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(noun)
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Month: May 2016

Five Essential Skills for Facilitating Online Groups

2016-05-26
By: LRS
On: May 26, 2016
In: For Teachers
Tagged: Group Communication, Teaching Online, Teaching Tips
With: 0 Comments

Advice and activities for instructors to facilitate group activities.Read More →

Pecha Kucha Tips: Simplicity, Flow, and Passion

2016-05-25
By: LRS
On: May 25, 2016
In: Public Speaking
Tagged: Pecha Kucha, PowerPoints, Presentation Aids, Speech Composition, Visual Comm
With: 0 Comments

Article reflecting on how to craft a good Pecha Kucha.Read More →

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      • Understanding the Syllabus
      • Why students want simplicity and why it fails them when it comes to research
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      • 20 Ways to Make Lectures More Participatory - From the Bok Center
      • Visual Thinking and Teaching
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      • Belmont Speech Lab Video Archives
    • ►June(4)
      • Ten Reasons to Ban Pencils in the Classroom
      • Turn to Your Neighbor - The Official Peer Instruction Blog
      • Information is Beautiful
      • Embedding Twitter Timelines in Blackboard
    • ►May(2)
      • Five Essential Skills for Facilitating Online Groups
      • Pecha Kucha Tips: Simplicity, Flow, and Passion
    • ►April(2)
      • Public Domain Images from Open Culture and the British Library
      • Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking
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      • Community College Grads Out-Earn Bachelors Grads
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      • She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink
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      • Leadership styles
      • What are the Best Fonts for Presentation Slides?
    • ►November(2)
      • How to Become an Active Listener
      • Lego Bricks Exercises for Experiential Training
    • ►September(1)
      • Personal Branding Workbook
    • ►August(2)
      • Video About Noise - Failure to Communicate
      • The Shannon-Weaver Model as it Applies to Twitter
    • ►July(1)
      • Perception of Doctors' White Coats
    • ►March(2)
      • Facilitating Online Groups
      • Five Standards of Authentic Instruction
    • ►January(2)
      • Active Listening Makes People Feel Good
      • Stormboard
  • ►2014 (27)
    • ►December(24)
      • 11 Speeches that Changed the World
      • Blackboard I-Learn Test Generator
      • 10 Tips to Create and Present a Pecha Kucha
      • To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand
      • Cooperative Learning Group Activities for College Courses
      • Tips for Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions
      • Quote - Cassandra Clare
      • Communication is #1 Job Requirement
      • Who Can Fix the Middle Skills Gap?
      • Half a Million Secrets
      • Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
      • Quote - Gregory Bateson
      • Every Presentation Every: Communication Fail
      • Quote - Michael James Oakeshott
      • Quote - Thomas Jefferson
      • Quote - Publilius Syrus
      • La Femme Avocat
      • Santa Ana College’s 95th Commencement Honors Former Students Interned During World War 2
      • 14 Realities of Romantic Relationships in Chart Form (Cracked.Com)
      • Faux Friendship
      • Presenting Effectively with Monroe's Motivated Sequence
      • Listen to what our ancestors' language sounded like 6,000 years ago
      • How Hygge Can Help You Get Through the Winter
      • Best Practices for Mobile-Friendly Courses
    • ►November(1)
      • Add Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
    • ►January(2)
      • Power Moves and Manspreading
      • On Metacognition
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      • What is a Folly?

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