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Eyes on Indonesia: Public Speaking: The Greatest Fear of All
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Sunday, September 16, 2007. Public Speaking: The Greatest Fear of All. Public Speaking: The Greatest Fear of All. I have a confession to make. For years I could not speak. Sure, when sitting around a table with friends or standing in front of my students I was cool, coherent and as charming as a Pomeranian kissing a. But, when it came time for me to slip out of my comfort zone and speak to groups or strangers, I fell apart time and time again. Public speaking was my greatest fear. I did not tremble alone.
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Eyes on Indonesia: Public Speaking: Rehearsing and Giving the Speech
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Monday, October 08, 2007. Public Speaking: Rehearsing and Giving the Speech. Rehearsing and Giving the Speech. 8211; The moment has arrived, for today, we rehearse and we give our speech. First of all, as we prepare to conquer our oratory fear, we need to remember that the key is in the preparation. It is as coaches preach, “You play as you practice.”. Confidence in front of your audience comes from complete familiarity with your material. How did you organize your speech? Some people feel that color cod...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Keeping it active
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Thursday, June 18, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. You may contact me at penman.andy@gmail.com. On Words, A Weekly Column in The Jakarta Post. Editing your work: writing tight brings the might. Editing your work: the power of verbs. Three Ingredients to Good Writing. Technology in the classroom: e-portfolios. Three Big Answers by ESL’s Biggest Star. Jakarta Art Teachers and I. Public Speaking Part Five: Rehearsing and Giving the Speech. Idea Mining: Part Three. Five Co...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Importance of Art
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. 8211; When school budgets are cut, art is often the first class to go. The groupthink seems to be that studying art is fine as long as time and other resources allow. Otherwise, it is treated as if it were a disposable subject; something that is at its heart little more than an entertainment that can be guiltlessly thrown away. True, most students do not grow up to be professional artists. But then again most do not become mathematicians, authors or scientists either. Consisti...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Jakarta Art Teachers & I
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Saturday, October 27, 2007. Jakarta Art Teachers and I. Art Teachers and I. 8211; Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”. Each day, art teacher Neil Bunting works at solving this problem with his dedication in his international school’s classroom and through the organization he founded, Jakarta Art Teachers and I. Formed two years ago this November, JATI was, like much in the art world, crafted out of a sense of anxiety and loneliness.
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Eyes on Indonesia: Six Alternatives to Television
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007. Six Alternatives to Television. Six Alternatives to Television. 8211; Television watching is the stinking ashtray on the dining room table. Though most profess to believe it is detrimental to our well-being, we refuse to turn our TVs off. True, there are benefits to having a television. After all, it provides us with the cultural images that bind us to our communities. The Challenger exploding, O.J.’s white Bronco chase, the subsequent. And Under the Volcano. Have focused con...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Editing your work: writing tight brings the might
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Editing your work: writing tight brings the might. Editing your work: writing tight brings the might. 8211; To write tight is to write right. As mentioned in OnWords’. Last column, omitting unnecessary words is a huge part of the editing process. Today we are going over how to identify and purge lazy openers, prepositional phrases and tedious nouns from your writing. Lazy openers are those phrases like It is vital that. And There are,. Lazy openers are guilty of two sins.
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Eyes on Indonesia: Three Ingredients to Good Writing
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Three Ingredients to Good Writing. Three Ingredients to Good Writing. 8211; Writing hurts. First of all, ideas are hard to cage elusive creatures. And then once we have been fortunate enough to secure a collection of thoughts to work with, we need to wrestle them into some sort of coherent order all the while deciding which to keep for further development and those of which we need to discard. Understandably, many never get past this initial prewriting stage. In order to write...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Learning to Think
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. 8211; Students are not educated for the past, but rather for the present and the future. This is done by teaching critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is, as defined by. American psychologist Diane Halpern,. The ability to use skills and strategies in a purposeful manner, increasing the probability of achieving a desired result. Whether at school, home or our workplace, we constantly must make decisions quickly and correctly. For us, living in. Imagine standing by the r...
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Eyes on Indonesia: Three Big Answers by ESL’s Biggest Star
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Three Big Answers by ESL’s Biggest Star. Three Big Answers by ESL’s Biggest Star. 8211; For educator and thespian Jason O’Donnell, all the classroom truly is a stage. The American, a long-time. Resident, graces our living room television screens and our children’s English classes. O’Donnell recently took time out of his busy schedule to answer three questions for OnWords. What productions have you been a part of in. I hosted more than 30 Turis Dadakan,. Crazy Whitey), Indonesi...
