Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, business magnate and media mogul.[1][2] A self-proclaimed messiah, Moon was the founder of the Unification Church and of its widely noted "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremony.[3][4] Moon's extensive business interests included News World Communications, an international news media corporation[5] which founded The Washington Times and owns other media in several countries,[5][6][7] and Tongil Group, a South Korean business group (chaebol) active in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, tourism, and publishing.[8][9][10] Early life[edit] Sun Myung Moon was born Mun Yong-myeong on 25 February 1920, in modern-day North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea, at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. Unification church[edit] Founding of church in South Korea[edit] Doctrine[edit] Moon as messiah[edit] Marriage to Hak Ja Han, True Parents[edit] Blessing ceremony[edit] World fame[edit]
8 Great Short Games for Groups » Agile Trail Play4Agile Conference Logo At the Play4Agile 2012 conference in Rückersbach, Germany, in February, I especially enjoyed two sessions. Both sessions were about short games which can be played in trainings and workshops with groups, e.g. to warm up or to make a point in demonstrating team dynamics like collaboration or the like. Below I describe 8 games from these sessions; there were more, but these were my favorites – or I simply couldn’t remember the others. For each game I list the number of participantsan estimate for the durationthe learning objectives and purposethe material neededa short description with instructions for the game’s facilitatorthe possible progression for better understanding the game’s nature For the learning objectives and purpose, I’ll additionally recommend a short debriefing after the games, where you’ll find even more valuable outcomes. Spoiler alert: the following instructions might contain key information about learning outcomes and the order of events. Example:
Detail French office worker wins the grand prize of 2012 CICI ‘Communicating Korea’ contest A Russian-born woman who described her experience living with her Korean in-laws, a Frenchman who criticized Korea’s hierarchical work culture, and a Chinese student who commented on Korea’s dating culture were among the winners of a communication-themed speech contest Saturday. Twenty finalists of the 2012 CICI “Communication Korea” speech contest shared their personal views on a diverse range of subjects regarding Korean culture and communication in Korean. Among the 20 competing at the event held at the Samsung Electronics building in Seoul, nine were locals and 11 were foreign-born ― including international students and wives from overseas. The competition was hosted by the Corea Image Communication Institute, a private non-profit research institute on Korea’s image and culture, with the aim of promoting better communication in contemporary Korea. “It’s like Shin Ramyeon,” he said in Korean.
Smashing Cameras - "Open Education Resource!" (Official Music Video) - Why Open Education Matters New single "Open Education Resource" by Smashing Cameras Smashing Cameras consists of:Andrew ErricoTommy McAuliffeEthan VaraBrian WalshColin Walsh Original music by Colin Walsh, lyrics by Tommy McAuliffeVideo directed and filmed by Ethan VaraVideo edited by Brian Walsh and Colin Walsh Big thanks to everyone that helped make this video possible!Open Educational Resources are the future! Lyrics: Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource, OER for shortIs a way to learn for people of all sortsThey come in different forms, such as an online courseAn online text or something that can be much moreThey're free in both fees and in legality'Cause they're open licensees or they're public domaineesAllowing access easily to all that want to seeBy skipping the need for the rights to a copy Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Open Education Resource!" Leuman! Read More
Facebook A Small Businessman's Guide To Innovating Like The Pros One of the fundamental errors many would-be innovators make is assuming that the hardest part of innovation is coming up with an idea. That’s actually the easy part. No matter how much work you have done, no matter how careful your analysis, the only thing you can be sure of is that your first idea is wrong in some meaningful way. Like it or not, you are going to be punched in the face. The best businesses emerge out of trial-and-error experimentation. Use simple tools to develop your hypothesis Here’s a seemingly simple question: How do you know your idea is good? Scott Cook is the founder and chairman of Intuit, whose claim to fame is TurboTax, Quicken, and QuickBooks. So how do you know if an idea is good? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The primary purpose of this kind of assessment isn’t to generate a score. What about the numbers? This is the innovator’s version of marketing’s famous four Ps (price, product, place, and promotion). Design and execute smart strategic experiments
OER Use, Reuse and Remixing I’m starting a new research and writing project today that examines the current state of open educational resources. My interest isn’t simply identifying where the repositories of OER lie or what they contain. Nor am I just looking at adoption or usage (although yes, the research will address all these things.) See, I’m particularly keen to investigate the formats that these openly licensed materials are in, and by an extension whether they’re being remixed. I have my suspicions about what I’ll find in regards to the latter. What are the barriers – to use, re-use, and remixing? Why do we opt to use OER? And finally in the spirit of openness, let me be clear: this research is funded by FunnyMonkey, an education-focused Drupal shop in Portland, Oregon. If you’re interested in chatting with me about this project, feel free to drop me a line -- particularly if you use OER in your classroom! Image credits: Ivy Dawned
Home: Home 10 Points On The Science Of Spreading The Word This piece is from a new PopTech Edition about harnessing social contagion for social good. Visit for more interviews, essays and videos with leading thinkers on this subject. 1. Good deeds are contagious We naturally imitate the people around us, we adopt their ideas about appropriate behavior, and we feel what they feel. Acts of charity are no exception. 2. That same experiment showed that contagious generosity spreads up to three steps through the network (from person to person to person to person), and when we added up all the extra donations that resulted at every step, we found that an extra dollar in giving yielded three extra dollars by everyone else in the network. 3. People are bombarded by information and appeals every day, especially in our newly mobile and tech-centered society, so the effect of any one appeal to do a good deed may get lost. 4. 5. 6. 7.… but don’t overdo it! 8. 9. 10. Everything we do ripples through our network.
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The Brain's Highways: Mapping the Last Frontier Frontiers are in short supply. No explorer will again catch that first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean with “wild surmise,” take the first steps on the moon, or arrive first at the Challenger deep – the remotest corners of the earth are now tourist attractions. Even in science, great mysteries have fallen – life itself has gone from being the subject of metaphysical speculation about vital substances to the biophysical understanding of cellular processes. Uncharted territories, both physical and metaphorical, are hard to find. Yet there is one largely unmapped continent, perhaps the most intriguing of them all, because it is the instrument of discovery itself: the human brain. It is the presumptive seat of our thoughts, and feelings, and consciousness. The problem is that compared to other cells visualized under a microscope, neurons are at the same time very small, and very big. It is worth examining critically the novelty and nature of these striking claims.
Coursera UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class.