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InformED is a blog by Open Colleges, an online education provider based in Sydney, Australia.
Could you please consider making your "Features" articles in PDF and/or able to be saved? There are great articles here that we (as parents of an ADHD child) would like to share with his school so that they are hearing this important information from other educators.
Hi Tilly, thanks for your suggestion. We'll work on implementing it!
I really enjoyed using one of your resources in my classroom the past few years and I went to access it the other day and it wouldn't load. Could you tell me if the Interactive Brain Map (http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/learning-strategies/) is still available? It just went to the homepage and stayed at 0% and would not load. Thanks!
Yes, it works as of right now 14 Oct 2018.
Curriculum Services Canada is working with a university in Uruguay to provide a workshop on High Yield Strategies and Assessment for Learning. We are interested in your article entitled 25 Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset.
We are asking your permission to share this article with a group of 50 teachers at this university.
Please feel free. Thanks, Deirdre!
We are interested in using the 25 ways to develop a growth mindset article by Saga Briggs for a leadership course we are rolling out at our company? How would I get permission to use this article in our course? Is that article translated? If not, how would I get permission to translate?
You are welcome to use the article in your leadership course. Please just be sure to cite Open Colleges or InformED in your documentation. Thanks so much for reading.
One of our authors would like to use an extract from one of your blogs in a forthcoming (commercial) book. Could you please let me know how to contact you directly to discuss permissions. Many thanks.
Beverley Randell, Publishing Manager, Crown House Publishing Ltd.
Unfortunately the article I had requested permission to use in our current spring issue of the Art Exchange, 8 Real-World Skills That Start With Arts Education, did not make it in due to lack of space. It will be published in our fall issue, however, which will be available on our AEM web site in late August / early September.
As a teacher and magazine producer, I'd like to connect with Saga Briggs. I love her style of writing. Saga, could you mail me sometime?
I love what you folks are doing. Any way I could help?
Producer of MindBrainEd Think Tanks, bringing brain sciences to language teaching.