With all the disruption that COVID-19 has brought to us, it feels like a whirlwind to #stayhome, and adapt to a new lifestyle overnight. It might be stressful and energy-consuming, sedentary, occupied, and even distracting. I envy those who were used to working from home and the COVID-19 seems like a wind that’s tapping at their window and nothing more. Read more…

Technology continues to change the way we live our lives, disrupting everything from shopping to banking. It’s no surprise, therefore, that education is following suit. Many of today’s students are digital natives, and technology grants educators the opportunity to create more engaging and accessible learning materials.

With such changes in mind, below are the top EdTech trends to keep in mind next year. Read more…

Get ready to kick off a roadshow event that will be remembered for quite a long time!

What is the purpose of a roadshow event? Read more…

Learning happens best in a welcoming environment. Classroom icebreakers are a great way to establish such an environment. They help instructors to build meaningful relationships with students and encourage new students to get to know each other and feel comfortable in the classroom.

Many people consider fun games and activities as trivia, however these can really break the ice in the classroom and make students communicate. Read more…

Before talking about how to run an interactive webinar, let’s quickly see what is webinar and why it is useful.

A webinar is an interactive online seminar or a master class designed to educate around a clear and concise topic. Anyone with an internet connection and the necessary software can join it. Usually it lasts no more than an hour. Read more…

What is the essence of a retrospective meeting? To tell you shortly, it is to provide clues for future improvements.

Retrospective meetings are an important part of teams that use agile and scrum methodology: at the end of an iteration, teams assess what worked, what didn’t work, and what could be improved.

But very often there is a need to conduct retrospective meeting with multiple delivery teams or at the company-wide level to surface issues impacting the entire company, make announcements, or celebrate personal accomplishments. Read more…

In the contemporary world traditional presentations are yielding their place to fireside chats. WHY? To answer this, first let’s see WHAT fireside chats are.

A fireside chat is a dialogue between a speaker and a moderator.

Now let’s answer the second question, which was “WHY?”. Read more…

An all-hands meeting is generally an organization-wide business meeting in which an executive report is made to employees and stakeholders.
All-Hands meetings are often held on a regular basis as a means of keeping a large group of people up to date on important events and milestones.

An effective all-hands meeting usually begins with an important message and includes some form of question and answer capability. Read more…

As its name suggests, offsite meetings are aimed at bringing employees together “out of home” and talking about the company’s strategy, goals, and tactics.

Many facilitators think that in order to deliver company meetings that work it is important to Read more…

Many teachers and professors want to increase student engagement and make classes more interactive. But sometimes that can be an issue especially now in the smartphone era. However, instructors can use the phone and other types of technology to their advantage. Here we are going to discuss how to increase student engagement with Swift Polling. Read more…