Motivational Pictures - All Funny De Motivationals DivineCaroline: Relationships, Body & Soul, Home, Style, Parenting, and Community for Women No Limbs, No Limits Reporter: Peter OvertonProducer: Nick Greenaway Every now and again, you meet someone who quite simply makes your spirits soar. That's how Peter Overton felt when he first met Nick Vujicic. Nick was born in Australia without any arms or legs. Yet he lives a life that's more joyful and more fulfilling than most able bodied people we know. All that was missing from his world was a special lady. Recently, he invited Peter back to Los Angeles to meet the woman who's made his life complete. If you want to contact Nick, or find out more information, visit www.lifewithoutlimbs.org. Also, Nick's book Unstoppable - published by Allen & Unwin - is out now. View our original story here. Full transcript: NICK: Hey babe, you ever done a backflip before? KANAE: No, never in my life. NICK: Are you serious? KANAE: Yeah. NICK:I’m a little nervous now, backflips are scary. STORY – PETER OVERTON: Unique is the only word to describe Nick Vujicic, and his head-over-heels approach to life. NICK: I can’t feel my legs.
Dragos Roua - Brilliantly Better — The Personal Development Blog handwriting tips You’ve decided you want to improve your handwriting and you’re probably hoping a fountain pen will do the trick -- maybe a friend told you it would. Maybe you’re just adventurous and you want to try your hand at calligraphy (or you might, once your handwriting improves). Good for you! A fountain pen may make your writing look a bit better, but if your writing looks as if frenzied chickens got loose on the page, chances are this won’t be enough. After coaching handwriting and teaching calligraphy over the years, I’ve learned to see the characteristics of those who’ll be able to pick up the necessary motions quickly from those who’ll have to work a bit harder. Crampy, uneven letters are often the result of drawing the letters with the fingers rather than using the whole arm to write. People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. If you use the right muscle groups, your writing will have a smooth, easy flow and not look tortured. Fig. 1. Top
Classroom Organisation Overview Working in small groups Group Size Cooperative Learning Strategies Learning Role Cards Role of parents/carers in the classroom Working in small groups Small group work is one way of ensuring active participation of students. Group work enables students to move more readily from receiving knowledge to generating knowledge. It is important to change student groupings frequently. Group Size The MyRead guides are intended for one or all of the following: the regular whole class independent small group work teacher-guided small groups When using small groups, four is the optimum size to manage student learning. Where students are organised into small groups, the groups may operate in the regular classroom or in another room. Underperforming students are often identified for ‘pull out’ in intensive needs based groups where their learning needs are targeted. Cooperative Learning Strategies Working in small groups using cooperative learning strategies supports underperforming students to: Jigsaw
Motivation & Inspiration from The Daily Motivator® Official Home of the Free Hugs Campaign - Inspired by Juan Mann - Home Gothic Clothing Store - Heavy Red - StumbleUpon Music video to White Stripes song features students from Flints Michigan Sch... Vince Fedoroff/APThe White Stripes perform in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, in June 2007. FLINT, Michigan — The Detroit rock duo The White Stripes had kept their website silent since using it to announce in February that they would be breaking up for good. Then, a post appeared early this month. “Check out the video that our friends at D-PAN (Deaf Professional Artists Network) did for our song ‘Were Going To Be Friends.’” Click the link and Grand Blanc 14-year-old Kassie Ross appears on screen as the song’s opening notes ring out. Ross communicates the lyrics using American Sign Language. “Fall is here / hear the yell / back to school / ring the bell.” On YouTube, the video has more than 369,000 hits. Ross, a 14-year-old Grand Blanc resident, never thought appearing in a music video would be in the cards for her. “When I lost my hearing, I had no idea how I could listen to music anymore and I was pretty upset,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Of course I couldn’t turn them down,” Ross said.