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A Learning Professional’s Guide to Creativity: 10 Methods for Sparking Great Ideas

Maestro

In her article “ 10 Rules for Play ” for the Figma blog, she encourages somewhat unorthodox activities—like sitting in a waiting room, changing your tools, and initiating your own cluster—to get the creative juices flowing again. It’s a one-mile loop, which keeps it around a 20-minute walk with no music, no podcasts, no notifications.

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7 Holiday gifts your employees will love this season

eFront

The Echo Dot is Amazon’s voice-controlled digital assistant that plays your favorite music, controls your smart home devices, places calls for you, reads you the news, and does much more. A Fischer space pen ($16.81). A pen is another staple corporate gift. We’re speaking of course for the Fisher Space Pen.

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How to Find a Profitable Course Topic

learnWorlds

Also, it helps to take a pen and a paper and start writing all of this down. At the end of these tasks you should create a list of a few ideas looking like this more or less: Creating an excel list, delivering presentations, dealing with depression, writing a good CV, baking brownies, losing weight, changing careers etc.

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Cool daydreaming

Learning with e's

I also have several musical instruments to hand and plenty of sketching and writing materials. It is in the daydreaming that ideas emerge - some difficult to capture without pen and paper, others more akin to ephemeral thoughts that need to be crystallised and elaborated through a blog post or perhaps an audio or video recording.

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Pick of the Month: July 2012

Jane Hart

July was chock full of great articles and blog posts so here are just some of the articles that I bookmarked – together with a snippet from each which showed you why they caught my eye. They don’t know how to write on a slate with­out get­ting chalk dust all over them­selves. 1 – Change in Higher education.

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Teaching with Screencasts and Rapid Prototyping

TechSmith Camtasia

Part of where I struggled was writing up files for demos and examples each day for a lesson. Rather than writing out entire documents and refreshing the browser to see the effect, I start by prototyping in services like CodePen or jsFiddle. An example embed from CodePen: See the Pen LfiqI by Brian ( @bbennett ) on CodePen.

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10 Low-Cost Ideas for Employee Training

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

To get the ball rolling, simply write down the scenario you'd like to address, transform it into a case study format and let your employees reflect on the outcome of the scenario. in a meeting or special training session), or simply use an internal blog/discussion board for employees to comment. So, What Will it Cost Me?