Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by admin in
Reading
Emphasis.
Keep presentation aids simple, so that they emphasize only what your speech emphasizes. Each aid should make only one point. Your listeners’ eyes should be drawn immediately to what you want to illustrate. The map of Yellowstone Park eliminates all information except what the speaker wishes to stress.
Had the speaker added pictures of bears to indicate grizzly habitat and drawings of fish to show trout streams, the presentation aid would have been more distracting than helpful. Avoid irrelevant cuteness! Graphics prepared for handouts may be more detailed than those used for posters, slides, or transparencies, but they should not contain extraneous material. When in doubt, leave the details out. Let your words provide the elaboration.
Balance.
Proper balance, as an important requirement for speech structure, is also important for visual materials. Your presentation aid should be balanced so that it is pleasing to the eye. The focal point of the aid can be the actual center of the chart or poster, or it can be deliberately placed off-center for the sake of variety.
You should have a margin of about two inches at the top and bottom of a flip chart or large poster board. On computer-generated graphics, you should leave blank space at both the top and the bottom. You should also have equal side margins. For poster boards and flip charts, these margins should be at least one and a half inches wide. On computer-generated graphics, they should be at least an inch wide.
You should structure the body first, so that you can build an introduction and conclusion that fit your message. To develop the body, determine your main points, decide how to arrange them, then select effective supporting materials. To discover your main points, prepare a research overview of the information you have collected. This summary can help you spot major themes that can develop into main points.
Arrange your main points so that they follow natural mental patterns based on the principles of similarity, proximity, and closure. The similarity of objects or events may suggest a categorical design for structuring main points. Proximity suggests that things should be discussed as they happen together in space or time. If they occur in a time sequence, use a sequential design for your speech. If they occur in physical relationship to one another, a spatial design might be appropriate. The structure of the body satisfies the principle of closure when it completes the design it begins. Cause-effect and problem-solution designs require closure in order to be effective.
Supporting materials fill out the speech and buttress ideas. In an ideal arrangement, you should support each point with information, testimony, and an example or story that emphasizes its human aspects.
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by admin in
Money In a course I once took in Eastern spiritual tradition, I learned about what is called the dharma of money, which means the “right action” of money. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I now know the following principle is true: We experience prosperity, true financial freedom, when our actions with respect to money are dharmic, or righteous, actions—that is, actions of generosity, actions of offering.
Money flows through our lives just like water—at times plentiful, at times a trickle. I believe that each one of us is, in effect, a glass, in that we can hold only so much; after that, the water—or the money—just goes down the drain. Some of us are larger glasses, some of us smaller, but we all have the capacity to receive plenty more than we need if we allow it. When you make an offering, the glass will be filled again and again and again. I knew I always felt better right after I made an offering—strongei worthier, more powerful. And after a while I began to believe that it was no coincidence that after I made such an offering, more money would always begin to flow my way.
This may seem like a very strange concept at first; many of my clients find it so. One question that’s always asked whenever I talk about this step is, “But Suze, I know plenty of people who are as cheap and ungenerous of spirit as can be, people with plenty of money who never give a penny away. How come they have so much?”
Seeing yourself as a public speaker may be difficult. just as it was for me in my first post. At first I thought that public speaking as a mysterious skill possessed only by the leader of our society. However, she soon realized that I had been preparing for public speaking for a long time. As an infant, she had developed the most essential tool of communication-language. When my grandfather explained to me why flowers bloom and why I must stay away from fire, she had been introduced to two of the great function of human communication, informing and persuading. Later, as I developed close friends. I had begun practicing interaction skills that are vital to communication. These skills included when and how to listen as well as speak, and what kind of behaviors either advance or impede the flow of ideas.
we should nring things into our houses only because we planned for them and because we need them. Sometimes, though we act impulsively( and therefore contribute to our struggle to create an organized, beautiful home!) because some words like this: Free, sale, cute good and nice.
Free means for me is if we don’t need something but take it only because we don’t have to pay for it, it just becomes clutter.
Sale can be no matter how good the buy, if that’s the main reason we buy something, we’ve simply spent money on new clutter.
Cute. Perhaps this is the most appealing of all because it tickles our emotions in a very feminine way. But if it’s just cute and not useful, it’s still a clutter.
Good, yes, it’s a four-letter word too. There are many things at a garage sale, for example, that are”good” for somebody or something- Mason canning jars, for example or a lovely, child size, velvet dress. But if I don’t can, and I don’t know any little girl’s who wear that size, those “good” for you, don’t bring ” good “things into the house.
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by admin in
Education It is an honor and privilege to be invited to speak before an esteemed group of teachers this morning. The work that you do, teaching young children — especially those who cannot afford regular private preschool education, is one profession that should be given due recognition. During these critical times when we see around us a breakdown of morai values, especially among the young, such as child prostitution, children on the streets, a rise in drug abuse and alaimiiig rates of school dropouts — teachers in early education are the most needed today. I-low, you might ask, can you lessen such social ills? Should this not be left to the economic planners, to the Ministry of Social Services? You teachers, save lives. You give the child the first impressions of learning — knowing the joys of going to school.
The importance of early childhood education was emphasized in a 1968 final report of the international symposium held at UNESCO on Brain Research and Human Behavior. This was attended by 78 researchers from 22 countries, 6 of whom were Nobel Prize-winners. They made the following point which emphasizes the importance of good stimulation at an early age. To quote, ‘At 6 years of age, the human brain attains 90% of its weight in the adult, the remaining 10% being gained during the next 10 years of life’. This means that the neurological circuits if not brought into use in time may never be able to function at full capacity after 6 years old.
Many of the children we see in the streets, day or night, may have never experienced good early stimulation programs, as you are now giving the children in some parts of City and . And because of this, plus other factors such as poverty, and poor family relationships, these children will have no interest or little at all to want to go to school — to want to learn about the world and how they can live a better life. Think a moment about that. Are we developing a nation of non learners?