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100 Excellent Art Therapy Exercises for Your Mind, Body, and Soul January 9th, 2011 Pablo Picasso once said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." It's no surprise, then, that many people around the world use art as a means to deal with stress, trauma and unhappiness – or to just find greater peace and meaning in their lives. If you're curious about what art therapy has to offer, you can try out some of these great solo exercises at home to help nurse your mind, body and soul back to health. If you like the experience, you can also seek out professional art therapy treatment in your area. Emotions

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You If you’re not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That’s because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms. The Best of the Best You can view the live stream of #edchat here and see what people are saying at the hashtag #chickenweb2tools here. We scoured hundreds of responses and have come up with the following list. Learn To Use Glossi - Glossi by Alexandra Piotrowski Greetings Glossinauts! Thanks for taking the time to have a look at our "Learn To Use Glossi" Glossi! This is an ever evolving issue of Glossi, that we're updating with new product features, reviews, and suggestions on making creating beautiful Glossies even easier.

Web 2 Tools by Task Avators: Build your Wild Self - create a self portrait and learn about the animal parts incorporated into your avatar. Mikons - where people communicate through visual symbols, logos, icons, or avatars to tell a story Voki.com is a web application that produces animated characters to which you can add your voice (or anybody else’s). Blogging / Bookmarking Tools: 43Things - share your list of 43 life goals/priorities What British People Say vs. What They Really Mean British journalist-turned-novelist Lucy Sykes has become known for her snarky social commentary, thanks to her bestseller The Knockoff, a satirical take on the budding fashion tech world. Now, she and co-author Jo Piazza are at it again with their forthcoming novel Fitness Junkie (out July 11), which comically tackles society's wellness obsession. Given Sykes' British background—and her penchant for keeping it real—we asked her and her sister, author Plum Sykes, to give us a breakdown of popular British phrases, and what they really mean. 1 'You look amazing.' = Is that dress a good idea? Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

How to Use the Board Effectively in ELT In this article and accompanying video, I will talk about using the board effectively in ELT (English language teaching). The board is perhaps the most useful piece of equipment in the language classroom. Note that this post is written mainly for teachers using whiteboards (not digital interactive boards), although a lot of the advice still applies. ELLLO Views #1462 Nepal Travel Tips Adam: Alright, hi Jin! Jin: Hi, Adam. Adam: How are you doing? Jin: I'm doing good. Adam: Ah, you're from Nepal right?

75-100-irregular-Verbs <div class="noscript-warning"> JavaScript is currently disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled to take full advantage of Box.</div> No actions available 64 Examples of Oxymorons in Sentences - Online Editing and Proofreading Services. Affordable Editors and Proofreaders. Oxymorons are figures of speech in which two contradictory terms are combined in order to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. The word oxymoron is derived from the Greek for pointedly foolish (oxys = sharp/keen and moros = foolish). Oxymorons are extremely useful in written English because they can make effective titles, add dramatic effect, add flavor to speech, and can sometimes be used to achieve a comedic effect. Here is a comprehensive list of 64 examples of oxymorons in sentences. In each example, the oxymoron is underlined.

Christmas When Christmas time comes around it can be difficult for children to focus. It's an exciting time filled with vacations, family outings, caroling and the promise of presents. For teachers it can be difficult to harness all that energy and get your students to focus. However, the Christmas season also presents excellent learning opportunities. Question Time: A simple activity to promote group discussion Question Time is a group discussion activity based very loosely on the BBC’s political talk show of the same name. Ask students to think of three topics that they think might be interesting to talk about in class. Topics can be anything from nice weather and favourite foods to the political situation in Uganda, etc. Stress that the subjects are anonymous, nobody knows who contributes which subject. Students write their topics on small slips of paper, fold them and put them in a cup or similar container.

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