This presentation provides methodologies for students to lead, teach, and showcase their work. It includes sections on elements, energies, and actions that each have four components to guide personal growth. Students are empowered to define projects and curate galleries to pursue their passions. Constructive critiques from peers are encouraged to support students in communicating their goals and improving. The goal is to give students opportunities to direct their own learning and inspire others through showcasing their work.
Murder in the Classroom - Have we killed Creativity?jtrevaskis
Presented at the CEN/CSA State Conference in WA. Murder in the Classroom explores whether we've killed creativity or whether we are allowing students to reflect the image of God through their creativity and creative processes in the classroom.
Creativity and Types of Innovation
Conceptual Blocks
Three Components of Creativity
The Paradoxical Characteristics of Creative Groups
Tools for Defining Problems and Creating New Ideas
Creating a Creative Climate
Murder in the Classroom - Have we killed Creativity?jtrevaskis
Presented at the CEN/CSA State Conference in WA. Murder in the Classroom explores whether we've killed creativity or whether we are allowing students to reflect the image of God through their creativity and creative processes in the classroom.
Creativity and Types of Innovation
Conceptual Blocks
Three Components of Creativity
The Paradoxical Characteristics of Creative Groups
Tools for Defining Problems and Creating New Ideas
Creating a Creative Climate
Need and Importance of Creativity, how creativity helps to overcome challenges.Various methods that can be used to foster your creativity, and some novel ways people have adopted to enhance their creativity pool.
Cultivating Creativity in the ClassroomJamie Tubbs
Standardized tests got you down? Need a dose of inspiration? With strategies from creativity experts, this presentation is for teachers looking for ideas to cultivate creativity in their classrooms.
Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Dayburowe
Pictures are global and transcend words. They carry metaphors, symbols and meaning beyond the written word. Capturing ideas with images takes less time than reading text or verbalizing ideas, and making drawings helps you tell stories more effectively. Visual thinking can help you make sense of complexity, help find patterns and surface critical issues, help make faster, better decisions, and help you take action and do 'good' for your business.
In order to get comfortable with the skill of visual thinking, we need to
build confidence in drawing ability for those with no experience, help people develop a personal toolbox of sketching shortcuts, promote and encourage visual thinking as a useful tool at your desk and in the conference room.
The goal is to move from "let's THINK out loud" to "let's VISUALLY THINK out loud" as a way to brainstorm, collaborate and innovate together in the workplace.
The other evening I had a wonderful opportunity to spend about 70 minutes with a group of 40ish first and second year teachers in my area. I was asked to come in and help them with some ideas around engagement. At first, I was really struggling with this concept because there are so many deeper issues that lead to students not being engaged in the classroom. While I am not able to solve the problems for each educator, I did try to curate a hands on session that challenged their thinking about simple and free approaches to rethink how we allow students to express learning.
The intended outcome was to have beginning teachers will know and be able to select strategies to engage students and increase motivation.
2010Apr25 - Learn to Learn - Sri Shiridi Sai Baba Sansthan - 83s -[Please dow...viswanadham vangapally
A special presentation made for the 118th Lecture at Sri Shiridi Sai Baba Sansthan. The live audio recording of the speech in Telugu, can be freely heard by visiting: www.archive.org - please search for Prof. V. Viswanadham. Please honour me with
your valuable feedback - viswam.vangapally@gmail.com
Assignment Instructions
Week 7 Exercise: Prosocial Behavior
Much of what we tend to focus on when we study social psychology are topics that often have a negative connotation such as conformity, prejudice, aggression or obedience. A huge component of the study of social psychology; however, focuses on prosocial behavior – behaviors that focus on compassion and helping others. For this activity, you will focus on this more uplifting aspect of social psychology. Topics that fall under the area of prosocial behavior include altruism, helping, bystander intervention, empathy, and compassion, among others.
For this exercise, pick one day and seek to structure your thoughts and behaviors entirely around helping others. With each interaction or action you take, pause to think and ask yourself “is there a way I might help another here?” Hold a door for someone, offer your seat, share a smile, give a sincere compliment, show empathy to another, attempt to be more patient or understanding, etc. Your efforts should be in social settings that involve interactions with others (rather than something such as donating to a charity for instance). The goal is to be as thoughtfully prosocial in your interactions throughout the day as possible.
· At the beginning of the day, jot down your general mood, feelings, attitude, etc.
· Then throughout the day, whenever possible, carry a small notebook with you or make notes in an app on your phone to jot down meaningful encounters or experiences as you attempt to engage in prosocial behaviors.
· At the end of the day, again reflect and take notes on how you feel, your general mood, feelings and attitudes, etc.
In a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation, not counting title or reference slides:
· Summarize your experience. Describe the prosocial behaviors you engaged in, others’ reactions to these behaviors, and your assessment of any changes in mood, attitude, good fortune, or anything else of note you experienced.
· Review what you have learned about human behavior in social settings this week in your readings and CogBooks activities. Connect what you learned or experienced through your day of conscious, prosocial behavior with the terms, concepts, and theories from your research. Integrate at least two academic sources (your assigned readings/resources can comprise one of these sources), citing any references used in APA format.
· Describe any new insights you gained through this experience about your interactions with others on a daily basis, including any behaviors you wish to change or to continue.
· Use the features of PowerPoint to your advantage to communicate your ideas – include pictures, audio recorded narration, speaker’s notes, video, links, etc. as appropriate to enhance your ideas.
· Include an APA formatted title slide and reference slide. APA components such as an abstract, headings, etc. are not required since this is a PowerPoint presentation.
Thinking 'Bigger Than Me' in the Liberal Arts
By Steven J..
Need and Importance of Creativity, how creativity helps to overcome challenges.Various methods that can be used to foster your creativity, and some novel ways people have adopted to enhance their creativity pool.
Cultivating Creativity in the ClassroomJamie Tubbs
Standardized tests got you down? Need a dose of inspiration? With strategies from creativity experts, this presentation is for teachers looking for ideas to cultivate creativity in their classrooms.
Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Dayburowe
Pictures are global and transcend words. They carry metaphors, symbols and meaning beyond the written word. Capturing ideas with images takes less time than reading text or verbalizing ideas, and making drawings helps you tell stories more effectively. Visual thinking can help you make sense of complexity, help find patterns and surface critical issues, help make faster, better decisions, and help you take action and do 'good' for your business.
In order to get comfortable with the skill of visual thinking, we need to
build confidence in drawing ability for those with no experience, help people develop a personal toolbox of sketching shortcuts, promote and encourage visual thinking as a useful tool at your desk and in the conference room.
The goal is to move from "let's THINK out loud" to "let's VISUALLY THINK out loud" as a way to brainstorm, collaborate and innovate together in the workplace.
The other evening I had a wonderful opportunity to spend about 70 minutes with a group of 40ish first and second year teachers in my area. I was asked to come in and help them with some ideas around engagement. At first, I was really struggling with this concept because there are so many deeper issues that lead to students not being engaged in the classroom. While I am not able to solve the problems for each educator, I did try to curate a hands on session that challenged their thinking about simple and free approaches to rethink how we allow students to express learning.
The intended outcome was to have beginning teachers will know and be able to select strategies to engage students and increase motivation.
2010Apr25 - Learn to Learn - Sri Shiridi Sai Baba Sansthan - 83s -[Please dow...viswanadham vangapally
A special presentation made for the 118th Lecture at Sri Shiridi Sai Baba Sansthan. The live audio recording of the speech in Telugu, can be freely heard by visiting: www.archive.org - please search for Prof. V. Viswanadham. Please honour me with
your valuable feedback - viswam.vangapally@gmail.com
Assignment Instructions
Week 7 Exercise: Prosocial Behavior
Much of what we tend to focus on when we study social psychology are topics that often have a negative connotation such as conformity, prejudice, aggression or obedience. A huge component of the study of social psychology; however, focuses on prosocial behavior – behaviors that focus on compassion and helping others. For this activity, you will focus on this more uplifting aspect of social psychology. Topics that fall under the area of prosocial behavior include altruism, helping, bystander intervention, empathy, and compassion, among others.
For this exercise, pick one day and seek to structure your thoughts and behaviors entirely around helping others. With each interaction or action you take, pause to think and ask yourself “is there a way I might help another here?” Hold a door for someone, offer your seat, share a smile, give a sincere compliment, show empathy to another, attempt to be more patient or understanding, etc. Your efforts should be in social settings that involve interactions with others (rather than something such as donating to a charity for instance). The goal is to be as thoughtfully prosocial in your interactions throughout the day as possible.
· At the beginning of the day, jot down your general mood, feelings, attitude, etc.
· Then throughout the day, whenever possible, carry a small notebook with you or make notes in an app on your phone to jot down meaningful encounters or experiences as you attempt to engage in prosocial behaviors.
· At the end of the day, again reflect and take notes on how you feel, your general mood, feelings and attitudes, etc.
In a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation, not counting title or reference slides:
· Summarize your experience. Describe the prosocial behaviors you engaged in, others’ reactions to these behaviors, and your assessment of any changes in mood, attitude, good fortune, or anything else of note you experienced.
· Review what you have learned about human behavior in social settings this week in your readings and CogBooks activities. Connect what you learned or experienced through your day of conscious, prosocial behavior with the terms, concepts, and theories from your research. Integrate at least two academic sources (your assigned readings/resources can comprise one of these sources), citing any references used in APA format.
· Describe any new insights you gained through this experience about your interactions with others on a daily basis, including any behaviors you wish to change or to continue.
· Use the features of PowerPoint to your advantage to communicate your ideas – include pictures, audio recorded narration, speaker’s notes, video, links, etc. as appropriate to enhance your ideas.
· Include an APA formatted title slide and reference slide. APA components such as an abstract, headings, etc. are not required since this is a PowerPoint presentation.
Thinking 'Bigger Than Me' in the Liberal Arts
By Steven J..
Some ways to promote creativity in our classroomsDr. Goutam Patra
It is argued creativity can be team-based, observable and learnable. It is evidenced in a collective capacity to select, reshuffle, combine, or synthesise already existing facts, ideas and skills in original ways. Thus we could promote creative thinking, being and doing in HE learning spaces by focusing on creative, collaborative learning activities among both learners and teachers (and see also Livingston, 2010).
Here are the some ways of creating creativity in Teaching- learning situation
CREATIVITY & CRITICAL THINKING - Life Skills Training for High SchoolYetunde Macaulay
Creativity and critical thinking are fundamental to students becoming successful learners. The ability to think critically is an essential life skill; as the world changes at an ever-faster pace and economies become global, young adults are entering an expanding, diverse job market. To remain relevant in the highly competitive world that we are today, it is necessary now more than ever before to ensure that you possess the thinking power to flexibly and creatively solve problems on a daily basis.
Parallax Learning and Creative Contingency Plans by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Renne Emiko Brock / Zinnia Zauber presented this at the 14th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference March 20, 2021.
Don’t Panic! “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams is a launch manual preparing multimedia students to approach, brainstorm, and problem solve from various points of view and audience perspectives. Parallax learning encourages a strategic empathic approach and formulated, growth mindset. Aiming for an apparent position or solution, students use multi-dimensional virtual scenarios to devise creative contingency plans appearing to be precognition. Do you know where your towel is?
Boldly Go - Celebrate Success and Cataclysm Stories by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Confidence comes from educational attempts that fail with room to reflect and regroup to triumph. The constellations don’t move us. The stories behind the stars do. Teach the mythology and methodology of heroes and creatures to embrace worthy motives and mistakes. Assemble learning systems that build worlds and character, foster spheres of influence, and rejoice in honest reflective writing. Celebrate individual’s stories that highlight self-actualization results for all to become shining stars.
Feather in Your Cap - Achievement and Recognition by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Imparting knowledge and acknowledgment is vital for encouraging curiosity and confidence in students. To hit the target, one must aim higher to reach their mark and earn a symbol of achievement. Increase challenges and customize learning outcomes with personalized projects that enhance motivation and demonstrate skill proficiency, ownership, and valued contribution. Capability is the cap and the earned feathers are their virtual creative problem solving and multimedia communication successes.
Presented on April 4, 2019 at the 12th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference.
It includes Renne's digital storytelling coursework at Peninsula College.
Patterns, Pixels, and Superpowers – Designing an Art Practice by Renne Emiko ...Renne Emiko Brock
Explore the colorful interweaving of art, identity, education, digital storytelling, and community building with Peninsula College faculty Renne Emiko Brock as she shares her art practice woven with fiber and multimedia art, color research, engaging virtual environments, and inclusive collaborations.
Renne is an artist, instructor, superhero, and advocate of awesomeness empowering people to be their best virtual and tangible self by advancing excellence, exceptional pursuits, and individualism through creative expression and encouraging instruction with inspired results.
Since 1993, she has taught fine art, fiber arts, digital arts, virtual world use, social media, multimedia web, video, personal and professional branding, marketing, collaborative community building, and art enterprise with Peninsula College, University of Washington, Monterey Peninsula College, at conferences, and independently. She produces creative events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and several more while also serving on nonprofit organization boards to foster innovation and inclusion.
Superheroes' Transformative Digital Storytelling by Renne Emiko BrockRenne Emiko Brock
Empower agency and reveal superhero skills with immersive lessons that activate educational transformations using storytelling techniques including reflective origins, challenging problems, and creative solutions to evolve students into exceptional mentors utilizing technology, art, and imagination.
Develop artful solutions using storytelling technology to inspire and overcome challenges by telling unique accounts as an active learning modality.
Students are superheroes and education is an equity mutation. Virtual environments unlock their potential because anything is possible. We recognize the catalyst and hero’s journey that makes each student unique through positive persistence to persevere achievements beyond the classroom.
Covering the fundamentals of branding, marketing, creating an active online presence, business licensing and insurance, photographing art, digital storytelling, and selling. As the director of several creative arts events and Peninsula College faculty, she will also encourage opportunities to participation in community arts events like the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, and Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair, as well as, Multimedia Communication courses to expand creative business skills and networking.
Let go of control. Instructors empower students through agency with active learning ownership, not with ultimate authority. Build validating lessons prior to entering virtual situations with surprising personal investigation, mood board creation, and character sketches. Develop education buy-in through accelerated and immediate avatar customization to reveal individuality and unlimited potential. Use reflection exercises to reveal how this experience exposed their real investment in themselves.
Unlock your potential using 24 Keys to Success and achieve transformation within the 12 Steps of The Hero’s Journey Project. From hero to superhero mentor, students build this ongoing virtual experience to inform and inspire new heroes to attend college through an inclusive, encouraging adventure. Forge your own keys to open new opportunities and unique narratives in your classroom and community by harnessing treasured storytelling systems and empowered agency. Build interactive lessons that guide one’s innovative, educational evolution using storytelling techniques including reflective introductions, challenging problems, and creative solutions.
Every student superhero has a catalyst that changes their lives and is the incentive to improve themselves and the world around them. Discover students' origin stories and principal motivation to turn passion into positive projects and promote partnerships. Virtual worlds foster flexible, imaginative play to reveal and utilize students' individual stories. Create a safe learning environment where this vulnerable intersection transforms into a lesson of confidence, compassion, and connections with other superheroes. After exploring the events and elements of their influential story, implement transmedia storytelling through multimedia, blogs, social networks, and virtual world engagement to support student centered success and unique learning styles while inspiring universal listening, inquiry, and teambuilding.
Copyright 2014 by Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond including "action-packed superheroes" book content and college coursework. All rights reserved.
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2014 Lecture on April 11, 2014
Share the Black Crayon - Collaborative Superhero TeamsRenne Emiko Brock
Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013 Lecture
Lead by example. Share the spotlight instead of fighting over control or the black crayon, so that people reveal and utilize their superpowers. Immersive environments, like Second Life, open opportunities for educators to expand beyond the classroom by including worldwide professional guests, virtual and physical field trips, and community building inquiry and impact on screen and off. Learn to establish educational experiences that build teams and encourage students to discover their superpowers through developing authentic avatars, fostering clear, confident communication, assigning responsibility, and cultivating respect.
Virtual Worlds Avatar - Zinnia Zauber
Transcript at http://www.uniqueasyou.com/courses_presentations.htm
Won People's Choice 3rd Place in Presentations at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2013
Slideshow from my "Peak Pinterest In Your Business" lecture at the 2012 Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit to devise an active and engaging Pinterest marketing strategy. It is a great intro and starting point. I hope to see some positive results from it!
Authentic Avatar – inspiring trust with your virtual identity Renne Emiko Brock
Your avatar is a visual representation of you and your professional reputation. Your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize as a form of personal branding and real influential guidance. Efficiently build credibility by embodying your best self though your Authentic Avatar. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and unique appearance and animations that articulates your genuine motivation, fosters confidence, and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
From a series of educational lectures about how you can use social media for marketing by connecting more with your community and supporting others who will in turn support you.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 1 of 2.
This is an introduction to get started in Second Life. From signing up to learning skills to getting ready to launch into the amazing world out there. Part 2 of 2.
Intellectual Property Respect - A Virtual Artist’s PerspectiveRenne Emiko Brock
Encouraging the Dos and the Don'ts Intellectual Property rights and permissions through responsible and respective behavior. Lead by example. Claiming ignorance is unacceptable.
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence Renne Emiko Brock
Authentic Avatar Brand: Build Trust Through Your Virtual Presence
Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber)
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Your avatar is a visual representation of you. As a form of personal branding, your avatar must communicate your enthusiasm, openness, and mission to tap those productive, emotional interactions and encourage participation that online communities utilize. Discover how to create an expressive, consistent, and genuine appearance and animations that articulates your authentic motivation and to differentiate you, your cause, and your business from other avatars.
Second Life Community Convention 2011
Renne Brock-Richmond (SL: Zinnia Zauber) D. Cooper Patterson (SL: Cooper Macbeth) Valerie Hill (SL: Valibrarian Gregg) Anna Gadler Pratt (SL: Sicily Zapatero) Kathryn Green (SL:JILIAN Magic) Stylianos Mystakidis (SL: Stylianos Ling) Beverly Gay McCarter (SL: Bev Landar) Cyber Simsider
Graduates from the University of Washington Certificate in Virtual Worlds Classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 work together to enhance diverse professions and collaborate through shared synchronous projects in a scholarly community. While fostering effective and cooperative projects, the UW VW graduates are also working on virtual world projects in a variety of disciplines: library and information science, cognitive engineering, museums, education, government, military, career counseling, healthcare, nonprofits, project management, computer programming, and the Arts.
Event Planning and Promotion at the Nonprofit CommonsRenne Emiko Brock
This is a Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Mentor's educational chat I did on June 24, 2011 to encourage people to create engaging events and how to promote them.
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!
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.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
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?
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
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter 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.
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.
3. Achievement, Autonomy, and
Inclusion
This presentation includes three sets of themed
methodologies to provide opportunities for personal
inquiry, public exhibition, and allowing students lead
and teach.
The Elements are physical influences.
The Energies are invisible drives.
The Actions are mental ambitions.
Each set has four quadrants that assist in
understanding different steps and directions to follow
to become the forerunner.
Air, Fire, Water, and Earth
Awareness, Experimentation, Art Activation, and Call to
4. Every decision and action we make produces
a purposeful pathway defining who we are
and our contribution to the world.
We are at
the Crossroads
to awesomeness!
5. Immersive environments not only
give students paths to follow,
but potential trails to blaze.
Educators helps connect the dots along
this path not as guides, but as lights.
6. Define and
design a
classroom
plaza or gallery
with exercises
that cultivates
innovation,
opportunity,
and creative
expression by
recognizing
what makes
each student a
unique catalyst.
Unrestricted by
tangible limits
and costs,
instructors can
provide a
custom public
square with
student
galleries where
these crossing
paths meet to
build a
community.
7. A gallery become a home base where a student
is empowered to pursue their passion.
11. The Elements - The essentials that
combine to create character,
context, and imaginative and actual
chemistry.
12. Air – east, expressing, spring, child,
mental, active, and invisible
Air = Expression
creativity and communication
13. Fire – south, doing, summer, adult,
energy, active, and dynamic
Fire = Action
challenge and guide
14. Water – west, thinking, autumn, mature,
emotional, passive, and transformative
Water = Education
knowledge and objectivity
15. Earth – north, feeling, winter, elder,
physical, passive, and precious
Earth = Inspiration
support and influence
16. The Actions - The stages of growth
and achievements that are inside
evolution and participation with the
outside.
17. This is the awaking and openness to
learning new ideas and methods.
Awareness
Action happening on the Inside
18. This is fearless practice and
investigation of techniques.
Experimentation
Action from the Outside to the Inside
19. This is execution of expression
and revealing of motivation.
Art Activation
Action from the Inside to the Outside
20. Inspiring the next step and mentoring.
Call to Action
Action happening on the Outside
21. A “Call to Action” is a clear
statement that directs the
audience to do something. It
suggests immediate
response the next step using an
imperative verb to give orders,
commands and instructions as
to what action you want the
viewer or participate.
22. Felix is new to Second Life. He has shared his images and
videos in his gallery.
23. He is open for business and open to learn more about how
he can participate actively in a virtual world.
He is open for business and open to learn more about how
he can participate actively in a virtual world.
24. To learn how to build in a virtual world, Elaine curated her
projects in her course’s gallery. This new experience opens
her eyes.
She encourages her classmates to join her.
25. Cedrus and NLT are virtual world explorers. Cedrus shares
his machinima and investigates his visual voice through
video.
NLT spends more time on his music for media &
performance research. He practices in the
26. Cedrus’ Mindcraft machinima - After student successfully
apply their teamwork skills in one world, they want to
demonstrate it in another.
And, that includes the physical world.
27. BlackCatBandit and SeeknHide set up a gallery to
showcase student work from the Multimedia Club at
Peninsula College.
28. They work on projects together as part of the club and
collaborate in multimedia classes as well.
29. Students shared work from several media. They collected
images to curation this Minecraft section of the gallery.
30. They want to add more music and books. And, even put a
video on a prim sharing their stop motion project called
“Superhero 101”.
31. Nazo was the first student to earn her own gallery space.
She didn’t have to share with other students
because of her extra efforts to learn more in
Second Life.
32. She uses the gallery to strength her branding and be an
example.
33. Nazo helps tutor new students to Second Life. She shows it
is fun too.
34. She invites students to see her work and adds inventive
projects.
Nazo uses her gallery to experiment with new
skills and happy to teach how she did it.
35. The Energies - These oscillating
waves of force and will that guide
dynamic perspective, action,
reaction, and reflection.
36.
37. inventive, inviting, time stands still, encouraging,
successful, focused, joyful, and in awe
Active
Oh, it is ON! Being our best self in blissful action.
38. destructive, critic, realist, concealing, regretful,
past focused, pessimistic, and static
Negative
Not a bad thing, just in a down swing.
40. spiritual, impartial, unbias, peacemaker,
thankful, insightful, there is no time, only life
Reflective
Have a cup of tea, it’s time to pause or rest.
41. Need to succeed? According to Neil Gaiman all you need to do is
consistently be able to manage two out of these three following things:
42. After identifying their path, student devise digital storytelling
media or virtual objects to demonstrate their goals and
exhibit their accomplishments in the virtual world plaza to
encourage constructive critiques and complements.
43. Constructive Critique
A critique does not mean criticism. A critique is an
assessment of creative work with discussion of good
qualities and possible improvements.
You, the artist, can take this information to understand if
you are successfully communicating your intention.
Those critiquing will use language that is appropriate to
the artwork and supportive.
Be nice even if you are critical.
Be brief and concise. Respond to the artist’s goals by
being honest, clear, and direct.
44. Be specific about your observations, suggestions, and
criticisms.
Stay focused on the work. Refrain from making personal
references unless the artist invites that kind of discussion
or it is relevant to the work.
Be constructive. Ask the artist what form of excellence
they aspire for.
Experience perspective through someone else’s eyes.
Get social! Post share their work on social media if you
want with positive comments on your classmates work.
Empower the artist and have fun!
45. Patience, Perseverance, and Persistence
“There’s always a break.” – Dona Lea Brock
“There are no dead ends, only U turns.” – Dr. Floyd James Brock
“Know at least three ways to get to the same destination.” – Renne Emiko Brock-Rich
46. By creating a call to action, they display a relentless passion and
pursuit of knowledge while mentoring classmates. With that
demonstration of real success and intention in action, students are
confident to take those steps to lead and do it in the actual world as
well.
47. The Elements are physical
influences.
The Energies are invisible drives.
The Actions are mental ambitions.
Our Call to Action –
Provide opportunities for
personal inquiry, public
exhibition, and allowing
students lead and teach.
Thank you very much!
Discovering
Your Destiny