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Cameras On or Off for Zoom: What is Better for Wellbeing and Engagement?

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Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. If you can’t avoid long stretches of meetings, give yourself an “audio only” break. “Not to mention, most of us are also staring at a small window of ourselves, making us hyper-aware of every wrinkle, expression, and how it might be interpreted.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. I find it helps me to concentrate since I can unburden my brain by tagging something for easy retrieval-later should that topic become pressing. Juicy Pods is not really running yet.

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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

Flexible, modular support for distributed products: inviting people to plug-in their own creations, whether those be DIY audio tours, pop up events, or co-created exhibitions. Perpetual beta: the museum is always in flux, incrementally releasing new versions, refining procedures, and responding to audience desires.

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

Museum 2.0

He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Scott McCloud makes a similar argument for "sequential art" in his excellent book Understanding Comics. Supposedly it improves your brain function. Which by comics?

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. Actually, the art analogy isn't that far off. Art has never really been sustainable--high art.