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Clicking Our Time Away
Every night after I get home from practice, I start on my homework. Click. I check my email and respond to whatever I need to take care of. “Oh, I haven’t checked Facebook in a few hours”… Click. Scroll (and much more scrolling). “Hey look my friend changed their cover photo. I guess that means […]
Posted in: Technology
No Magic Presenting Rule
In our class, we talk about presenting a lot (as you can probably tell from the past blog posts). Most of the time we discuss various “secret rules” to giving a great presentation. Recently, we read a small section of a book about keeping your ideas “sticky” AKA interesting and memorable. While reading about how telling […]
Posted in: Learning, Presentation
Being alone on the top
Tennis. One of the most popular sports played in the world yet is one of the loneliest sports in the world. I’m proud of my achievement but I won’t brag about it since there are players way better than me out there. I’ll give you a short summary of my tennis career. I was ranked […]
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Unorthodox Teaching Methods
Many, if not all of you, are familiar with the regular teaching regime at schools. We have all, at some point in our lives, been lectured and then expected to take notes. I, in particular, have grown rather fond of that old method of teaching. Learning was easy. All you had to do was listen […]
Posted in: Learning
Technology: Friend or Foe?
We all realize that technology is more than just a part of our everyday lives. For some people it truly is their life. But what’s also interesting is that technology has no specific age target. I see everyone from children to full-grown adults using some sort of media related technology. Almost too often I witness […]
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Strong Presenting
Watching the TED talks has made me think of how presenting works. All through middle school presentations were done on powerpoint, boring, and not effective on getting the material across. Recently, my group in Age of Ex did a project on the scientific revolution and looking back on the presentation (on youtube) it was hard […]
Posted in: Presentation
Inspiring a Presentation
October 24, 2012
by shoults076
Before I get started, I just want to let people know that I’m typing one-handed with my dominant hand in a sling (so non-dominant hand is doing the work…). So please don’t start flaming if there are a couple of typos. I do try to proofread what I’m typing, but something may get through. We […]
Posted in: Presentation
Mental Intensity and Effort
October 23, 2012
by perryfreerg
It is the most common thing people say to me in sports and in school, “come on, all it takes is a little more mental intensity or effort”. I spend seventy five percent or more of my day or more doing these two activities. I go to school from eight in the morning till three […]
Posted in: Learning
The Art of a Presentation
Throughout the past few weeks in our Age of Exploration class we have been learning about how to give exciting presentations. During this time, I learned about the power of humor as well as the power of story telling in a presentation. I have spent time reviewing some videos of TED talks that range from […]
Posted in: Presentation
Time Management Techniques
October 22, 2012
by carolyn0201
Time management is a large part of my life, especially because I play two sports at a time for most of the school year. Most nights during the winter and spring, I don’t get home until after 9:30. My busy lifestyle is something that has caused me to come up with effective techniques to manage […]
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November 5, 2012
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