If you’re doing network work with ALC you’re probably using the ALF Slack team. Slack is a wonderful service which provides a slick platform for teams to chat with each other (rather than email!). In this post I will link you do some great help pages that Slack offers then I’ll go over a strategy …
Category: Skill Share
The Haversine formula – Finding distance between locations in spreadsheet
We have about 400 entries in our Starter Kit download database. We offer our Starter Kit for free in exchange for email and optional location information from downloaders. Now that we are starting to hold training events (like the one coming up in Portland) it’s becoming useful to find Starter Kit downloaders who are near certain …
Introducing the ALC Tuition Sliding Scale Plugin!
I’m happy to announce version 0.1 of the ALC Tuition Sliding Scale Plugin. This plugin, adapted from code written by ALC NYC parent @geva, allows anyone to place a sliding scale on their website! Here’s a working example: How it works You can add a slider into any section of your site using the WordPress shortcode: …
Creating a YouTube link for Email Newsletters
This is a quick tutorial for creating nice images that link to videos in your newsletters. ALC Oahu and Arcadia Learning Commons are having screenings of Class Dismissed this week. Both sent out email newsletters letting their communities know about it. Emails can’t display embedded videos, but Oahu wanted to share the trailer. A great way to do …
Better Blogging With Tags and Categories
A post that goes over blog category and tag best practices has been on my Kanban for a while now. The ALC Network website consists—primarily—as a network of member blogs publishing posts. Each post consists of a title, body (content), and metadata. Metadata is a fancy way of saying information about a post. We can add …
Gameshift Board for ALC Oahu
I was asked to introduce Gameshifting to ALC Oahu to help structure their meetings more intentionally. I introduced the concept, co-created it with the community, then worked with them to implement it into their daily practice. Click to learn more about what Gameshifting is and how I went about creating ALC Oahu's board.
How to make or break a habit in 50 days with the X Effect
Do you have a bad habit you wish you could get rid of? Do you have a practice you wish you could incorporate into your life? Making or breaking habits is a very common desire. Maybe you want to stop drinking soda or start meditating everyday. This takes willpower and I often hear people say “I …
Organizing an ALF Weekend
ALF Weekend Fall 2015 is over, the work has been done, and now it is time to write some blog posts. I am doing a post in two parts focusing on the outcomes and the organization of the weekend. This post will cover how the weekend was organized, what worked, and what could have been …
Blogging on behalf of students
I wanted to write up a quick post about posting to this website. Sometimes we, as facilitators, help our students publish their blogs. Maybe they write them in a text document and ask us to perform the technical task of publishing them or perhaps we type as they dictate. However it happens here is a …
How to Make a Good Tutorial
This post will cover how to write a post that covers how to do something (so meta!). One of the Agile Roots is to create sharable value so that you, and others, can visualize your learning. I like to model this root by creating tutorials that cover doing things. The wonderful thing about writing these kinds …