Class Messenger. Can't get away for the holidays? 15 Amazing Places You Can Tour Virtually. If you can’t check out these places in person, you can at least visit them virtually—no flights or road trips required. 1. The National Museum of Natural History Learn where we’ve been by taking a look around the stunning exhibits at this Smithsonian museum in the nation’s capital. 2. Taj Mahal This look at the the famous Indian mausoleum is one of several Airpano flying 360 tours on this list. 3. The U.S. 4. Getting to the top of the iconic Parisian landmark has never been so simple. 5. From this page you can choose several different areas of the world-famous museum to explore. 6.
This page on the Vatican’s website allows you to click on any of several different locations and quickly go inside for a look around. 7. One place the tour of the Vatican doesn't include is the Sistine Chapel. 8. Get your kicks on Google Street View of Route 66. 9. Are you not entertained? 10. 11. This aerial tour of Petra, Jordan starts at Al Khazneh, the stunning temple carved into a sandstone cliff. 12. 14. 15. How to be a good lecturer: HE live chat | Higher Education Network. A quick Google search reveals that there are many examples of 'lecturers behaving badly' on YouTube. It would seem students are taking to the site to share footage of academics doing things such as rambling on incoherently or losing their patience over "an overly loud yawn.
" It's harder however to find examples, shared by students, of good teaching online. Perhaps when it comes to lecturing, like most things, criticism comes easier than praise. Of course a lack of YouTube clips posted by students doesn't mean that good teaching isn't out there - but how do you know good teaching when you see it and how do you equip people to become good teachers? Last month, we took on the first part of that question in a live chat that broadly discussed the role of teachers in academia and the value of teaching as compared to research. But early into the discussion it became clear that within the academic community, there is reticence about being called teachers.
Panel. A Guide to Student-Led Conferences. Parent-teacher conferences provide parents with updates on their child’s progress and opportunities to see their student’s work. They also open communication between school and home. However, students often are passive, or even absent, during traditional parent-teacher conferences. One way to fix this is to put students at the helm, as they are the ones who are responsible for their work and progress. Here, we detail a few ways to hold effective student-led conferences and we offer a guide for each conference participant. What Is a Student-Led Conference? Image via Flickr by Innovation_School In the student-led conference format, students and teachers prepare together, and then students lead the conference while teachers facilitate.
Why Conduct Student-Led Conferences? During traditional parent-teacher conferences, parents ask how their students are doing, and teachers provide grades and behavior reports. Furthermore, teachers report more satisfaction with student-led conferences. In Short. Protecting Information Training. The 12 Scams Of Christmas. Twitter: 7 Highly Effective Habits. If you want more Twitter followers, new research provides some easy pointers to the right type of tweeting. As featured on Psy Blog, this is the first study to examine what factors are associated with an increased follower-count on Twitter over an extended period of time. Hutto et al. (2013) studied 507 Twitter users over 15 months and half-a-million tweets (PDF).
Some of these are just handy reminders of good Twitter practice, but you may find the odd surprise—see what you think. 1. Avoid negative sentiments If you’re quite a negative Tweeter, then it could be time to change, if you care about getting more followers. It seems that negative or sarcastic tweets are not endearing. 2. This one is so important for gaining new followers. Informers: 20% share information and reply to other users.Meformers: 80% mostly send out information about themselves. This study found that it’s the informers who get more followers, while the meformers lose out. 3. 4. Why? 5. 6. 7. Top 10 ed tech trends to watch out for in 2015. Why no one should multitask. Usually, at any given time, I have about 10 to 20 tabs open on Chrome. I’m also juggling several tasks at once: answering emails as they come in, updating my organization’s social media channels, writing an article, browsing the news—you get the picture.
I used to think this method of tackling everything at once made me more efficient, but I’ve started to notice that it actually takes longer to finish anything. I’ll write a couple lines of a piece for The Muse, jump over Twitter and churn out a tweet, think of a message I need to send, and finally jump back to my Word doc—only to have completely lost my train of thought. This is called “the myth of multitasking,” and I’m not the first to realize that it harms our work. In fact, research shows that multitasking lowers productivity by up to 40% and increases errors and stress. Why, then, is multitasking still a thing? It Feels Good So by recognizing that my multitasking is holding me back, I’ve already made some progress.
One Tab Make a List. Portrait Photography: A Basic Guide to Posing. Posing is as integral to portrait photography as the right lens and the right camera angle. A lot of photographers learn this the hard way. If you’re a portrait photographer or do family and wedding photography you know how important posing can be. In this video tutorial, photographer Julia Kelleher demystifies the art and science of correct posing: Lens Choice The choice of lens can make or break your images Your choice in lens is an important component of portrait photography. Compression Closer feature of the face is to the camera, larger it would appear You will hear about compression and distortion a lot in photography. Camera Angle Camera angle is essential in accentuating features of a person’s body Remember, the rule about distortion, anything that is close to the camera looks larger. Foreshortening Pushing the elbows back helps get rid of foreshortening When you push the elbows back, you can see the outlines of the body, and the picture looks a whole lot more appealing.
Focal plane. 5 things we learned about Twitter in 2014. Only in the mixed up, muddled up, shook-up world of digital media could a company with nearly 300 million monthly active users, hundreds of millions of dollars in quarterly revenue and a market cap north of $20 billion risk being considered too small. But that was exactly what happened to Twitter all throughout 2014, especially in December when Facebook-owned Instagram announced it had more than 300 million monthly active users prompting at least one media type to proclaim Instagram is “clobbering” Twitter in a message posted to Twitter — without the slightest sense of irony. . @om nails it. Digital is a visual medium. That’s why Instagram clobbering Twitter — Henry Blodget (@hblodget) December 12, 2014 If 2014 taught us anything about Twitter, it’s that this “not enough users” narrative will likely haunt Twitter going forward.
There is concern, however, that Twitter’s year-to-year growth rate is plateauing. Free Digital Versions. Grumpy Cat out-earns 26 NHL franchises. Sportsnet Staff December 8, 2014, 5:21 PM Sportsnet Staff December 8, 2014, 5:21 PM Early Monday morning, it was announced that internet sensation Grumpy Cat has earned her owner $99.5 million over the past two years, dwarfing some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities. Back on Nov.25, Sportsnet released the Forbes rankings of NHL franchises, showing the current value of each team, as well as their net profit from the 2013-14 season. We thought it would be fun to see where Grumpy Cat would rank in terms of profitability if she were an NHL team. Warning: The answer may shock you. 6 Signs That You Are Not Meant To Be A Programmer.
Advertisement Not everyone is cut out to be a programmer. Sure, anyone can learn how to program, but learning how to program is not the same as making a career out of it. In fact, it’s entirely possible to be a talented coder and still be a mismatch for the career. It sounds strange, I know, but it’s truer than you might think. I spent over a decade earning a degree in computer science and thinking it was the career for me only to realize that it wasn’t — and that’s coming from someone who enjoys the programming workflow and the associated challenges. There’s more to it than the act of coding. Sign #1: You Lack Experimental Creativity Despite being heavy on the logic, programming is ultimately a creative art 4 Must-See TED Talks On Creativity, Inspiration & Passion Creativity.
Dogmatic coders will tell you that there’s “one true way” to write good code, but that’s not true at all. Sign #2: You Are Not Self-Driven All good programmers need to be self-driven and there’s no way around this. The Top 3 Mistakes Millennials (Teens) Are Making on Social Media. Social media is fun and millennials know it. I'm a millennial and you are too, if you were born between 1980-2000. With Snapchat or Instagram to play with all day, it's no wonder that when it's time to venture out into the workforce, we haven't a clue how to use social media to our advantage. For us, being online or texting is like our parents using the microwave or VCR – it's normal. We've grown up using computers and being online, all the while developing our online persona – probably as early as elementary school.
This social media footprint that we've created as a teen or in our early twenties will follow us as we enter the workforce and potentially damage our chances at succeeding in a job. As millennials are leaving college and entering the workforce, many are unequipped and unprepared at utilizing social media to help spur their professional career. William Ward, professor of social media Syracuse University's S.I. 1. “Millennials think differently when it comes to online privacy. MOVENOTE: Web service to make and send video presentations/screencasts via Gmail. Perhaps I should take Linkedin more seriously. 25 LinkedIn Facts and Statistics. Attending business networking events for me has often been a waste of time. It feels like speed dating without a happy ending. Too many people with business cards and nothing in common. The experience? Frustrating, fake and futile. Much snake oil and not enough authentic connecting.
The social web has reinvented that desperate business networking. Weak ties and strong ties Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn you can connect online with people that have a common interest on the other side of the world or around the corner. This is the weak tie connection. Want to take it up a notch and then you can Skype, grab a coffee or even share a meal. This is where the strong ties start. Lurking, loitering or effective? Appreciate your recent Retweets @VWDL @fractuslearning @OISELibrary have a great tuesday :) (insight by. Two Free Self-Paced Online Couses On Google Power Searching - by Google. Google is the most popular search engine on the web. Most of us rely on Google search for finding information. Sometimes it can be difficult to find just the right information we are actually looking for out of the hundreds or thousands of results returned in Google’s search. Despite using Google every day, we still use it in its simplest form.
But Google has a plenty of tricks up its sleeves that can help us perform more quick, efficient and effective searches on Google. Towards this end, in July 2012 Google created an online course called Power Searching with Google. This course showcases many of their advanced search techniques and how to use them to solve real, everyday problems. The Google Power Searching course is available online on edX as an Xseries program. Go to Power Searching with Google Course The course is structured as a series of 6 modules, each of which comprises of 5-6 short video lessons.
The instructor of the course is Daniel M. A gold seeker's diary. A gold seeker’s diary of his journey to William’s Creek in May 1863 was later published in a book by Matthew MacFie, “Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Their History, Resources and Prospects”. Here are a few entries from the time the gold seeker left Victoria and travelled up the Harrison-Lillooet trail from Port Douglas which was commonly known as ‘Douglas’.
Saturday, 9th. Left New Westminster for Douglas at 3.30 p.m. Anchored at dark, 40 miles up the river. Can't afford an $8000 high-tech toilet? How about a $120 Kohler Purefresh high-tech toilet seat? The Changing Face of Work and Workplace Learning | ID and Other Reflections #dtechbc. I am not the kind to crystal gaze. I lay no claim to being able to predict the future. Now that my disclaimers are in place, let me explain the premise of the post title and what I intend to discuss in this post. I am trying to re-imagine how my work will shape up five years from now. Five years seem like a pretty short time but in today's context, it can be a very long time. Anything can happen in five years.
Companies take birth and vanish; business models come and go; technology appear, evolve and transform everything. I am not doing (at least trying not to) today what I did five years back--not only in terms of professional and personal growth but with respect to the demands of the time. IBM's Watson, the AI driven robot that interacts with humans on human terms (in natural language). As working professionals and L&D personnel concerned with training and organizational learning, capability building and talent development, we cannot ignore the implications of this changing landscape. Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives. Chances are, you’ve heard of eLearning and the benefits that it offers. The fact is, online learning allows students to access their learning materials at any of time of the day, from virtually any location.
This makes eLearning a flexible alternative to traditional learning styles, including classroom work. Online learning, also called eLearning, offers a lot of advantages to those who are looking for degrees or additional training solutions. For a company looking to train its employees on new protocols or systems, eLearning is a way to get everyone together in a virtual learning environment, even if the employees are scattered across the country and live in different time zones. It also allows them to cover the same material at a time that’s convenient, making it a very flexible option. Some companies are even able to save money since it means they don’t have to send employees to different states and counties administering training materials.
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