20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network - Getting Smart by Miriam Clifford
“20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network” by Miriam Clifford first appeared on the InfomED blog. Networking is a prime form of 21st century learning. The world is much smaller thanks to technology. Learning is transforming into a globally collaborative enterprise.
How to Repurpose Colored Pencils into Colorful Accessories
We were so inspired by our back to school pencils project a couple weeks ago that we decided to take it to the next level. The colored pencil level. Here are 4 playful accessories perfect for artsy types, students, teachers, and anyone who likes to add a little color and nostalgia to their jewelry box. Materials: - colored pencils - sand paper - drill with tiny drill bit - hand saw - chain - ring pads - glue - jewelry wire If you don’t have an old box of colored pencils lying around, you can easily find them at a local craft store, pharmacy or on Amazon.
10 Cases of Appropriate Technology
Technology The goal of Appropriate Technology (AT) is to increase the standard of living for the developing world without condescension, complication, or environmental damage. Typical AT inventions are more labor intensive, require fewer resources, and use low cost or readily available materials wherever possible.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
“His voice can be heard above the noise, please welcome Bruce McCall!” As a self-taught polymath and current humorist for The New Yorker, McCall indulges in nonsense. For example, a Scottish castle where people are playing golf indoors with the goal to bang the golf balls off the armor. McCall’s work is so personal, so strange that he’s invented his own lexicon: Retrofuturism: looking back to see how yesterday will view tomorrow, as they are always optimistically wrong
12 Principles for Responding to Negative Online Comments
Due to convenience, the opportunity to receive a direct response and the potential to kick up a fuss when not treated as they expect, customers are turning to social media for customer service and other product and service-related support rather than dealing with call centres. Despite this, a recent study shows that the top Singaporean telecoms operators together receive an average 1,700 negative customer comments a day via social media. Such volume requires dedicated teams to pick through the debris and assess which complaints should be answered and how.
Appropriate technology
Appropriate technology is an ideological movement that can create a great drive in society for appropriate things, this in turn can lead to inappropriate things such as sex and all the fun and good things in life being forgotten (and its manifestations) originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Dr. Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his influential work, Small is Beautiful. Though the nuances of appropriate technology vary between fields and applications, it is generally recognized as encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally controlled.[1] Both Schumacher and many modern-day proponents of appropriate technology also emphasize the technology as people-centered.[2] Appropriate technology has been used to address issues in a wide range of fields.
20 Beautiful WordPress Themes for Writers
The Writer – Premium WordPress Blogging Theme This is a WordPress theme for bloggers, writers and product owners who want to tell a story about their subject matter. Articles are designed to make reading long-form posts a pleasure on the eye. All unneccessary noise has been removed or hidden. Typist – WordPress Theme for Serious Writers
Design for Social Impact Workbook and Toolkit
From climate change to health care systems, The Rockefeller Foundation has brokered partnerships and nurtured innovation for people across the world, with a focus on enabling individuals, institutions, and communities to build better lives and futures. Looking to send a call to action to the design industry, The Rockefeller Foundation partnered with IDEO to engage in its Initiative on Accelerating Innovation for Development, and as a pilot study for connecting design firms to the social sector. Early in the program, IDEO discovered a complex set of challenges facing both industries: The social sector was unfamiliar with the practices and protocol of the design industry, while many design firms balance the desire to work in the social sector with the need to be profitable. To unpack and understand these challenges, IDEO participated in 143 stakeholder interviews representing different funders, implementers, thinkers, consultants, and design firms. Project date: 2008
This Biodegradable Paper Donut Could Let Us Reforest The Planet
Environmental degradation is one of the "greatest environmental challenges of our time," according to the United Nations. Often caused by human industry and agriculture, environmental degradation is when lush land turns to desert. A total of 2 billion hectares of the earth's land is degraded, which is an area larger than all of South America. The most straightforward solution to degraded land is reforestation, but when soil is dry and crusty, the survival rate for seedlings is dismal. A biodegradable cardboard donut, developed by the Amsterdam-based Land Life Company and known as the Cocoon, is changing that.
20 Professional Free Business Card Templates and Mockups
Business cards are very important in any kind of business and a good design will make your company stand out from the crowd. Business cards templates are great if you want to promote your business and need a quick and cheap design. To make things easier for you, we selected 20 free business card templates and mockups for you to choose from. These free business card templates and mockups are also great for designers!
