PhotoReading

PhotoReading is a commercial learning product of Learning Stategies Corporation. The corporation sells Photoreading seminars and home courses that claim to allow people to photoread, a term coined for a step in which one subconsciously intakes information. By that claim, the reader's speed of absorbing words is directly dependent on the amount of information on each page and by page-flipping rate.
Alex K. Viefhaus and others on the Learning Strategies Forum have stated that reading and Photoreading are two different things; traditional reading actively intakes information through the conscious mind while photoreading passively utilizes peripheral vision through the other-than-conscious mind.
The distinguishing feature of PhotoReading is that the readers allow the unconscious mind to rapidly absorb material and then logically or consciously recapture the information they photoread through multiple perusals, as opposed to conventional reading or speed reading, which relies solely on the conscious mind to sort information through one passing conscious mind.

That was what wikipedia said about photoreading... it's an advanced way of reading by trainig your mind and eye to retrive a pice of information or a word you read un-consciously in a dictionary or a book or something.
Photoreading is based on some concepts that helps in reading fast anyway... here is some :)

-Books are 10% content, 90% fluff.
-Visual memory is superior to auditory memory, so use both instead of only reading to one's self
-The Visual memory retains information better than the auditory memory—think of your home; an image will pop up.
-Readers are taught to read and understand material rather than reading the information given and allowing their own insights or ideas of a subject to come forth.
-Humans learn unconsciously first, then consciously, then unconsciously again.
1)Unconscious Incompetence (No idea what is going on)
2)Conscious Incompetence (One knows he or she does not know what is going on)
3)Conscious Competence (One knows what to do)
4)Unconscious Competence (One does things automatically with little to no thought)
-Learning, understanding, remembering and creating are done within a relaxed state, not in stressed states.
-A purpose for reading any given book must be given or the mind will not process efficiently.
-Comprehension is a 4-step process:
1)Awareness of material (First encounter)
2)Familiarity with material (Generalized idea)
3)Knowledge of material (Detailed recollection)
4)Expertise of material (Application or mastery of subject)
-People are taught to read with their left logical minds, neglecting the Right Creative mind.
-Speed reading must be honed and practiced even after mastery or the skill loses effectiveness.
-Strategies never lose their effectiveness because they are not a skill; rather, they offer a different view point.
-Traditional reading unfortunately stresses gaining multiple learnings in one front-to-back reading of a book.

The article I promised to post :D "Miss Lina the student"

Hey all :)

Remember when we were commenting on Malookiz post about photography, I told you that this particular post reminded me of an essay I once wrote for my teacher (back then when I used to be a student). The title of the essay was: "what gives me pleasure." Each student was free to choose whatever they like most and write about it. So, here it is finally! I'll also try to post some of my amateur shots! :)

here it goes:

What Gives me Pleasure.

Photography, according to me, is more than just pointing the camera, shooting, and waiting for the result to come out. In actuality, it is far beyond that, at least from my own point of view. I like to take photographs for many reasons ranging from personal, sentimental motivations to practical concerns. In general, photography keeps me busy in a creative way; it helps me train my senses artistically, and it somehow forces me to have a better look at the world.

I believe that photographers have an artistic feeling or mood to regard things in a different way. As they use their cameras, they see the world with new eyes; they all see it through the lens differently. In that way, sharing pictures allows us as human beings to connect as we share our different views through the images we create by our cameras.

The pleasure of walking, speculating, and noticing suddenly something special stops me to capture that special scene with my camera, steal it, and give it to myself to share it with others. Small details of nature that we, unfortunately, ignore and do not pay much attention to, very much attract my artistic use of the camera. I adore this feeling of communicating with nature and being part of it, and I reflect that by trying to create beauty out of beauty. This, I describe, is a sense of communication with nature itself. By that I am de-familiarizing the familiar and making an extraordinary beautiful picture out of the ordinary beauty of nature. After all, it is a good feeling to take the beauties of nature back home which will be available for me anytime to enjoy. Looking at the picture; at this particular snapshot, gives me wings to fly back in a moment to the place and time where I took the picture. It is an amazing feeling to be able to live one moment more than once. True, it is not the real moment, but it is a memorable shadow of it that temporarily satisfies our momentarily desire to go back in time.

Not only am I concerned with picturing nature, but also people, and in doing this I follow two different ways. The first way is to immortalize involuntarily movements and actions of all the people I know. To try to create an emotion that is so natural into the picture. It needs a lot of directing. In these kinds of pictures I giving eternity to a special feeling; I am expressing the essence of a person, a relationship, or an event. The result forces me to smile, laugh, get sad, or it may even brings tears to my eyes, yet, it grants me a wish-come-true which is to live the event again, to keep the memory for the longest time as possible. More interestingly, these pictures allow me to meet those people I lost and miss in my life, in a dreamy, re-winded moment. It is like a zoomed-in, detailed, noiseless flashback full of feelings and emotions. The second way of which I take photos of people is very interesting indeed goes under the term photo-shoots, which also involves a lot of directing as well as acting. This kind of photography enables me to paint a picture full of colors and expressions. I use a lot of objects to set the background, I focus on the facial expression, and the clothes of the person of whom I am taking a photograph. I also spend time to find the best angle where I will shoot the picture, and I play a lot with lights. In the end, I create a mute person that speaks loudly through the power of his/her eye expression, the amazing match of the colors and the background setting.

Technology has changed in how we take pictures as new cameras are invented everyday, but what makes a photograph interesting is not really changed; a photograph which delivers an intense feeling or emotion to the viewer is what really remains unchangeable; constant. So with all these changes, what stays the same? A picture frozen in time, may be?

P.S

* I was inspired by some books and articles I read about photography

*The blog is not helping me to use "indentation" LOL

*I guess I had a lot of mistakes (not this is the original essay, with no editing at all (A)) hmmm.

why not?

why should my best friend be a girl?why should'nt him be a boy?why should any girl and boy stands togreather be lovers? why should'nt they be friends?actually i have a friend and i concedred him my best friend the only problem i face that he is a boy...... actually it 's not a problem for both of us cause we feel comfortable togreathe we can understand each other and we also have a very similar charactires ,but it's a problem for the people around us they always think that we r lovers i really love him but as my brother and he also love me as his sister and we dont't care about people but the most thing that make us unhappy that the people still have the same way of tinking that would never change that they can't think that a couple of boy and a girl as friends could be very good in comparing with a couple of two girls and they will never know that there is feeling could be between a girl and a boy but not love it is some thing higher than that it's friendshipe ............

WIERD! 0.0 lool =)

Try to read out loud the Color not the Word

Yellow Red Green

Red Blue Black

Yellow Black Red

Blue Blue Green

Green Black Yellow


Haha... now have fun! ;)