A Picture of Leeds - A presentation delivered by Bill Dennis of Migration Yorkshire, which gives an excellent overview of Migration & Leeds. His details are on the final slide
Helping a survivor of trafficking or tortureJon Beech
A short presentation - with lots of embedded links - designed to assist volunteers at Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network respond to disclosure of trafficking or torture
A Picture of Leeds - A presentation delivered by Bill Dennis of Migration Yorkshire, which gives an excellent overview of Migration & Leeds. His details are on the final slide
Helping a survivor of trafficking or tortureJon Beech
A short presentation - with lots of embedded links - designed to assist volunteers at Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network respond to disclosure of trafficking or torture
On Wednesday October 9, 2013, I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of students at Georgia Highlands College in Dallas, Georgia as part of GHC's "Passport to Success" program.
I presented "Social Media for the Smart Job Seeker" to the room of students to help them learn how to utilize social media as part of their job search, as well as to help them prepare their personal profiles for success.
We discussed what recruiters are looking for on social media sites, how to present a professional profile, how to assess their own Social media profiles and online reputation, and how to get the most out of LinkedIn for their job search.
On Wednesday October 9, 2013, I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of students at Georgia Highlands College in Dallas, Georgia as part of GHC's "Passport to Success" program.
I presented "Social Media for the Smart Job Seeker" to the room of students to help them learn how to utilize social media as part of their job search, as well as to help them prepare their personal profiles for success.
We discussed what recruiters are looking for on social media sites, how to present a professional profile, how to assess their own Social media profiles and online reputation, and how to get the most out of LinkedIn for their job search.
"Power of 3: LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook for the Job Seeker of the New Media Age." It's not just about resumes and websites anymore. Today's job seeker must be keen on social media tools to establish credibility, network with others, and find employment. Learn how to maximize the top social media sites to find the job of your dreams.
Using Ethnographic User Research to Drive Knowledge Management and Intranet S...NavigationArts
Is your organization leveraging its intranet for the bottom line?
Nearly 97% of all pharmacological research experiments fail to make it to human trials. If lessons learned from these failed experiments are not shared effectively, researchers continually recreate failed experiments resulting in great costs to organizations and their customers.
Topics covered:
* Types of user research
* Persona development
* Intranet adoption strategies
* Knowledge management strategies
* Best practices
Bruns and his team shadowed research scientists to learn how and why they shared - and didn't share - their knowledge with their peers. He will discuss findings of how researchers used (and did not use) their existing knowledge management systems, personas of the different types of pharmaceutical researchers (The Conductor, The Expert, The Advice Seeker, The Hermit, The Human Robot, and The Collaborator), strategies for enlisting the participation of the various personas within the organization, recommendations for how to create the next generation of the client's knowledge management intranet, lessons learned from this study, and best practices on conducting ethnographic user research to guide the success of your organization's intranet.
I offered this presentation on June 7 at the Tennessee Career Center in Murfreesboro. The focus was using Twitter as a vaible tool during a job search and how it augments a job seeker's brand.
I designed two interactive exercises to get audience members thinking in 140 characters or less and about their brand. , 2012
On overview of Social Media and why it is relevant to Manufacturing and B2B. A specific focus on Twitter, Linkedin and Linkedin communities and Youtube.
This presentation originally given by Brian Bluff - President, Site-Seeker, Inc. - outlines the importance of using search engine marketing (SEM) and social media to establish yourself or your company as an expert in the field.
Prezentācijas sagatavota projekta „Imigrantu intereses pārstāvošo NVO kapacitātes stiprināšana” ietvaros. Projektu finansē Eiropas Trešo valstu valstspiederīgo integrācijas fonds. Projekta finansēšanas avoti - Fonds 75% un valsts budžeta līdzekļi 25%.
Plašāk par projektu: http://www.providus.lv/public/27717.html
NCompass Live - Sept. 20, 2017
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Libraries in the United States have a long history of providing resources and educational programming to immigrants. Today, this role is especially relevant with the increasing immigrant population in addition to increasing uncertainty regarding the new administration’s policies on immigration. Libraries have a unique opportunity and responsibility to not only welcome our immigrant community members, but also to provide information and educational opportunities to protect and empower our immigrant friends, neighbors, and patrons.
Presenter: Mindy Rush Chipman, Senior Managing Attorney, Justice For Our Neighbors-Nebraska.
A new report, 'Written out of the picture', published this week by the North East Child Poverty Commission and the Regional Refugee Forum North East highlights the widespread incidence of poverty amongst refugees and asylum seekers, the ‘new underclass: the minority within a minority`(O’Neill & Hubbard). Because Asylum seekers are not allowed to work whilst their claims are being determined, most depend on Section 95 support, which is a lower rate of support than for UK citizens who are unable to work. It often works out at just over £5 a day (housing and utility bills are paid for separately).
According to researchers, this group ‘are forced to live on the ‘margins of the margins’ while waiting for their cases to be processed. Cut off from the world of work, and often denied decent housing, adequate medical provision or cultural services, many drift into a state of destitution, rely on charity hand-outs or are forced into an underground economy.‘(O’Neill & Hubbard)
Despite a growing acknowledgement that the support offered to asylum seekers in the UK effectively ‘traps’ them in poverty, the role of local services and the issue of poverty amongst individuals once granted leave to remain has received little attention from researchers or campaigners. Little central or local government attention has been paid to poverty amongst these groups, with government documents and statistics appearing to ‘miss out’ asylum seeking children
Australia's mandatory detention regime for asylum seekers who come by boat has been widely and justifiably condemned. This is a lecture delivered on 20 August 2011 at the annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association of psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Fundraising using social media: A briefingMark Walker
Presentation from a briefing session I ran in Brighton on 7 December 2011 covering fundraising and social media.
<My main aim is to inspire people to get on and do it - to pick up the reins and start trying to make it work.
Data-sharing and Intelligent Commissioning and 3rd sector from Charity IT Con...Mark Walker
I made a presentation to the Charity IT Conference about how charities can ask local councils to use their data as part of the commissioning process
It includes reference to www.databridge.org.uk, a project developed in Brighton as part of a highly successful City Camp project
How local authorities can work with the third sector: SOCITM 25Mark Walker
I was grateful for an opportunity to speak to ICT professionals from the public sector at the 25th SOCITM conference in Birmingham on 30 November. SOCITM is the Society of IT Managers and represents a network of over 300 local authorities and more than 30 charities and not for profit organisations.
I am a member of the SOCITM Third Sector Groups and shared the stage with Martyn Croft, CIO of The Salvation Army. Between us we represent either end of the third sector spectrum. I have spent the past 15 years working with very small local charities, social enterprises, community groups and other not for profit organisations in Brighton, many of which have no staff and hence have very low level of investment in IT. Martyn is Chief Information Officer for an organisation with a turnover of £210m, putting it in the top ten charities in the UK.
We took the chance to show the many positive opportunities for collaboration and partnership working between public sector and the third sector, focusing on three specific options:
1. Volunteering
2. Intelligent Commissioning
3. Partnerships
I'm co-running a workshop for charities about using the press and social media to promote your not for profit organisation. It's in Brighton in November, organised by Working Together Project.
It includes a checklist for social media as part of the marketing mix plus five steps to running your social media campaigns.
I've credited the images wherever possible - apologies if I've missed some.
I am working with two people from the NHS to help them integrate social media into their work. This is the presentation from the first of a three stage process.
Although they have lots of skills and knowledge this first step is a general introduction, to make sure they have chance to ask questions and share their knowledge with each other. We used it to agree some broad learning goals and specific actions they can take.
Next step is to begin planning specific campaigns as part of their work.
The third step will be to reflect what they've learned and identify new learning goals.
These sessions will be a month or so apart to give them chance to try things out.
110714 Cybermummy feedback from community reportersMark Walker
Claire Jones-Hughes is a founding member of Brighton & Hove Community Reporters and has been blogging about her experience as a mum for several years, under the name of contented mummy.
She gave a great report to the July Community Reporters meetup about how parent bloggers are attracting the attention of big brands and the PR agencies that promote them.
110707 e-safety - creating a social media policy to safeguard service usersMark Walker
I delivered a 90 minute briefing about why and how to develop a social media policy, to help charities make safe use of the web.
Although I use the phrase 'social media policy' some people in the session felt that social media was too narrow a term and does not encompass email, websites or other IT stuff.
In fact that is exactly what I think social media does encompass. Maybe it's because I'm using it every day but I realise now use the term as a code for all online activity. We agreed that this is is one example of why the discussion about having a policy is so important, as it helps to challenge the language which we can take for granted but which can be a barrier to others.
In researching the session I discovered a lot of information about e-safety for young people prepared by and for schools but very little for community organisations.
I also found just about nothing on the web that was about safe web use by anyone other than young people. More and more older people's services are offering IT access, so this presentation is as relevant to them as it is to young people.
110406 apps for good for citycamp brightonMark Walker
A presentation which forms a pitch for £10k prize at CityCamp Brighton on 6 March 2011 explaining how we can bring Apps for Good to Brighton. Lots of stuff about this at www.appsforgood.org
110219 Introduction to social media for Oxford Voluntary ActionMark Walker
This is the presentation to accompany a workshop for staff and volunteers from local charities organised by Oxford Voluntary Action and delivered by Mark Walker of SCIP on 3 March 2011
110219 Communicating your Impact Using the InternetMark Walker
How can you use the internet to communicate with your funders and supporters? How can you maximise the impact of your communications? What is the impact of your work and how can you communicate it?
This presentation accompanies a 3 hour workshop I delievered for 20 people at Community Action MK on 22 February 2011
110112 Introduction to social media for Novas Scarman Can DoersMark Walker
A made a short presentation to a group being supported by Novas Scarman in Brighton. ALl were volunteers setting up and/or running local community activities.
Presentation made by Mark Walker to the team at Skills South East in January 2011 for Wall and Pleece, a marketing and branding agency based in London and Brighton.
101028 SCIP Introduction to social media for non profitsMark Walker
What is social media? Why is it relevant to not for profit organisations? What should I be doing? How do I find the time? How do measure what works? Is it worth it?
Form a lunchtime seminar delivered by Mark Walker in Community Base, Brighton on Thursday 28 October 2010
Third Sector, Commissioning and the Big Society in Brighton & HoveMark Walker
Two presentations back-to-back form a Community Workers Conference in brighton last week.
The first was used by Sally Polanski, Chief Officer of the Community and Voluntary Sector Forum to guide us through the current approach to commissioning in the city, with a particular emphasis on how the third sector could add value to the process.
The other is an overview of BigSociety and is based on an Urban Forum session which ran in the city recently. It was delivered by John Routledge, Head of Communities Team in the CIty Council.
Both offer an excellent primer on current issues, explain the jargon and start to explore potential opportunities.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Editor's Notes
Jews’, 1938, Sunday Express. Hostile media coverage and public opinion is nothing new. Even when Jewish refugees were fleeing hostility in the 1930s, there was hostile media coverage in many newspapers. Metaphors of flooding and overrunning started way back then! When refugee issues are debated, the arrival of Jews in the UK during the Second World War is often highlighted as an example of the UK providing a ‘welcome’. However, we often forget that many Jews were refused permission to enter the UK and those that did arrive here often faced hostility and discrimination.
In 2007, the top five countries of origin for asylum applicants to the UK were Afghanistan, Iran, China, Iraq, Eritrea. Then Zimbabwe, Somalia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria. These are all countries with recent histories of war or human rights abuses. Afghanistan: factional fighting, warlords, suicide attacks, gender persecution, death penalty Iran: Persecution of minority groups (ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation), lack of political freedom (including the right to peaceful protest), arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment in detention, discriminatory laws and practices, repression of the media, death penalty. China: one-party state, political repression, media repression, restrictions on freedom of expression, death penalty, persecution of religious and ethnic minorities. Iraq: Fighting between armed groups, military occupation, suicide attacks, kidnapping, assassinations, attacks on civilians, death penalty Eritrea: religious persecution, death penalty, political repression, arbitrary arrests, imprisonment and torture, border tensions, detention, repression of the media, compulsory national service, suppression of human rights groups. Somalia: Civil war, warlords, state collapse, factional fighting, kidnappings, threats to human rights defenders, rape of minority clan women, death penalty.
This slide is for information only rather than detail. Main aim is familiarity with the terms as under the banner of ‘asylum seeker’, ‘refugee’, ‘refused asylum seeker’. Very important: with the new bill (2005) it is likely that refugees will only get status for five years. This could have a large impact on their access to loans and other services which will aid business set-up. Refugee Status (5 years as of IAN 2006) Humanitarian Protection (5 years- Human Right basis due to things like civil war, the death penalty) Discretionary Leave to Remain (3 years - e.g., unaccompanied children)
The process makes it difficult for refugees to establish: refugee status to enable them to work, finances, location, skills, networks for business support. Warning - legislation changes: the asylum system changes particularly quickly, legalities can change very quickly. This may effect the length of stay in the UK which has implications for business set-up or make the application process more stressful for the applicant. It may actually make the process better. But this has yet to been seen. Trust and confidentiality: Because of bad experiences with officials in country of origin or indeed here in the UK through the asylum process, refugees are often suspicious of authority. Establishing a sense of trust and confidentiality will be essential. Documents: The flight of refugees often means they leave without extensive documentation. This can be very problematic for their progress through the asylum system, exacerbating the concerns on the slide. Also it can mean that they find it difficult to establish themselves within UK housing, banking and employment sectors.