The Baha’i Junior Youth Empowerment Campaign is about giving the Junior Youth spiritual skills, values and knowledge as world citizens. To complement this, and in the spirit of ‘walking the spiritual path with practical feet’ here are some of my favourite personal productivity articles. In many cases, I have given specific links to the actual [...]
WITHOUT A DOUBT, the Global Kids’ Digitial Media Initiative is one of the most inspiring, and yet down-to-earth projects out there. Certainly worth looking at, is their Digital Media Essay section. Similarly, Life Round Here, is very similar with work from 10-13 year olds from around the world submitting Digital stories. Also, Global Learning: Connecting [...]
A springboard for amazing resources for youth, parents and educators in empowering the youth to change the world:
Get Global: ‘Information, support, and ideas for developing a Global Citizenship approach in your school‘ by Oxfam.
Free the Children: Find your gift. Find your passion! Put them together, ‘and you will change the world. It only takes one [...]
Leader Talk offers some interesting insights into ‘Protect or Prepare: Which is better for Children?‘ Also, Thoma at OpenEducation discusses the premise ‘To Raise Smart and Successful Children focus on a Work Ethic‘, whilst “One positive relationship can make a huge difference for ‘at risk’ students” where a teacher recounts ‘I’ve found that students learn [...]
Here are some seriously deep questions which are a perfect starting point for personal reflection:
What are you known for?‘ (via Performancing)
Who inspires you to be better at what you do?‘ (Jim Kukral)
You don’t have to love your job to find fulfillment (Dumb Little Man)
How do you find purpose in your work? (Caroline Middlebrook)
How to find [...]
Games to Learn English has a variety of fun and highly interactive games and activities to learn English, nicluding Basketball, Shoot, Food ,Sounds, FastHands and Christmas.
Online Utility offers us the following:
Readability Test and Improve : Calculate and print various readability tests, for your students to find sentences which they could consider rewriting to improve the [...]
‘The Louhellen Experience begins‘, an attempt by a student of the International Louheleln Baha’i School to express some of his feelings on this soothing and peaceful place where he did hi sYouth Year of Service.
‘Hungry for Solutions: Can the Youth Fix the Future?‘ reports on the Portland Youth Summit as part of its Global Citizens [...]
FOR ALL THOSE READERS who, like me, have an interest the sales and marketing of games and educational products, here are some must reads:
EricaBiz, writes “It’s time to completely change your Marketing Strategy!“, speaks about the need for a fundamental change in marketing due to the financial crisis.
In terms of targeting your audiences, I have [...]
Larry Ferlazzo offer us The Best Internet Sites for English Language Learners 2008 survey. You can vote for your favourite, or you can simply use the list as an awesome springboard for amazing English Language learning sites. He is quite frequently posting up surveys, and another useful one would be ‘Best online learning games 2008‘.
One [...]
NSC-Tech is one of those resources that every teacher should spend time browsing. Here are two of the many gems you can find on this site: Science for Kids, which is a free collection of experiements compiles by the American Chemical Society; and Lab Out Loud, a site with the tagline ’science for the classrom [...]
