If you ever were afraid of public speaking, just watch this little girl.
The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.
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Do you have a great idea?
Pepsi is looking for individuals, businesses (less than 50 employees and $5 milllion in revenues), and non-profit organizations with ideas that will have a positive impact on communities.
Submission of ideas come in three cycles, each with a duration of two months.
Cycle 1 has already finished.
Cycle 2 starts Sept 1 and ends Oct. 1, and
Cycle 3 starts November 1 and ends on December 31.
Each cycle will take in 300 ideas. Voting is done online, and the voting rankings can be seen in real time online.
For more information and to download an application toolkit, visit Pepsi Refresh Project’s website.
Grants awarded are of different sizes, ranging from $5K, $10K, $25K to $100K. Categories include Health, Arts and Culture, Food and Shelter, Planet, Neighbourhood and Education.
The video clip explains this in more details.
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I first heard of the term Pecha Kucha from an instructional skills workshop I recently took. A classmate presented a mini-lesson on Pecha Kucha. Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ?), correctly pronounced in four syllables as “Peh-cha kuh-cha”, with an emphasis on the first syllable. It is a Japanese term for “chit-chat”.
In one sentence, Pecha Kucha can be explained as “20 slides in 20 seconds”. It is a very powerful tool for presentation or teaching, as the presenter is forced to condense images into 20 most useful slides in order to tell a story or present a message. As a result, each slide has to be carefully chosen.
The first Pecha Kucha Night was devised in February 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa), as a way to attract people to Super Deluxe, their experimental event space in Roppongi.
Pecha Kucha Night events consist of around a dozen presentations, each presenter having 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds. Each presenter has just 6 minutes 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next presenter takes the stage. Conceived as a venue through which young designers could meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network, the format keeps presentations concise, fast-paced and entertaining.
In 2004 PKN began running in a few cities in Europe, and has since become a worldwide phenomenon, now running in more than 260 cities in almost every corner of the globe.
There are many examples of pecha kucha presentations on You Tube. It is worth exploring.
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This is a very insightful speech by Daniel Goleman who spoke to the staff at Google. Through technology and Youtube, we are able to participate and benefit from his speech, in the comfort of our tiny cubicle or office. Hope you enjoy the above video as much as I do.
New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman argues that our emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision making and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. He defines “emotional intelligence”?a trait not measured by IQ tests?as a set of skills, including control of one’s impulses, self-motivation, empathy and social competence in interpersonal relationships. In marriage, emotional intelligence means listening well and being able to calm down. In the workplace, it manifests when bosses give subordinates constructive feedback regarding their performance.
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Have you wondered what is the origin of Arabic algorithms or numbers?
How is it that Arabic numbers are written
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0?
What is the story and the logic behind?
The Answer is ANGLES.
Watch this little animated clip and you will see that
the number 1 has one angle
the number 2 has two angles
the number 3 has three angles
…….
and the most intelligent of all – ZERO has no angles.
Called the Hindu-Arabic numerals, the numbers were first invented by the Indian mathematicians, subsequently, the numerals were adopted by the Persian mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west. From there they were transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages. The use of Arabic numerals spread around the world through European trade, books and colonialism. Today they are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world.
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