[PDF] Moving Beyond Icebreakers eBook

Author : Stanley Pollack
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Moving Beyond Icebreakers contains 440 pages packed with insight and ideas about building community, engaging students in learning, and making meetings work. It describes an innovative meeting format and documents over 300 interactive exercises (not just "icebreakers") that enable readers to: * Achieve group goals * Build relationships * Resolve group problems * Teach, lead, motivate, and inspire The first 130 pages describe how to use "icebreakers" and other interactive methods to help group members make decisions, create new ideas, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and understand new concepts. In these pages you will find a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group's goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world. Table of contents: * Why use interactive methods? * Working into interaction * Coping with resistance and fear of failure * The interactive meeting format * Interactive exercises (name exercises, warm-up questions, five-minute springboard exercises, fifteen-minute springboard exercises, in-your-chair springboard exercises, tag-style springboard exercises, springboard exercises for groups both large and small, the rest of the springboard exercises, work-station exercises, evaluation exercises).

Author : Richard Ling
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262304341

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An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car. Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray may result. In just a few years, the mobile phone has become central to the functioning of society. In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. Ling, drawing on research, interviews, and quantitative material, shows how the mobile phone (and the clock and the automobile before it) can be regarded as a social mediation technology, with a critical mass of users, a supporting ideology, changes in the social ecology, and a web of mutual expectations regarding use. By examining the similarities and synergies among these three technologies, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family.

Author : Robert Deigh
Publisher : Academic Learning Company LLC
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780832950179

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This practical, complete, and often humorous public relations guide for organizations that want to win big visibility in an information-saturated world puts all PR essentials into one volume.

Author : John L. Benham
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1607097826

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This book is a summary of the practice of music advocacy. It is a compilation of research and experience gained from 30 years experience by one of the nation's most successful advocates for music education. It provides the music educator, administrator, school board member, and community advocate with step-by-step procedures for saving and building school music programs.

Author : Claude Regis Vargo
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category :
ISBN : 1608445658

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"Share the author's journey in Beyond My Horizon. Fall in love with the lifestyle of one of the world's most beautiful hotels; survive the sieges of the hell-holes of Hue and Khe Sanh, Viet Nam; and stand beneath the stone archway of Cornell University. Here is a tale of determination, drive, and a courageous ride through life that you will not want to stop reading. In this engaging, compelling, and inspiring book, Claude Vargo mesmerizes the reader. He eloquently describes his life and the hard work that transformed him from being a youthful academic failure to graduating summa cum laude in just two years in midlife from the Hilton College at the University of Houston while simultaneously attending Cornell. If Claude did it, you can too This book is chock full of humorous anecdotes, academic timesaving tips, and common-sense tricks to achieve your scholastic and life goals. Learn how to... - Graduate college debt free in two years - page 195 - Capitalize on your age and life experiences - page 181 - Arrest stress, PTSD, panic attacks, flashbacks and depression - page 176 - Speed read, speed type, and speak publicly - pages 151, 154 & 167 - Create KILLER CHEAT SHEETS that really work - page 129 - Construct photo flash cards with explosive recall - page 185 Beyond My Horizon is a must-read for anyone who has a real desire to do well in college, go back to college, or finally make a change and pursue any lifelong dream. Vargo's odyssey not only is a heartfelt and sincere effort to inspire the reader to go after life goals but also helps the reader believe he or she really can accomplish any goal. "Brutally honest, educationally humorous and insanely direct " ...John B. "Jack" Corgel, Professor, Cornell University

Author : David Dailey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 0735675791

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Create rich interactivity with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Dive into SVG—and build striking, interactive visuals for your web applications. Led by three SVG experts, you’ll learn step-by-step how to use SVG techniques for animation, overlays, and dynamic charts and graphs. Then you’ll put it all together by building two graphic-rich applications. Get started creating dynamic visual content using web technologies you’re familiar with—such as JavaScript, CSS, DOM, and AJAX. Discover how to: Build client-side graphics with little impact on your web server Create simple user interfaces for mobile and desktop web browsers Work with complex shapes and design reusable patterns Position, scale, and rotate text elements using SVG transforms Create animations using the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) Build more powerful animations by manipulating SVG with JavaScript Apply filters to sharpen, blur, warp, reconfigure colors, and more Make use of programming libraries such as Pergola, D3, and Polymaps

Author : Peter Garber
Publisher : Human Resource Development
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1599964392

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Have fun presenting these activities and build your employeesOCO communication skills in just minutes. Communication plays such a big part in our lives today. Yet sometimes we get busy and forget just how important communication is to our success, relationships and happiness. 50 Communication Activities, Icebreakers and Activities is a great way to: Increase participantsOCO awareness of how they communicate; Help them to build expertise in a variety of essential skills and competencies; Prepare them to deal effectively with the many types of communication challenges they face every day. Each activity focuses on some facet of communication and includes a description, time guideline, purpose, resources, presentation, debrief, difficulty rating and variations to make implementation easy. Each individual activity takes only minutes to complete. Together this collection contains a wealth of insight, tips and guidance to prepare employees to become confident communicators who enjoy stronger relationships and greater success and satisfaction on the job."

Author : Eric Klopfer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 0262113155

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New technology has brought with it new tools for learning, and research has shown that the educational potential of video games resonates with teachers and pupils alike. Klopfer here describes the largely untapped potential of mobile learning games to make a substantial impact on education.

Author : Rachel B. Diamant
Publisher : Pro-Ed
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9781416404316

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Young children learn best from engaging in regular movement and activities with family and friends in a supportive environment; the child develops motor, sensory, cognitive, language, communication, and social skills. This expanded collection of practical reproducible activities is designed for use by early interventionists, early childhood educators, occupational therapists, physical therapist, speech pathologists, and community health nurses who work with families with young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays. The activity sheets, grouped into ten sections according to developmental position, are designed to illustrate ways that caregivers can hold, position, and play with a child while using toys, objects, materials, and family members that are available. Furthermore, the sheets demonstrate proper body mechanics for both child and caregiver. Space is provided for notes. Includes a CD with reproducible activity sheets.

Author : Terrence L. Gargiulo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787996998

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Terence Gargiulo's 'breakthrough' communications and storytelling are amply demonstrated with dozens of corporate examples. And the best part? Gargiulo shows us, step by step, how to create this storytelling communication magic in our own organizations. The competencies assessed by the instrument represent the nine essential communication behaviors that need to be developed and cultivated in all of today’s leaders and managers: Modeling, Telling, Selecting, Indexing, Synthesizing, Reflecting, Eliciting, Listening and Observing. Once Upon a Time will show you how to develop exceptional communication skills, and it will serve as an invaluable resource for helping others do the same. Stories are a natural part of how we communicate. Yet many of us are unaware of the different ways we use stories. This book will take the intuitive aspects of communicating through stories and break it down into repeatable practices and essential competencies. The story-based activities in the second half of the book will give you powerful, easy to lead, structured, experiential exercises that can be used in a variety of settings and for lots of different purposes that go beyond training.