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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Welcome every proposal. Einstein said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Is a Culture of Learning Required To Learn in Public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The opening plenary was both fun and informative – an improv company “performed” the results of GEO’s latest research on the relationship between grantmaking practices and grantee success. Teri Behrens, formerly the director of evaluation at the W. A Culture of Learning – Guest post by Teri Behrens.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. There’s still going to be assessments but hopefully better models.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . Thanks for being here.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). Sherrilynne Fuller of the UW's Center for Public Health Informatics observed that a typical attitude to these daunting data infrastructure problems is "let's deal with that tomorrow and do fun stuff now."

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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