The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings

We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps, and so many feel like a waste of time.

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“But time is a scarce resource…”

I can still remember moments from school when I started in 1980.  My first teacher was Mrs. Stock, and I still keep in touch with her to this day (thanks Facebook!).  There was no one better to invoke a love for school than her.

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How available are you?

Being connected means I am always available on something. I’m checking twitter, or my email, or instagram all of the time. There is facebook messenger, there is snapchat. My staff has my cell number and I check my email regularly (gulp.) I’ve never thought of that as a bad thing.

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The 5 Marks of Authentic Leadership

Countless people have written on what it means to be a leader. And almost everyone identifies influence as the primary characteristic. By definition, this means that leadership and position are two different things.

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School Work needs to be meaningful research shows

A new survey released from ADP looks at what millennials (age 18-35) and right behind them “Generation Z” (for lack of a better name at the moment), want from their job and employers. Quartz had a nice write up of the research and I was drawn to this both in the report and in the write up.

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Speak and learn with Spell Up, our latest Chrome Experiment

As a student growing up in France, I was always looking for ways to improve my English, often with a heavy French-to-English dictionary in tow.



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The Best Places to Find Free, High-Res Images for your Website

Good, high-quality images add visual interest to your website. Another reason why photos have become so important is because web pages that include good photos get better engagement when shared on social sites like Twitter and Facebook.



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How-To Selfieokies: Karaoke Music Videos for the Socially Musical

Today, we’re sharing a how-to video from Snapverse, a social music video app that focuses on building a community for sound-lovers to sound-off with personal musicvideos.



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Deal Alert: onOne Software is Giving Away Perfect Effects 8 for Free

It’s not often a company hands out an entire piece of $100 software for free, but today is one of those exceptions, thanks to onOne Software.



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7 Cheap and Easy Photography Hacks You Can Do Right Now

Created by photography magazine COOPH, this handy little video follows photographer Leo Rosas showing off 7 little photography hacks to help create more unique images with minimal investment, in either time or money. We’ve featured some of these hacks on this blog before (e.g.



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The best of April 2014

Every day I share links to great blog posts and articles I find on Twitter. I'm very discriminating in that I don't just share everything I come across, but only share things that say something new or different about the current or future state of learning in the workplace or education.



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The most difficult work many professionals do...

The second most difficult work professionals do is developing a point of view in the first place.



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Fight or Flight

Let’s just say it like it is, shall we? Civilization is about division of labor and someone must perform the tasks that no one wants. Realistically, society can’t afford for every child to work in the field of their dreams.



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Change agents and the hiring dilemma

The organizations that most need change agents probably are the least likely to hire them because change agents typically make people with non-change orientations scared or nervous.



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Introducing Auto Awesome Photobombs with David Hasselhoff

Now with Auto Awesome Photobombs, you too can get a celebrity photobomb—no red carpet required. We’re starting with surprise appearances by +David Hasselhoff, everyone’s favorite crime-fighting rockstar lifeguard.



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We Need Better Presentations

Over the past few weeks while visiting different schools, I have observed while walking down hallways, peeking in on meetings, or just end up watching presentation being delivered by educators that….well….are really bad.



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Top 10 YouTube Videos 2013 #education

Top 10 YouTube Videos 2013 #education



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