Voice Thread

I created a presentation today of a PowerPoint regarding why a newly graduated student would want to come work for a pretend company called LaLa Company, Inc. This company exhibits all of the great benefits I have experienced with companies, and ultimately does not have a product, since it is pretend.
I discovered my speaking voice is not too bad, but I do use the word "um" too often. I plan on removing that from my language, because It made me sound unprofessional. Overall, I think my presentation in convincing, and would persuade a younger generation to work at my company.

• What worked? Preparing for the presentation in stages. Having a detailed outline allowed me to develop the presentation in a way that was most time effiecient.
• What didn't work? Using a pretend company, I felt I had to pause a lot to come up with more content.
• What would you do differently next time? Next time I would prepare the presentation visuals more ahead of time, so I had more time to tweak it.
• What did you learn that you might use in your professional career? I have discovered that I might use this in my professional career because I can teach myself to continue to prep for presentations in longer fashion, and develop a more authentic presentation. I like that I could be myself, and not try to mimic another speaker.

family level of education and children

I found that the education level of families is a major determining factor of a child's success with early education and more in their life. Some of the research I have done promotes that concept, as well as confirms the statistical difference between what families that have a higher education do with their children. It would be interesting to find if more interesting to look into why some higher educated families have students that fail in academics, and also why some students from lower educated families have children that succeed exponentially in academics.

Art Therpay

An interesting topic I am currently researching is art therapy for children. This is an interesting topic I would like to explore more. Through the current research I am doing on this topic I have found some information how art therapy is used to help adults overcome traumatic experiences these adults experienced while in their childhood by using methodology and best practices. It is also important to look at how this technique is used for refugee children, this would definitely be a more interesting topic to study not only with children in our country, but also with children in different countries that have experienced war, or something along those lines.

the sociology behind it

Many external factors affect early childhood education that promotes a child's ability to learn and creates a positive outlook  in the child's perception of education. It has always been argues that a child's environment directly contributes to their perception of education, but the little research I have done on this, does state that the cultural background is a major factor on how the child perceives school. It can be cultural as in what country they are from , or their family culture here in the states. I am more so interested in learning about the sociology factor on student in the states, but it would be equally as interesting to study about those effects through different cultures and countries.

the psych behind it

There is a lot of psychology wrapped up in many concepts that we believe to this day. This is specifically true to the education side of the idea I am researching. there are many articles promoting this concept and explaining further that promoting early childhood education prevents poor external behaviors later in their life. This concept is proven and promoted by many of the articles.

Early impact

Does early child hood education best practices have an impact on the child's perception of early childhood education? From the brief research I have done on this project, there are many studies promoting the best practices that align with early childhood education and how they are to increase opportunity for children early on.  There are also several articles that examine why they are against "best prectices" because  they can not confirm that these practices do or do not create change.

Essential Oils for health

I have jumped on the bandwagon of using essential oils. I started to use them when my daughter would get a cold, and I would boil eucalyptus oil and peppermint on the stove to get the sent in the air and allow her sinus to open up. This opened my eyes to many other uses for the oils. I recently found it interesting regarding the oil called "Theives" that was supposedly used during the time of the bubonic plague, where looters covered themselves in this oil, and would go around stealing from the dying. They say using this oil still prevents colds and other airborne diseases. I have seen a more commonality of using these oils, and I think its great. A lot of these basic plants were used in early remedy for ailments by our ancestors, although at that time they were not created to an oil and sold in cute jars. I have read before that the percentage of people using these oils are in highest percent in the very educated section of the population, something to look into at a later time.