Remote Graphic Capture in action!

This workshop for university faculty and staff featured many tools for physical and virtual facilitators and educators, including Remote Graphic Capture by Alphachimp Studio Inc.
From the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (CFT):
Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. Visualizations in the form of diagrams, charts, drawings, pictures, and a variety of other ways can help students understand complex information. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description.

On Wednesday, March 17th the CFT hosted  Show and Tell: Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching in order to begin dialogue about how we might tap into our students’ ability to think visually when teaching.
To see the results and access the list of tools, books and resources, visit: http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cft/?page_id=259

Remote Graphic Capture in action!

This workshop for university faculty and staff featured many tools for physical and virtual facilitators and educators, including Remote Graphic Capture by Alphachimp Studio Inc.

From the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (CFT):

Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. Visualizations in the form of diagrams, charts, drawings, pictures, and a variety of other ways can help students understand complex information. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description.

On Wednesday, March 17th the CFT hosted Show and Tell: Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching in order to begin dialogue about how we might tap into our students’ ability to think visually when teaching.

To see the results and access the list of tools, books and resources, visit: http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cft/?page_id=259

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Knoxville SHC Haiti Outreach Medical Mission

I am very thankful and overawed by the logistical and moral courage of the Knoxville medical team--6 physicians, 8 nurses and 1 physician assistant--headed to Port au Prince from our hometown. Special gratitude to my mother who is the financial chairperson of the Sacred Heart Church Haiti Outreach and just one of the many tireless behind-the-scenes workers who have built and supported the clinic and school in Boucan-Carré over the last decade. More information and ways to support can be found at http://givehaitihope.org/

Goodbye, Daddy G.

Roy's funeral and burial were really wonderful, traditional tributes to him in all his sincerity, humility, kindness and sly humor.

He was laid to rest in Knoxville's Calvary Cemetary on Tuesday December 29th, next to his daughter Sharon Ardis Gerard (1965-1983) and a couple of yards from his adopted son, Matthew Ledford (1962-1989). We had bagpipes playing Amazing Grace while white doves were released into the air.  And, considering how sideways most things in our blended family go, everything went beautifully with the right mix of reverence and irreverence. Even with the natural tensions between siblings and extended family, everyone was over at the house afterwards.

My sister and one of her best friends from middle school helped to make a fun arrangement of photos in the dining room, lots of smiles, trips, and fun times remembered.

A cousin described him best: "He always made people feel welcome."

More Leroy photos here.

Slide:ology for Social Innovation

The Pop!Tech Fellows worked with the Duarte team on crafting there messages into compelling, easy to understand (and remember) presentations. Head Designer, Eric--a recovering engineer--took the group through several rounds of understanding and application of the principles described in Nancy Duarte's book slide:ology.

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As a professional service firm based in California, Duarte converts cluttered, heinously-colored presentations and converts them into effective storytelling devices that address both the analytical and the creative sides of the brain. Each Fellow is at the heart of a social venture that requires them to present, motivate and activate an audience into action. This may take the form of donations, connections, capacity, volunteers, business opportunities, and more.

An alum of the 2008 Fellows program, Abby Falik of Global Citizen Year (@Globalcitizenyr), was chosen as an example of effective presenting on behalf of a social enterprise. She pulled off a flawless Pop!Tech presentation (video), put together in 2 hours after working with Duarte. More inspirational examples on the Duarte Blog.