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﻿There are 5 Goals in the Intentional Introduction Activity Map—but it all starts with picking a perfect fit for the first impression. In this quick microlearning experience, you'll explore 4 smart considerations for choosing an intro task that makes sense in the real world beyond your training. It's a taste of a deeper framework that anchors engagement from the start.

Align Your Intro Activity with a True First Impression
 🔸 Step 1 in the 5-Goal Map to Intentional Introductions

Many people ignore that the body doesn't disappear when we work and play through technology. Since we leave so many footprints with our devices, visions for our future are helped or hurt by what our bodies experience in the digital. Let's discuss success for 2024. This free metaverse event is for you to:<ul><li>create an avatar</li><li>examine how our physical bodies attract or repel positive realities when using technology</li><li>explore digital vision boards as a practical first step to use devices for a successful physical reality in 2024</li></ul> Start with<a href="https://www.virbela.com/download" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Downloading Virbela</a>

Manifest in the Metaverse: Attracting Success in 2024

To manifest fulfills a promise to one's self. Vision boards focus our belief in our self-worth. “When you undervalue what you do, the world undervalues who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey We spend much of our lives in front of screens. What if, every time you closed a window or saw your lock screen, you could attract the vision you have for your life? More powerfully, digital boards attract with many senses in multimedia. Interact with this example board and receive information about how to manifest your own in a Digital Vision Boards 2024 makerspace.

Dynamic Digital Vision Board

Chances are, if you're on the open market as a nontraditional teacher, side-gig educator, you are passionate about your expertise, want learners to benefit from this passion, and want to enjoy the returns on your expertise. The science and art of teaching is an expertise, too. This interactive resource explains 5 equitable economies of teaching: time, work, perspective, mastery, and money. Discover the economies and learn more about a makerspace for creating interactive course content in minutes.

5 Equitable Economies of Teaching - mastery without a Master's degree

This free, informal conversation is open to free-market educators, side-gig course-builders, and nontraditional teachers who act on the value of being learner-centered. Neurodiversity and celebrating myriad minds is the goal of our participant-driven salon about the Introduction to "Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life" by Margaret Price Let's ask: How can we remap and revise courses to support mind diversity for learners and educators? <ul><li>Read and engage at your own pace.</li><li>Contribute to a live discussion event.</li></ul>

Introduction to "Mad at School" - Dark Classroom Salon

Perusall is a free educational technology (edtech) that engages learners who have been marooned by traditional education. Receive access to the platform immediately. During the studio:&nbsp;<ul><li>Play with features that make you an annotator in written and multimedia content.&nbsp;</li><li>Engage conversations in context with more than words: emojis, hyperlinks, images.</li><li>Generate instructional uses in a community of like-minded educators.</li></ul> This is the sea of social annotating. Grab your code for free access to the platform and a 50-minute studio event.

50 minutes to Defy Discussion 'Boreds'! A social annotating studio

This informal conversation is open to educators and edupreneurs who want to continually improve instruction. Ableism is the beliefs, practices, and / or habits that devalue and discriminate against persons with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities. Let's ask: How are these habits hiding in our course design and teaching? This is your free access to a cohort discussion of the Introduction to "Academic Ableism" by Timothy Jay Dolmage. <ol><li>Read and engage at your own pace.</li><li>Contribute to a live discussion event.</li></ol>

Introduction to "Academic Ableism" - Dark Classroom Salon

Hypothes.is &amp; Perusall are free educational technologies (edtech) that engage learners who have been marooned by traditional education. Make any content your island: articles, textbooks, webpages, video, audio, Google docs, and more. Learners defy normal through conversations within the content using more than just words: emojis, video, hyperlinks, images all model how different modes of processing contribute to communities of inquiry. This is the sea of social annotating. Grab your code for free access to the platform and a 50-minute studio event.

Interactive Content for Motley Crew through Social Annotating

Hypothes.is &amp; Perusall are free educational technologies (edtech) that engage learners who have been marooned by traditional education. Make any content your island: articles, textbooks, webpages, video, audio, Google docs, and more. Learners defy normal by holding conversations within the content using more than just words: emojis, video, hyperlinks, images all become ammunition to a killer conversation.&nbsp; This is the sea of social annotating. Grab your code for free access to the platform and a 50-minute studio event.

Dark Classroom Defies Discussion 'Boreds'! Killer Conversations through Social Annotating

Course builders with a pirate's mindset can attract and support more learners to succeed right now. Sail the seas of accessible teaching. <ul><li><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">As reported by Disability Impacts All</a>, 26% of people have 1 or more of the 13 disabilities categorized by law.</li><li><a href="https://dceg.cancer.gov/about/diversity-inclusion/inclusivity-minute/2022/neurodiversity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Neurodivergent persons</a> constitute between 15-20% of the population.</li></ul> You'll access an infographic and an interactive video tutorial for 10 quick tips to celebrate and engage the minds and bodies of all learners.

10 Fast Accessibility Tech Treasures for Course Builders

Bring your visions to your device. Celebrate your wins, engage your senses, and fit success seamlessly into your digital life.

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