Education Articles

1. Distance Learning Degree Program – How to Study

By Katie Robbins The format of distance learning courses is different than what most students have experienced. The teaching style is more student directed and you will have to become accustomed to these differences. Distance learning relies heavily on technology. If you aren't computer and internet savvy, you will need to learn new skills, in addition to your coursework. Look for classes or workshops on comput... read more

2. Making Effective Use of Traffic Exchanges

By Brian Holte This article may be reprinted but may not be modified without my consent.. A look inside the guts of a traffic exchange. ©-by Brian Holte • What are traffic exchanges? Traffic exchanges are used by 100,000 + people who are interested in the same goals as you are, marketing your product and services. • How do traffic exchanges work? Simply put, a group of people (myself included) who... read more

3. Accredited Life Experience Degrees – Accelerate your Progress Online

By Katie Robbins Chances are you are pursuing an online degree to reap benefits in the workplace. For this reason, you may be interested in accelerating your progress to get your degree faster. This article will explain seven ways to finish your degree faster. Keep in mind that you will work harder to finish faster and must be willing to make this commitment. Check with an admissions counselor to see if you q... read more

4. Personality Testing; Myth and Realities

By Saqib Ali Ateel Personality Testing; Myth and Realities ======================== © 2005 Saqib Ali Ateel It is commonly believed myth that personality testing instruments can measure your personality and predict your future behaviors. The pre-employment testing mechanism has been following this creed without any solid evidence. The testing industry claims all out validity. The educational institutions and emp... read more

5. An Exercise In Gaining Rapport

By Jan Tincher ~ By Jan Tincher Copyright © Jan Tincher - All Rights reserved http://www.tameyourbrain.com ~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you really listening? While speaking with others or listening to the radio or television, do you pay attention to the words and phrases people use? Try that. Try to identify their dominant modes. By modes, I mean visual, audio, or kinesthetic. Do they see things -- I see what ... read more

6. What To Do If Your Children Are Scoring Poor Grades

By Preeti Narayan It is natural to feel worried when our children do not perform well in studies. It is even more natural to glare, scold and shout at them. However, all these actions are not really going to help your children improve their performance. Most probably, it will add to their tensions and problems. So exactly, what can you do if your children are not performing well in studies? Support. Enco... read more

7. United Nations Day Teaching Tips

By Freda J. Glatt, M.S. The United Nations, an international organization dedicated to keeping peace among the world's nations, was created on October 24, 1945. This month, then, would be an excellent time to focus on how to settle disagreements and learn something about the U.N. Here are a few suggestions: 1. Read this excerpt of the U.N. Charter and discuss what it means: We the peoples of the United Nations dete... read more

8. Intuition: The secret to your career success

By Michelle L. Casto Intuition: The Secret to Your Career Success Michelle L. Casto, M.Ed. For far too long, we moderns have relied on our analytical/logical brain to make important life decisions. It is my belief that our imaginative/creative brain holds the key to better, smarter and more soulful decisions. This is because the right side of the brain, which loves creativity---taps into your intuitive nature... read more

9. Why Hamlet still disturbs us?

By Arthur McLaston Many students face different and sometimes difficult tasks during their period of study. Some of them have to research new trends and gain new knowledge on different subjects, some of them should analyze new texts and new theories but almost every student studies to do this by analyzing some well-known, old and universally accepted theories or facts. For those students who are enrolled... read more

10. College Degree Is Worth $ 2.1 Million Future Income

By Linda Correli “And once earned, a college degree is forever, as the payoff from higher education can never be erased, broken, or laid off.” It was estimated by the US Census Bureau that a bachelor degree holder earns approximately $2.1 million over 40 years of his working life. The drastic truth is that a college graduator can expect to earn nearly a million dollar more than his school-edu... read more

11. Traveling with the Kids

By Mrs. Party... Gail Leino Vacation time is meant to be a relaxing experience, a time to rejuvenate.  Taking a few simple steps with careful planning ahead of time can truly make your travel adventure an effortless trip for the whole family.   For cheap airline tickets, read more

12. A New Year’s Resolution to Learn a New Language

By Emma Rath Danny Glover, the famous American actor, once said that his new year’s resolution was to learn French, because everyone he wants to speak with in West Africa speaks French. If you would like your fun new year’s resolution to be to learn a new language, then there are quite a few different ways you can go about it. Perhaps you’ve been wanting to learn the language of your Grandmother. Perhaps yo... read more

13. Windows Task Manager

By Tmara Harahsheh Windows Task Manager: An Overview Windows Task manager is a powerful tool that provides information about program and processes running on your computer .you can use task manager to monitor, terminate ,access programs that are currently running can also, view graphs on CPU and memory usage and denote some data. In addition, if you are connecting to a network you can see how is your network... read more

14. How to Make Cleaning a Kitchen Easy

By Stephanie Davies Kitchens are the centers of our lives. We cook, converse, and even eat in our kitchens. Perhaps that is why getting motivated to clean a kitchen is 99.9% of the battle...and elbow grease is the other 0.1%. The reason for this is mostly because of all the rooms in a house, the kitchen alone has the position of having the most traffic, use, and just plain dirt! To start yourself off, it can be... read more

15. I'm Sorry, So Sorry!

By Royane Real In every relationship there will be occasional misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Sometimes we are the one who hurt another person; sometimes we are the one who has been hurt. Sometimes both people have become very angry at each other, or both feel hurt. Hurt feelings can be the result of a slip of the tongue, a misunderstanding, or a deed committed in bad judgment. Sometimes feelings ar... read more

16. Remembering Your Dreams

By Stephanie Davies Learning to remember your dreams is harder for some than for others. There are many reasons a person would want to remember their dreams, including increased self-awareness and knowledge about yourself, coming to grips with aspects of yourself, education, finding out hidden emotions, and more. Remembering your dreams is like opening the door to your own mind. However, for you it may be incredibly ... read more

17. 10 Ways To Sell Your Ad Space Like Crazy

By Daniel J Lesser 1. Give your customers a discount when they spend over a certain dollar amount for ad space. You can also apply this tip to the amount of ads they buy. 2. Offer your customers a free bonus for renewing their ad order. It could be an ebook, special report, online utility, etc. 3. Sell advertising space between your content. You just break an article in half and insert the banner or ... read more

18. Seeing Eye to Eye

By Royane Real Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make new friends so easily, while others find it so hard to form successful relationships with new people? Researchers who study relationships have discovered that a big difference between those people who make new friends easily, and those who don't, is that socially successful people tend to make eye contact with their conversation partners much ... read more

19. Small Talk Plays a Big Part in Improving Your Social Life

By Royane Real Small talk is the name commonly given to the fairly predictable superficial chatter that makes up a large portion of our social encounters. Neighbors chatting over the fence, strangers speaking to each other in a grocery line, or workers talking at an office party will often engage in the exchange of fairly ritual, routine observations, comments and questions. Often there is no intent by either ... read more

20. Learning How to Learn Makes Every Student Genius

By Linda Correli Santosh Prem, a teacher at Malet Lambert School, claims that "the difference between a genius and a "normal" person is that the former "accidentally" acquired the critical combination of the appropriate environment, motivation and learning technique to excel in his particular field." Literally it means that every student has the same potential to excel and succeed in studying without having any... read more

21. Educational toys can cost a fortune for some mums. See how these mums slashed that cost by 80%

By Ute Fumeaux August 2005 – Sydney, Australia. Sydney mothers have discovered a way of providing their children with high quality children’s educational toys and they’re only paying 20% of store price. These mothers aren’t spending hours in discount stores or second hand toy stores. They’re buying high quality, highly sought after children’s educational toys and instead of paying $100 they’re paying only $20... read more

22. Dreams about Water

By Stephanie Davies Having water in your dreams is a very common occurrence. Whether you are dreaming of an ocean, a pond, or even a glass of water, it seems everyone dreams of water at some point in their lives. And in your dreams, water alludes to the most basic parts of ourselves - emotion. Water most always represents our waking emotion. Think about the dreams of water you have had...was the water crashing ocean ... read more

23. Caffeine - Should You Be Cutting Down - Or Drinking More?

By Royane Real Many sober, law abiding people who would never dream of knowingly ingesting a mind- altering drug, actually consume one every day—caffeine! Caffeine is so pervasive in our culture and in many other cultures that we often forget it is literally a drug that affects our brain. Caffeine is present in coffee, tea, many cola drinks and over the counter medications. The real question is—is caffei... read more

24. Reduce Your Stress Levels

By Royane Real If you live in the early part of the twenty-first century, chances are you are feeling stressed. Life for most of us today is highly pressured. Many of us feel stressed because of too little money, and too many urgent things to do, and not enough time to relax and unwind. We are often sleeping too little, eating the wrong foods, drinking too much coffee, smoking too many cigarettes, ju... read more