The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
It takes effort, planning, and years of training and practice to become an educator. It also takes innovation, creativity, and storytelling ability.
Educators find ways to engage students and challenge them to think in new ways. They pass on their own knowledge and experience to students, to colleagues, and to their communities.
Creativity, which educators can use themselves and kindle in others, is a form of empowerment.
Imaginative, playful, enjoyable ways of sharing ideas is the business of Piccles and of educators.
You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
One of the most crucial aspects of a successful fundraiser is gaining participants, contributors, and attendees. Using Piccles can help generate the necessary pre-event hype to get people involved. This can be done with social media, e-mail campaign, et cetera to promote the fundraiser. These posts and messages can encourage people to contribute drawings in the days, hours, or even minutes leading up to the event.
Asking people to create Piccles drawings will prompt them to engage with what the fundraiser means to them personally.
To incorporate these creative Piccles a video or gallery could be used to showcase contributed drawings. These drawing will have the ability to convey authentic thoughts and feelings of those who have created them. Such a presentation can foster dialogue amongst attendees as they spot Piccles that pique their interest.
Piccles can also be used during the fundraising event by asking attendees to participate in games, live polling, and more through their mobile phones. With no download required and easy to follow software, such an activity can go off without a hitch!
Piccles created during the event can even go past their present function at the event and be used following it as well. Event-related drawings can be published in your next newsletter to draw extra attention that only a bright image could bring. The bright imagery can also be used to create cheery fundraiser reminders people will be happy to receive.
Post-fundraiser can be a challenging time to keep individuals engaged, and getting feedback can be a great way to improve following events. As the saying goes, “a picture’s worth 1000 words.” Get attendees’ feedback with ease by asking for their thoughts on the event through Piccles.
Keep donations coming! Get sponsors engaged by featuring them in Piccles prompts and drawings throughout and following the event. Whether it be the beginning, middle, end or even at a time with no events Piccles has the capability of setting your fundraiser apart from any other.
Find out more about how Piccles will boost your next fundraiser: Piccles.com
As the Covid-19 pandemic changes our definition of coming together, whether that be in a meeting or in a class, often times this means using online platforms such as Zoom. With a mainly online workspace or classroom it is easy for people to feel alone and disconnected from the world around them.
Piccles can help change this, bridging communications between students, teachers, counselors, administrators, superintendents, or even colleagues. Using Piccles to gauge the feelings of those in the meeting can help others feel as though they have someone to relate to, someone who is going through what they are. As Piccles can be anonymous to those who are attending the meeting people will feel comfortable to express their current feelings this way.
People will be more driven to tune into meetings because they know they will enjoy the meeting. As attendees’ enjoyment goes up, so will their engagement, resulting in better-informed, better-prepared participants.
With no downloads required and an easy to use platform, no time will be wasted during your meeting and all attendees will be able to participate with ease.
Even save Piccles generated during your event so that you won’t lose ideas that were generated during the meeting, and will have potential starting points for the following one.
Use Piccles to connect your attendees and help make isolation feel less isolated!
Networking events are opportunities for your organization and your members to make important connections, discover new opportunities, and get inspired. They are full of potential, but often are a source of stress for organizers and attendees. Online, it can be especially difficult for people to feel they’ve been able to put their best foot forward, make themselves known, and resonate with people.
Before your next networking event, reach out to us at Piccles about how we can address these challenges and deliver a fantastic experience that will leave your attendees energized and excited about what they’ve accomplished at your event.
Piccles is a tool that delights rooms of people and breaks the ice, giving participants the opportunity to learn about each other in an enjoyable, no-pressure way. With Piccles, there’s a sense of connection and accomplishment even before the tense breakout rooms or awkward introductions get the chance to dictate the mood of the event.
Piccles is a tool for anyone who can put color onto virtual canvas, no skill required. It’s perfect bridging communication between teachers, administrators, superintendents, community leaders, and everyone else in the education field.
At the end of your event, Piccles is a great way to encourage attendees to reflect and remember the connections and ideas they loved finding through their networking. Piccles can be used to survey attendees for event feedback, and Piccles drawings generated throughout your event can be saved. Learn from them or show them off in newsletters and event follow-up.
Speaking before an audience can be nerve-wracking for anyone, even experienced public speakers. There’s a certain burden to work the crowd and deliver value in an entertaining way that can get the best of the best of us.
Next time you’re hosting a workshop or bringing in a guest speaker, let Piccles take pressure off the speaker’s shoulders by warming up and engaging the audience. It’s tough on both the presenter and the viewers when one person is tasked with filling lots of time talking; Piccles is a way to invite audience participation and improve everyone’s experience.
And, since Piccles doesn’t require downloads or complicated technologies, you won’t have to worry about technical difficulties in the middle of the presentation. Better yet, there’s no mess that organizers will have to clean up after, no materials to be gathered back up, no chairs that have to be re-stacked.
Attendees and speakers will love how Piccles shapes the experience, making both groups excited to come back for future events!
As you know, it is through collective pooling of time, effort, knowledge, and other resources that development and change are brought about. That is how great progress is made and is why organizations exist.
It is also why Piccles exists: because the Piccles team saw a way to facilitate the collection of people and ideas, a way to empower groups that have gathered together to collaborate, create, and achieve something.
The knowledge, resources, and empowerment an organization represents for its members shape its identity and impact. Throughout meetings, workshops, webinars, fundraisers, advocacy initiatives, and other programs, member engagement is the backbone of an organization.
The conversation may range from supporting students, getting more out of negotiations, or community building to informed decision making or advocacy. Piccles is passionate about bringing empathy, creativity, and fun to the fore so that organizations can provide their membership with that vital sense of connection and accomplishment that will ultimately mean success!
