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• in Technorati Women
  Leadership Mindset Shift: Engaging Women 21st Century Style
  Have you noticed? Good women leaving the high powered business sector have a theme. They say “It’s just not worth it”. And these are super educated individuals who have the smarts to make a difference. So, what’s going on?
  by sylvialafairphd / on Jun 8, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Changing the Face of Mentoring
  In an age where accomplished individuals are pressed for time, professionals must take control of their professional development.
  by avilbeckford / on Feb 5, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “professional development”

 

• So you want to be a theatre producer?

  
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  Producing has never been harder, finds Matt Trueman , but a start-up fund is paving the way for wannabes to make the jump How does an independent theatre producer ever get started? Well, consider this: any show needs investors. Investors need convincing with an attractive proposition, which means a strong creative ...
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• What is researcher wellbeing and how can we manage and nurture it?

  
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  Staying a productive, sane and sociable researcher is no mean feat, says Charlotte Morris , but you dont have to go it alone If wellbeing is the state of being relatively healthy, happy and sane, its no surprise that early career researchers find it hard to maintain. Pressure to achieve can be immense and its all ...
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• Survey reveals youthful aspirations for the future of business communication

  
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  One of the characteristics of the contemporary communications landscape is how it’s constantly changing. Predicting how advertising, marketing, public relations and the broad business communications spectrum will evolve and what it all may look like over the next decade requires vision and a clear line of sight on ...
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• An opportunity for IABC to care

  
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  Last November, I ended a 23-year relationship with IABC , the International Association of Business Communicators, when I let my membership lapse. I wrote about it in February and outlined some thinking about why I hadn’t renewed it. Six months later, I’m still a lapsed IABC member. I deliberately describe ...
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• The way we were (Musings on the benefits of attending conferences)

  
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  Mays blog title comes from my favorite Barbara Streisand song of all time, The Way We Were . Good movie too.  As a retired technologist and educator, I often think back on the way we were and discuss the past, present, and future with colleagues. Many disagreements, but we tend to agree that the 1960s to ...
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• NASSP/NAESP/Sheninger (TODAY), SIIA/Brainpop, CTQ Future of Teacher Prep, NCLE Collaboration, PLP Dig Portfolios, CoSN TTII, SETDA Data Report

  
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  And a final item from Thursday’s inbox… Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. This week’s update on the U.S. Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative: NASSP, NAESP, edWeb: Open Courseware for Secondary School Students The National Association of Secondary School ...
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• Establishing Your Professional Learning Network (PLN)

  
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  One reason I became a librarian is that I’ve always loved learning anything and everything and I realized I really wanted to learn new things every day for the rest of my life. I figured the best way to maximize my time would be to make sure I worked in a field committed to continued learning. I’ve never been ...
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• Friday Favorites

  
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  Unfortunately I don’t have a photo from Favorite #1. Christy Rush-Levine and I met for a walk + dinner on Tuesday. Christy is one of those people who help me feel grounded and… Read More →
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• May: Leading and Communicating Change

  
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  Change has become a way of life for librarians due to technology and the ever-changing information needs of our users. How do we as library managers and leaders handle change effectively and efficiently for ourselves and those we lead, while ensuring that good communication is maintained throughout the process? ...
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: On Creating a Culture of Assessment

  
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  ACRL Panel Session Topic: Creating a Culture of Assessment: Determinants of Success Date: Friday, April 12, 2013, 8:30am Since I did the preconference on assessment earlier, I figured this would be a nice addition to my learning experience. Plus, the preconference presenters did recommend it. On defining a ...
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• Q & A with Teq!

  
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  Over the years we’ve been to your schools Taught you iPad, SMART Board, and other great web tools Now it’s your turn, so ask away… It’s time for some Q & A, the Teq way On May 29th join Joseph and Lin Here are the rules and the prizes you’ll win Do you have a question for the Teq PD team? Would you ...
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• Certified ScrumMaster – Mississauga – July 2013

  
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  The most popular Agile certification! This two day course gives you the foundations to be an effective ScrumMaster and contributes towards the requirements of the Scrum Alliance’s Certified ScrumMaster program. Delivered by Berteig Consulting’s own Mishkin Berteig! By successfully completing this course you will ...
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• Public speaking for academics – 10 tips

  
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  Experts from our recent #HElivechat on public speaking share some rules of engagement from vocabulary and technology to handling difficult questions – and your own nerves 1) Choose the vocabulary you use carefully . As Orwell argues, we shouldnt use a phrase that is unusual, never use a longer word when a ...
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• FRIDAY FUNNY: Elevating Excel To An Art Form

  
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  Posted by Heidi Schwartz While everyone in the workplace is fairly familiar with Microsoft Excel, Tatsuo Horiuchi’s name may not be so well known. His relative anonymity may soon be over. Take a look at his work, which has been featured in exhibitions: Yes, they’re beautiful, but what’s the big ...
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• Museum people should show off more

  
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  Rachel Souhami celebrates the open-mic night for museum professionals where showing off means more than a sales pitch Where would you find a theatre director, a man with an extensive collection of VHS tapes and an Egyptologist all in the same room? The answer: Museums Showoff . These are just some of the people who ...
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• India could not have economic growth without quality universal education

  
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  We speak to Madhav Chavan, CEO of Indian NGO Pratham, about moving policy from school attendance to quality of education, and the impact of a communist upbringing Firstly, tell us what Pratham does? Our charity was set up in 1994 and has been working as a tripartite partnership between the government, the ...
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• Friday Freebee: Ambassadorial Appointments

  
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  Sony’s K12Educational Ambassador program has lots of teaching resources, from severalapps that can help students with their writing assignments to teaching aboutphysics through building bridges. In fact, if you have good ideas about usingtechnology in the classroom, you can apply to be an ambassador .
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• A Journey into Children’s Books

  
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  Today, we are taking a journey into children’s books. Yesterday we introduced the books that we would be looking at. Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler is a delightful children’s book that adults should read. The story ...
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• Foundations of Virtual Instruction [Free Coursera CPD Course]

  
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  Online MOOC Coursera have introduced a range of professional development courses for teachers, and one course ‘Foundations of Virtual Instruction‘ from UC Irvine caught our eye. This five week course introduces K-12 teachers to the history of online learning and instructs on a range of delivery methods for online ...
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• At the Movies

  
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  By Professor David Fryer Did you see Hugo (1) at the cinema or on DVD? Martin Scorsese’s film, Hugo, released in 2001 is superficially a film about Hugo Cabret, a young boy living concealed in a Paris railway station in the 1930s. According to the film, Hugo had acquired an automaton previously owned by Georges ...
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