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CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Video Projects: 24 Cool Things You Didnt Know You Could Do! - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Now you can get the most out of your home video equipment and video phone with the fun and practical projects packed inside this easy-to-follow guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to create all kinds of videos and special effects.Youll also find out how to enhance, edit, store, and share your movies.Inside, youll find 24 self-contained projects, step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of each project, and hundreds of clear photos and screenshots. With CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Video Projects, youll be able to create your own professional-quality videos.
If You Teach It, They Will Read: Literature's Life Lessons for Today's Students - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What does it mean to 'teach' a poem, novel or play? Surely it is about lessons in comprehension and improvements in language facility, but what does literature teach us beyond literacy? Students can read substantive literature for what its authors intended: an insight into the human condition. Students, even those who appear indifferent, struggle with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, love and loss, self-interest and self-sacrifice. Using literature he has used with his students, MacLean insists that asking the right questions, discussing ideas that still matter, will show students that others have wrestled with the same issues, expressing that struggle in timeless stories. For the teacher of literature, the student of literature, the lover of literature, this book is a reminder of why, in the words of Maya Angelou, 'we stumble and fall, and how, miraculously, we can stand up.' What more important lesson is there?
The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: ForeWord Book of the Year Award winner "The Five-Year Party provides the most vivid portrait of college life since Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The difference is that it isn't fiction. The alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated, drug-infested campuses that Mr. Brandon writes about are real. His book is a roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of them . The Five-Year Party is a useful handbook for parents to pack when they take their teenager on a college tour, and its list of suggested questions is smart. My favorite: How many of the school's professors send their own children there?” The Wall Street Journal High costs and debt, insufficient instruction, dangerous campuses, and poor job prospects: for too many students, a five-year college party often turns into a lifelong nightmare. The Five-Year Party is packed with illuminating stories and details about this crisis situation, and helps readers to avoid the dangers and get the most for their money.” Marc Scheer, author, No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-Off "In one dismaying and maddening episode and circumstance after another, Craig Brandon's survey of college campuses sounds a vital warning for parents: 'The institutions and administrators you trust to foster and guide your children's formation are more interested in their pocketbooks than their intellects. Buyer beware!'" Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future After reading only a few pages of The Five-Year Party, I immediately started telling people about its important message. This crucial book exposes the consumer mentality now all too prevalent on college campuses, detailing how higher education has given students what they want at the expense of giving them what they need to compete in the global marketplace. Even better, the book tells parents and educators how this nefarious trend can be circumvented. Any parent who wants their college-bound teen to actually learn something for their heaps of tuition money should read this book.” Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic "With broad, unforgiving strokes, Craig Brandon paints a dark picture of residential college life that will give every parent pause before sending a child off to any of his 'Party Schools.'" Barrett Seaman, author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. While some mixture of study and play has always been part of college life, an increasing number of schools have completely abandoned the idea that students need to learn or demonstrate that they've learned. Financial pressures have made college administrations increasingly reluctant to flunk anyone out, regardless of performance, although the average length of time to get a degree is now five years, and for many students it's six or more. Student evaluations of professorsoften linked to promotion and tenure decisionshave made professors realize that applying tough standards, or any standards, only hurts their own career progress. For many professors, it's become easier and more rewarding to focus on giving entertaining lectures and to give everyone reasonably good grades. The worst of these schools are the "subprime" colleges, where performance standards and accountability have been completely abandoned. Students enjoy a five year party with minimal responsibilities while their parents pay the bills. These schools' investment decisions (first-class gyms and dining centers) are all geared to attracting students that want to have a good time, and their brochures all emphasize the fun aspects of the college experiencethere are very few pictures of students actually studying or in class. And after graduation, former students are frequently unable to find work in their chosen fields, thanks to their school’s reputation with employers, and unable to afford the payments on sizable student loans. The subprime colleges, which "teach" a significant percentage of college students, are only the tip of the iceberg. All colleges, even the most elite, have moved in this direction to some extent. If you are a parent sending your child to college, "The Five-Year Party" will give you critical information you need about what is really happening at your child's college, and what you can do to ensure help your child gets a real education.
So You Want to Use Role Play?: A New Approach in How to Plan - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book has two kinds of readers in mind. Those of you whowould like to try using role-play with your group, but don’tknow where or how to start. Those of you who, having triedit, now want to extend its scope and are ready to rethink itsprinciples. Whether you are working in the caring professions,commerce, industry or education we hope these pages will offer younew ideas and a new way of looking at what it means to learnsomething through role work.The book is full of examples of practice, but because we do not havea particular kind of group or learning context in mind, you shouldtake our examples as representing a kind of role-play. We are notsaying ‘You should do this particular exercise’, but rather, ‘This kindof role-play may be suitable for what you are doing’, leaving you tochoose the subject-matter. So our chosen themes or topics arearbitrary. For instance, the first chapter offers a wide range ofexamples on Road Safety with young children. We are not settingout to appeal to teachers who happen to want to cover the subject ofRoad Safety with young children; we are using it to illustrateunderlying principles of role-play that we hope are transferable toany topic you and your group are exploring.Similarly we see our range of exercises relating to the theme of‘disloyalty’ with adolescents, the training of apprentice gas-fitters inhow to approach customers, the testing of managers in team respon-sibility and the medical students’ initiation into visualising the dailyresponsibilities of the doctor they may one day become, as illus-trative of principles applicable to a myriad of contexts.But this book attempts to do more than outline the rules of role-play.Its authors have a mission! We are attempting to break what we seeas the ‘moulds’ of role-play practice. Publications on the subjectviiseem to follow one (or both) of two traditions. There is the‘simulation’ tradition in which a ‘real-life’ work problem isreplicated and the participants engage in solving it. Derived fromthis are a number of exercises set up to isolate for subsequentexamination a particular deficiency in interpersonal communica-tion. The learning outcome is to do with procedures and theeffectiveness of individuals to follow them. The second tradition hasa ‘counselling’ basis. In these the emphasis is on sensitivity ingroups and the honest facing up to one’s behaviour in stressful worksituations. You will find that most recommended role-play practicederives from one or other of these traditions. Much of it is based onsound principles and planning. And yet anecdotal recollections ofpast role-play experiences often dismiss the work as a waste of timeand/or a dreaded embarrassment
The Fast Food Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Great Even If You're Too Busy to Eat Right - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: America is a fast-food nation, for better and for worse.Consider the typical weekday. The alarm goes offand the family’s bare feet start hitting the floor immediately.Everyone’s probably running a little late because they didn’tget enough sleep. (Americans sleep an average of seven hoursa night, down from nine hours a century ago.) Getting the kidsready for school requires a Herculean effort: brushing teeth,washing faces, and digging under the couch for overduelibrary books. Time for a quick bowl of cereal? Probably not.So you rush out the door with an empty stomach. Maybeyou’ll snatch something on the way—or just do without any-thing to eat until lunch.This frenetic pace doesn’t let up at work. There’s hardlysuch a thing as a lunch “hour” anymore. More likely you’llgrab food at a take-out joint near the office and wolf it downon the way to the bank or some other errand. Then it’s back to1I N T R O D U C T I O NGet Smarter, Get Slimmeron Fast Foodwork until quitting time maybe five, six, or seven hours later.At that point your blood sugar is crashing and the last thing onyour mind is cooking something from scratch. Ravenous andstressed-out from your day, you point the car to KFC orWendy’s or Burger King. You want something fast becauseyou’re practically starving and there’s still the kids’ homeworkto oversee, chores to do, and perhaps a game or your favoriteTV show to catch before crashing into bed.Fast food is so affordable and plentiful that millions ofNorth Americans eat it every single day—or many times aweek. We now eat on average five meals a week outside thehome, in addition to snacking on convenience foods. The aver-age adult consumes three hamburgers and four orders of friesevery week. On any given day, 25 percent of all people inNorth America eat a fast-food meal. It’s just so easy to hop inthe car, zip the whole family through the drive-thru, and havedinner over and done in ten or fifteen minutes. No cooking, nocleanup, no stress—with time left over for errands and maybesome TV, plus change from a twenty-dollar bill
So You Want to Be a School Leader? - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Have you ever had one of those moments when you set your-self a major challenge on the spur of the moment, and thenhave to see it through because you don’t want to lose face? Yes,well, a year or so on from that moment (a dreary afternoon inMarch 2007), I’m adding the final touches to this book!My role as author, then, has been simply to create an aspir-ational narrative which provides practical advice and guidancefor those of you who aspire to senior school leadership roles.Throughout the process of writing this book I’ve reflected uponand revisited those things which have proven themselves use-ful to me as I’ve developed my own leadership capabilities. I’mnot suggesting that I have it all worked out, but you may findthe guidance helpful.Of course, you may not agree with some of the recommenda-tions and you might not like the methodology. Well, just likea buffet meal, you haven’t got to eat everything – so take a bitof what appeals and don’t worry unduly about the rest. ButI am certain that there’s something for everyone. I hope theresult is a no-nonsense approach to school leadership which,though far from perfect, provides a suitable starting pointfrom which you can begin, or even accelerate, your own lead-ership journey.
Finding You Finding Me: Using Intensive Interaction To Get In Touch With People Whose Severe Learning Disabilities Are Combined With Autistic Spectrum Disorder - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What is this book about?Finding You Finding Me is about some of the many people with whom I havebeen involved over the last 35 years, whose severe learning difficulties arelinked with autism. While the majority are adult, some are children.Without exception, all those mentioned are on the autistic spectrum.For those of us who are sometimes known as neurotypical (NT), wholive with and support people on the spectrum, there is almost always afeeling of separation. In some respects this can be enhanced by definitionswhich separate ‘us’ and ‘them’ into categories – when the aim of this bookis to show how we can share common ground. Nevertheless, ‘neurotypical’is a convenient shorthand which is offered by people with autism and so Ishall use it gratefully, while remembering that we have common purposewhich I shall try to unravel as we move on. I shall think of us as partnerswith common purpose and endeavour.How can we get in touch with each other? Where is the key to relation-ship in a partnership which will consist of one person who is known asautistic and the other who may be a parent, support partner, therapist,community worker, advocate, manager or simply someone who would liketo be a friend but is baffled by the communication gulf ? Since the twopartners live in different sensory worlds, none of these roles will help us tomeet unless we can find some way of getting close to each other which iscomfortable for both of us.
The Essential Financial Toolkit: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Finance But Were Afraid To Ask - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: viPrefaceI have been lecturing executives in executive-educationprograms for many years now. The audiences are almostalways heterogeneous both in terms of age and nation-ality, and, more importantly, in terms of backgroundand training. Over time, I think I have learned to talk tothe “average” participant in a program, without boringthose that know some finance and without leaving farbehind those that have little or no idea about it.Part of the reason I have achieved this has to do withhaving provided participants with some backgroundreadings before the beginning of a program. The goalof the readings is to bring those without trainingin finance up to speed, which is valuable on at leasttwo counts. First, those that do have some training infinance do not get bored with discussions of basic tools;and, second, it liberates precious time to focus on issuesmore central to the program. The ten chapters of thisbook were born as independent notes written for thesevery reasons.As happens to many authors, after failing to find some-thing that would fit what I needed, I decided to writeit myself. And the characteristics I had in mind for thenotes I was about to write were the following
Careers for number crunchers & other quantitative types - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: number crunchers are a unique breed. They appreciatethe subtleties of statistics; they enjoy the logic of com-plex mathematical formulas. For number crunchers,quantitative puzzles are a challenge, not a chore.If you share this enthusiasm for numbers, you may be lookingfor ways to apply your quantitative skills to a new career. If so,your options are nearly limitless. Finance, education, forestry,scientific research: every field needs number crunchers. Numbercrunchers balance our books; they predict the weather; theyobserve new scientific phenomena. So whatever your ultimatejob description, developing and applying your number-crunchingknow-how can lead you to an exciting new career.The Editors of VGM
Careers for gourmets & others who relish food - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: re there opportunities in the food industry? I say thereare. Just fifty years ago, it was not considered a goodidea for a young person to contemplate a career in cook-ing. Agriculture, yes, but not in the preparation of food or in thefew elements that made up the food industry at that time. As anation, our interest in good food has increased dramatically, andit will continue to increase. We are no longer a nation of meat,potatoes, and apple pie eaters. We want good vegetables andfruit, good cheese, and good prepared products.How has all of this evolved? First of all, it was the passionshared by a few food enthusiasts such as Julia Child, James Beard,Craig Claiborne, Elizabeth David, and Alice Waters. All of themwere exposed to the foods of France and Italy and decided thatAmerica needed change in its eating habits. And change it hashad! Many young people today share that passion and are find-ing satisfying and rewarding careers—not just cooking, but in allparts of the food industry: writing, teaching, catering, small spe-cialized agriculture, as well as baking and candy or jam making.Five years ago would you have thought that Italian-type bis-cotti, made by small bakers, would be available in every special-ized food shop in America? Or that small farmer’s markets wouldagain be the way to get fresher fruit and vegetables? There aremany changes taking place in what we eat, where we eat, andwho provides our food. It all depends on people with a passionfor food and the will to share it with others.Chuck WilliamsFounder, Vice-Chairman of the BoardWilliams-Sonoma, Inc.آیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.