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Welcome! This is an ongoing project since
the year 2000. Students are welcome to join us at any time of the school
year.
Welcome to our multi-lingual, KIDPROJ, long term project about grandmothers
around the world! Join us as we celebrate across cultures, languages and
generations. Students of all ages through secondary school are invited to
participate.
Students from around the world are encouraged to tell everyone the word for
grandmother in their language, the name they call their grandmother, ways they
spend time (or did spend time) with their grandmother and why she is very
special.
Each month there are specific topics for discussion. You can see the topics
here:
Smart Technologies offers three great software applications for your SMART Board interactive whiteboard.
Children with poor concentration particularly benefit from the extra visual stimulation, she says. "A lot of my children won't just sit still and listen, they are very visual learners."
One of the more subtle benefits is the way the boards help to rein in behaviour. "When you ask the children, 'who wants to come up to the board to reveal something?', you immediately get their attention because they are all desperate to have a go."
In the Japanese
language Nikkei newspaper yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting article featuring
stories on people who have started small grassroots movements — however
unintentional — by doing something in a unique way. One such person is Mr.
Masayoshi Takahashi who has gotten a lot of people interested in his unique way
of presenting, now labeled the "Takahashi Method."
Takahashi uses only text in his slides. But not just any text — really big
text. Huge text. Characters of impressive proportion which rarely number more
than ten, usually fewer. The goal, he says, is to use short words rather than
long, complicated words and phrases. Last year Takahashi gave a presentation at
a conference using the method or style that he created. People were deeply
impressed by his presentation — not the content, but his slides. Over the past
year, blogs across Japan have been buzzing about Takahashi and his presentation
style and people began calling it the "Takahashi Method."
Why this method?
About four years ago Takahashi had to
give a 5-minute presentation at a conference. He wanted a way to get his message
clear and powerful in such a short time and found that his method was excellent
for having people understand and remember his presentation.
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