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Ideas for socializing during the pandemic

First-year students make new friends as they arrive on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. This semester may look different from years past, but that hasn’t stopped students, faculty and staff from interacting with their fellow Commodores in new and meaningful ways amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its necessary safety protocols.  Students around campus practice healthy behaviors. Vanderbilt’s nearly 130-acres of outdoor space have become the focal point for most physically distanced activity. Students are enjoying meals together in appropriate ways and using the circles on campus lawns while hanging out, listening to music or just relaxing. Students also can be seen playing Spikeball or Frisbee—with their face masks on. Others have formed a running group, in part to explore Nashville.  First year...

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September New Releases!

September always means back-to-school time for my family, and that’s something very different this year across the country. Many kids are learning remotely–and books can be a great way to supplement their virtual schooldays. Books can even help students do the hands-on science experiments or art projects they’re missing from the in-school experience. So today, I’d like to highlight some educational middle grade books coming out this month. They’re filled with ideas to challenge and engage students  about different subjects they may be learning in school this year.   Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook Jennifer Swanson: Workman Publishing, Sept. 1, 2020 This Big Fat Notebook covers everything you need to know during a year of high school...

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The Best Product I Bought During Quarantine, According to 12 Parents

When the COVID-19 pandemic started six months ago, we all stocked up on essentials — hand sanitizer, bleach wipes, face masks, toilet paper, canned goods. Everything to help us handle the then-unknown threat. But soon after, when the severity and duration of the situation was made clear, we all started to purchase items to help make working at home, parenting home, and everything else at home more manageable. Puzzles. Games. Toys. Cooking equipment. Workout gear. Home office supplies. Comfier places to park our rumps. This made us wonder: What items did parents purchase during the past six months that made their lives a bit easier, more productive, or more fun? So we asked a variety of moms and dads to share....

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Piecework Puzzles - Disco Queen

Vendor: Piecework Puzzles Type: Price: 26.00 500 piece jigsaw puzzle. If any puzzle could put on dancing shoes, it would be our reigning Disco Queen. Live it up with an electrifying prism of bubbly sparkles and good vibes aplenty — the perfect activity for party people looking to puzzle the night away. PRODUCT INFORMATION Completed puzzle is 19.25 x 26.6 inches Box is 8 x 8 x 2 inches Thick stock and high-quality art paper Designed and made in the USA Not suitable for children Board is 100% recycled paper

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: Running Digital Organization as a Balanced System Aug. 2020

Digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with mixed management styles for managing everything that is necessary to get people to adopt new ways of learning and working. The purpose of the book “Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift.  Digital organizations should apply the hybrid management approach, focus on building a diverse, networked, and extended modern working environment in which the powerful digital platforms and computing technologies enable seamless conversations, delayer overly rigid organizational hierarchy, inspire idea sharing and...

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