PUBLIC MOVES

As you practice, imagine your audience in front of you. Begin practicing from your full outline, then move gradually to your key word outline as the other becomes imprinted in your mind. Maintain eye contact with your imaginary listeners, just as you will during the actual presentation. Look around the room so that everyone feels included in your message. Try to be enthusiastic about what you are saying. Let your voice suggest that you are confident. Strive for variety and colour in your vocal presentation avoid speaking a monotone, which never changes pace or pitch, Pause to let important ideas sink in. Let your face, body, and voice respond to your ideas as you utter them.

Form the habit of scheduling all that you have to do each day. On a big pad paper, write down ALL tasks you have to complete or wish to do. Opposite each task, place the deadline or ideal time. Make sure you listed every task you could think of. Then re-arrange these tasks into a day-to-day set of schedules, one piece of paper each. On each paper, write down all the morning tasks, then afternoon tasks and the evening tasks. II1CILIdC your classes and home chores at given hours. Fill in every hour with self-assigned activities. Make sure it makes sense. If you are going to class, for example, do not assign a morning task at any other time.
Check or OK a task as you accomplish it. You will get a satisfactory feeling each time you do this, and it will serve as encouragement for you to accomplish the rest. What you are unable to finish up to evening should spill over to the next day. Do not lose your task schedules when you make a week’s schedule or when reconciling tasks. Whenever you have the chance, do a whole month’s task schedule and piece this into weekly schedules and incorporate each task into the daily schedules, wherever they fit. In time, this will form into a clever task-organizing habit that will prove very helpful in your studies and in the performance of any other task, whether within a deadline or at free time.

Time is so powerful: nothing and no one can keep it from coming and passing. And it is all-precious: everything that can happen can happen only in time.
Those wise statements tell you how important time is, particular y to your studies. There seems more and more to do which leads you to think you are “running out of time.” Time runs and no matter what you do, there will always be only 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. But stop and take stock of your situation, then ask: do you really not have enough time? Is time really too short for you?
With increasing demands on securing more and better knowledge, resulting in more and more tasks that cry out for attention and completion, , and time never bending or stretching out even a single minute more to accommodate these human endeavours, it will seem so. But in truth, time is a constant. The only thing that has increased and keeps increasing is the overwhelming demand for more of it. Neither will give way, so you must strike out a balance nor manage the only time available for your avalanche of activities.
One thought, though, may bother you. Why is it that you and others like you seem never to have enough time, yet there are many lazybones who loiter and do crazy things because they have “too much time” in their hands? This situation is more than a matter about time. It is about values and self- image. A person who sees value in himself and in his life will also value the time he has. He will spend it usefully and meaningfully. But a person who thinks he is hopeless, unimportant and a liability to society will have much trouble “killing time” because time won’t die. We are all creatures of time who can only use time wisely or waste it. And we are endowed with reason to discover ways of making time an ally, not an enemy. It is a moment-to-moment choice each of us must make.
But no bother. You are of the first type. You are armed with a very commendable objective of studying as effectively as possible. More than that, you are dead-set to get to the top. This is why you need to develop a mastery of time in order to make it work for you in achieving your dream.

There are now many applications in the Education field, from apps that teach times tables, to colors. I use “Preschool Adventure” with my 3 year old son and he loves it. For teaching my daughter Multiplication I use miTables. There are now many more apps for that are equally helpful. As of this writing there is a noticeable gap in Grading software, as well as student management, but we are only a few months into the development of apps. I suspect that it won’t be long before the gaps are filled.
It is obvious that even with the recent price drop it is impractical to order a class set, but in my case I have three computers and groups of four students for centers. I now use my iPod Touch as an additional computer and the students switch which computer activity they use. I also use the calculator on my document projector because it is easier to see than the student calculators. My uses are quickly expanding, and I will likely purchase a separate one with teacher funds to get even more use out of it.

First things first. Perform first of all those tasks that cannot wait, like preparing breakfast each morning by waking up early enough. Clean up the house before washing up for school. Market when school is through. But get as much help as you can from your siblings and even your working parents when they are home and available. Suggest that some tasks be re-apportioned among you.
Do any other extra tasks when the necessary ones are finished or handled by someone else. As you go along, you will find some time to attend to non-priority activities which you have long wanted to do, like sewing, re-arranging the sala and writing or mailing social letters.

Are you a morning or evening person? Do you take hours in the shower? Or in the dressing room? Do you eat rather slowly? Is your house too far from school that commuting or the traffic makes you often come to class late?
Be honest in the self-test. What things take much time from your studying? Do you do the marketing and cooking at home? Or watch your younger siblings? Do you need to develop speed reading? Or are your friends often with you and you have to exert mighty efforts all the time just to leave or send them away when you must study?

Speech classroom often have a speaker’s lectern mounted on a table at the front of the room. Lecterns can seem very formal and can create a barrier between you and your listeners. Therefore, if you are attempting to build identification and good feelings, standing behind the lectern may be inappropriate. Moreover, short people can almost disappear behind a lectern. Because their gestures are hidden from view, their messages lose much of the reinforcing power of body language. For these reasons, when you practice you may wish to experiment with speaking from the side of the lectern or in front of it.
If you plan to use the lectern, place your outline high on its surface so that you do not have to noticeably lower your head to look at it. That way, you reduce the loss of direct eye contact with your listeners. Print your key word outline in large letters that you can read easily with a glance. If you are using note cards, don’t try to hide them or look embarrassed if you need to refer to them. Most listeners probably won’t even notice it when you use them. Remember, your audience is far more interested in what you have to say than in any awkwardness you may feel.

Many years ago before the dawn of the internet age a company dominated the word processing market. Wordperfect was the standard in most businesses that used word processing. Then another powerhouse entered the market in 1995 and there was a significant shift in the business market to Microsoft Office. Quite honestly at that time Microsoft had a little better package available for business and Businesses converted in masses and never looked back. Should they? In the title wave of Microsoft dominance, Wordperfect now owned by Corel has been responding by pushing invasion to make a better product and reducing there price to make an office suite more affordable. Has all of this work been enough to catch up to Microsoft. Well in sales no, but when it comes to the quality and value of the product, I think they have.
I am reasonably adept at Microsoft Office, and personally love the enhancements in Office 2007. I have not used Wordperfect in 10 years, So I thought that I could not give a fair comparison to the products since Corel Wordperfect X3 is so new to me. I was wrong. Within 5 Minutes on Corel Wordperfect X3 I knew I was using a far superior tool than Microsoft Office 2007. I was doing advanced formating of a document with tables, photos, dynamic links, within 20 minutes without even referring to the help menu. I have used Corel Wordperfect X3 for about 4 days and can not ever see me going back to the miserable limitations of Microsoft word. Unfortunately my trial version runs out in about three weeks, and I’ll have to pay for my copy, but with the reasonable price point I have no problem with the change. There ya go Corel your market share just went up .00001% Another small step in the right direction.

There are now many applications in the Education field, from apps that teach times tables, to colors. I use “Preschool Adventure” with my 3 year old son and he loves it. For teaching my daughter Multiplication I use miTables. There are now many more apps for that are equally helpful. As of this writing there is a noticeable gap in Grading software, as well as student management, but we are only a few months into the development of apps. I suspect that it won’t be long before the gaps are filled.
It is obvious that even with the recent price drop it is impractical to order a class set, but in my case I have three computers and groups of four students for centers. I now use my iPod Touch as an additional computer and the students switch which computer activity they use. I also use the calculator on my document projector because it is easier to see than the student calculators. My uses are quickly expanding, and I will likely purchase a separate one with teacher funds to get even more use out of it.

As you practice, imagine your audience in front of you. Begin practicing from your full outline, then move gradually to your key word outline as the other becomes imprinted in your mind. Maintain eye contact with your imaginary listeners, just as you will during the actual presentation. Look around the room so that everyone feels included in your message. Try to be enthusiastic about what you are saying. Let your voice suggest that you are confident. Strive for variety and color in your vocal presentation avoid speaking a monotone, which never changes pace or pitch, Pause to let important ideas sink in. Let your face, body, and voice respond to your ideas as you utter them.