The points students bring up are thought-provoking. However, I'm most impressed by the questions they ask one another. They clarify and ask follow-up questions. They make inferences. They ask connecting questions and critical thinking questions. It's a messy process, but it's beautiful messy. It's art.
As long as a question is respectful, I want students to question their world. This applies to analyzing mathematical processes, thinking through social issues, making sense out of a text or analyzing the natural world for cause and effect.
I require students to ask questions before, during and after reading.
Three times a week, we do inquiry days, where students begin with their own question in either social studies or science and they research it, summarize it and then ask further questions. While my initial goal involved teaching bias, loaded language and summarization, I soon realized that students were growing the most in their ability to ask critical thinking questions.
Feedback on questions: I highlight their questions in Google Docs and leave comments on their blogs with very specific feedback.
Sometimes I'll ask a really lame question and then say, "Someone tell my why that question sucked?" or I'll ask a deeper question and say, "Why was that a hard question to answer?" The goal is to get them to see deeper questions and to also think about why a question is deep or shallow.
Some students have a really hard time with questioning strategies.
I teach students about inquiry, clarifying, critical thinking and inference questioning.
Students sometimes ask me questions. Other times they ask partners or small group questions. Still other times they ask the questions to the whole class.
Technology allows students to take their time in crafting a question while having access to the questions of their peers.
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Attracts the emotion of equalitity anong people. Offers financial assistance which may appeal to one's logic of reasoning for why they should go since money issues can be worked out.
This picture shows customers having a pleasant time on the machines. All the machines in this image are being occupied by customers that seem satisfied. This may appeal to pathos because people may want to work out in an happy environment
The "Donate Now" button contains the colors of red and orange. This may be to attract attention. It also may may appeal to ethos in a way since some may want to click on an unique coloured button.
The picture with the young child swimming with a parent while in a lifejacket may appeal to pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos because it appeals to the emotion of fun and saftey of child. Also there is "Tell us about your Y" title under which makes it more personal. Ethos because the guardian and child do seem like real patrons which gives credability.Logos because it makes sense of taking your child for a swim where it is safe and happy.
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The "YMCA-YWCA Strong Kids Campaign" logo is in red rectangular box with an orange box in the background. Possibly to make it stand out on a white coloured background.
On this homepage/dontation page, selected typing is pink. May be pink to help make it stand out but pink may also be seen as a positive color and health.
Here are the five rules you need to remember to create amazing Powerpoint presentations:
No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images.
No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built in to the program. Instead, rip sounds and music from CDs and leverage the Proustian effect this can have. If people start bouncing up and down to the Grateful Dead, you’ve kept them from falling asleep, and you’ve reminded them that this isn’t a typical meeting you’re running.
Don’t hand out print-outs of your slides. They don’t work without you there.
Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it’s not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way.
Communication is the transfer of emotion.
Four Components To A Great PresentationFirst, make yourself cue cards.
Role of Leaders in Learning
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The high costs of excessive voluntary employee turnover include:
Costs for recruiting new replacement staff
Costs for training and developing replacement staff
Learning curve costs – While they are learning their new job, learning about your products and services, about your organization and other important information, it often takes many weeks or months for new employees to reach their potential performance
The negative impact on customers while replacement employees are not yet hired and while new replacement staff are not yet fully trained and fully proficient
The negative impact on customers and employees covering for staffing shortfalls due to attrition
The negative impact on your organization’s “employer of choice” reputation due to high attrition
Communications effectiveness
Support from and treatment by managers
Recognition received from management
Work environment
Adequacy of tools and information needed to perform the job effectively
Effectiveness of sales performance feedback and mentoring
Satisfaction with compensation and benefits plans
Satisfaction with career opportunities
Clear understanding of job
Job is what was promised when hired
Clear expectations for job performance
Availability/effectiveness of training and development
Company culture
Empowerment
Receptivity of management to employees’ ideas
Competitiveness of company’s products and services
Satisfaction with the job and company
Satisfaction with company direction
Likelihood of staying with your organization for the foreseeable future (in surveys of current employees only)
Willingness to recommend your company for employment
"The high costs of excessive voluntary employee turnover include:
Costs for recruiting new replacement staff
Costs for training and developing replacement staff
Learning curve costs - While they are learning their new job, learning about your products and services, about your organization and other important information, it often takes many weeks or months for new employees to reach their potential performance
The negative impact on customers while replacement employees are not yet hired and while new replacement staff are not yet fully trained and fully proficient
The negative impact on customers and employees covering for staffing shortfalls due to attrition
The negative impact on your organization's "employer of choice" reputation due to high attrition"
Their logo is good, simple, and uses only two colors which is a good example of logo practice. However, the way it presents this logo in the website made it as a new logo because of the big line behind it and the clip-arts a long with it.
A bad way of presenting the social website with the "Sign Up" along with it! and why they referee to these social website if they well known website?
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use social networks icons and pictures is more effective than text and it gets the attention of the person faster than usual. Willis eTech website did a good job on it here.
Having a twitter block streaming into the website will increase the followers in twitter as well as having a connection between Wills eTech website and twitter.