Lean and the Corporate Agenda with Guest Jacob StollerTKMG, Inc.
Recorded Webinar: http://bit.ly/1UBCCUK
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Why is it that even the most successful lean projects often go unrecognized in the executive suites? The issue may be lack of alignment – the fact that executives don't see a connection between Lean progress and the corporate agenda that they are expected to fulfill.
This webinar will help directors, managers, supervisors, Lean champions, and consultants understand how corporate agendas affect executive attention and decision making, and what this means for Lean projects.
Participants will learn how to cultivate an ear for business developments that concern executives, and to communicate Lean results in a language that will resonate with all senior leaders.
The evidence will be drawn from the author’s new book The Lean CEO (McGraw-Hill), which explains, through in-depth CEO interviews, the circumstances leading to enterprise-wide adoption of lean in 28 organizations.
About the presenter:
Jacob Stoller is a Toronto-based writer and consultant who has helped business leaders tell their stories for the past 15 years. His recent book, The Lean CEO, uses narratives from 28 lean-practicing CEOs to illustrate the true meaning of a lean transformation. A frequent commentator in the business press, Jacob has delivered a variety of learning events in Canada and the US, and authored documents for clients such as Microsoft, Dell Computer, Staples, Pitney Bowes, International Data Corporation (IDC), CMA Canada, and the Conference Board of Canada.
For more information about The Lean CEO: http://amzn.to/1AUq19C. Buy a book for yourself and the senior leader you ultimately report to!
Connect with Jacob on Twitter: @JacobStoller and on LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobstoller
Lean and the Corporate Agenda with Guest Jacob StollerTKMG, Inc.
Recorded Webinar: http://bit.ly/1UBCCUK
Subscribe: http://www.ksmartin.com/subscribe
Why is it that even the most successful lean projects often go unrecognized in the executive suites? The issue may be lack of alignment – the fact that executives don't see a connection between Lean progress and the corporate agenda that they are expected to fulfill.
This webinar will help directors, managers, supervisors, Lean champions, and consultants understand how corporate agendas affect executive attention and decision making, and what this means for Lean projects.
Participants will learn how to cultivate an ear for business developments that concern executives, and to communicate Lean results in a language that will resonate with all senior leaders.
The evidence will be drawn from the author’s new book The Lean CEO (McGraw-Hill), which explains, through in-depth CEO interviews, the circumstances leading to enterprise-wide adoption of lean in 28 organizations.
About the presenter:
Jacob Stoller is a Toronto-based writer and consultant who has helped business leaders tell their stories for the past 15 years. His recent book, The Lean CEO, uses narratives from 28 lean-practicing CEOs to illustrate the true meaning of a lean transformation. A frequent commentator in the business press, Jacob has delivered a variety of learning events in Canada and the US, and authored documents for clients such as Microsoft, Dell Computer, Staples, Pitney Bowes, International Data Corporation (IDC), CMA Canada, and the Conference Board of Canada.
For more information about The Lean CEO: http://amzn.to/1AUq19C. Buy a book for yourself and the senior leader you ultimately report to!
Connect with Jacob on Twitter: @JacobStoller and on LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobstoller
Millward Brown BrandZ Top 50 Latin American Brands 2013
Mexican beer brand Corona is the most valuable Latin American brand, according to the second annual BrandZ™ Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands ranking announced today by BrandAnalytics, a Millward Brown Optimor company. The ranking was commissioned by WPP. Corona increased its brand value by 29% in the last year to US$6.6 billion, due to the strong financial performance of its parent company and a solid brand positioning which is popular with consumers worldwide.
The steady rise of new technologies, especially in the area of mobile assisted language learning, has created new opportunities as well as challenges for foreign language learning. Since learners have more and more access to a wide range of devices and learning resources, teachers are challenged to explore the potential and benefits of these to support their students’ learning. In the last two decades there have been many attempts to integrate all kinds of mobile devices and apps to support formal as well as informal learning processes. However, most of the available apps still support mainly individual learning, using mobile devices to deliver content rather than providing learners with the opportunity to interact amongst each other.
To address this we have designed an app, based on a highly interactive, ubiquitous and constructive learning approach. The app is called Guess it! Language Trainer and allows learners to share, assess and co-construct their foreign language knowledge. Learning contents are no longer delivered but integrated into versatile tasks which although individually performed, affect the community of learners. The current research paper presents the first results of an ongoing project using the Guess it! Language Trainer app in a compulsory German language course at a Spanish University. In our paper we will firstly describe how the app has been used to support students’ language learning outside the classroom, secondly, how it helped learners to get actively involved in their own learning processes and thirdly, how the teacher can use the information stored in the system to assess students’ language learning.
Recorded webinar: http://slidesha.re/18pOceU
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Karen’s Books: http://ksmartin.com/books
Businesses routinely attempt to accomplish too much and quickly lose focus when the next fire erupts or a new "shiny ornament" appears.
Strategy Deployment (also known as hoshin kanri and policy deployment) is a highly effective means for prioritizing and maintaining focus on the projects and improvement activities that lead to outstanding business performance. But many organizations need to build fundamental skills before they're ready to fully utilize strategy deployment as it was intended.
In this webinar, you'll learn how to build fundamental skills by:
• Prioritizing the laundry list of what you COULD focus on as an organization and create a "must do, can't fail" list of what you WILL focus on.
• Gaining organization-wide alignment, the key to successful plan execution.
• Managing the plan to keep distractions at bay and generate the level of results all organizations are capable of.
In short, you'll learn how to accomplish meaningful improvement in a way that aligns rather than divides, and puts improvement in its rightful place as an integral part of achieving overarching business goals.
How to create a linked in company profileBill Layton
Linkedin company profiles are an essential part of you organization's web presence. These free listings let you upload information and content and link it back to employee profiles and your other web properties. Don' t miss this free opportunity!
The steady rise and increasing availability of new technologies, especially in the area of MALL, has created new challenges in the Area of Foreign Language Learning. This means that, since students have more and more access to a wide range of devices and learning materials, teachers are challenged to explore the potential and the benefits of these technologies to enhance students’ learning processes. In recent years there have been several attempts to integrate devices such as mobile phones as valid learning tools to support formal as well as informal learning Nonetheless, most of these attempts have been focused on providing learners with meaningful language input rather than on enhancing students’ active use of the target language. The present study therefore aims to explore some of the possibilities in using mobile phones for providing learners with meaningful language input as well as for pushing them towards increased language output. For this purpose we have designed a gamificated Android App which can be played either on a smartphone or tablet. The app itself provides learners, through several mini-games, with opportunities to first acquire new vocabulary input and then to practice the newly acquired vocabulary in a collaborative murder game, called Catch me, if you can. In order to successfully complete the different game tasks that are randomly assigned by the server, students need to collaborate with other game-players and develop real-world communication skills. Additionally, students’ communication is coordinated and stored by a game server that allows us to analyze students’ behaviour and interaction during the different game sessions.
Millward Brown BrandZ Top 50 Latin American Brands 2013
Mexican beer brand Corona is the most valuable Latin American brand, according to the second annual BrandZ™ Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands ranking announced today by BrandAnalytics, a Millward Brown Optimor company. The ranking was commissioned by WPP. Corona increased its brand value by 29% in the last year to US$6.6 billion, due to the strong financial performance of its parent company and a solid brand positioning which is popular with consumers worldwide.
The steady rise of new technologies, especially in the area of mobile assisted language learning, has created new opportunities as well as challenges for foreign language learning. Since learners have more and more access to a wide range of devices and learning resources, teachers are challenged to explore the potential and benefits of these to support their students’ learning. In the last two decades there have been many attempts to integrate all kinds of mobile devices and apps to support formal as well as informal learning processes. However, most of the available apps still support mainly individual learning, using mobile devices to deliver content rather than providing learners with the opportunity to interact amongst each other.
To address this we have designed an app, based on a highly interactive, ubiquitous and constructive learning approach. The app is called Guess it! Language Trainer and allows learners to share, assess and co-construct their foreign language knowledge. Learning contents are no longer delivered but integrated into versatile tasks which although individually performed, affect the community of learners. The current research paper presents the first results of an ongoing project using the Guess it! Language Trainer app in a compulsory German language course at a Spanish University. In our paper we will firstly describe how the app has been used to support students’ language learning outside the classroom, secondly, how it helped learners to get actively involved in their own learning processes and thirdly, how the teacher can use the information stored in the system to assess students’ language learning.
Recorded webinar: http://slidesha.re/18pOceU
Subscribe: http://www.ksmartin.com/subscribe
Karen’s Books: http://ksmartin.com/books
Businesses routinely attempt to accomplish too much and quickly lose focus when the next fire erupts or a new "shiny ornament" appears.
Strategy Deployment (also known as hoshin kanri and policy deployment) is a highly effective means for prioritizing and maintaining focus on the projects and improvement activities that lead to outstanding business performance. But many organizations need to build fundamental skills before they're ready to fully utilize strategy deployment as it was intended.
In this webinar, you'll learn how to build fundamental skills by:
• Prioritizing the laundry list of what you COULD focus on as an organization and create a "must do, can't fail" list of what you WILL focus on.
• Gaining organization-wide alignment, the key to successful plan execution.
• Managing the plan to keep distractions at bay and generate the level of results all organizations are capable of.
In short, you'll learn how to accomplish meaningful improvement in a way that aligns rather than divides, and puts improvement in its rightful place as an integral part of achieving overarching business goals.
How to create a linked in company profileBill Layton
Linkedin company profiles are an essential part of you organization's web presence. These free listings let you upload information and content and link it back to employee profiles and your other web properties. Don' t miss this free opportunity!
The steady rise and increasing availability of new technologies, especially in the area of MALL, has created new challenges in the Area of Foreign Language Learning. This means that, since students have more and more access to a wide range of devices and learning materials, teachers are challenged to explore the potential and the benefits of these technologies to enhance students’ learning processes. In recent years there have been several attempts to integrate devices such as mobile phones as valid learning tools to support formal as well as informal learning Nonetheless, most of these attempts have been focused on providing learners with meaningful language input rather than on enhancing students’ active use of the target language. The present study therefore aims to explore some of the possibilities in using mobile phones for providing learners with meaningful language input as well as for pushing them towards increased language output. For this purpose we have designed a gamificated Android App which can be played either on a smartphone or tablet. The app itself provides learners, through several mini-games, with opportunities to first acquire new vocabulary input and then to practice the newly acquired vocabulary in a collaborative murder game, called Catch me, if you can. In order to successfully complete the different game tasks that are randomly assigned by the server, students need to collaborate with other game-players and develop real-world communication skills. Additionally, students’ communication is coordinated and stored by a game server that allows us to analyze students’ behaviour and interaction during the different game sessions.
Catering for linguistic domain specialisations through computer-assisted lang...Ana Gimeno-Sanz
Invited key-note session delivered at the XXIIIe Congrès RANACLES: Centres de langues et spécialité(s), Universtié Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 26-28 nov. 2015.
Sheltered Instruction is a way to teach English Language Learners within the context of their academic classes. The SIOP model is the only research based method that effectively ensures that all students have equal access to the curriculum.
Digital English Language Lab software should be capable of being installed on desktops, laptops, and in any windows based operating systems. Language lab should be developed as per CEFR refereed standards i.e.
We are the only school in Malaysia with over 88% of its pupils are Siamese ethnic. ( it was 100% back then )
SK Tasek, Pengkalan Hulu is a Grade B SKM school
We are a small family of 12 teachers, 67 pupils and 51 parents (not including the bunch of very supportive community)
The most important and related note is that English became the third language here
Low percentage in PBS and UPSR
Lack of interest in English lesson
Unsupportive surrounding
Plan 1: “Mat Salleh” day
Plan 2: “Tasek Got Talent”
Plan 3: “Make it real”
Creating informal learning environment outside the classroom
One day each week formally known as English Day
Everybody must converse in English on the day
The main objective is to encourage pupils to converse and not to be grammatically correct
The programme is to build up confidence level and finding hidden talent in pupils
Pupils to perform on the Got Talent Stage
Pupils can choose the type of performance
It can either be individual or group performance
It is an approach used during lesson in the classroom
Pupils will be introduced to the new vocab by using the real things/object/animal/etc.
It will help pupils to be familiar to the vocab faster and easier.
Teacher have to be creative in finding substitution for any object which is too large or unavailability.
Grammar Starter is a vibrant three-book grammar series in full color. Chapters are organized around basic grammar topics and units are structured to present, practice, and reinforce grammar points. Students will quickly grasp the fundamentals of English grammar necessary to build their communication skills.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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?
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.
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.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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•Anke Berns (Language teacher)
•Alberto Cejas Sánchez
•Manuel Palomo Duarte
•Juan Manuel Dodero Beardo (Software engineers)
TEAM
3. CONTENT
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1.TEACHING FRAMEWORK
2.PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
3.IDEA OF THE APP
4.DESIGN FEATURES
5.EXPERIENCE
6.OUTCOMES
7.BENEFITS OF GUESS IT! for SL
8.FUTURE WORK
4. 1. TEACHING FRAMEWORK
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•beginner level (A1.1; CEFR)
•very large language courses
•few hours of language practice in class versus many hours of independent learning
•few opportunities to attend personal learner needs
•need for more individualized feedback
•need for more language input & output
5. 2. PURPOSE is:
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•to explore the potential of smartphones to enhance language learning out of class;
•to provide learners with highly interactive learning materials & environments that could be accessed anytime and anywhere
6. 3. IDEA of the APP
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•APP should support out of class learning.
•APP should facilitate ubiquous learning & offer learning statistics & feedback.
•APP should get users actively involved in the game design & development.
8. 4.1 Features
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•GuessIt! is based on the idea of guessing & explaining words.
•Users can play, assess & create new definitions to enter in the game.
•Users can access different kinds of statistics on their individual game- performance.
•Use of Google Speech to provide learners with audiofiles of all definitions.
23. 5. EXPERIENCE
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•more than 120 students from the A1.1 level
•2 training sessions in class
•students used the APP for 4 weeks
•each week they were asked to play a different level: level 1-2, level 3 y level 1-4
•each week they had to fill in a test
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6. OUTCOMES
•165.178 definitions played
•Average play-time by each student: 9 hours
•568 new definitions
•Significant improvements in writing & speaking
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7. BENEFITS of GUESS IT! for SL
•Learner centered
•Involves learner actively
in their learning process
•Enhances interaction amongst users
•Peer- assessment + feedback
•Learning statistics
•Ubiquituos Learning
•Dynamic Content
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•Algorithm
•Implementation of the system to allow users to improve reported definitions
•Multi-Player-Mode
•Other plataforms: iOS, Windows Phone
•Integration in LMS: moodle, SNS, etc.
8. FUTURE WORK
27. •THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
If you -as a learner- have any suggestions on how to improve and implement the APP please contact us:
anke.berns@uca.es
alberto.cejas.sanchez@gmail.com
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