Quick Question: Will online learning revolutionize education?
Posted: June 16, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Here's how five people answered this week's question posed by Capital Times freelancer Kevin Murphy. What do you think? Please join the discussion.
"I've taken online courses through a community college and it may work for some people but for my interests, I could never see doing it online. Being able to talk to people is how I learn best. I'm going to school to be a lawyer and I would never go online to get that degree. I really value the social aspect of what I do whether it's work or education or hanging out with friends so, as much as I like the online community, I just engage more and learn better when I'm with people."
Hayley Hosman
store manager
Madison
"A year ago I started using the Internet to actually help me get better educated because I can't afford to go to college and I have been consuming as much information as I can. I ask questions and the Internet is an easy, affordable way to get those questions answered and I learn as I go along."
Pandon Breker
bartender
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1st Post Submerged Eyebrow Excercise – Video
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Fitness classes that can rock your body
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If the thought of another grueling boot camp class has you yawning and dragging your feet, why not try a workout that makes fitness feel like a party?
Whether you like to dance, spin or just channel your inner rock god or goddess, there's a class out there that will fit the bill, and still burn fat and build muscle.
The L.A. Times scoured Los Angeles gyms to come up with three total-body workout classes that bring the music and fun from the clubs into the studio. Think of these as alcohol-free happy hours or your time to release stress while keeping your fitness goals on track.
Prices vary, depending on whether you belong to the gym where the class is offered or buy packages of classes. Some sites offer discounts for the first class. Single classes cost around $20 to $25.
Buti Yoga
(Multiple locations. Classes can be found at http://www.butifitness.com.)
Buti Yoga, developed by yoga and fitness expert Bizzie Gold, is a sexy hybrid of Miami Booty Dance, yoga and CrossFit-type plyometric moves (explosive moves to build power).
Set to loud Afro-Brazilian funk, hip-hop and reggae music, Buti's intense 60- to 90-minute workouts will have you swiveling your hips during warrior one pose and shaking your bum during deep prayer squats.
The suggestive moves are enough to make some first-timers blush or giggle, but Gold believes that Buti's sexy stance is good at building self-esteem and body awareness.
Buti (pronounced booty, not beauty) also amps up the calorie burn. Plank jumping jacks, squats and mountain climbers keep your heart rate elevated between longer poses or vinyasa. And many classic static yoga moves, such as triangle pose, have been transformed into dynamic exercises to help participants stay in a cardio zone.
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Positive Soccer Coaching: Never Blame a Child on the Soccer Field
Posted: June 15, 2012 at 10:14 pm
In a recent youth soccer game that I was coaching, a player on the opposing team made a defensive error. My team took advantage of the miscue, and we scored a goal. The other coach immediately yelled at his player, blaming him for the goal. It was loud enough for all the players and parents around the field to hear. The child also heard the comments and slowly walked up the field with his head down.
It Happens Often
Believe it or not, incidents like this one do happen in youth soccer. I have seen it happen over and over again in local soccer games. Nothing good can come from blaming and embarrassing a child on the soccer field. Coaches should never blame children for anything they do on the field.
Kids Do Try
Kids do try on the soccer field. They want to win. After all, that is the point of the game of soccer. So it makes no sense to blame a child on the soccer field. The last thing they want to do is make a mistake and give up a goal. And they feel bad enough when errors happen.
Filling the Emotional Tank
Coaches in the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) are taught to fill players' emotional tanks. In other words, the best way to motivate young players is to praise and encourage them. Blaming kids on the soccer field just drains their emotional tanks in one shot.
The Magic Ratio
PCA also recommends a magic ratio when providing feedback to young players. They suggest giving five compliments to ever one criticism. By providing praise along with criticism, players are more likely to listen. On the other hand, a coach who only gives criticism will quickly be tuned out by the players.
Send the Right Message
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Effective coaching and mentoring through questions, not answers
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Published : Saturday, June 16, 2012 00:00 Article Views : 112 Written by : MOJE RAMOS-AQUINO, FPM
WE have a tendency to spoon-feed our coachee especially when we think we have all the answers. Effective coaching and mentoring asks questions, not provide answers.
Questions are very powerful tools and are very empowering. They work like magic. Here are some benefits of questioning and, from the book Co-Active Coaching (ISBN978-089106198-4) here are some examples:
Provocative questions make us think for ourselves and explore possibilities. Example, what do you want? What is it to have a full rich life? What is it to be powerful? What is it to be always present and punctual? What do you regret or resent? What are you unwilling to change? Where are you slowing down?
Questions encourage us to look at different perspective, different sides of the coin, so to speak. Example, what are possibilities? If you had your choice, what would you do? What are possible solutions? What will happen if you do, and what will happen if you dont? What options can you create?
They enable us to explore and look deeper, wider, intensively, extensively at the focal point. What is here that you want to explore? What part of the situation have you not yet explored? What other angles can you think of? What is just one more possibility? What are your other options?
They motivate, capture, hold and sustain attention and interest of our coachee. What do you need in order to reach your goals? What is the distinction between feeling good and fulfillment? Great goals are compelling; vague goals are forgotten. Which type are your goals? What is it to be undaunted? What is it to speak from and act from the heart? What is it to be tenacious? What is it to be passionate?
They are diagnostic tools to analyze readiness of our coachee and their difficulties in learning and doing the tasks at hand. How do you operate? What is choice? What is it to choose? What is the difference between a wish and a goal? What is present when you are at your best? What is your structure to win?
They help sort, organize, synthesize and evaluate data, information and lessons learned. What works? If you got it, what would you have? How do you know you have reached it? What is your conclusion? Hows this working? How would you describe it? What do you think this all amounts to? How would you summarize the effort so far?
Also, from data and information, questions can help the coachee generalize and find applications for lessons learned. If your life depended on taking actions, what would you do? Where do you go from here? What are your next steps?
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Father’s Day is bittersweet for Ole Miss assistant Dan Werner, single dad molded by football, tragedy
Posted: at 10:14 pm
OXFORD, Miss. There's something about the road that can make a football coach whole. Down each stretch of highway lies hope, whether it's a huge game or a prized recruit or a better job.
Dan Werner knows the road as well as anyone, both as a program-builder and as a part of a BCS championship team. He has been conquering the road all his adult life; he was the son of a football coach. The road is in his blood.
Werner was the quarterbacks coach on the 2001 Miami Hurricanes team that some argue is the best college squad of all time. He was a part of three national-title staffs at Miami, which set him up for other chances, including the biggest chance of all the opportunity to be a head coach.
The road took him to FCS member Northwestern State (La.) early in 2009, where he took an offensive coordinator's job that might have led him to his first head-coaching job in a long career. Maybe, after 25 years, the road could make his career whole.
Then one morning on the road, his phone rang. He picked it up, and he stared in shock.
He had to turn around.
Mississippi offensive coordinator Dan Werner and his son Ian. On that February day three years ago, and on many days afterward, Dan Werner made a choice. It was not the choice a lot of coaches would make. It was not the kind of choice we're used to hearing about from big-time coaches.
It was far different from the choice Bobby Petrino made when he got on a motorcycle with a woman young enough to be his daughter. It was not like the choice Urban Meyer made when he quit his Florida job, then un-quit the next day. It was not like the choice your favorite coach makes when rather than going home, he sleeps on the couch in the office, remote control in his hand.
Werner did not make the kind of choice coaches make when they want to be successful at their jobs. Instead, he made a choice he knew probably would end up costing him the job he always dreamed of.
Dan Werner met Kim Hadder in 1993, at a party in Ruston, La., where he coached at Louisiana Tech. He immediately was impressed. She was a nanny for a new coach, and she knew football. That was going to be crucial if he was going to spend any real time with her.
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Words You Will Never Hear a Life Coach Say
Posted: at 10:14 pm
Man: Hello, Im calling to inquire about your life coaching services. Ive been in corporate America for 18 years and Im ready for a change. I dont like working in an office atmosphere. Back in high school and college I loved to paint, landscapes mostly, and Id like to get back to that.
Life Coach: Well, what are you waiting for? Get yourself an easel, a palette and a brush and set yourself up on Main Street on a nice, sunny day. Quit that job. Put on some old comfy clothes. Get painting!
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And there you have words said by no life coach ever.
Yes, thats right. Im stating it unequivocally.
OK, maybe there is a scenario where it could happen.
Man: Hello, I just won the Lotto. I already paid off my mortgage, have accounts set up for my kids college education, am set for retirement, helped some relatives in need, and have given to some charities near and dear to my heart. Im still working in corporate America, but Im ready for a change. Back in high school and college I loved to paint, landscapes mostly, and Id like to get back to that.
Life Coach: Well, what are you waiting for? Get yourself an easel, a palette and a brush and set yourself up on Main Street. Quit that job. Put on some old clothes. Get painting! Do you really even need me?
Man: Well, I was thinking more along the lines of creating a plan to get back to my art. Maybe learn how I can apply it using new technology.
Life Coach: Ohhhhhhhhhh. Yes, of course. I can help you with that.
Personal Training RPM Health Club Squat 3 – Video
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Team XFIT and Team Beachbody Health and Fitness Solution – Video
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