education: There is so much beyond the classroom
- 01/04/12 11:36 AM
There is so much beyond the classroom and that is why I love Oregon so much. I invited you to come to this wonderful part of our country and discover what we have to offer. We have the mountains, the oceans, the deserts, we have it all and it is all here to teach you. … (14 comments)
education: Leaving the office can sometimes be the best education
- 11/27/11 11:40 AM
I love learning and I learn a lot more out in the real world than I ever could in a book. This is one of the reasons when I find a learning opportunity that I can either read about it in a book or go be hands on with the education, I will pile the kids in the car and we will go out and learn rather than reading about it. You want to learn, go touch that tree, that rock, that mountain, feel the education and really learn. … (16 comments)
education: Are you willing to help those new to real estate?
- 10/02/11 05:40 PM
Are you willing to help those new to real estate? Are you willing to mentor those who want to become the best they can be? Personally I love doing it, I love teaching others. Maybe it comes from growing up around teachers, but I truly do love it. One of the things I love about it is that it keeps me up on my game and keeps me strong with the fundamentals of the business. Sometimes when I have been going awhile without a mentoring someone, I get lax, I forget about what has gotten me where I am today and … (17 comments)
education: What I learned this year from a bunch of 1st graders
- 06/12/11 04:29 AM
It is amazing what you can learn from six and seven year olds. You would think with being on this planet that they wouldn’t have enough life experience yet to teach and old dog new things, but if you think that way you would be wrong! I learned this year, it pays to always be ready. Be in the ready position, because you never know when the ball will be hit to you!
Another thing is practice makes perfect! Though this major league looking throw to third base was clearly an out in the making, it isn’t as it appears. … (13 comments)
education: History 1886 style… We may teach our kids, but we are still up to learning ourselves
- 11/15/10 03:09 AM
Ever hear the phrase, “sleep tight” or the song, “Pop Goes the Weasel”? Both phrases came from the 1880s and though I had heard both of them before I didn’t know the history behind them or really even what they meant. Like the line from “Princess Bride” by Inigo Montoya “I don’t think that word means what you think it means”. First let’s go with the phrase sleep tight, though I’ve said this to my kids, I clearly didn’t know its history. In the 1800s they didn’t have bed springs, so they used ropes. If you ever used rope, … (6 comments)
One of the things I hate about vacations is how many people tell me what movies I should bring for the kids to watch on the trip. Movies are great, but I think that there is a much better opportunity to be had while having the kids trapped in a car for 24 hours of driving. It is called education!
As a home schooling family I am always looking for ways to keep my kids entertained while not turning them into vegetables. One of the ways I can do that is look at the map of where we … (14 comments)
education: A walk through history through the eyes of Fort Vancouver
- 09/19/10 01:29 AM
Yesterday, Fort Vancouver had a really cool event where they walked you through history of the fort starting at World War II and going back to the earliest days of the fort when it was run by the Hudson Bay Trading company. Now, this wasn’t just a normally history lesson. The people actually dressed in period clothes, talked and acted like they were there and were brought via a time machine to present day. Most would not break character and would even ask questions about my camera and how I was able to create a flash and what ship I … (17 comments)
Two years ago, when I taught my first class on blogging, I had a student… in fact she was the person that brought me in to teach the class on Activerain, because she saw I was getting business from it. Like many others I’ve taught, she put up one post and never really got back to it.
A year later I was in her office and asked why she wasn’t blogging. She said, it takes too much time and I didn’t get any business from it. I said “You did one … (26 comments)
education: Birth Control – A story of Education vs Reality
- 08/07/08 04:19 PM
Depending on your age, you may or may not have had the experience I had in school with health education. When I went to school they gave us a bag of flour and said this is your child take care of it for the next week. Now, to me this didn't seem like child care, but in a way it did. A new born weighs about 10 lbs and if you cut the bag accidentally, like a child, it will bleed. The difference is you didn't have to feed it, change its diapers or have it wake you up in the middle … (15 comments)
education: How do you spend time in your car when you are alone?
- 08/11/07 01:26 PM
As an ex-DJ you might think that I would listen to music when I'm in the car. But, in the last two years, I have rarely listened to any music while in the car by myself. There are so many great audio programs out there for Realtors, Investors and even Mortgage brokers, that areavailable for download from the internet for free or for a very nominal charge. I usually have about 8 hours of CD's in the car with me for the purpose of learning and making myself a better Realtor or a better person. I think it is very important to … (9 comments)
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