PROFESSIONAL TOOLS FOR TODAY’S EDUCATORS

In a world where educators play pivotal roles in sculpting the future of students it is imperative that they are empowered with tools and tactics that make their work simpler, exciting and more engaging.

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This session just talks of that how teachers can collaborate with many students at one time, asserting students with freely available resources and tools thus making their way easily through the complexities of learning through the net. Information on tools that help teachers maintain a free classroom website, engage students through fresh happenings while expanding their vocabulary and easy to mould into virtual classrooms. Exciting tips on carrying knowledge in your pocket without worrying about the baggage, inviting students to a dynamic free site that answers to any diction, get access to the best of secrets on conversions, confusing words, maps creators and lots more on games too. Join the informative and fun based session that will enrich you to be more organized and most comfortable with the internet advantage coupled with few interesting paraphernalia that you will learn nowhere else but only here.

Gupteswar Rao

An M.Sc in Physics (First Class 2nd in University -1970), Educator & Motivator, having more than 38 years of school experience and spent 1½ years in US. As an ardent user of web technologies, softwares and resources available, is keen on exploring the global ways of learning.

Seek,inquire : you are entitled for a second opinion!

“Pathologists at Johns Hopkins reviewed over 800 cases referred to the hospital for head and neck cancer surgery between 1990 and 2000. They found that second-opinion looks at tissue samples led to changed diagnoses in about 7% of the cases, including some from benign to malignant, and the other way around.”

Second opinions can also save money by steering treatment away from expensive tests, medications, or procedures, so insurers often encourage them and may, in fact, require them for some situations. Still, check with your health plan before getting a second opinion to see whether the visit and any additional costs will be covered.

There are several ways to gather more medical advice. A primary care doctor may refer a patient to someone who has more experience treating the disease. But if you want another expert opinion, asking the doctor, nurses, or family and friends for names is a good step. Many hospitals offer second-opinion services, and there are also private companies that provide second opinions by reviewing a patient's records, but do some homework to make sure it's a reputable business.

Five surprising things about second opinions

1. They're less common than you think. A 2010 poll showed that 70% of Americans don't feel compelled to get a second opinion or do additional research, despite the abundance of medical information at people's fingertips. Surprisingly, the confidence factor cuts across patients' educational levels.

2. Your doctor won't be mad. It can feel awkward to bring up, but doctors generally welcome having their patients seek second opinions. Cancer survivor Jessie Gruman says every doctor she interviewed for her book AfterShock recommended getting at least one additional opinion to verify a serious diagnosis and develop a course of action. Patients are free to go back to their original doctor for treatment, although many stick with the consulting expert.

3. Discuss what matters to you. Although your primary-care physician may know you well, a specialist 

may not — at least not at first — and may focus on different aspects of the treatment. In a study published in Health Expectations in 2010, investigators asked a group of patients and providers to rate facts and goals around treatment choices for early-stage breast cancer and found several areas of disagreement. For example, patients were more likely than providers to focus on possible side effects from chemotherapy and hormone therapy.

4. Conceal the first opinion? Researchers based at Ben-Gurion University ofthe Negev in Israel surveyed hundreds of orthopedic surgeons and neurologists to explore whether specialists giving second opinions are influenced by the first one (the results are not yet published). After distributing hypothetical patient scenarios, they found that orthopedic surgeons were more likely to recommend a more "interventionist" treatment if they knew the first physician had advised one, and they leaned toward a more conservative approach if the patient hadn't yet received an opinion. No such effect was found among the neurologists.

This study might suggest that you'd get more objective advice if you withheld information about the first opinion from a doctor offering a second one. But as a practical matter, that's going to be difficult to do — and perhaps isn't so advisable. Most physicians, ethicists, and patient advocates recommend erring on the side of open communication.

5. For the record. Even if the consulting doctor doesn't know the first opinion, he or she will want to see your pathology slides, imaging scans, lab results, and other parts of your medical record before offering an opinion. But according to ongoing research by a renowned doctor about 20% of patients are sent to see a specialist without any formal communication from the first doctor. So prior to your appointment, you should contact the office of the doctor providing the second opinion to see what you should bring or have sent. It's also a good idea to bring along a notebook so you, or someone who is with you, can jot down notes.

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Job Satisfaction ….an ongoing experience!

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”-Mark Twain

Variety: Is indeed the spice of life

coming close on the heels of job satisfaction is the fact that one alleviates boredom at work.The very first signs of creeping boredom have to be done away with,where work is in the picture.The bored mind lacks interest and enthusiasm and even a well-matched job becomes not satisfying. Some common methods to alleviate boredom at work include:

• Training across domains and functions and learn new skills
• Try taking up new assignments or move across departments that require the same skills.
• Experiment with different shifts,meeting new people and experiencing newer environments
• Don't hesitate to take up new responsibilities
• Take breaks or holidays to break the monotony at work

Positive Attitude is all that it takes.

Its your upfront view that will help you perceive your job and your life in general.Being depressed, angry or frustrated, you're much less likely to be satisfied with anything. Making a change to a positive attitude is a complex process that requires a lot of work and a strong commitment. However, over time, you can turn your internal dialogues around and start to see most events in your life as positive and worthwhile. Here are some tips:

• Stop negative thoughts from entering your brain.
• Reframe your thoughts to the positive.
• Put the events of the day in the correct context.
• Don't dwell on setbacks.
• Commit to viewing obstacles as challenges.
• Accept that mistakes are simply opportunities to learn.
• Become an optimist.

Know Your Options

When you feel trapped, you can start to get anxious. At first you wonder what else is out there for you. This progresses to the point where you become convinced that anything other than the job you're doing has got to be more satisfying. To combat this, continuously scan your environment for opportunities. When you feel you have options, you have more control. When you make a positive choice to stay with a job, that job has much more appeal than if you feel forced to stay because you feel you have no alternative.

• Keep a list of your accomplishments.
• Update your resume on a regular basis.
• Keep up to date on employment trends.
• Research other jobs that interest you.
• Adopt an 'I’m keeping my options open' approach.

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Whipping up a storm....with your brains

“An idea that's BOLD is worthless until SOLD!”― Don The Idea Guy Snyder

Brainstorming is a popular tool that helps you generate creative solutions to a problem.

It is particularly useful when you want to break out of stale, established patterns of thinking, so that you can develop new ways of looking at things. It also helps you overcome many of the issues that can make group problem-solving a sterile and unsatisfactory process.

Used with your team, it helps you bring the diverse experience of all team members into play during problem solving. This increases the richness of ideas explored, meaning that you can find better solutions to the problems you face.

It can also help you get buy in from team members for the solution chosen – after all, they were involved in developing it. What’s more, because brainstorming is fun, it helps team members bond with one-another as they solve problems in a positive, rewarding environment.

Why Use Brainstorming?

Conventional group problem-solving can be fraught with problems. Confident, "big-ego" participants can drown out and intimidate quieter group members. Less confident participants can be too scared of ridicule to share their ideas freely. Others may feel pressured to conform to the group view, or are held back by an excessive respect for authority. As such, group problem-solving is often ineffective and sterile.

By contrast, brainstorming provides a freewheeling environment in which everyone is encouraged to participate. Quirky ideas are welcomed, and many of the issues of group problem-solving are overcome. All participants are asked to contribute fully and fairly, liberating people to develop a rich array of creative solutions to the problems they're facing.

What is Brainstorming?

Brainstorming combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem-solving with lateral thinking. It asks that people come up with ideas and thoughts that can at first seem to be a bit crazy. The idea here is that some of these ideas can be crafted into original, creative solutions to the problem you're trying to solve, while others can spark still more ideas. This approach aims to get people unstuck, by "jolting" them out of their normal ways of thinking.

During brainstorming sessions there should therefore be no criticism of ideas: You are trying to open up possibilities and break down wrong assumptions about the limits of the problem. Judgments and analysis at this stage stunt idea generation.

Ideas should only be evaluated at the end of the brainstorming session – this is the time to explore solutions further using conventional approaches.

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Self Awareness

The very first requirement for a person to be at the job and to actively involve oneself is to introduce yourself to you. To be successful is one half of the glass the other half is being able to identify your strength and weaknesses. Because in true sense only the right evaluation of strengths will enable to build on the positives and a personal realization of weakness will help evaluate the wrongs and convert them into strengths.

It's always convenient to say that you dislike your job or are not satisfied with it but in reality can you say that you did the right thing by taking up that job in the first place? Take a long decisive look at the qualities you excel in and then try to find a position that uses some of those skills too. Yet one of the differentiating factors of self-awareness is to have a good understanding of your personality traits and your preferred style of working.

Improving self-awareness can assist you towards the perfect package of good compensation, rewards, power and a realistic goal. Knowing this will help one to stop being idealistic or fantasize achieving tall gains, instead setting appropriate goals and managing one’s expectations realistically.


More the similarities between your job and the requirements, greater are the chances for you being happy at your job and as for the rest of the constituents they would prod you to achieve the maximum from the said job.

Challenges

Everyone might hate or love a challenge depending on the earlier point of self awareness, if one chooses well you might end up loving your job, so also with the challenges associated with it. Does this mean your job has to be the head of engineering at ISRO? No, different things challenge different people at different times. One just needs to understand what is it that gets you going ? if a daily muted challenges enables you to go that extra mile then take it, prove it right and watch your confidence roar.

If the challenges are not a part of the job, then do set some goals for self improvement believe me they go a long way and always add credits to your character certificate

• Set some milestone with respect to performance, goals help visualising your achievements actively and also help setting challenges with colleagues to conquer
• Teach your skills to your colleagues, help them grow while you grow too
• Take on new responsibilities, these will give you opportunities to prove yourself.
• Start or take on a project that uses skills you would like to use, or want to improve.
• Commit to improve personally as well as professionally – take courses, read books or trade magazines and attend seminars. However you do it, keep your skills fresh and current.

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Failure and persistence:drawing inspiration from each other

Times when the results are announced the toppers and achievers are always lauded but we ignore to see the flip side of this....the failures.They never get spoken about what if they rise like the phoenix from ashes or bite the dust nobody cares. A great sense of humiliation and expression of self defeat can come from failing an important test or exam.

When helping someone through this crisis, it's important to deal with the situation without resorting to criticism, rebuke, or making the person feel inadequate or confirming their sense of being a failure. Success is crucial yet at times failure can be linked to many an external cause, a state of mind, and not necessarily to any internal cause of intelligence or aptitude. Encourage him or her to look to the positive side and to embrace practicing persistence. Remind them that the only real failure is to give up too soon. If it seems that the unsuccessful candidate lacks the motivation or the determination to continue trying, overcome this by focusing on their previous successes in exams, tests, and other challenges, and the strategies they used in those situations.

Take a moment to help them identify the benefits of continuing to stick with their goals over abandoning them - this makes an excellent writing exercise as creating a list can help them to see things more clearly.

If you have time, have a look online for stories about people who have taken exams or tests more than once. You might be surprised how many people have done so! But more to the point, these people eventually succeed because they don't give up.

Failure is the stepping stone towards being more resilient,and it gives the person more humility and also sharpens one’s objectivity.

It's a chance to take up the challenge more seriously than self

Failure teaches more than success and it helps one to stay on track more often than get strayed by success.

Negative criticism always act as brownie points to resurrect the faults and not take them personally.

Typically in fact, a recent research paper by Harvard Business School states that failed entrepreneurs have a better chance of succeeding in their second effort than first time ones. Moreover, second time entrepreneurs have a substantially higher chance of raising funding than first timers. If so, can failed startup experiences be useful for entrepreneurs who are starting out now?

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Face of Tomorrow, share the experience!!

All online educational platforms tell us more about any subject or answers a query, does so with the purpose of minimizing our doubts and widening our horizons,if so why are we unable to shed our inhibitions and adopt technology to answer so many of the questions for which we have fumbled and often pondered about.

A platform that enables us to come together and work together brings forth an idea of a big collaborative effort that can be lauded for years to come.

As somebody wise summed up that when we talk of technology the differences of age,gender and intellect all disappear,what remains is the willingness to experiment and explore.When we talk of sharing experiences human mind is so codified that the most intense of activities that engage a high degree of involvement can remain vividly in the memory as a lifelong experience  rather than a memory that is evolved through reading or remembering.

For that matter explicit knowledge that we record through documents, papers and other intellectual property is representational and can live and be manipulated within the digital domain. Converting data-to-information, and information-to-knowledge describes a value continuum of explicit knowledge.

Whereas Tacit knowledge on the other hand talks of wisdom, experiences that exists within minds, it cannot be reduced to the digital domain as a material asset or be manipulated directly. However, it expresses in the social realm as the response ability of individuals (productivity, innovation and initiative), and teamwork (communication, coordination and collaboration).We as humans should infact use this lifetime to innovate and share our thoughts and creations cause each one of us has a bit of a genius who has gathered dust but when polished will sparkle to the brightest.

In 1995, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, in their book The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, presented the following model of how tacit and explicit knowledge interact in the knowledge creation process.

This figure explains the cycle of experiences can be shared only by the four factors namely socialization, externalization, internalization and combination that are more interchangeable, it is indeed a powerful mix that can effectively make our own experiences seem as a beautiful book, a leaf of which can be borrowed by others and probably add glory to their and our lives as well.

At www.attendbyvideo.com, we are in the process of giving wings to all those hobbists and talent seekers to come and experience this platform where we provide them the scope to grow within the realms of self confidence and beyond latitudes that bind them from exploring and believing that even one world is not enough!

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Social media learning the fountainhead of possibilities

As we take off from where we left in earlier posts about learning: - learning has to be like harnessing the flowing river of knowledge that has been there for long.The only regret being that we have ignored it saying it is only for geeks and celebrities who get mileage through publicity, but we cannot ignore the plethora of tools that social media has empowered us with so that we are a part of a global community, that thrives on invention and novelty.

The pursuit of getting involved is the basic concern of any learning professional and many headways have been made by moving learning grounds from classrooms to virtual environments.The example of Ajab in Junagadh where the dilapidated state of school did nothing to hamper the spirit of learning for the children there. Check this link for this motivating story

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-19/ahmedabad/31210420_1_online-classes-class-x-exams-ajab

Most of the times the learning often encounters the biggest hurdle and that is of self motivation and self direction. Getting the learner to participate or rather planting the seed of desire in the learner to want to participate is the greatest victory achieved.

Enter Social Media. This medium of learning has made inroads into the very basic traits of a community that is to participate, cooperate and remain connected by means that were impossible to imagine even a decade ago.

For a very long time training modules have so been constructed that the learning profession has been trying to find the ideal environment in which we can ‘Get learners to’ participate. Suddenly, here was a learning podium given to us for nothing, but better still, most learners were already participating and contributing to these new online communities.

The paradigm has now certainly shifted because creating the right environment is no longer the primary focus; now the focus is on nurturing the community within the environment that  technology has served us in a platter.

Social learning is not new to us we have had iterative learning from the stone ages where we learnt by copying the apes, but what made us a race to stand apart is to add new technologies and dynamics to the essential skeleton of invention.

Also our brain being so wired that we lean towards adapting ourselves the newer and sleeker module when logically explained the benefits of the same. Social media is a term to debate on if it really is a gaping hole in the security of information leaked or a right tool to harness the capabilities and empower the individual. In any case I believe that social media is like the internet of yesteryear. Internet has now opened so many ways of meeting people, linking organisations that our world of opportunities has expanded exponentially; yet at the same time, the world is getting smaller every day as the barriers of physical distance are eliminated.

Social media has achieved through human beings what internet had then done with machines. Definitely, we at AttendByVideo.com have empowered this very thinking in our protege’ of ABV smart* where we link your talent and question to the right expert and allow us as humans to come closer to banishing our imperfections and become a more perfect race.

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Talk, Discuss, Learn, Act - Welcome Social Learners!

Most often a travel to south Indian has truly made me realize the way to eat from plantain leaves and how to only use your fingers and not the entire palm in the process of doing so!!

Nearly every eatery that we stopped by, offered us food on the leaves and I was amazed at how dhoti clad men with their pristine white shirts managed to polish off their meals by licking their fingers and yet not spilling one drip of rasam or sambhar on them, it is a tact and one that involves a lot of looking into, studying the way food is eaten and practicing it a few times till you get it right.

As I ventured into this adventure I realized I had to primarily unlearn to be conscious, to be quick with my reflexes (involving mixing and slurping down the served food) and also multi-task by keeping up the conversation with my friends and use my inactive hand to gulp water, refuse more helpings and water down my meal with the sweet kheer. But a few messy stained dresses and unfinished meals down the lane I’m now quite a pro….what got me thinking in this process is that be it in an organization, or an area of personal interest the only thing that pushes you forward is the will to learn socially and adapt accordingly.

Many a time’s experience is our private store house of knowledge that we have accumulated through years, exactly in the same manner that the eating off plantain leaf is discussed. Experience helps practice information and successful practice leads us to become experts in that field. Where experience fails we try to quiz around through social media circles like Google and YouTube to come up with answers and in the process we still continue to Learn. Discussions with our peer groups or sharing hours of debates over a cup of tea have been culture signs that we as a race love to exchange ideas, learn from other views and yet grow in our knowledge.

What technology has done is empowering this very knowledge with discipline, now wisdom is reined and what an ocean of it is available to dip our pails in! Social media has given us the choice to seek beyond our limited familiarity and explore the answers that could be still expanding our probabilities. Google can throw up very relevant information to the slightest of doubts born by you, LinkedIn and Face Book help us maintain ties that earlier would require extensive travel and expenses, yet they also help us leverage  them in ways unknown to us till now.

So that brings us back to square one, learn we have to and if we complain or grumble the world will not stop to ask why not?, instead we have to learn to learn  to keep pace by attempting the new and trying out ways in which we can up the quotient of our learning experiences.

At AttendByVideo.com we attempt to learn newer experiences while sharing them across the globe and also fuelling personal growth in the process. It is true that only education can guide us to a brighter more knowledgeable world. Join us in empowering knowledge, share, innovate and spread the good word.

Learning –A new curve on the face of change

Life has its way of surprising us with its quests and the way we deal with situations that spring upon us unexpectedly. Most of the times we look up to what we have gained and the learning in itself often brings’ a smile on our face as more often than not wisdom is a fascinating name!

Back then in our time we had no Facebook to keep us in touch with our friends and no iPads or iPods’ but that didn’t take away the fact that we kept in touch with our friends who mattered, no matter how far. Perhaps not as frequently but we sure did ok, so did we thrive by making our own music with old tins and drums but we enjoyed our jam out anyways. The only meaning I could see out of this was that we could ride a cycle fearlessly on the road more often than the children of this age can, but then we also learnt than when we invested in people we gained lifelong relationships.

Speed that is what this age relates to, everything be a relationship professional or friendly has its own orbit of focus and that is remarkable. We did enjoy schooling and old words of wisdom passed down as folklores but then the world is much more than only stories, learning in this age is so much more stimulating, exciting and above all enthralling. The children of today have to know all about their world and probably of some other worlds and their stories of evolution as well, so the way they have lapped up information in terms of newsletters, through internet and social networking is amazing! But the question that lies uneasy on the shoulders is, “Is it really enough?” How much can be relied on the information amassed, the mind will always question once shown multiple probabilities that would there be one more alternative.

It is in the nature of curiosity that we attempt to dwell further to seek answers, perhaps a method where experts could team up and answer the required question, a solution that could be more personified & steeped in the progress to attain the correct answer and finally that elusive key in the ocean of uncertainty that will free the mind from all inquiry. Yes, the advent of time and the facelift of change is here perhaps learning just got a makeover and how! AttendByVideo.com has made that probability come alive for fishing the right answer by connecting to that useful expert whose exclusivity is now accessible to all. Sure we have come a full circle from dealing with playing truant at schools to actually challenge an entire school of thought!!!


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Setting & Achieving Goals - Roadmap to Success

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Dump Incompetence, Embrace Aptitude

"As you probably know, all the good product names have been trademarked by companies who are competent."
"Competent? How are we going to compete with that?"
        - Dogbert and Wally (Dilbert Comics)

That quote on the Dilbert series stands absolutely true, no one can compete against competence and so the need of the hour in a knowledge marketplace is truly only competence. So how does one come to recognize it or better still give up years of inability to pursue knowledge with higher gains?

Within the current set up discontent will be shown by dysfunctional processes, many a times what you hear is an answer that will never lead to a solution.  The common excuse being “That’s how we have been doing”, rather than “Maybe there is a better way of approach”.

Some pointers to that would be vague objectives and arbitrary deadlines, meaningless solutions from ineffective management, unintended consequence: worsening morale.

Where as in an enlightened and open knowledge place you get to choose your skills matched and honed by the subject expert that you evaluate and choose. Your satisfaction can only shine in a more enlightened environment, as here the emphasis is on permitting the seekers to achieve excellence, and on providing them with appropriate techniques and tools. In effect, the systems are subordinated to the seekers, as their feedback is valuable and so is their contentment.

Sometimes we invest in knowledge bases that are more data gathering stations rather than facilitating knowledge transfer, so the quest for choosing your expert never arises. As the people writing the documents never exactly understand what knowledge seekers really want or looking for as solution.  Are the content producers the real experts? Do most seekers even know who the experts are? The typical result: knowledge pushed out in this way is not very valuable and certainly not to those with the best skills and knowledge.

So how exactly does an expert get chosen from a multitude? We would expect that if the rules which an expert has acquired from years of experience could be extracted and programmed, the resulting program would exhibit expertise. Again this infers that: “The matters that set experts apart from beginners, are symbolic, inferential, and rooted in experiential knowledge. Experts build up a repertory of working rules of thumb, or "heuristics," that, combined with book knowledge, make them expert practitioners.”

We would like to invite all subject matter experts out here on AttendByVideo.com , to expand their horizons of learning and sharing.

Making of Knowledge MarketPlace!

Calvin:  Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.  I wonder why we think faster than we speak.
Hobbes:  Probably so we can think twice.
~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Knowledge worth of many successful organizations lies in the fact, that they have competitive edge on account of the few talented individuals dispersed at different level.

Even within organizations, for workers, executives, managers the common knowledge base is easily accessible but the unique proposition lies in the special understanding of that innate knowledge that is rarely if ever discussed with Diasporas.

And that is the very reason why certain companies have an edge over other, either in certain geographical areas or for that matter responding to critical situations, probably because the former has realized “the Mantra”. There is great significance of seamless flow of information and knowledge sharing across subsidiaries or across geographies or across hierarchies. Every individual has his own knowledge base and if seen as the larger picture many such knowledgeable individuals are scattered across cultures, hierarchy  within an organization, meaning neither the organization nor the individual  can completely exploit the limit to which this knowledge can grow and even lead the organization to greater heights.

This means that the knowledge hangs in limbo; or rather knowledge exists but is diffused, especially in a diverse organization. Imagine interactions amongst such talented coworkers across geographies could yield a huge power and such a large scale interaction would dwarf the significance and reliability on a select few individuals and rather distribute the sense of achievement across the organization. Many businesses have been satisfied at passing knowledge down the line through phones or faxes, but perhaps with the advent of communications in the past decade many leading organizations, academics and professional training groups have come to believe that the future lies only in the hands of those who can manage knowledge.

From this we can quite simply imply that be it a huge organization or small setup, information is there for all to know but knowledge that is the context in which that information has to be used effectively and that insight that can be gained by only sharing awareness through a common platform. So far the large organizations with vast pool of resources and investments have been able to tap this need. Those in phase of growth not able to keep aside that budget have been constrained.

Skype, Gtalk are tools for individual interactive video sessions but we would like to post few open questions for your thought: How does a small- medium size organization have focused group knowledge sharing sessions breaking location boundaries? How can an entrepreneur set up have interactive communication with subject matter experts of other geographies? And if so, how to connect? Which social media has a power to connect likeminded organizations and individual experts?

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WORKING TOWARDS EXPANDING MENTAL BOUNDARIES!

Everyone knows Oprah Winfrey! Her story of triumph coming from a socially lower community to being the most admired celebrities is what aspirational stories are made of! From dust to throne, one thing that stood apart through her years of pursuing her dreams was her self- belief.

“It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”-Oprah Winfrey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGf85-bQmEQ&feature=fvsr

What are the things that instill self belief? It is indeed easy to believe in our limitations, but do they really exist? People often talk of things they would love to have or rather they would have acquired or could have achieved, but could not on the account of reasons that swing widely between physical, economical, technical, financial or any such obstacles that come in the way.

But these hurdles are more mental barriers that prove to be harmful for the growth of oneself and obscure vision from reality. Mind is the greatest force that enables us to achieve our dreams and realize our potential to the fullest. Why is that we don’t need to remember to do the simplest of tasks like brushing and flossing our mouth after eating? More so because our subconscious mind has already made a blue print of activities requiring attention to detail and thus we don’t explore the reason to do otherwise.

While training wild elephants, the young rash ones are bound by shackles and made to do lift heavy logs. Such that their mental facilities are so set that even when they mature and grow old and the shackles no longer bind them they rarely break rules as years of habit have programmed their barriers to be more mental than physical.

Mental boundaries are also a great danger to one’s untapped potential. It sounds impossible that someone fired for lacking creativity went on to found one of the most creative and magical places on earth, yet Walt Disney persisted. Once ousted from his own company, getting up and proving himself all over again such that original company had to call him back which he lead to unprecedented heights, yes! all because Steve Jobs persisted. Just because a dream is seemingly improbable, doesn’t mean that you lack the potential to bring it into manifestation. Improbable is not impossible.

AttendByVideo.com we make an honest attempt to look beyond set, rigid and traditional thinking of knowledge exchange. We implore you to use this platform as a way of shedding your inhibitions and gaining reach and being a part of life’s university. 

Experience Education, but Gain knowledge!!!

“The only way a skill is developed—skiing, cooking, writing, critical thinking, or solving problems—is practice: trying something, seeing how well or poorly it works, reflecting on how to do it differently, then trying it again and seeing if it works better.”¹

Source: http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Active.pdf R.M. Felder and R. Brent,

There is not much of difference between knowledge and education, but still the thin line differentiator between them is pronounced such that it is difficult to ignore. Knowledge relies heavily on real life experiences facts acquired from good education, peers, consultations and extensive reading, whereas education is acquired by attending formal institutions. So, knowledge is self-gained or self-driven and application of these to life makes an individual knowledgeable, whereas education has rules binding it thus at times making learning more rigid and routine. More so as education can never be experienced, while knowledge grows from opening up to opportunities and it builds up with sharing.

Students, in particular, are a community that adheres to strict school timing like eight to four. We are in an era of personalizing time and individualizing it how can we expect students to only acquire expert communication at a set time. Knowledge sharing is more than that, it’s about learning all the time whenever they want and wherever they want. And so is the reason we’re seeing explosive growth in online education.

We all know about knowledge sharing! When it is passive in its approach students are forced to attend classes and listen to lectures that don’t always hold their limited attention but active integrated video learning is totally a new outlook to learning, improving and experiencing one’s thrills with a multitude. 

We at AttendByVideo.com are working towards a away where an individual student is free to pursue his/her specific area of subject for further knowledge gain, opinions with experts out of reach otherwise, it is such a platform to evaluate and discuss opinions, Q&A on the same with global experts and thus pass on healthy traditions to converse experts and constantly improve.

AttendByVideo.com stares at you in the face of future probing one to have better brainstorming and information gathering from subject matter experts. The possibilities for communication are virtually endless we are just exploring one which is untapped so far.

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Collaborat​ive Working: Global Connect

In January, 2012 WSJ reported that Obama to ‘hang out’ in livevideo chat room. The President of United States, with abundance power and accessto resources is going on Google ‘Hang Out’. Why? Because a TV, Press or OnlineMedia can’t bring interactive access and dialogue with a voter in distant partof USA. Experts state Obama won last election due to his affluent use oftechnology to reach people and spread the message across. Yes, we also believeso.  And he is doing it all again bytapping the power of technology to personally connect.

And so we have reached an age where there is need of relevant‘knowledge exchange’ with power of conversation and power of personal connect.

But question for you and me is how do we know who we need toconnect with, to explore the knowledge we need vis-à-vis who seeks knowledgethat you and I expertise with. Our reach to people is limited: my socialnetwork, my linked-in connections, my local directory search and Google. A needof the day is a collaborative knowledge platform that facilitiesreach to host of professional experts - trainers, business associates,educationalist and more to be able to disseminated at more rapid rates andcollaborate more willingly, freely and most importantly on need basis.

Knowledge growth through the 'window of interactive videolearning' is an enviable at present but not accessible to all. Ability to reachand ability to converse needs to be combined to reach masses. Today, technologyis for all. It is not only Corporates with millions of investments able tobring power of interactive communication over internet. AttendByVideo.com isone such a platform which brings this power to common man with greed to learn,specially learn from experts across globe.

Accomplish more in less time

Knowledge as the word in itself encompasses the spirit to spread and derive benefits through sharing. Unfortunately for some the scope of spread lies around limited horizon for example attending lectures for their share of education or relying on the internet for passive acquisition. But the internet in itself is also currently revolutionizing things around the erudite class and largely these are the people with an inclination to seek knowledge.

So how come in the world where cities or states unheard of seem within reach! People about whom we would have never dreamt of even existing are part of our learning experience, all because the internet in itself has become the fulcrum of the distribution channel.

As rightly said

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. -Abraham Lincoln, December 1, 1862”

Yes so rise we must and rise we did!!! how and where the occasion and time has stood witness to several such ideas that  in itself  have promoted lifestyle and time saving inventions such as from instant coffee to instant replay and now as we enter the internet market, it’s all abuzz with the most innovative and invigorating experience of learning, sharing giving, collaborating and distributing knowledge.

“The transition by which a new technology transforms the old, or takes it away, is a process, not an event, so almost always you have a hybrid in the middle just like the transition to electronic cars. It’s not unusual…, - Clayton Christensen, HBR

Here is the subtle process taking its own course from passive knowledge exchange to active participation. Reading tons of data to derive knowledge inference à  reading relevant piece of information à reading experts à watching experts is our age and à  moving towards conversing with experts.

Knowledge exchange through live video is a technology that aids the purpose. From time management it also reduces expense and makes a positive impact on the face of worldwide business communications and collaboration for common purpose. Knowledge exchange is all that and much more. It can also be used in a host of different environments, which is one of the reasons the technology is so popular. General uses for common knowledge platform could be business meetings, educational training or instruction and collaboration among health officials or other representatives and so on.

So, here we say all readers out here would enjoy watching this video which says it all: