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by Miss Liana Boyle 8 min read

What is Eckleburg writing workshop?

Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and more, Eckleburg Workshops offer writing prompts and craft techniques that will take your work to the next level .

How to write a sensory experience?

Go to your favorite place—park, restaurant, bar, chair in your backyard. Sit with your journal and pen and close your eyes. Keep them closed and focus on the sounds and smells. When you open your eyes, write the sensory experience around you. When you think of something that seems completely unrelated, histrionic, futuristic or anything else, write the thoughts as they form in your mind. Forget about punctuation, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, just get the thoughts down as they come to you in whatever messy way they form.

Is it necessary to get an accredited course?

Gaining accreditation for your online course isn’t always necessary , but could help to increase your visibility and overall value if it does become accredited. Given how easy it is for anyone to create an online course, this is a perfect way to differentiate from your competition – not to mention add a premium price to your offering.

Is the Association for Training and Development accredited?

For instance, the Association for Training & Development offers accredited online courses for instructional design / e-learning development. You could talk with these industry specific organizations to see what kind of criteria they have in place, and if you can eventually position your course to be recognized for some continuing education credits.

How long is the Employee Evaluation Management Certification course?

This Employee Evaluation Management Certification Course is a six week virtual interactive learning series intended to support organization administrators (aka super administrators) in their management of the Employee Evaluation Management System. During the session, we will guide participants in understanding the system, your role as organization administrators and how to more efficiently manage the system to support your evaluation process. Topics include the finer points of managing users, unpacking and adjusting additional system rights based on organization need, understanding and managing evaluation rights, using available tools and reports to track and proactively manage the evaluation process and how to support and engage evaluators and educators in the process. Whew! Organization administrators will get hands-on in the system and have opportunities to ask questions, share challenges and successes, and apply their learning in their own organizations. This series will include weekly webinars on Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting August 9, 2021 from 1pm-3pm ET. The last session will be on August 20, 2021. The cost of this interactive series is $695.

How long is the Absence Management course?

The Absence Management (Aesop) Online Facilitated Course is a 8 Session course which will be Facilitated by a Frontline Ed Instructor. Sessions will be recorded in the event an attendee cannot attend one of the 1 1/2 hour sessions (1:30-3:00 Eastern). These are held on the following dates: August 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 2021 Some additional independent work with specific feedback from the instructor will be a part of the course to apply the learning. The course will provide opportunities for System Administrators to learn Fundamental Certification processes as well as basic Report Writer functionality. Hands-on application, group discussions, real-world scenarios will be part of the course. The 8 Sessions will include Basic Fundamentals of Absence Management System structure, Substitute Job Visibility, Employee Absence features, schools and Campus Users, Absence Functionality, Master Data System settings, Basic Letter Writer, Basic Security, Security structure, Approvals, Letter Writer, basic Report Writer Registration fees: $ 695

What is ERP CA Benefit Management Workshop?

Welcome to Frontline Education’s ERP-CA Benefit Management Workshop The Benefit Management Seminar is designed for benefit managers that want a deeper understanding of benefit setup and how the organization setup works with employee setup. The agenda includes annualization, benefit accounts, turning benefits on/off, and employees opting in/out. The seminar will also review calculations, life insurance, benefit caps, ACA bargaining units, budget amounts, reconciliation, and reports. The cost of this interactive series is $95.

What is a report writer virtual seminar?

The Report Writer Virtual Seminar for either Absence Management OR Time & Attendance is three sessions of virtual instruction, led by an expert Frontline Education facilitator. During the sessions, we will guide participants in understanding Report Writer functionality, application and reports that exist in Absence Management and for clients with Time & Attendance (separate sessions are provided for those specific reports). Sessions will be from 1:30-3pm Easter Time on the following dates: Tuesday, Dec 7 Wednesday, Dec 8 Thursday, Dec 9 Throughout the sessions, you’ll have opportunities to ask questions, share challenges and successes, and apply the learning in your own organization, in real time. Virtual sessions are recorded in the event you are unable to attend all or part of a session. The price for this extended interactive series is $395/registrant.

What is professional learning management certification?

This Professional Learning Management Certification Course is an interactive learning series to support organization administrators (aka super administrators) in effectively using the Professional Learning Management system. During the sessions, participants begin by understanding the system at a high level, then explore how to more efficiently use it to manage professional development in their organizations. Topics include the finer points of managing users, unpacking, and adjusting additional system rights based on organization need, proactively managing approvals, using available tools and reports to track professional development and how to support and engage learners and approvers in the process. Participants will get hands-on in the system and have opportunities to ask questions, share challenges and successes, and apply the learning in your own organization. This series will include weekly webinars on Tuesday and Thursdays starting February 1, 2022 from 1pm-3pm ET/12pm-2pm CT. The last session will be on February 17, 2022. Concerned about a schedule conflict or getting pulled away for part of a session? We understand - that’s why we record all sessions. All sessions are recorded and made available to participants so you can catch up or revisit the content, as needed. The cost of this interactive series is $695.

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John Gardner on Psychic Distance

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Careless shifts in psychic distance [authorial distance] can be distracting. By psychic distance we mean the distance the reader feels between himself and the events in the story. Compare the following examples, the first meant to establish great psychic distance, the next meant to establish slightly less, and so on until i…
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Psychic Distance (Authorial Distance) Writing Exercise

  • Rewrite the first three to five paragraphs of a work you’ve already drafted with a closer perspective. If your work opens with a description of a room, rewrite the opening so it begins with a description of one object within the room. If the work opens with two characters, rewrite the opening so it begins with a focus on one character. If the work opens with one character, rewrit…
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Psychic Distance Writing Exercise

  • Using the above examples from John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction, create various psychic distances within your own work. First, choose an opening line from a recent writing project—short story, novel, essay, etc. In which distance is your original line written? Now, rewrite the line in the style of each example given by Gardner: 1. It was winter of the year 1853. A large man stepped o…
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Work with A Reedsy Editor For Individualized Attention

  • Submit your work for developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, editorial assessment and more at Reedsy.com, where hundreds of experienced, awarded writers and editors are ready to read your work and help you make it the best it can be.
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Psychic Distance (Authorial Distance) Sources

  1. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present. Eric Kandel.
  2. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. John Gardner.
  3. “Cogito et Histoire de la Folie.” Jacques Derrida.
  4. Cognitive Neuropsychology Section, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition.
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