How to Travel Through Time and Retrace Your Steps - This is Not As Easy As You Think

How to Travel Through Time and Retrace Your Steps - This is Not As Easy As You ThinkIf you're looking for a good time travel Phoenix schools to choose from, here are some tips. Time travel can be quite common in books as well as movies, but I think there's a bit more going on in reality. The basics here are getting to where you want to go, using or developing some sort of time travel power, then finding out that it's not quite ready yet.Here are a few tips for you in figuring out how to use or develop time travel powers. Keep in mind that with this, you should have some familiarity with these powers and also a fair amount of money to pay your tutor.Use time travel as a method of transportation - your ability to travel through time may come into play here. For example, in some of the adventures of Rip Van Winkle, he ends up on a meteorite headed for Earth. Although he has a shield, he can't stop the meteors from hitting the earth and killing everyone on it. It's a possibility that you can travel through time and not only save those on earth, but even cause them to lose their way, so to speak.Use time travel as a power - While it might sound really cool, most of us haven't really thought about using this power since we are all too used to traveling through the air. However, there are a few other uses for this power that I'm going to mention here. For example, I've had the ability to read people's minds. I can sense how they think, what their personality is like, and what sorts of people they are attracted to.I have also been able to feel the future through the aura of some people around me. It's possible that you can use your sense of time to feel into people's futures and understand what they would feel if things turned out well.Develop your ability to perceive the future - What happens if you feel what the future will be like and can put yourself in a situation where you can affect that future? For example, what would happen if you could totally alter the weath er? It would depend on how strong you were willing to get. So if you have enough strength, you could make the weather good or bad.So, now that you know how to develop your time travel powers, you'll want to get your teacher to teach you how to use this power. This is a skill that will need to be honed to survive in this day and age, where those with the ability of time travel have more access to the world than ever before.

Video Understanding Guitar Power Chords

Video Understanding Guitar Power Chords Suzy S. Power chords are easy, fun to play and popular additions to many styles of rock music. But what exactly are they, and how do you use them? Check out this video tutorial from Austin teacher Josh G., and learn a few guitar exercises to incorporate them into your playing! Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher Josh G. teaches music theory and guitar lessons in Austin, TX. Josh earned his music degree with a focus on blues, jazz and classical guitar, and also specializes in rock, folk and pop styles. He joined the TakeLessons team in August 2012. Learn more about Josh, or visit TakeLessons to search for guitar lessons near you!

New Common App Essay Prompts For 2015-2016

New Common App Essay Prompts For 2015-2016 For those juniors out there whore ready to get started on college applications (or at least thinking about them!), the Common App organization recently released their essay prompts for the 2015-2016 application year.   While some of the prompts are the same as last years, others have been changed to reflect feedback from students, college counselors, and admissions committees at colleges.Without further adothe new Common App personal essay prompts!1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it.   If this sounds like you, then please share your story.2. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success.   Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure.   How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?3. Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea.   What prompted you to act?   Would you make the same decision again?4. Describ e a problem youve solved or a problem youd like to solve.   It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale.   Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.5. Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.Check out the Common Apps blog for more information about changes to the Common App essay-writing process.   One highlight: Common App colleges can now choose whether or not to require the Common App personal essay.We work with many juniors and seniors to get them ready for the SAT, ACT, and SAT subject tests, so we know how busy this time of year is.   If youre a current junior, your focus should be on finishing spring semester strong make sure youre doing a great job with your classes, AP exams, and SATs and ACTs.   After schools out in June, take a break for a few weeks to decompress.   Once youve sufficiently recovered from the school year, take some of that free time to start brainstorming and drafting your college application essays.   If you can draft a few college essays over the summer, youll take some of the pressure off in fall semester, when youll be busy focusing on filling out applications, academic coursework, and a possible retake of the SAT or ACT.   Your future self will thank you!And as always, if you need help preparing for the SAT, ACT, or SAT subject tests, reach out to AJ Tutoring anytime.   We cant write your college essays for you (been there, done that, wrote our own essays a long time ago!), but we can help you get your best score on your college admissions tests.

Instructivist vs Constructivist Instructional Design

Instructivist vs Constructivist Instructional Design Who would you hire? In this serious game, imagine you were asked to hire an instructional designer for your college or company. Who would you hire? Use the audio players below to hear the candidates talk about their views on instructional design. At the end of the first part of the interview, the candidates will ask you if you have any questions. Think of a question, ask it, and click play on the second part interview. Who would you hire? Barbara Bill Press the play button to hear this candidate talk about her approach to instructional design. Your browser does not support this audio Press the play button to hear this candidate talk about his approach to instructional design ??Your browser does not support this audio Ask this candidate a question and then hit the play button to hear this candidate talk some more. Your browser does not support this audio Ask this candidate a question and then hit the play button to hear this candidate talk some more. Your browser does not support this audio Actively Engaged at College and Actively Engaged on the Job  from Bokomaru Publications were carefully designed using a combination of instructivist design and constructivist design principles. Every week, learners are provided with a series of sequenced ESL activities to prepare them for constructivist learning tasks.  In this way, learners benefit from both types of learning activities, satisfying a range of learning preferences. They finish the course with a body of knowledge about linguistic forms and communicative functions, and they are more patient problem-solvers, too. About the task I created these Who would you hire? candidates for a Learning Theories class. We were using Driscolls book and had just finished talking about Gagné. The lesson was on Constructivism, but I didnt want to use an instructivist lesson to teach constructivist principles. I devised this little task instead. (The voices, by the way, are both me, but I used Audacity to raise and lower the pitch of the recordings to make them sound different.) In groups of 3, students were first asked to imagine a context where training is needed, to set a budget and delivery date, and then convene a hiring committee. The first audio was played for each candidate. They were then told to ask each candidate a question, and I played the second audio. While they were deliberating in groups, I gave each group one of these messages from Head Office at random to complicate matters: 1) The boss has decided to increase spending on training. Your training budget just got bigger. 2) The boss has decided to reduce spending on training. Your training budget just got smaller. 3) The boss has decided to give you one more month to develop your project. 4) The boss has decided to move the deadline up by a month. You have to work faster. Depending on the task, budget, learner population and timeline, groups chose the candidate that they like best and justified their answer. Please follow and like us:

Shanghai Community International School

Shanghai Community International School Shanghai Community International School Welcome to the 2014-15 school year at the Hongqiao Campuses of Shanghai Community International School.At SCIS, you will find a rigorous, college-preparatory academic program delivered by a talented and dedicated faculty. While there are many international schools in Shanghai, SCIS truly is a community school, bringing together families from all over the world who value academic and personal excellence.We are committed to providing opportunities for all of our students to reach their personal best, whether on the stage, on the field, in the classroom, and beyond the grounds of our school. I invite you to browse our school website for information on our school divisions: Early Childhood Center (ECE), Lower School, Middle School, and High School.And while you will find much information on these pages, you cannot truly appreciate our community without visiting our campuses.To those of you who are already a part of our community, I look forward to seeing you soon, and those of you who are just browsing our site, come and visit us.We look forward to welcoming you Shanghai Community International School Shanghai Community International School The Shanghai Community International School is a non-profit, independent international day school that enrolls over 1500 students from 60 different countries across their three campuses in the Shanghai area. SCIS mission is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring learners who contribute positively to their communities. SCIS strives to use their international community as an opportunity for students to learn and develop as globally minded citizens. Shanghai Community International School offers an International Baccalaureate Diploma to secondary school students wishing to attend university or college abroad. SCIC teachers are dedicated to the success of their students and ensure that there are constant opportunities for self-assessment and improvement.

Big Four Accounting - Dallas (Post Undergraduate)

Big Four Accounting - Dallas (Post Undergraduate) Intro - Work Ethic For the past three and a half years (and even longer than that), I have been pushing myself to be the very best that I can be. I have taken the hardest accounting courses (Financial Reporting I, II, III, Tax Accounting, Cost Accounting, Audit and Assurance, Risk and Controls) in order to be prepared to be an auditor for one of the Big Four Accounting firms. The journey to be part of one of the four best accounting firms in the United States and the world has definitely been challenging. Below, I will explain the different components you will need to accomplish if you aim to become a successful accountant (or a successful graduate for that matter) and get hired by a great company. I. Networking through college To become a successful accountant, one must socialize with others and expand their networks. This was a bitter pill to swallow because I have always been very reserved and tended to lean heavily on my academic success to get me to where I needed to go in life. I despised people who utilized their networks and relied on their relationships to get them the jobs that they sought after. For me, hard work and technical savvy where the important elements of obtaining a job in the working world. However, over the course of my time in college, I have realized that this is not how the world works. Individual work no longer is adequate and now teamwork and collaboration are the elements of a successful company. Businesses are actively looking for individuals who can work well together with others. What this translates to is how well you can forge genuine relationships with others in order to achieve tasks for the company that you work for. Even as technical as accounting is, no one accountant can accomplish all of the complex tasks that are required for a company in regards to preparing and reviewing financial statements. Networking has led me to find some of my closest friends in the accounting world (picture of one of my accounting friends). Continuing to develop relationships through your time in high school, college, work, etc. will help you succeed in the long run. II. Selling Yourself Well Building relationships will supplement your success but will not be the main cause of it. There is another element that you will need in order to make it with the company that you desire. In college, I learned about the power of a resume and how this document can help or hinder your ability at landing your dream job. Recruiters and employers are looking at resumes all of the time. Often times, an excellent resume will be thrown in the trash can if they contain even one spelling error! Other times, resumes will be disregarded because they appear to be very bland and do not set the applicant apart. An important life lesson to learn early is this: Do everything that you can to be set yourself apart from your peers. If this means joining a club that lies outside of your social group or pursuing a hobby no one around you has ever done before, having interests that stand out make you look appealing to potential employers. Now, you may go off and do any number of different activities and that still may not get you the job that you want. In addition to making yourself stand out on your resume, you must also be effective at conveying what it is that makes you different from everyone else. Once you are genuinely participating in activities that are radically different from your peers, you can then go and tell others all the cool new things that you are a part of. My only caveat to this second point is this: Make sure that you are genuinely participating in organizations and activities that you are passionate about. Employers are quick to ask you who the president of your organization is and some of the key things you have done to contribute to the groups you are a part of. Don’t make the mistake of only being in an organization or participating in an activity just to put it down on your resume. Show passion and be actively involved in everything that you do! III. I (and one day you) made it! What happens now that you have that dream job and you’ve leveraged all your relationships and sold yourself well? Does that mean you will stop networking and stop participating in activities? Absolutely not! Now that I have my dream job and have made it to the accounting world, I do not intend on cutting short my ability to forge relationships with others and actively participating with the firm I am working with. There are opportunities within this company that I am working for (and potentially the company you will be working at) to continue to be actively involved. For me, I will continue to be mentoring students to pursue college and to better themselves academically. I will also continue to be involved with a public speaking organization called Toastmasters. As for networking, anytime we have a social event or a happy hour after office hours, I will be attending and socializing with other people. If you stick to the principles of building authentic relationships and making yourself unique to stand out, you will be much more likely at landing the dream job that you seek.

How to Be a Good Language Learner Weve Finally Discovered the Secret Formula!

How to Be a Good Language Learner Weve Finally Discovered the Secret Formula! How to Be a Good Language Learner: Weve Finally Discovered the Secret Formula! The year was 1975. One simple question launched dozens of studies: What makes a good language learner? That’s right, scientists Joan Rubin and David Stern sought the answer to this question long before you got fed up with trying to learn Spanish for the third time.The good news is that they found some answers! They and subsequent researchers found key commonalities among successful language learners. The goal was to study good language learners to see if their methods could be taught to not-so-good language learners or used to help teachers reach language learning students.The most important takeaway of their research was this: Anybody can become good at learning languages. Gasp!Thats great, but how do you do it? Well, you need to observe and copy the secrets and techniques of the most successful language learners.Start by thinking of a good language learner that you already know.We often marvel at good language learners, wondering how they pick up languages so fast. Unfortunately, thats often where doubt starts to sink in, and we ask ourselves questions like, How’d that guy learn German in a year when I’ve been studying it for the past seven years and can still hardly introduce myself? What is this sorcery?Less-successful language learners are sometimes even in awe of good language learners, almost like they think they’re mystical gurus, possessors of some rare and special knowledge. Give us the keys to your exceptional skill, oh Enlightened One, we want to say.But what if everyone knew the qualities of a good language learner? By studying what makes the best language learners tick, we can all understand how certain attributes prime you for successful language learning, which ultimately demystifies the process.Behold: Those coveted characteristics are a mystery no more! I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of qualities that make good language learners successful and, more importantly, ways you can translate those qualities to success in your own langua ge learning. How to Be a Good Language Learner: Weve Finally Discovered the Secret Formula!You’d be hard-pressed to find a good language learner lacking in these qualities. Read on to see which ones you demonstrate well, and which you could be better at.1. Good Language Learners Have Plenty of CourageGood language learners have no room for inhibitions.When you see these learners happily chatting away, they appear to be confident and unafraid of looking like a fool when speaking.For example, when they don’t know the word for “telephone,” good language learners place an imaginary telephone to their ears. When they don’t know how to conjugate a verb correctly, they say it anyway.Fear doesnt stop good language learners because they know that practicing, even if done imperfectly, is the only way they’ll get better.They also have tough skin. They don’t quit the first time they get laughed at for committing a language faux pas.Sure, they might get embarrassed because a nat ive speaker doesn’t understand them, but they just dust their shoulders off and work to improve their pronunciation. They dont run from their mistakes, they learn from them, and they have the courage to keep on going like a boss.They’re not afraid to guess. Good language learners use context clues to guess at the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases.If they hear the sentence He lives in a big mansion, but dont know the word mansion, they can guess it means a really big house! They also create new words if they have to.For example, they’ll guess that a newly-learned English verb ends with -ed in the simple past tenseâ€"even if they know there are many exceptions to that “ruleâ€"and they understand that people will likely understand what theyre talking about, even if its not grammatically correct.They accept the fact that nobodys perfect, so they take these risks on a regular basis. They realize that in most cases, communication is more important than correctness.2. Good La nguage Learners Use Their Keen Observation SkillsGood language learners recognize and learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.Here good listening and self-awareness come into play. You can’t correct mistakes you don’t know you’re making, so good language learners pay attention and adjust accordingly. If they conjugate a word incorrectly, theyll note that its something they need to work on. They listen and learn from native speakers as well, copying them as closely as possible.They pick up on nonverbal clues. If there’s one thing you’ll learn about learning a new language, it’s that there’s a lot more to communication than the words we say.Good language learners take note of facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to understand how someone’s saying something when they don’t know what they’re saying. With a combination of verbal and nonverbal clues, they can take educated guesses at the meaning.They identify patterns in the target langu age. They work to understand the language as a system, identifying key patterns that make learning the language easier and more like the way native speakers learned it.For example, good learners of Spanish pick up on the fact that, unlike English, the definite articles  el and la  are commonly used in front of nouns in a sentence. And good learners of English will learn that we really like to use the word it.3. Good Language Learners Are Curious and Creative When Processing New InformationGood language learners ask a lot of questions.  How do you use present continuous in the third person? Whats the meaning of this slang word? Why do you say this word in one situation, and that other word in a different situation?These questions are how they learn more of the target language almost every day. They’re naturally curious and always strive to take in more vocabulary and grammar.They have a unique way of learning that’s tailored to themselves. There are different kinds of good langua ge learners just like there are different kinds of general learners (for example, there are auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners, among others).Over time, good language learners learn the methods  that work best for them  to remember new vocabulary and grammar structures. Depending on the learner, they might use flashcards, videos or audio recordings to learn, to name just a few techniques. This helps them process new information quickly.Good language learners are good at improvisation. They creatively use words, phrases and structures they already know to say what they need to say. Instead of pulling out the translation app, they’ll use “circumlocution,” or the roundabout way of saying things.For example, if you dont know the word for a watch, you can say “the thing that shows the time.” This promotes fluency as well as self-expression.4. Good Language Learners Are Abundantly PatientGood language learners become comfortable with ambiguity.They don’t need to know th e meaning of a new word right away, and they don’t worry when they don’t understand 100% of what a speaker is saying. There won’t be much learning going on if you tune out (or freak out) as soon as you hear an unfamiliar word. Good language learners are patient enough to understand that one day they’ll be able to have conversations in which they know all the words.Theyre also patient with themselves. They know it takes time to learn a language, so they don’t get frustrated easily. Good language learners accept the language for what it is, forgiving and being kind to themselves if they don’t progress as quickly as they’d like. They don’t put a lot of pressure on themselves because they see learning the language as a journey. They go with the flow, understanding that things like grammar are not the be-all and end-all.5. Good Language Learners Are Largely Self-motivatedGood language learners understand their why.Whether they need the target language to get a better job, to get into grad school overseas, to survive in a foreign country or simply to connect with their family or roots, good language learners are deeply motivated. Their reason for learning a language often goes beyond getting a good grade in a class. They take language learning very, very seriously.That motivation leads them to learn independently and practice consistently. Teachers don’t have to force them to conjugate verbs each night or to practice with a language partner on the weekends.Good language learners actively seek out opportunities to practice the language outside the classroom. They practice as much as possible.Whats more, they genuinely enjoy learning the target language. It’s fun, even!That’s why it’s important to choose the right language. You won’t stick with a language that makes you yawn. And in case you were wondering, that also explains why you’re probably not fluent in the language they forced you to take back in high school.Learning from the Good La nguage LearnerI hope you can  now  see how learning a new language isn’t so mystical. Theres no sorcery or witchcraft involved, but there is a secret formula. And now you have it, too!It’s a unique process for everyone, but emulating these qualities is a good first step. It’s important to internalize these qualities to reach our language learning goals just like the good language learners of the world. But remember: All of this information is futile if you don’t apply it. So take action, Newly Enlightened One, and start  practicing right now!Layla A. Reaves is a freelance writer based in Maryland. She spends her spare time working on the next Great American Novel and actively plans her upcoming trips each day. Her motto is keep going imperfectly.