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Watch this entire 25 minute long video!
Three points to be made about this video -
1 - Nervousness and other problems with speaking in public can (and will) be overcome by passion for the subject and telling a personal story. It doesn't matter what your problems with speaking are, you can engage people in any setting through passionate story telling! This concept is SO important because public speaking is SO important. Public speaking is NOT a talent that only a few...
I recently had a whale of a time at the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs with 3 collegues of mine. This is a conference I never miss, but it is primarily aimed at classroom teachers, so if I go without taking some teachers along with me, it feels like I'm wasting an opportunity. Luckily, 2 of the people I took with me were classroom teachers - Tara Treaster and Christine Whitaker. The third person was Omar Garcia, one of the computer technicians that...
This may seem like a simple and unimportant subject to write about, but I have to say, I get this question an awful lot these days.
Here it is: How often should I turn off my computer completely?
Years ago, there was an epidemic of computer power switches that started failing because the computers were constantly being turned on an off. At that time, the computer would basically cease to function at that point. So, it became common knowledge that it was better to leave the...
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