community through BeKnown vs. creating a page right on facebook directly. He stated most pages for companies are owned and driven by marketing – not recruiting, and through BeKnown an opportunity could exist to leverage more holistically as a social recruiting solution.
  • ompanies should build proprietary talent communities of their own, not grow Monster.com’s.
  • He reiterated that BeKnown is free. He also stated that there absolutely will be paid features for Recruiters and Companies.
  • hey’ve also communicated to employers that they will soon have online access to company profile pages to help employers showcase their brand and extend your job posting reach.
  • BeKnown is aligned with Monster’s strategy to continue advancing careers for job seekers as well as make it as easy as possible for companies to find the right talent.
  • Why would you grow Monster.com’s network, and then get charged to search it?
  • Matt LeClair on 22 Nov 11
     
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New Designs for Learning: A Conversation with IDEO Founder David Kelley | LFA: Join The... - 0 views

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  • Basically its taking these what they're calling 21st-century skills, and applying them to the stuff you have to do. A
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World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others: How to teach when learning is everywhere. - 0 views

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shared by Matt LeClair on 27 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Our ability to learn whatever we want, whenever we want, from whomever we want is rendering the linear, age-grouped, teacher-guided curriculum less and less relevant.
  • Experts are at our fingertips,
  • Content and information are everywhere, not just in textbooks.
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  • And the work we create and publish is assessed by the value it brings to the people who read it, reply to it, and remix it.
  • Much of what our students learn from us is unlearned once they leave us; paper is not the best way to share our work, facts and truths are constantly changing, and working together is becoming the norm, not the exception.
  • It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.
  • Inherent in the collaborative process is a new way of thinking about teaching and learning
  • As connectors, we provide the chance for kids to get better at learning from one another.
  • In fact, we need to rely on trusted members of our personal networks to help sift through the sea of stuff, locating and sharing with us the most relevant, interesting, useful bits.
  • That means that as teachers, we must begin to model our own editorial skills
  • Collaboration in these times requires our students to be able to seek out and connect with learning partners, in the process perhaps navigating cultures, time zones, and technologies.
  • they come into contact with: Who is this person? What are her passions? What are her credentials? What can I learn from her?
  • As Clay Shirky writes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, "Knowingly sharing your work with others is the simplest way to take advantage of the new social tools."
  • Fortunately, social tools like wikis, blogs, and social-bookmarking sites make working with others across time and space easier than it's ever been. They are indeed "weapons of mass collaboration," as author Donald Tapscott calls them.
  • The Collaboration Age comes with challenges that often cause concern and fear. How do we manage our digital footprints, or our identities, in a world where we are a Google search away from both partners and predators?
  • What are the ethics of co-creation when the nuances of copyright and intellectual property become grayer each day? When connecting and publishing are so easy, and so much of what we see is amateurish and inane, how do we ensure that what we create with others is of high quality?
  • I believe that is what educators must do now. We must engage with these new technologies and their potential to expand our own understanding and methods in this vastly different landscape.
  • And we must be able to model those shifts for our students and counsel them effectively when they run across problems with these tools.
  • Matt LeClair on 27 Oct 11
     
    World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others How to teach when learning is everywhere. By Will Richardson Facebook 16 Twitter 25 Share 136 Email Four teachers from High Tech High. Bringing Their A-Game: Humanities teacher Spencer Pforsich, digital arts/sound production teacher Margaret Noble, humanities teacher Leily Abbassi, and math/science teacher Marc Shulman make lessons come alive on the High Tech campuses in San Diego. Credit: David Julian Earlier this year, as I was listening to a presentation by an eleven-year-old community volunteer and blogger named Laura Stockman about the service projects she carries out in her hometown outside Buffalo, New York, an audience member asked where she got her ideas for her good work. Her response blew me away. "I ask my readers," she said. I doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that answer. But if you look at the Clustrmap on Laura's blog, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference, you'll see that Stockman's readers -- each represented by a little red dot -- come from all over the world. 1 She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Stockman in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago. Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen. These tools are allowing us not only to mine the wisdom and experiences of the more than one billion people now online but also to connect with them to further our understanding of the global experience and do good work together. These tools are fast changing, decidedly social, and rich with powerful learning opportunities for us all, if we can figure out how to leverage their potential. For e
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WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog - 0 views

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  • eStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages
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  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
  • WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.
  • nline Ajax Page – Displays a snippet of a post and then allows the reader to click a button to load the full entry without going to another page.
  • Tagboard Widget – Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site that displays new messages as they are posted.
  • wp-chunk – Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.
  • WP-Most Commented Posts – Displays the posts with the most comments in the sidebar.
  • Simple CoComments – Tracks the conversation across blogs.
  • Comment Karma – Digg-style voting on comments.
  • Google Analyticator – Inserts Google Analytics code on every WordPress page.
  • Leprakhauns Word Count – Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page.
  • Simple Tagging – Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus and includes the ability import from your current tagging plugins.
  • Playing Music Del.icio.us MP3 Player – Makes links to MP3s in your posts playable and easily postable to del.icio.us. Audio Player – Inserts a simple MP3 player into your posts that plays uploaded audio files. XSFP Player – Flash player that allows you to embed music on your blog via http.
  • WP OnlineCounter – This plugin counts the number of readers currently online, highest number of visitors at the same time, and the total count of visitors.
  • mpress – Display number of users, posts, pages, comments, categories, words, and more on your blog.
  • Limit the size of main page posts – Set the number of words you want each of your main page posts to contain so that if they exceed that limit, a link is provided to a page with the complete post.
  • Phoogle – Add Google Maps with markers you choose to any of your posts.
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http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm - 0 views

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  • expression and communication of these values is essential in any valid explanation of your educational influence in your own learning and in the learning of others.  I am thinking here of values such as freedom, justice, care, love, compassion, respect and knowledge-creation
  • three assumptions
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'  in  your professional practice.
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  • onversations between pairs of practitioner-researchers in which we take some 4 minutes each to outline our contexts, what really matters to us, and what we would like to improve
  • motivating you to improve your practice it often helps in the development of realistic action pla
  • After the initial conversation on values and context in relation to your desire to improve practices that relate to helping students, yourself and/or colleagues to improve their learning, I believe that you may find the following action planning process most useful.
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'
  • tions, ideas and actions that can distinguish an action reflection cycle: 1) What do I want to improve? What is my concern? Why am I concerned? 2) Imagining possibilities and choosing one of them to act on in an action plan 3) As I am acting what data will I collect to enable me to judge my educational influence in my professional context as I answer my question?  4) Evaluating the influence of the actions in terms of values and understandings. 5) Modifying concerns, ideas and actions in the light of evaluations.
  • Making public a validated explanation of educational influences
  • 7) As I evaluate the educational influences of my actions in my own learning and the learning of other, who might be willing to help me to strengthen the validity of my explanation of my learning about my influence with responses to questions such as: i)               Is my explanation as comprehensible as it could be? ii)             Could I improve the evidential basis of my claims to know what I am doing? iii)            Does my explanation include an awareness of historical and cultural influences in what I am doing and draw on the most advanced social theories of the day? iv)            Am I showing that I am committed to the values that I claim to be living by?
  • nhancing professionalism with TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context)
  • .  In producing a valid explanation for our educational influences in the learning of others I believe it to be necessary for the other's explanation of their own learning to be included in our explanation. 
  • ecognises the creativity of the other in engaging with ideas
  • I believe that Sally's writings make an original contribution to educational knowledge whilst showing that she has found useful some of my own ideas  in making this contribution.
  • Educational Enquiry (EE), Research Methods in Education (RME), Understanding Learners and Learning (ULL) and Gifts and Talents in Education (G & T) you can access these at: http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/mastermod.shtml .
  • To see the criteria used in assessing these units click on this link for the MACriteria.
  • virtual learning space for this CPD project go to http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ . You can also read Walton's (2011 a&b) ideas on developing a collaborative inquiry.
  • In an inclusional way of being and knowing an individual recognises that they exist in a relational dynamic of space and boundaries. Hence one of the tasks of the practitioner-researcher is to express and communicate this relational dynamic in explanations of educational influence.
  • An example here would be the use of Foucault's (1977) ideas on Power/Knowledge to understand the relationships between the Truth of Power and the Power of Truth in the workplace when seeking academic legitimation for new living standards of judgment.
  • Appendix 1 Action Planner
  • You can access this curriculum at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bishops/bish99.pdf
  • How do we contribute to an educational knowledge base
  • Hymer, B. (2007) How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness?
  • Matt LeClair on 04 Jan 12
     
    "Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"
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Informal Learning Environment - All or nothing - 0 views

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  • Upon reflection, I realized that this parallels the introduction of eLearning. Many people had oversimplified what eLearning meant; they defined it as replacing instructors with computers.
  • All learning occurs through a combination of different activites. Why should eLearning be different?)
  • The formal-versus-informal debate shouldn’t be happening at all. Extremists on both sides miss the point that this is not either/or. It’s shades of gray.
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  • Imagine, if you will, a learning mixer. You could slide the switches to give the learners a little more control here while shaving development time there. And so on. Here’s a hypothetical learning mixer.
  • You don’t achieve the best mix by moving all of the sliders to the top or all to the bottom.
  • The Delivery slider moves from courses and push (formal) to conversations and pull (informal).
  • Matt LeClair on 16 Nov 11
     
    Reflections from ASTD TechKnowledge regarding the "Formal vs Informal Debate"
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Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free - 0 views

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Crucial Assessment | Southam Consulting, LLC - 0 views

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    "To measure your skill level and see how Crucial Confrontations can best serve your needs, candidly review the following statements. Check "Yes" if they apply to you. Check "No" if they do not. The following questions explore how you typically respond when you're in the middle of a stressful situation."
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Influencer Self-Assessment | Southam Consulting, LLC - 0 views

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    Discover the strengths and weaknesses of your current influence style so you can focus on specific areas of improvement. Take our self-assessment."
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