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Nurturing engagement in the virtual classroom

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Nurturing engagement in the virtual classroom

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We often frame corporate training as a compulsory process: complete these requirements and move on to the next task. It's a reinforcement of a " push" learning culture that is content-centric and an impersonal experience.

Effective learning involves an emotional component. Employees want to do well on the job. They hope to have the skills required to meet their goals. They stress about balancing their professional responsibilities while upskilling. The training function has an obligation to recognize these emotions, and facilitators can improve virtual training experiences by addressing them in their delivery approach.

It's important to realize that the learning experience is changed by how learners feel about it. Facilitators should strive to enable individuals to feel good about the experience and even nurture a sense of community.

Charles Dye's research shows that emotional engagement serves as the third influential component of learner engagement as well as addresses environmental and intellectual factors. Dye clarifies:
"Experienced facilitators focus on activities that might exemplify this aspect of learner engagement, including positive collaboration with peers (McDonald & MacKay, 1998; Calvani, et al., 2010), articulation of shared experience and social modeling (Bandura, 1986), scaffolded development/demonstration of skill/expertise with a facilitator (Vygotsky, 1986), and the sense of self-worth that comes from participation in a learning experience (Cooper, 2010)."
To nurture emotional engagement, facilitators can:

1. Inspire confidence in the virtual classroom experience. When a facilitator is fluent in the use of the tools, the virtual classroom fades into the background and learners start to ignore the technology. This makes them feel as if they are in a "real" learning environment, encouraging them to engage more fully in the training experience.

2. Demonstrate that all contributions and interactions are valued. When learners' contributions are acknowledged and reinforced, they realize they are not anonymous and their participation in the learning environment matters. This helps them feel confident, and they tend to contribute even more. This is especially important in the virtual classroom, where learners rarely see the facilitator or their peers.

3. Nurture an environment in which learners feel safe about offering opinions and asking questions. When learners feel intellectually "safe," they may feel more inclined to contribute to conversations and ask questions. Training should offer a safe space for making mistakes and questioning for understanding. Facilitators can contribute to the learners' beliefs that their contributions have value, even if they miss the mark.

4. Create an environment where individuals enjoy learning. When learners enjoy themselves, they feel better about being part of the experience. Spark interest! Spread joy! Even technical training can include an element of fun. Advanced facilitators can inject passion into their delivery and the environment to create a more exciting event.

5. Encourage learners by providing positive, personalized feedback on contributions and progress. When learners recognize that individual contributions are noticed, they feel valued. They will potentially contribute more, enhancing the experience for everyone. Facilitators should provide positive reinforcement throughout the process. It can be as simple as saying, "Thank you, Sally, for sharing. Your point aligns with the content we will discuss after our break."

6. Bolster emotional engagement by reinforcing why the content is important. When learners recognize and internalize why certain content is important, they feel good about participating and are more open to learning. The importance of content produces a positive emotional response because the learner feels that if the content is important, the fact that they're in the classroom learning it means they are important as well. In this sense, training assumes the role of reward and recognition for the learner.

7. Encourage a community among learners. When relationships start to build between learners, there is an increased likelihood that they will work cooperatively within the learning experience to make it more effective for themselves. Learners "get outside of their own heads" and start thinking about "we the learners" within the learning experience. They will build on each other's contributions, develop and articulate positive contributions, and seek to adapt the materials to both themselves and the entire class.

Bottom line: Intellectual and environmental engagement are powerful in modern learning. But nurturing emotional engagement increases their effectiveness and effect by personalizing the experience.
Want to learn more? Join me February 5-7, at ATD TechKnowledge 2020 in San Jose, California. Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the InSync Training blog.

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7 Ways to Nurture Emotional Engagement in the Virtual Classroom

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We often frame corporate training as a compulsory process: complete these requirements and move on to the next task. It's a reinforcement of a " push" learning culture that is content-centric and an impersonal experience. Effective learning involves an emotional component. Employees want to do well on the job.

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Meeting Human Needs in the Virtual Classroom

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Training participants often log into our virtual classrooms ready to passively observe a monologue. It's up to us to create the kind of learning environment that shifts them from passive to active learners.

As you prepare to deliver an online training experience, think about the human needs of your participants: the need to be included, the need to feel safe, the need to be right, the need to be competent, and the need to be appreciated. More importantly, think about what a skilled virtual facilitator should do to meet those needs. Let's take a closer look at each need.

The Need to Be Included

Many of us want to feel that we are a valued member of a group. As a virtual facilitator, break down the feeling of anonymity and strive to include everyone in the session.

Arrive early to your online session. Create a warm, friendly online learning environment that welcomes people, rather than a formal, stuffy event that screams "Don't step out of line on this webinar!" Use people's names when you read or debrief chat comments. If the group size is small enough, invite people to elaborate on their chat comments by having them unmute their phone lines and talk with each other.

The Need to Feel Safe

It's tempting for any participant to lurk in the background. To make it safe to participate actively in your virtual classroom, spend time prior to the workshop orienting people new to your web conference platform in the use of the online interaction tools. Make sure everyone is comfortable using chat, emoticons, annotation tools, web cameras, and polls.

The Need to Be Right

There are some people who pride themselves on their intelligence and experience. You'll recognize them because they may contradict your key points in chat, or constantly add their two cents in chat or over the telephone. The key to meeting this need is to acknowledge their expertise aloud. You might say, "Inderjeet, you clearly have a great deal of experience in this area. I hope you'll continue to share your perspective in chat. It's great to have another point of view." Then choose when to read Inderjeet's chat message aloud or when to let it speak for itself without your comment.

The Need to Be Competent

To make these participants feel at ease, as you design an online learning experience, include application activities where participants can try out models and techniques in small steps. If you are training them in the use of a software application, for example, chunk down the process steps, demonstrate each step, and let everyone try them out on their own. Allow individual volunteers to demonstrate mastery of the process steps in the web workshop.

The Need to Be Appreciated

People with a need to feel appreciated or recognized often engage in helping activities during the online session. Of course, this is OK as long as they don't monopolize your attention. The path of least resistance is to acknowledge them with a genuine "thank you". If someone is volunteering to share an example for the third time, you might say, "Ben, thank you so much for sharing your experiences. I really appreciate it because we all benefit from your examples. I'd like to open this discussion to people who haven't shared their examples yet."

When we are facilitating in the virtual classroom, it can feel as if we are not as connected to participants as in the face-to-face classroom. But the truth is, people log into the virtual classroom with the same human needs they bring to an in-person event. As you read the clues to their motivations, you'll become a more effective virtual facilitator.

If you'd like to learn how to facilitate engaging virtual learning, plan to attend my session, Captivate and Accelerate: Ensuring Results in the Virtual Classroom, at the ATD Core 4 conference in Anaheim (session TH301 on Thursday, March 14, at 1:30 p.m.).

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Boost Compassion With This Activity

Loving-Kindness practice is a meditation that involves directing love toward yourself, other people and all living beings. It boosts self-compassion and positive emotions.

How To Do It

1. Find a comfortable space to sit quietly and take a few deep, restorative breaths.

2. Take a few moments to say the following statements to yourself and truly reflect on the meaning behind them:

May I be filled with loving-kindness.

May I be safe from inner and outer dangers.

May I be well in body and mind.

May I be at ease and happy.

Now, think of the people in your life that you love. Say the statements again, replacing "I" with "you" and imagine those individuals as you say each.

Why Do It

Research shows exercises promoting self-compassion, such as this meditation can decrease anxiety and rumination and boost feelings of happiness and optimism.

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- Utilize Waiting room
- Avoid posting open Zoom link on social media
- Require registration beforehand
- Mute & video off for all participants  upon entry

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Amazon Chime

Google Classroom

Google Hangouts

Google Meet

WebEx

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Asana

Britix24
Google Docs

GroupMe

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Mesitertask

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Teams

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TopTracker

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- Leading with empathy
- Starting every appointment with a check-in to build rapport
- Help students advocate for themselves regarding remote work
- We're all in this together reminders
- Guiding students/clients toward making small steps
- Collaborating with colleagues (faculty, other providers, etc.)
- Asking about practical needs (e.g. housing, food, etc.)
- Contact ~10 students/day who aren't responding in Google Classroom
- Create a survey to check-in
- Connect alumni to students
- Emotional/social supports
- Weekly student town halls that feature staff and how their roles have shifted during CV-19

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- Cisco Jabber

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- Remind

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- G-Chat
- Zoom check-ins
- Phone meetings for being able to walk to combat Zoom fatigue
- Mindfulness Mondays
- Virtual Book Club
- Give deadlines
- Virtual lunch hour
- Scrum meetings weekly

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- Weekly team "fun challenges"
- Daily staff photo challenge
- Themed meetings with dress-up, e.g. pajamas
- Google Sheet with Netflix recommendations
- Dance video / TIkTok challenge
- MS Team challenges, e.g. share a photo of your dog
- Happy Hours on Fridays
- Cookbook/Cooking challenges

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- Track rescinded offers to get a sense of breadth of the problem
- ER team reaching out to partner employers
- Duke Hospital virtual hiring event
- candor.co/hiring-freezes
- [insert Jenny Sloop Johnson's link]
- Use continuing education
- Parker Dewey micro-internships (unpaid)
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You can also join our group on Facebook for discussions or follow us on Twitter for updates.

Disclaimer - This list is crowdsourced. Hence, it's possible some of the information here is not accurate. If you come across something that's incorrect, please bring it to our attention and we'll correct it.

COVID-19 Summer 2020 Internship Status List

This list is based on the initial list compiled by Alex Wallish. You can find his repo here

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- Virtual job fairs through CRM (e.g. Symplicity)
- Resume book for employers who would have attended career fair

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- Layoffs

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Looking for websites that list remote work and side gigs can be frustrating. Most of the traditional job boards don't offer an easy way to find these types of opportunities (yet).

Finding sites for remote work and ones that only list legitimate part-time, work from home (wfh), or freelancing assignments can be challenging.

But this is changing. More employers are open to the idea of remote workers and more workers want to work remotely.

In fact, Buffer's 2019 State of Remote Work Study found that 99% said the 2,500 remote workers surveyed said they would like to work remotely at least some of the time for the rest of their careers.

The number one benefit cited for working remotely is a flexible schedule. Followed by being able to work from any location.

For the next few months, due to the coronavirus, we will only be able to work from home.

Luckily, sites for remote work and side gigs are growing mostly because these freelancing options are more widely accepted by employers.

Whether you are looking for a side gig, freelancing opportunities or remote work, these are sites that might help you find additional sources for opportunities.

If you are looking for the best traditional websites, visit Top Job Search Websites for 2020

Websites For Side Gigs

These sites allow you to search for freelance work, contract work, side gigs, projects, and more.

FlexJobs.com

FlexJobs features remote and flexible jobs from the widest range of categories such as data entry, transcription, HR and 50+ other categories. They hand-pick every job to ensure it is legitimate. There is a cost to this site of $29.95 for 3 months (other pricing options are available).

Freelancer.com

Freelancer allows you to search for jobs as well as create a work portfolio so people looking for specific skills/project work can search for you.

FreelanceWriting.com

Freelance Writing features Journalism, Content, Copywriting, and Blogging Gigs. It aggregates opportunities from a variety of sources. You can filter jobs by skills such as Writing, Copywriting, Blogging, Social Media, Editing / Proofreading, Technical Writing, Journalism, and Other.

Guru.com

Guru features freelancing jobs in categories such as Programming & Development, Design & Art, Writing & Translation, Administrative & Secretarial, Business & Finance, Sales & Marketing, Engineering & Architecture, Legal and Other.

You can sort jobs by hourly or fixed priced. You can also search by how many people have bid on the job as well as the country the job is located in.

LinkedIn Profinder

LinkedIn Profinder lets you post your services. You will either be asked for a bid/quote or you can submit a bid/quote for a project. To learn more about how Profinder works, visit LinkedIn's page.

Sologig

Sologig is dedicated to Engineering and IT Jobs.

UpWork

Upwork is a service that helps connect professionals and agencies to businesses seeking specialized talent. in fact I use a designer on UpWork to create some infographics for me.

Fivrr

Fivrr allows you to post services that you would offer starting at $5.

Craigslist

Craigslist allows you to post your services and search for businesses looking for your services. Just be extremely cautious.

Websites for Remote Work

Here are some of the top sites to help you find reliable sources of legitimate remote jobs.

New sites appear regularly, so try searching the web for your job title and remote and see what other job boards might be suitable for the type of work you are looking for.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn offers a "remote" filter in the advance job search options.

WeWorkRemotely.com

WeWorkRemotely claims to be the largest remote job board with over 2.5 monthly visitors.

Remote.co

Remote offers a wide range of job titles beyond the traditional programming type jobs.

VirtualVocations.com

VirtualVocations also features a wide selections of telecommuting or virtual jobs.

WorkingNomads.co

Working Nomads currates remote jobs.

Other Options for Side Gigs

Delivery

Driving

Virtual Assistant

Teaching and Tutoring

Care Giving

Survey and Consumer Feedback

Moving and manual labor

Customer Service

Editing and Proofreading

The options for work from home (wfh) jobs is opening up quickly and companies are more open to the idea of having remote employees.

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03/30/2020

NCDA's Resources Related to COVID-19

Are you a helping professional looking for support with COVID-19? If you only have 10 minutes, please start here by viewing NCDA's curated list of resources . We have gathered a few key resources to help reduce practitioner overwhelm and information overload.

NCDA has formed a small working group to select and evaluate resources. No one person is equipped to deal with these unprecedented times. We are approaching this together, as a community of career professionals. You can, in turn, support your communities across the country, and worldwide, knowing that your colleagues and peers have carefully chosen these resources for you.

Our main message:

Do your part to flatten the curve and practice social distancing . We encourage you to share this information widely, as it is vital for the health of our clients, communities and countries.

The If you have a resource to contribute to our working group for consideration, please contact Ali Breen at NCDA COVID-19 Resources page will be continuously updated with career development and mental health resources. Find information on topics such as: remote work, coping, self care, job loss, layoffs, future of work, etc. We also included coronavirus resources like sharable social media images and legitimate websites about social distancing and flattening the curve. abreen@ncda.org or leave a comment at the bottom of the resources page.

Our headquarters team, board and membership are working remotely and accessible via email and phone messages. We are here, please .

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My name is Felicia Hunt and I am the Career Development Coordinator at Lumberton Senior High School.  In an effort to promote Career Awareness, I have reached out to our local community  and a host of friends and asked them to prepare a short video that details the key aspects of their career pathways.

I am sharing the following videos with you and please feel free to share as appropriate to your needs:

Matthew Claiborne:  ABC News Producer
https://youtu.be/SiTLI3na6Ik

Owen Thomas:  Local Insurance Agent and Town Councilman
https://youtu.be/7zZqGddkpn4

Angelica Chavis-McIntyre:  District Court Judge
https://youtu.be/oHUsRg2n5ZU

Thank You and please let me know what you think:
felicia.hunt@robeson.k12.nc.us