Junior Leadership: To the Junior Leader

As a junior leader, you are accepting a great challenge. To be a junior leader is an honor, an opportunity, a responsibility, and a privilege. Serving as a junior leader will be valuable experience for you as it will help develop your leadership and citizenship qualities, give an opportunity to be of service to others, and off er a challenge to learn more about yourself and others. Helping you with junior leadership will be your club leader. The two of you will plan and decide which activities you should do. Your leader is interested in your success and will help you. Discuss it with your leader

Special effects and digital photography

ThesisIf it walks like a duck, Swims like a duck, And quacks like a duck, It may well be a chicken, .. (Paul Fuqua) The human eye can be described as a camera that takes about ten pictures every second. It telegraphs to the brain the information that each picture contains. It cannot work faster for the retina needs appreciable time to receive and transmit each impression as well as get ready for the next one. Since the invention of photography man have been using it as a tool, to make it do what the human eye cannot, such as: speeding up time or slowing it down; to learn how things actually behave; of making things that are too distant, too small or too faint visible to the human eye. As photography developed it became invaluable to science and technology. The camera brings into being the most striking and useful views of the world even when it deliberately lies. It can alter what the eye would normally see into what the eye would like to see. It can make subtle shifts of perspective and radical distortions ofform. In the early history of photography photograph's was only taken of familiar objects; things that the human eyes can see. Faces, landscapes and buildings were the most familiar images. Photographers started experimenting and playing around and with the development of better equipment (such as faster emulsions, bigger lenses and flash equipment) photographers soon realised that they possessed a powerful instrument that could perceive and record things that the eye cannot see. For as long as people have contemplated the world, they have been fascinated by the seemingly impossible and, thereby, unexplainable ... (Sage 1996: 4

Becoming a distance student: Identifying and managing the key challenges

Approximately 25% of first year, distance students are unsuccessful – they withdraw, fail or just give up on their study. They pay the fees but they don’t get the benefit. And they go away discouraged and disheartened. This poster, using data from a PhD project following 19 first year mature-aged distance students, offers ideas for managing key challenges these students face. - My lifeload: Taking too many courses is common. Students overestimate the time they have available. Be realistic and start small: you can speed things up later. - My family and friends: Other people can be a support and a barrier. Communicate clearly what you need. And remember, this is a big change for the whole family not just you. - My time and space: Students choose distance study because it is more flexible. But you still have to find time and space to do the work. Be flexible and creative in your approach. It takes time to figure out what works for you, for your family, and for your studies. - My headspace: The first year is an emotional rollercoaster including negative feelings of anxiety or frustration. Manage the negative by talking things over and celebrate and focus on the positive. - My university: Returning to study is harder than you expect with a lot of new skills to be learned. Be patient with yourself, use the resources available and be willing to seek help

SP613-A Tools for Money Management - Saving-Spending Plan Instructions

A spending-savings plan will help you to stay in control of your finances. You can use it to make ends meet, save for emergencies and plan ahead for big expenses. With your spending well under control, you can • pay your bills. • have money for the things you need. • have less stress. • feel better about yourself. Use the worksheet (factsheet SP 613-B) to plan your savings and spending. You will estimate both your income and expenses. Use a pencil or erasable pen so that if your income and savings/spending are not in balance, you can make changes

When you Step Out

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Getting your point across: an academic guide to giving presentations

This guide gives advice on how to plan, deliver and reflect upon an academic presentation

Affective Strategies Used by High Proficiency Learners at Hand Fortuna Center

This qualitative study aims to find out the affective strategies used by high proficiency learners at Hand Fortuna Center, Kupang. The theory applied was the theory of Affective Strategies by Oxford (1990) as a main theory and Oxford (2011) as a supporting theory. The source of data was the result of the questionnaires and the transcripts of interview that have been conducted with the ten high proficiency students at Hand Fortuna Center. The findings showed that the learners mostly used the first and the second part of affective strategies, namely “lowering your anxiety” and “encouraging yourself”. There are three sub-strategies in each part such as using “progressive relaxation, deep breathing, or meditation”, “using music”, and “using laughter” (lowering your anxiety) and “making positive statements”, “taking risks wisely”, and “rewarding yourself” (encouraging yourself). The third part of affective strategies, “taking your emotional temperature”, was the least frequently used by the learners. It is possible that the learners might not be familiar with the strategies such as “using a checklist” or “writing a language learning diary”