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		<title>Site of the Month for September 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Site of the Month for September 2011 relates to Education Web Directory. Directory Learn contains links, websites related to education including art, business, computers &#038; technology, environment &#038; nature, health &#038; fitness, languages, special education, typing tests, vocational arts, teaching aids, learning aids and more.]]></description>
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		<title>Martial Arts Life Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Austin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching Life Skills are an essential element of the modern martial arts school, ideal for martial arts instructors and martial arts teachers who are passionate about making a difference to today&#8217;s youth. Anyone can teach children to kick and punch, teaching life skills will position you as an educator in your community through teaching skills [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teaching Life Skills are an essential element of the modern martial arts school, ideal for martial arts instructors and martial arts teachers who are passionate about making a difference to today&#8217;s youth. Anyone can teach children to kick and punch, teaching life skills will position you as an educator in your community through teaching skills that can be used in everyday life character education program. Martial Arts training is the only activity perfectly positioned to integrate life skills, as martial arts simply serve&#8217;s as a vehicle to instill values and skills that children can put to use outside of the school. Skills like: Self-Confidence, Self-Control, and Positive Thinking; Listening Skills, Respect and Good Manners. The Ability to Focus Attention; Perseverance and Courage. The core stresses the vital importance of a healthy mind and body necessary to lead a productive life.</p>
<p>The Instructor hands out life skills themed educational material and home checklists to students in class.  Parents place the checklist somewhere visible, refrigerator/notice board. Parents work together with children to complete checklist by providing guidance and support on completing activities and filling the checklist. Use a marker or smiley face sticker to indicate your child&#8217;s progress. The instructor delivers themed life skills messages in each class to develop students awareness of life skill and provide mental training. Parents reinforce the messages taught in class by having their children feedback the message and its meaning at home, helping to fill in the gaps of the child&#8217;s understanding. Parents complete checklist to say their child has demonstrated the required effort and conduct in and out of their martial arts school. Students hand checklist to their Instructor. The Instructor awards the child with a Martial Arts Hero Certificate.</p>
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		<title>Understanding the Important of Foreign Language Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to speak and understand different language is very important. With the computer age and internet, where you can virtually travel around the world, most people are now just staying at home and are working at home. Most people are opting for online works right now. Even interviews and video conferencing by employers all over [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learning to speak and understand different language is very important. With the computer age and internet, where you can virtually travel around the world, most people are now just staying at home and are working at home. Most people are opting for online works right now. Even interviews and video conferencing by employers all over the world is done over the internet now.</p>
<p>To be able to speak online with your clients in their own language is a big advantage for you. Being able to answer your interviews confidently and able to talk with your future employer in their own language is a big edge. Indeed to be bi-lingual is an important thing in this age.</p>
<p>If you are planning to have a career change then move on to what is most demand today. Learning foreign languages are the best thing for you to do. It can open a lot of opportunities for you both online and in the corporate world. Travel would be much fun too and enjoyable if you know the language of the place that you are going to. These are just among the benefits that you get when you learn to speak other languages.</p>
<p>There are lots of method which you can learn to speak foreign languages like Spanish, French, Italian and more. You can enroll to language classes in your area but if your schedule does not allow it then you can choose on many language course programs online where you will be provided lessons to study everyday or anytime at your convenience. These are more interactive which makes you learn the lessons fast and which make learning easy too.</p>
<p>Hearing and listening is their way of instructing you to learn to speak other languages. Listening and repeating the words yourself will easily make you familiar with the words and when you familiarize the words then you begin to associate this words to any objects that will make you remember the meaning easily. As simple as it is, the method is proven effective today. You can even share this whole program with your family and if you have kids then it will be a good idea to let them join in the study too.</p>
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		<title>Definition Of Professional Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 08:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional development is essential for every individual, whether employed or not. It is vital for every business and professional organization to increase the knowledge and skills of their employees. They should strive to enhance the quality of performance, to ensure an improvement on the personal and professional front. Professional development is necessary to increase knowledge [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professional development is essential for every individual, whether employed or not. It is vital for every business and professional organization to increase the knowledge and skills of their employees. They should strive to enhance the quality of performance, to ensure an improvement on the personal and professional front. Professional development is necessary to increase knowledge and skill, through certified and consistent education in the profession. A professional development program boosts the individual&#8217;s career, through travel, research, workshops and seminars and by working with professionals who are experienced. People take up a professional development course to build their expertise in business, teaching and nursing and contribute to organizational development.</p>
<p>Professional development courses are either general, or skill- based. General professional development caters to general skills, through basic personal education. Skilled development on the other hand, deals with the current profession, leadership qualities, managerial skills and enhancing a person&#8217;s productivity. The courses are designed with the intention of developing a person&#8217;s level of competency and professionalism. The successful completion of the course opens avenues for unlimited growth. Professional development training courses are not only applicable to people in business or management, but are also important for professionals such as teachers, technicians, nurses and engineers. Some of these professional courses are officially recognized and certify the candidates, on completion. This recognition is an added advantage of being trained at professional development institutes.</p>
<p>The professional development course ensures occupational education and helps beginners to choose the right career, at the very start. Professional development institutes host a series of seminars and workshops, to provide knowledge through mentors and experienced businessmen. There are trade- specific seminars also conducted, to provide professionals with in- depth information on specific professions. Career based programs held by professional development institutions are very helpful in deciding the best career option available.</p>
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		<title>The Development of Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since then all other humans, who may have given signs as to how language developed have vanished, there are no traces to track this. Scholars of the modern world thought that the other languages of the world represented more ancient stages in the development of language, also Indo-European languages were considered as advanced languages. Today [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since then all other humans, who may have given signs as to how language developed have vanished, there are no traces to track this. Scholars of the modern world thought that the other languages of the world represented more ancient stages in the development of language, also Indo-European languages were considered as advanced languages. Today linguist experts agree that there were no primitive languages. Present humans speak languages which are complex in nature. In fact existing languages differ in the size of vocabulary and subjects covered with this vocabulary, all human languages possess the grammar and syntax needed, and could invent, translate, or share the vocabulary needed to express the full range of their thoughts.</p>
<p>During the course of human evolution brain size increased rapidly in a short period, bringing forth a new species. The first was the arrival of Homo erectus about 1.8 million years ago and the next was the existence of Homo sapiens 500,000 years ago. The increase in mental power would have enabled the hominids to increase their vocabulary, and progress from one word statement to two word or even multiple word statements. Analyzing their artifacts, the level of communication must have been low but possibly intermediate between humans and primates. Later it is found that they were able to communicate through their tongue pronouncing several words which are even used today. Captive apes using lexigrams produce strings of symbols to communicate in a pidgin like manner.</p>
<p>The greatest step would have been the progression from this simplified pidgin like communication to a Creole like language with all the grammar and syntax of modern languages. Scholars believe that this step could only have been accomplished with some biological change to the brain such as a mutation. It has been found that a gene &#8211; FOXP2 may have undergone a mutation allowing humans to communicate. Evidence shows that this change took place somewhere in Africa around 50,000 years ago, which rapidly brought significant changes in lexicon of the Homo sapiens, and is also apparent in the fossil record too.</p>
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		<title>Developing Essential Life Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life skills are adaptive abilities to deal effectively with challenges and changing demands. They include decision-making, creative and critical thinking, stress management, interpersonal communication, and problem solving skills. Examples of practical life skills are: communicating with co-workers, financial management, self-care, maintaining health and wellness, employability, home maintenance, and managing family responsibilities. As young students, we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life skills are adaptive abilities to deal effectively with challenges and changing demands. They include decision-making, creative and critical thinking, stress management, interpersonal communication, and problem solving skills. Examples of practical life skills are: communicating with co-workers, financial management, self-care, maintaining health and wellness, employability, home maintenance, and managing family responsibilities.</p>
<p>As young students, we begin a life skills-based education in the foundational skills: reading, writing, telling time, math, creative thinking, and interacting with others effectively. However, we continue to learn and develop throughout our lives. As we become young men and women, experience and educational training help to teach the skills necessary to live a fulfilling and competent life. These skills will be necessary in all primary life areas. Many of the skills mentioned above will be essential throughout our lives. Some will be particularly important during various stages of life. Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson identified a series of predictable life stages extending from our late teens to after retirement. These stages do not occur in a completely linear fashion. We cycle through portions of each stage throughout life; however, specific skills are dominant in each stage. The dominant skills will differ somewhat for each individual. </p>
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		<title>Graphic Design Vocational Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vocational Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Graphics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vocational Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Graphic Design Vocational Schools offer the skills needed to become a working digital artist. Graphic Design Trade Schools teach animation, website design, interactive media design, digital art production, digital publishing, 2D and 3D computer graphics, DVD authoring, vector graphics, image processing, and much more. Vocational schools use a variety of software packages to teach students [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Graphic Design Vocational Schools offer the skills needed to become a working digital artist. Graphic Design Trade Schools teach animation, website design, interactive media design, digital art production, digital publishing, 2D and 3D computer graphics, DVD authoring, vector graphics, image processing, and much more. Vocational schools use a variety of software packages to teach students to create visual effects for movies, websites, video games, and other graphic design fields. Many Graphic Design Vocational Schools offer college degrees including an Associate of Arts in Business Administration (AABA) in Visual Communication; a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Graphics, and Multimedia; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication. A bachelor&#8217;s degree is required for most graphic design positions, but an associate degree may suffice for entry-level positions .</p>
<p>Vocational Graphic Design graduates can find employment in printing and related support activities; specialized design services; advertising and related services; or book, newspaper, periodical, and directory publishing. Some designers find positions in engineering services or for scientific, management, or technical consulting firms. Graphic Design professionals also find jobs creating computer graphics for computer systems design firms or motion picture production firms.</p>
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