| Return to Worksheets for Learning Languages Learning a skill while learning English Learning English while learning a skill. There is a theory that some people learn grammar and vocabulary while they learn a new skill. If you want to try this procedure, tell me the skill that you want to learn How to make a movie How to use a digital movie camera How to enlarge and reduce on the photocopier How to create a web page using geocities (a free program) How to get your own web name for just $8 per year. How to speak Chinese (a few words anyway…) How to memorize 40 countries in Africa How to build a pyramid with magnetic sticks How to teach my students (ages 12-14) math. (explain a math problem in English on video and it will help my students learn math) How to converse with a 14 year old. How to motivate a 13 year old How to… (what do you want to do?) How to dance the hula How to do yoga Ask to become a MENTOR ON VIDEO www.MentorsOnVideo.com The three questions 1. what do you remember learning in Middle School that you continue to use today? (what continues to be relevant?) 2. What do you find useful that you could have learned in Middle School but didn't? (A suggestion to middle school teachers) 3. What are you reading today that you find useful? (give an example about how you are continuing to learn and take time for reading books and articles). Your replies to these questions will be shown to middle school and high school students. The idea is to increase relevance and to help students see that adults can be mentors… Are you a mentor? If you want the Mentor Kit and Quotations to Inspire Mentors, please write to s2314@tmail.com to learn more. www.DoubleMoonShot.com Are you ready for the Flat World? How to save jobs in Europe and USA… Connect with other cultures www.oocities.org/talkinternational1/bibbi BuildingInternationalBridgesByInternet Quotes from Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind "A designer gives to the world something it didn't know it was missing." -- Paola Antonelli, curator of design, MOMA "Design is shaping our surroundings to serve our needs and give meaning to our lives." -- John Heskett, Toothpicks and Logos: design in our everyday life. Design is utility enhanced by meaning. Three forces are shaping our world: Asia, automation and abundance. Daniel Pink recommends that we ask three questions about our work: 1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper? 2. Can a computer do it faster? 3. Does my product offer meaning to a customer in an abundant society? 3.3 million white collar jobs in the USA will shift to low-cost countries by 2015. Nations like Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom will see similar job losses. -- quoted in Pink's A WHOLE NEW MIND From Lee Brower (empoweredwealth.com): An Opportunity Filter (a series of questions to filter out opportunities from distractions) Is the project in line with our values? Will the project increase our abilities and will it use our unique talents? Does this project make sense financially? How will this project benefit society? Is this project a gateway opportunity or is it just a single transaction? Some clever quotations to inspire us You never grow old until you've lost all of your marvels. Merry Browne Don't wait for inspiration to find you -- go out and hunt it down. Jack London Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. Josie Bissett Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. Kobi Yamada If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Lou Whitaker Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting. Anonymous Take the everyday and make it strange. Take the strange and make it everyday. – Steve Powers ESPO, graffiti artist To SUBSCRIBE visit: http://www.gophercentral.com/sub/history.html http://emrooznet.varamincity.com/swf/863.swf I wonder what it says... from zamani.mehdi@gmail.com http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/ make interesting shapes... like MC Escher. Return to Worksheets for Language Learning |