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Creative bursts in teaching change

With today’s fast-moving entertainment and news cycles, creativity is a requirement for connecting with an audience. Even the nightly news is now filled with entertainment segments. No, you don’t need to be a comic or to include “entertaining material” in your educational presentation “just because.” Use creativity where it will enhance your presentation AND bring your point across even stronger.

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Final Call on Teen Dating Posters

In our efforts to provide 4 new posters addressing teen dating violence, your final input is going to decide 2 of the last 3 posters. In answer the following questions listed below in the form for you to fill out, please remember the posters are meant to have a POSITIVE approach to dealing with the issue. These specific 4 statements were written BY STUDENTS who said more positive approaches needed to be taken.

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Using Technology to Spread a Message

Yesterday, we talked about teaching verbal skills to a generation who loves technology as their means of communication. How do take the benefits of technology to reach those students? Here is a simple concept:

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Technology verses Words

When teaching verbal skills, many Moms, Dads, and educators continually share how teens would rather text than talk. To their credit, many teens are fantastic at multi-tasking and quickly absorbing technology uses to fit their lifestyle. The unfortunate consequence is these skills are happening at the cost of losing one-on-one verbal tools. What do you do?

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VOTE for FINAL “Want Some Action?” Shirt

Below are the T-shirt designs selected by our website visitors to be the TOP 5 FINALISTS for becoming the new “Want Some Action?” T-shirt. You get to choose and help pick the new shirt for the upcoming 2010-2011 School Year! Plus, you get the chances to win the #1 shirt.

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Boy Scouts Share Important Message

Are you ever asked, “How do you know you are making a difference? How do you know your audience (or students) actually remembers your message?” Speakers in the education world and teachers particularly get this question a lot because so many people wonder if teens retain the messages being shared with them. Yesterday, audience members surprised me.

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Thank you!

By sharing your votes today, you have impacted the the choices being made for creating 4 new posters on Teen Dating & Teen Relationships to

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