Capture The Spotlight

Put your interactive whiteboard to immediate use with confidence and skill, and launch your classroom directly into the 21st-century! In this book, teacher and SMART-Certified Trainer Amy Buttner provides clear, practical steps for making the most of your interactive whiteboard, plus other multimedia tools and the web. You’ll learn how to design your own activities using SMART Notebook software, utilize the board for assessment purposes, connect with online resources, and more. Use interactive whiteboards to enhance instruction and engage your students in a media-rich setting. With these strategies, you’ll maximize this and other revolutionary technologies, and ultimately help to raise classroom achievement.

There's a secret that most of the world's most successful business and political leaders know-that when mastered and properly applied, public speaking can be a real game changer. Written by a top executive speech coach, this book will give you the tools and strategies you need to become the confident and powerful speaker you were born to be. An essential part of leadership development, this book will teach you the fundamentals of great public speaking and how to apply those presentation skills in real-life situations. You will be able to raise your profile and stand out from your competition, by learning how to persuade and captivate the attention of almost any audience, from boardroom presentations to conference keynotes. "Narges Nirumvala has written a fabulous 'how to' book for anyone wanting to become comfortable with public speaking. I have read many books on this topic but this ***by far*** is the best. I improved the quality of my public speaking considerably after a few reads. Capture the Spotlight is one of those books I will keep in my professional arsenal and read over and over." Rhonda Sherwood, CFP FMA, Wealth Advisor "In our busy and complicated lives, it's not enough to communicate, you must make a meaningful connection with your audience. Narges Nirumvala's book Capture the Spotlight shows you how to do just that. If you want to be the best speaker you can possibly be, you will find it easy to read and very practical. It's a book you will keep handy and refer to often." Rev. Ruth Blight, Associate Pastor, Cariboo Road Christian Fellowship Narges Nirumvala is the CEO of Executive Speak Coaching International. She is an executive speech coach, a motivational keynote speaker, and an award-winning entrepreneur. Her writing on the subject has been circulated to 106 countries worldwide. Narges is often called upon as an expert by the media and has appeared numerous times in and on print, radio, and television. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with her family.

Three kids get caught up in an adventure of historic proportions!Anna, José, and Henry are complete strangers with more in common than they realize. Snowed in together at a chaotic Washington D.C. airport, they encounter a mysterious tattooed man, a flamboyant politician, and a rambunctious poodle named for an ancient king. Even stranger, news stations everywhere have announced that the famous flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been stolen! Anna, certain that the culprits must be snowed in too, recruits Henry and José to help catch the thieves and bring them to justice. But when accusations start flying, they soon realize there's more than justice at stake. As the snow starts clearing, Anna, José, and Henry find themselves in a race against time (and the weather!) to prevent the loss of an American treasure.

Answers found here! In iOS 7, Apple gave the iPhone the most radical makeover in its history. The new software is powerful, sleek, and a perfect companion to the iPhone 5s and 5c—but it’s wildly different. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with an expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world’s most popular iPhone book. The important stuff you need to know: The iPhone 5s. This book unearths all the secrets of the newest iPhone—faster chip,dual-color flash, fingerprint scanner, and more—and its colorful companion, the 5c. The iOS 7 software. Older iPhones gain Control Center, AirDrop, iTunes Radio, free Internet phone calls, and about 197 more new features. This book covers it all. The apps. That catalog of 1,000,000 add-on programs makes the iPhone’s phone features almost secondary. Now you’ll know how to find, manage, and exploit those apps. The iPhone may be the world’s coolest computer, but it’s still a computer, with all of a computer’s complexities. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone addict.

Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative and emotive power of light and shadow when used in contemporary indexical media including the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, camera obscura, photography and film. In particular, Sadowski highlights the aesthetic and emotional significance of shadows. The 'cast shadow', as an indexical sign, maintains a physical connection with its near-present referent, such as a hidden person, stimulating a viewer's imagination and provoking responses including anxiety or curiosity. The 'cinematic shadow' plays a stylistic role, by enhancing image texture, depth of field, and tonal contrast of cinematic moments. Such enhancements are especially important in monochromatic films, and Sadowski interweaves the book with accounts of seminal Weimar cinema moments. Sadowski's book is distinctive for combining historical materials and theoretical approaches to develop a deeper understanding of Weimar cinema and other contemporary art forms. The Semiotics of Light and Shadows is an ideal resource for both scholars and students working in linguistics, semiotics, film, media, and visual arts.

We are in the midst of an enormous global energy transition happening before our eyes. Alternative energy forms including solar, wind, water, and bio-fuels are challenging the established energy sources that have fuelled the industrial era for the past century. As we look to this century’s energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices? The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous. Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. In its telling Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition

The major challenge facing a business is standing out from the crowd, getting noticed in a noisy overcrowded marketplace. This book offers a fresh approach to attracting the spotlight. It covers branding, positioning, public speaking, publicity & writing & performing from the perspective that all business is show business.

Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods is a guide to conducting wildlife research in Australia. It provides advice on working through applications to animal ethics committees, presents general operating procedures for a range of wildlife research methods, and details animal welfare considerations for all Australian taxa. Compiled by over 200 researchers with extensive experience in field-based wildlife research, teaching and animal ethics administration, this comprehensive book supports best practice research methods and helps readers navigate the institutional animal care approval process. Wildlife Research in Australia will help foster a national approach to wildlife research methods, and is an invaluable tool for researchers, teachers, students, animal ethics committee members and organisations participating in wildlife research and other activities with wildlife.