If you have ever considered writing an ebook, please don’t. Don’t write an ebook if… You are afraid that no one will read it. There’s no guarantee either way. However, there is a guarantee that if you don’t write the ebook, no one can possibly read it. You don’t have your own Web host. Having [...]
1. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. ~~Bernard Baruch 2. Switch your point of view. Would that make your story better? 3. You can re-start your life right now! If you weren’t a writer yesterday, you can be a writer starting right now! 4. Life begins every second. Don’t waste time thinking [...]
1. Although many fear public speaking, it doesn’t kill you. Have fun. 2. Do your homework. Know you’re stuff before you open your mouth. 3. Practice. Really, you should practice before you get up in public. And practice doesn’t mean just once. 4. Record yourself on video. The best way to improve is to see [...]
SLATES “Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on their slates, which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will not be able to write.” ~Teachers Conference, 1703 PAPER “Students today depend upon paper too much. They don’t know how to write [...]
Yes, there was a time that we didn’t have PowerPoint when we presented. We didn’t have computers either. We used a slide projector. The most commonly used slide projector was from Kodak. In the olden days all we had were pictures. We took them with our 35mm cameras and Kodachrome film, Ektachrome if you had [...]
The United States is rich in historic photographs. Some photos, like the scene when Lee Harvey Oswald was killed, are vivid in many of our minds, even though it happened decades ago. Although many photos are famous, only one, I think, actually changed American history. It was taken on February 27, 1860 in New York [...]
When I was a teacher, I was called in for a meeting about a new program that had been suggested for my school. We were given a brochure highlighting what the program was about. The principal then asked for everyone’s opinion. I was sitting next to her on the right side. She asked the person [...]
In the good old days… Facebook was when I went outside and met my friends in the street. Texting meant sending a postcard. YouTube was looking at a huge TV with a tiny screen. Email was sitting down with a fountain pen to write a letter. Google was a library card. Computers were a paper [...]
By the time you’ve finished a few years in school, you probably know how to read. At least that’s what the government hopes. Unfortunately, there’s more to reading than reading. If you want to apply what you’ve read, you probably have to take notes. Either marginal notes on the book’s page itself or on a [...]