Personal Development - UrbanMonk.Net Abundance Tapestry — Creating A Life Of Abundance Simple Productivity | Zen Habits Inspirational Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Philosophy Resource | Knowledge Reform.com 1000 Awesome Things | A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things by Neil Pasricha Before I Die What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa. The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY. Almaty, Kazakhstan Savannah, GA. Pohang City, South-Korea. San Francisco, CA.
Google Say Something Nice (View it larger on YouTube) | Subscribe to our YouTube channel Produced by Charlie Todd and Matt Adams / Music by Tyler Walker For our latest mission we constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. We wanted to see what would happen if New Yorkers were given the opportunity to amplify their voices to “say something nice.” Say Something Nice was produced by Improv Everywhere as part of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition stillspotting nyc. This is our second collaboration in the series, the first being The Mute Button. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below. Agent Alex Young building the lectern Improv Everywhere is most well known for our missions involving hundreds or even thousands of people. Agents Jason Eppink and Keith Haskel played the “movers.” “I love my friend here in the red shirt!” Crew photo
Decoding skills: a neglected part of listening comprehension? Rachael Roberts, a teacher, teacher trainer and author, discusses the often neglected use of decoding skills in listening comprehension. When you sing along to a song, are you sure you’ve got the right words? Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody contains the line, ‘Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?’, but it is often misheard as ‘will you do the banned tango?’ The Police, actually sang ‘When the world is running down, you make the best of what is still around’, not ‘you make the best home-made stew around.’ Amusing, but the point is a serious one. 1 Meaning building or top down processes Drawing upon knowledge of the world, topic or culture.Understanding literal meaningSelecting relevant informationRecognising redundant informationConnecting ideasMaking inferences 2 Decoding or bottom up processes Identifying soundsWorking out where words begin and endDealing with unknown wordsRecognising where clauses and phrases endMaking use of sentence stressRecognising chunks of language Syntax
videolectures.net 2 week summer course at Oxford University Would you like to spend 2 weeks living and studying at one of Oxford University's oldest and most beautiful colleges? Oxford University Department for Continuing Education's annual Summer Seminar is a teacher development course focussing on current developments in the English language and in English language teaching. This course is designed for teachers of English working at primary, secondary and tertiary level who want to reflect on and develop their teaching skills. The majority of course tutors and plenary speakers are Oxford University Press authors and trainers and the topics are varied and interesting. As well as learning from ELT authors and experts during the day, you will have the opportunity in the evenings and weekends to experience life in Oxford through a full and varied programme of events. The programme will be accommodated and taught in Exeter College. Images © Exeter College
Myers Briggs Personality Types Personality Types: Development & Myers-Briggs MBTI theory The Faces of Personality Type Development By Ross Reinhold, INTJ This article is an introduction to a system for understanding the dynamics of personal growth and personality development, using the language and concepts developed by Carl Jung, Isabel Myers, Katharine Briggs and the personality system that has developed around the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)*. The Faces model is based on the theory of eight mental functions, developed by John Beebe, Harold Grant and other Jungian theorists. Readers unfamiliar with this theory can obtain an introduction by reading the Ken Green article in the "Best of the Bulletin of Psychological Type" (Volume 1, Chapter 2). Two-Faces The idea of a duality in character or personality is not new in psychology, literature, nor our everyday relationships with people. Yet this duality of our nature has been largely overshadowed by real or fictional cases involving abnormal extremes.