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Nine tips for writing excellent RFPs

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Or, if you’re a provider, how many times have you laboured over a proposal only to find – on rejection – that it all hinged on a vital piece of information you didn’t have? When asking for information… Obviously, the questions in your RFP will depend on the specifics of your project.

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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the future (part 3)

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Johnston analysed a sample of editorials from 2008 in the USA, to identify categories of metaphors used for the internet, concluding that there were four main categories: physical space, physical time, salvation and destruction. The example that came to mind as I read this was that of virtual classrooms. Salvation and destruction.

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Brilliant backchannel tweeting: what to do after an event

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Even with the most thorough preparation, you’ll probably find there are times during the event where you don’t have all the information. Find the missing information, tweet it and tag it with the same hashtag for continuity. David Kelly is the king of this and has numerous examples and tips on his blog.

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Interactions: to tell or to test?

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Yes, in theory, you could work through a drag-and-drop, quiz question or matching pairs activity (to name a few examples) without engaging intellectually, but it’s not so easy to do. A ‘telling’ interaction can help to avoid this kind of information overload. I call these ‘telling’ interactions.

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Day 2: The right interactions at the right time

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Peripheral or context-setting screens (like the second screen in the example above) probably don’t need to be interactive. But screens around key learning points are likely to benefit from ‘testing’ interactions (like the third, fourth and sixth in the example above). Do you need to make any changes?

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Brilliant backchannel tweeting: what to do after an event

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Even with the most thorough preparation, you’ll probably find there are times during the event where you don’t have all the information. Find the missing information, tweet it and tag it with the same hashtag for continuity. David Kelly is the king of this and has numerous examples and tips on his blog.

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Brilliant backchannel tweeting: what to do during an event

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Photos can also be a good way to share any last-minute changes or contextual information. For instance, I attended an event where speaker bios weren’t available beforehand, so I photographed and uploaded the printed bios when I got there, as a way of sharing as much information as possible, as efficiently as possible.

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