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Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
If you are interested in breaking into the field of fashion, or you have some ideas that are truly ground breaking, you will want to attend one of the many fashion merchandising colleges that are available to teach you what you need to know about fashion. After you have attended a fashion merchandising college, you will be able to show your ideas that you have put together to the major corporations and stores so they will be more willing to pick up your line of clothing. You will also learn about how trends come and go in the world of fashion, and you will be more likely to pick up on the latest trend and, in doing so, make a name for yourself around the world.
Anyone who has tried to make it in the world of fashion will tell you how important it is that you expand your education at one of the fashion merchandising colleges in the country or abroad. You will learn why some clothing is made the way it is, and you may be able to pick up an idea and improve on it. You will learn about colors and why some work best with certain others while some do not. You will be able to put your creativity to the test, and you will be able to sew together anything you can think of.
When you are attending classes at fashion merchandising colleges, you will also be making contacts and putting together a portfolio of people you will be able to rely on in the future. You may meet a potential employer while you are studying fashion, or you could even meet a talented person that you would one day hire to work for you. You will also have a large group of critics that you could daily model your ideas for. If you have come up with an idea while at home, you can wear it to class and get ideas and critiques to make it better.
You will find that attending one of the fashion merchandising colleges will teach you more than just sewing. You will be more confident in your ability to create new styles, and you will have the confidence it takes to break into the world of fashion.
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Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
Many believe ESP is possible and each of us has instances of such abilities throughout our lives, some more than others. There are other things the human mind can do which many call paranormal, yet in reality they are most likely very natural and we have these abilities for a reason.
You see; ESP and all the rest are possible and most all humans have glimpses of this, although they do it without knowing how it is being done. If humans are told they cannot do something often it appears that they will accept such suggestive input to their own detriment. You ask; “How can we unlock them again?”
Do you have thoughts along this line and if so, what are they? We know that psycho-cybernetics can help an individual do many things. In sports, business, politics, religion and research. It appears that some humans are stronger than others in this regard and some can even will events to occur. You ask; “Is it more of exercising our brains outside of conventional means?”
Well, we know that this organic gray and white matter runs on frequency waves and chemicals from intake, so if you are to modify the brain to “work better” that is where one would start right? And if you wanted to add on memory or improve function you would want the brain to become thicker. You could do this by tearing down parts and have the biological function heal it back stronger by using waves to heat the brain and induce chemicals to trigger ways to strengthen it. So think on this in 2006.
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Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
A good friend in college in the National Speakers Association emailed me yesterday. In the back and forth of emails told me two things about the conference that she was attending:
1. She was beginning to see the frustrations of being in the continuing education (CME) market, and
2. She could not understand how such intelligent people (experts) could be so business stupid.
Now my friend has been in the speaking industry as a talent agent, a book agent, and as a professional speaker and trainer for more years than she will tell me. Her frustration arises from the fact that in the speaking industry we look at four benchmarks of proficiency:
1. Expertise – knowing your subject better than anyone in your audience.
2. Eloquence – having the skills and the preparation to relay that expertise from the platform.
3. Enterprise – having the business knowledge to convey expertise and eloquence without losing your shirt.
4. Ethics – having the professional self respect to do business in a morally correct fashion and not feel, co op, or plagiarize other people’s materials.
My friend’s email betrayed that she could not understand why all four benchmarks were missed in the CME arena.
I explained to her that it was not that the speakers she watched lacked expertise. It was that they lacked the eloquence to portray it. They used the same old jokes that they heard at the last four or five seminars very often, jokes that are not even relevant tangentially to the subject at hand. Alternatively, they will use a story whether it is heart wrenching, heart warming, scary, or reassuring even if it does not apply to the topic at hand. They will stretch and then over stretch to make a connection and in the process lose the audience and the entire point of their speech.
I explained to her that I am a devotee of AudioDigest (TM). AudioDigest (TM) is a recording service for medical seminars. Their editors listen to literally hundreds of speakers recorded at major CME programs around the world. They then have no trouble editing this down to the few that are worthy of audio reproduction. Even with that editorial review and relying on the grading of medical audiences, significant amounts of editing are required to produce useable audio seminars. An audioDigest program runs 55 to 60 minutes and very often has two speakers. I always have to remind my own speech students that each of these speakers were recorded at a 55 to 60 minute speech and yet very often it requires three of them edited to 20 minutes of useable information to create one 60 minute audioDigest program. That means that each speaker wasted two thirds of their time and the audience’s time.
Speakers in the CME market are selected based on a written abstract. Almost never is a demonstration DVD required nor testimonials or prior review scores from previous appearances. When a CME committee selects a speaker, it is either political or based on their knowledge (expertise in the field). That committee has no idea of whether or not the speaker possesses any eloquence.
When it comes to enterprise, the old adage,
“Doctors do not know business”
rings truer than in any other endeavor. Medical speakers are very much like retired federal employees, they believe that a $500.00 speak use fee is a “homerun.” Beginning speakers charge greater than $1,500.00 with no expertise and little or no eloquence. In CME programs, all of the speakers have “terminal degrees.” They are doctors. They possess eight years or more of formal education and another three years or more of post graduate training. Why are they charging the same amount as a college student or a construction worker turned speaker?
The reason is their expectation. They expect to get $500.00. I call this the “doughnut money” because most of these medical speakers got their first speaking engagement from a local drug rep that paid them out of the same budget that the drug rep uses to bring doughnuts to the doctor’s staff in the morning. These “doughnut money” speakers destroy the opportunity for enterprise in the CME market for more eloquent experts. This is why those of us who are professional speakers for a living simply do not speak in the CME arena. We ply our trade in more fervent pastures such as the corporate board room or high tech industry.
So if doctors have expertise but lack eloquence and enterprise, what about ethics? Aren’t doctors supposed to be the most ethical people? Don’t we trust them with decisions of life or death?
Physicians are on ethics committees in hospitals and make decisions regarding the appropriateness of each other’s care as well as weighing the risks and benefits of various treatments for various diseases. In these arenas, doctors are tremendously ethical.
Unfortunately when it comes to plagiarizing each other’s materials, “borrowing” comic strips, cartoons, and other artwork, even photographs, from copyrighted print material, playing music and even videos without royalty, even playing a recording of another speaker without their knowledge, doctors lack any form of professional speakers’ ethics. The speaking industry has a strict code of ethics regarding these activities and many others just as the medical profession has a code of ethics within their scope of practice. Those physicians that choose to live in both worlds choose to live by both codes of ethics and they must learn it.
My physician colleagues who speak for a hobby are not bad people. They are simply not educated in the speaking profession.
So what is the solution?
Just as physicians attend continuing medical education (CME), professional speakers attend continuing education dealing with the skills required to advance their Expertise, Eloquence, Enterprise and Ethics. My physician colleagues who choose to “dabble” in professional speaking should go to their local community college and take a speech course as well as creative writing course. If they took one in college, they need to take it again. Refreshers are always good. If they do not want to go to the community college, then they should join Toastmasters International.
This is an excellent opportunity for a new and burgeoning speakers to have their work critiqued (doctors fear critique) and a tremendous venue to try out new material. They do not have to be afraid of not knowing all the answers because their audience does not care what the message is, they do not care about the expertise. At Toastmasters International they care about the technique, it is the eloquence that matters.
If my physician colleagues do not want to join Toastmasters or go to a community college, then they should take an improve course at a local comedy club. Here they will learn stage presence, timing, pauses, joke writing, and finding the comedy in everyday life.
Through any one or all of these opportunities, the physician who “dabbles” in speaking can be as good on the platform as the family practitioner who “dabbles” in office surgery. They will be competent. They will be self assured. They will have great outcome and they will know when they are getting in over their head. . . . When to ask for help.
Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez is the founder and president of the consulting firm High Alert, LLC. He serves on expert panels for pandemic preparedness and healthcare surge planning with Congressional and Cabinet Members. Board certified in multiple specialties, Dr. Ramirez is Founding Chairperson of the American Board of Disaster Medicine and serves the nation as a Senior Physician-Federal Medical Officer in the National Disaster Medical System. Dr. Ramirez has a new book: You Can Survive Anything, Anywhere, Every Time. His website is High-Alert.com High-Alert.com
Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
A College Degree is Expensive! Period.
Even if you are looking at an in-state college or university and plan to live at home, the costs can be a little overwhelming. Just to give you a few examples from Top 10 colleges:
Purdue University: In-state tuition as of 2006 is: $7,096 per year. A 4-year B.S. Degree at these rates would be: $28,384. For comparison purposes, we will not look at room/board numbers.
Ohio State University: In-state tuition as of 2006 is: $8,667. A 4-year B.S. Degree at these rates would be: $34,668.
Iowa State University: In-state tuition as of 2006 is $6,135. A 4-year B.S. Degree at these rates would be $24,540.
Michigan State University: In-state tuition as of 2006 is $7,665. A 4-year B.S. Degree at these rates would be: $30,660
So, as you can see, when you start looking at total numbers it is very clear that college will cost you some money. You ask, is it really worth it?
Absolutely is the answer. The U.S. Census Bureau released research from 2003 about the average starting salary for high school graduates, college graduates, masters and doctorate graduates. The average starting salary for a high school graduate was $21,948, while college graduates earned nearly twice as much at $40,287 and Master Degree graduates at $50,020. Doctorates and professional degrees earned the most at $64,372 and $75,322.
And if that is not enough to convince you, the National Association of Colleges Employment release their Spring 2006 Salary Survey results. The starting salaries for college graduates range from $30,000 for liberal arts majors to $56,500 for chemical engineering majors.
If you were to take these numbers, assuming no increase in salary, you will be making almost double the amount of annual salary with a college bachelors degree than you would with only a high school degree.
Perriann Rodriguez is the founder of the College Mastermind. Visit the College Mastermind for scholarship details, financial aid, college tuition fees and shop for college.
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Along about third grade, children reach a level of reading competency which allows them to read independently for the purpose of gathering information and learning new skills. At this point, a whole world opens up to them. They are developing the tools to pursue interests of their own, and wise teachers and parents will take advantage of this phenomenon to build on their children’s educational success.
Poetry and fiction are always favorites among children: case in point, the unprecedented success of the “Harry Potter” novels. But kids are thirsty for knowledge about people and places around the world, as well as history, science, math, and art. A varied collection of books and magazines in the classroom will keep exciting information at students’ fingertips. A scheduled weekly trip to the school library, with lessons on how to find books and research specific topics, offers skills that children will use throughout their school career and beyond. Kid-friendly online search engines provide more opportunities for students to research their favorite interests.
Targeted book reports and a plan for integrating the curriculum can help expand learning for every member of a class. For instance, say the kids in a classroom are studying Greek mythology; providing a variety of cobblestonepub.com/books/ books and magazines on the topic, as well as on the history, social structure, scientific and mathematical concepts, and literature of ancient Greece can be the basis for an exciting group learning experience. Children can choose a book or magazine article and write a report to present to the class; other children can write poems or short stories based on what they’ve read, or paint or draw pictures. These creations can be presented to the class during a sharing time, and then, using a computer and printer, copied and distributed to every member of the class so each student can create a book or notebook of the work of the entire class. Students may want to expand on their work by illustrating another child’s report or poem, or by writing a story based on someone else’s drawing. Additional topics can be chosen for independent research, and the end product can be put on display for other students’ use in the classroom, and even for inclusion in the school library.
Learning on display: a great motivation for lifelong learning
Displaying students’ work in the classroom and the school library helps create an environment where learning is valued and the learner recognized; looking beyond the school environment can bring an entire community into the process. Consider creating a place in the local public library where children’s work can be displayed, and work with the librarians to create student readings. A local for-profit or public access TV station may also find it valuable to cover school events which incorporate student works; by middle school, children may even be in a position, properly supervised, to help produce public access programs about their school. Particularly in areas where schools have trouble motivating students to learn, this kind of public exposure can only help excite children (and their parents) about their school and their own learning process.
It’s important in any project involving student learning that kids of all ability levels are included; books and magazines need to reflect the varying abilities of the children in a class, and if a class is going to focus on public display of student work, then all levels of work need to be respected and presented in a dignified manner. Students involved in the production end of creating a classroom book on a particular topic can be credited in the book; children who contribute to a public access program can receive an on-screen credit. The idea is to praise both the work process and the creative end product of learning activities, and to give kids the idea that their learning, and their effort, matter.
Aldene Fredenburg is a freelance writer living in southwestern New Hampshire, who has written numerous articles for local and regional publications. She may be reached at mailto:amfredenburg@yahoo.com amfredenburg@yahoo.com.
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
I started out writing an article called 5 Ways For Teachers To Make A Little Extra Money, but after I had written that article I realised I actually knew more than five ways for teachers to make a little extra money. So here is the sequel, Five More Ways For Teachers To Make A Little Extra Money.
Working over the summer
One of the rewards of being a teacher is getting long summer holidays. But unless you’re very good at organising your money, those summer holidays can sometimes end up being a bit lean. One way you can avoid this is to go out and get a summer job.
There are many things you can do over the summer holidays in order to earn extra money. Going back to one of my favourites - you could always teach English at summer school.
Thousands of children go to the UK, the US, New Zealand and, Australia over the summer holidays in order to learn English. They usually stay in residential summer camps or in home stay situations. If you have an extra bedroom you could host one of the students in your home. And you could also get a job teaching English at one of the schools.
If you don’t want to commit that amount of time to a summer job, you can always offer to supervise the students on evening and weekend activities. A few years ago I found a position where I was paid to accompany groups of students around the UK for weekend excursions. An added benefit was that I got to explore many interesting and historical places in the UK, all while getting paid.
Perhaps you don’t want to spend your summer teaching? How about escorting a walking tour in Spain? A Cycling tour in Kazakhstan? The summer is the height of the tourist season for Europeans, you could easily see more of the world as a tour guide. The pay isn’t great, but the side benefits are amazing.
Get an Evening Job
Teaching is a full-time job that must be done during normal working hours. But this won’t stop you from getting an evening job, or perhaps even a weekend job. I’ve always taught English night classes for extra money, but I’ve known other teachers who have worked in restaurants or worked in bars.
At one time, just after I moved hemispheres for the fourth time, I did consider getting a job in a bar. I wasn’t considering this for the money, primarily. I thought it would be a great way to meet new people and get paid at the same time.
Multilevel marketing
This isn’t something that I’ve ever tried personally, but I’ve known a number of teachers who have. Multilevel marketing is a way of making money through selling products to people you know, and also by recruiting people into the same business.
It takes a certain personality to be successful at multilevel marketing, from what I’ve seen. If you’re not good at selling things to people, you should perhaps consider one of the other money earning options I’ve already mentioned.
Some of the multilevel marketing opportunities I’ve known teachers get involved in are Avon, Amway and Nutralife.
Internet Marketing
Internet marketing is a fancy term for a phenomenon that has sprung up since the invention of the Internet. In order to become an Internet marketer you need an Internet connection, a computer, and some commitment.
The one thing about Internet marketing that makes it so attractive to me as a teacher is that it fits my lifestyle. I can choose when to work, where to work, and how many hours I want to work. Additionally, I don’t have to be a great salesperson, or become a great salesperson.
To find information on Internet marketing you can do a search in Google. There is a mind-boggling amount of information available on the Internet on this very subject.
Move Your Teaching Career Abroad
I briefly touched on this in my previous article 5 Ways For Teachers To Make A Little Extra Money, and I would like to expand on it here.
I discovered through research that I could earn more money for doing the same job if I moved overseas. In my current teaching position I get:
* a higher salary than what I earned previously
* an extra 10% to contribute to my retirement fund
* full medical insurance
* an accommodation allowance,
* a yearly bonus.
Additionally, the cost of living is lower where I now live and the school year is 16 days shorter than in any country I’ve worked in previously. So I teach less, earn more and it costs me less to live. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, it is true and it’s a life I’m living.
If you’re interested in earning more money for the same amount of work you are doing now, then you should definitely look into teaching overseas.
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Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Discussion procedure is considered to be an integral part of the learning process. It can make teacher-learner interaction and students’ mastering of a subject more effective and successful. The matter is that discussion procedure provides participant of the learning process with a feedback, friendly, reliable climate in the group, it contributes students’ critical thinking and problem-solving capacities. Moreover, questioning procedure allow a teacher to verify students’ level of knowledge and reveal some gaps. As Hofmeister and Lubke (1999), famous researchers in the field of education, stated: “One of the more difficult aspects of giving feedback to students who have made errors relates to the importance of creating a classroom climate where errors are a natural part of the learning process rather than ’sins’ to be taken personally by the teacher or student” (p. 100).
First of all, questioning procedures are very important because they allow students compare their opinions, knowledge, and experience with others. This encourages them to ask follow-up questions and stimulates their critical thinking. The questioning helps students to make an assessment of their own knowledge, their efficiency and erudition according to those of others. As a result students try to be up to standard and to keep up with others. In a word, questioning procedure encourages them to obtain all-round education, to develop their erudition and be completely ready for every lesson in order to be able to keep up any conversation and to develop any topic. It makes students more independent and responsible in the learning process because they are motivated to produce such results as their classmates do.
Questioning procedures provide not only feedback and correction to students but also a feedback for the teacher as to the adequacy of instruction. Of course, the teacher can provide students with a feedback by responding to the content and correcting their errors. As a result students receive the assessment of their knowledge, they see their errors and can ask teacher for explanation. It helps students to understand their errors, avoid them in future and master a subject more successfully. But very often teacher’s questions require that students recognize and recall some information, or that students solve some learning problems by applying what they have already learned, by applying their gained knowledge, skills and experience.
The teacher tests student’s preparation and achievements by asking questions. Students’ answers can clearly show the teacher their level of mastering a subject, efficiency and adequacy of education. Besides questioning procedure can demonstrate if the students are interested in the subject, if they enjoy studying and are eager to be excellent within the subject. All these factors provide for the teacher a feedback. The feedback allows the teacher to analyze strong and weak sides of his instruction in order to strengthen a learning process and stimulate students’ further intellectual development.
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
What are scientists up to now with laser technology? Well all kinds of stuff actually and they are beginning to push the envelope on known science by sending communication by light. But that is not all many are floating ideas, concepts and theories of modifying life organisms with light, changing molecular structure and even sending light backwards faster than the speed of light forwards? And these are just a few of the ideas being floated.
There are people talking about stopping storms like Tornatic Cells, Hurricanes and even Typhoons using lasers and if they cannot stop them, why not steer them away from civilization. Additionally some are discussing creating weather with lasers and light. We already use lasers to judge distance and for sensors for military, industry and space efforts, but you can expect scientists to try to use lasers and light to open up holes in space time or create vortex flows to travel in or create super flows perpendicular to the created vortex to send communication, skip time or send matter, particles or ?
There seems to be no limit to the number of new concepts popping up each day in the science news on how to use light and lasers better to achieve break thrus in our current paradigm of known science. Interesting indeed and fascinating to watch, as we do live in the most interesting of times, so do consider all this in 2006.
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Nov 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
What happens in it in our minds, that makes us dream? What is it about the subconscious mind, which helps us make decisions? Why is mankind so fascinated with the subconscious mind? So many unanswered questions indeed and even to this day brain researchers admit they simply do not have all the answers.
Subconscious is an interesting thing and did you know that Dolphins only sleep one side of their brain at a time? That is an interesting bit of trivia isn’t it? Leads to so many questions about the dual hemisphere and all those layers in the back of the brain too.
Some believe that sleeping is a defragging event similar to the re-categorizing of all the information you take in. Your questions are indeed worthy and so I presume you have been reading all my considerations on this subject matter of the mind and perhaps you have some additional thoughts of your own you might like to bring to light.
The brain is encased in a skull, so it must be the most important part of the organism we label a “human being” or “homo sapiens” and since the heart and lungs are only partially encased it would seem that they are secondarily important and probably there for the sole purpose of providing for the brain. Indeed what ever the brain is doing while you are consciously using it or it is running by itself is one of mankind’s biggest mysteries. The subconscious mind is doing something very important isn’t it? Think on this in 2006.
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Nov 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Natural Healing Schools are a good educational path for individuals interested in helping others to achieve a sense of spiritual and emotional wellbeing through natural, drug-free means. Healing Arts Schools can prepare future Natural Healing Counselors to help their clients cope with personal, family, or business relationships due to stress, anxiety, substance abuse, anger issues, childhood traumas, or depression.
At Natural Healing Counseling School, students learn to offer alternative methods of professional assistance to individuals, families, married couples, groups, and organizations. Future counselors are taught to apply psychology and other mental health principles to help their clients achieve mental and emotional stability.
Most states require counselors to have a minimum of a Master’s Degree and applicable licensing or certification in their specialized field. The Doctorate Degree in Psychology is considered the pinnacle of the Natural Healing Counseling Education. An undergraduate degree (Bachelor’s Degree) with a proper focus on psychology, spiritual studies, health sciences, pastoral counseling, social studies, or other related field, can provide a good educational base for the Natural Healing Counseling student.
The Natural Healing Counseling curriculum will most likely include instruction in counseling theory; therapy and intervention strategies; interpersonal relationships; evaluation and assessment methods; adolescent and child therapy; group therapy; marital and family therapy; ethics; business practices; and associated regulations applicable to the practice of Counseling. Additionally, the licensed professional Natural Healing Counselor may be required to complete 2,000 hours of internship and be able to pass state licensing examination. Independent state regulations, exams and requirements can vary. Check with your chosen Healing Arts School for information regarding individual state requirements.
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