Five Recommendations for Educating Leaders in Technology and Government 2.0

Originally posted at my blog http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Last month I attended the Belfer Center’s Conference on Technology and Governance 2.0. The conference featured amazing attendees – Ellen Miller (Sunlight), Mike Klein (Sunlight), Karen Gordon Mills (US Small Business Administration), Mitch Kapor (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Paul Sagan (Akamai), Susan Crawford (Cardozo), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), Nicco Mele (Harvard/EchoRead… Read more »

25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online! Are there More?

25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online & Other Links to more Distant Learning Sources. I am sure there are more out there.http://aceonlineschools.com/25-awesome-virtual-learning-experiences-online/ If you can’t affort an education, are there other ways to self educate? Can motivated, underserved persons benefit from such? How? Universities and other institutions of higher and further education are increasingly turningRead… Read more »

America’s Smartest City – DC

America’s Smartest Cities by Les ChristieFriday, October 1, 2010 Ever wonder what happened to your high school valedictorian? He or she might just have wound up in Washington, D.C. That metro area has the nation’s highest percentage of residents with college degrees. Call it America’s brainiest place to live. In the District and surrounding suburbs,Read… Read more »

Multi-cultural Awareness: Lessons Still Learned in the Classroom

Today classrooms are becoming more diverse and present a unique challenge to teachers. Students are coming to class with a greater variance in values, cultural norms, and verbal and non-verbal communication behaviors that may be unfamiliar to some teachers. According to Nancy Longatan (2009), “[b]y raising awareness of the non-verbal communication strategies familiar to studentsRead… Read more »

Are we letting our civic infrastructure decay?

Schools opened across Florida this week and in many other states I expect. An article in my Sunday newspaper caught my eye and provided the idea for this post. The article stated for the first time in my county, minorities will make up the majority of students in the public schools. Many of the kidsRead… Read more »

How to better manage documents, records and business processes?

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Can You Hear The Question President Obama is Asking You?

According to the Wall Street Journalʼs Economy section of Sundayʼs edition, there is a growing sense among many economists that Washingtonʼs ability to goose the economic recovery is limited, especially given the deep pain U.S. businesses and households have suffered during the recession. Thursday July 29th at the Washington DC Convention Center, President Obama spokeRead… Read more »

Rockin’ the World with Social Good: Edu-Games (part of DC Week)

On Monday I went to a session on “Games for Change & Health Workshop: Brainstorming and Game Design Jam for HIV/AIDS” as part of DC Week. The event held at Spectrum Science looked at digital strategies and game design. The session looked at how technology can aid in raising awareness. In particular with youth aboutRead… Read more »

Little or No Training Budget? Pressed for Time? Check out Web Manager University

Hi there – I’m Alycia and I am super excited to be writing my first blog post for GovLoop. I am a program coordinator for Web Manager University (WMU), and will be sharing with you training opportunities, government innovations, and cool websites and tools that I find through research for the WMU programs. Web ManagerRead… Read more »

The need for social media training is larger than ever

I had the honor of chatting with the Boston SPIN group yesterday during their monthly meeting. The group, primarily engineering minded professionals, developers, QA, project managers, turned out to hear me discuss the topic of extending thought leadership positions via social media. Now, to be honest with you, I had expected to have a smallRead… Read more »

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