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Topic: Financial literacy, financial planning, debt management, investment, retirement funding, college funding
Format: Website with articles, audios, links to other resources, and worksheets
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

In these tough financial times, it might be a good idea to stop, go back to basics, and apply some fundamental financial management tools and techniques to your family’s finances. This great free resource from Bankrate.com will guide your through this potentially confusing process with articles on the basics, worksheets to apply to your unique situation, audios, and links to related web resources.

From the website:  “Bankrate’s Guide to Financial Literacy will shine a spotlight on 18 personal finance topics essential for financial success.”

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Topic: Project management, team building, and decision-making (planning)
Format: Downloadable PDF files that you print and make your own board game
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

From the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab website: “Tipping Point is a cooperative puzzle game for up to four players. Players assume the roles of Project Managers, and must work together to complete projects before they go too far past their deadline. The game is won by completing a set number of projects without letting any project fail.”

This game is not only fun… it’s a great way for players to learn to think and strategize and become better project managers and team members.

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Topic: Documentary film making
Format: Notes, assignments, reading links, and samples to support of an academic class
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

If you are ready to get serious about making documentaries, this structured collection of notes, assignments, links to readings, and sample films will help you build a comprehensive do-it-yourself course in Producing Films for Social Change. No… the content is not spoon fed to you. But it constitutes a wide-ranging list of college-level materials carefully assembled by Tufts University faculty and available to you free online.

So if you’re ready to go beyond those YouTube videos, this course will help you think more deeply about Producing Films for Social Change and help you get started making your documentary masterpiece!

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Topic: Project management; How to help inspire project teams to be their best
Format: iTunes podcast (MP3) including suggested Team Challenges to help apply inspirational concepts; eduFire live video class
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

I’m pleased to announce that my Inspired Project Teams blog is now available in podcast form at iTunes! To date, there are 16 episodes posted.  (For more, click “Read the Rest of This Entry,” below.)

Also… I’ll be presenting a free, live interactive video training session at eduFire titled 5 Strategies To Create More Inspired Project Teams on Tuesday, March 24. It’s based on several of the Inspired Project Teams episodes.  (For more, click “Read the Rest of This Entry,” below.)

Both these items are absolutely free! And both go beyond inspiration to provide specific, practical suggestions for how to apply the concepts in the form of Challenges for project managers, team leaders, and project team members.

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Topic: American Civics (“the rights and responsibilities of citizenship”) and how the courts and government of the United States work
Format: Website with text and multi-media info & games for kids and resources for teachers
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

“Only about 1/3 of young people can name the 3 branches of government… Civics is about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship… We decided that Civics needed a makeover. And that’s what ourcourts.org is all about.“  – Justice  Sandra Day O’Connor

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Topic: This post is a challenge of sorts. It asks you to listen to your restlessness or your anxiety and consider this: It may be you need to retool. You may need to learn something new and then go out and do something completely different… something no one has ever imagined you could do… something great… or something that is simply fulfilling in a way that is unique and special to you.

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