Seven More Articles for Suite 101 to Start the New Year (January, 2010)

Another seven articles found their way into Suite 101 in January to start the new year. It's beginning to feel like a trend. Seven a month that is. Well, here they are.

Three Articles About Holidays and Special Dates

Celebrate Chinese New Year in the Classroom. This is the Year of the Tiger according to the Chinese calendar. Find out what activities are available and appropriate for classroom celebrations.

Celebrating World Tai Chi & Qigong Day. For those practitioners of Tai Chi and Qigong, every last Saturday in April is World Tai Chi and Qigong Day. If you've thought about this gentle martial art, this is an excellent way to find out more about it.

President's Day in the Classroom. This consists of suggestions about activities in the classroom on or around President's Day.

Two Articles for Better Use of the Internet

Copy Text From Web to Word with Paste Special. If you've ever copied data from a web page to a Word document and got a whole lot of reformatting to perform, then this is the article that will help you to deal with the problem more efficiently.

Free Internet Recipes for All Tastes. If you like to cook or are just looking for a couple of recipes, this article shows the way to filter through to find the best choice.

Two Potpourri

Advice to Beginning Tai Chi Chuan Students. A brief article informing people of what's involved in beginning a training program in Tai Chi Chuan.

Historical Trips Around the World. Magellan to Fosset and a number of folks in between are discussed and how they made it around the world.

February listings will be coming soon.

Seven Articles Posted to Suite 101 for December 2009

During December our articles covered a lot of territory. In the middle of December we had 3 articles about PowerPoint. The remaining four covered a lot of different territory.

Three PowerPoint Articles

Bullet Point Errors in PowerPoint This one focuses on the misuse of bullet points in PowerPoint, more specifically overuse. You'll want to look at my recommendation to follow the 6 x 6 rule when using bullet points. Your audience will appreciate your efforts.

Common Text and Font Errors in PowerPoint This article discusses such things as how to pick the right size typeface, the viewability of different text/background combinations, and the importance of correct spelling.

Less is More with PowerPoint Even PowerPoint can go over the top if you let it. It works best when it is used in a simple straight forward fashion. Those new to PowerPoint and all its power tend to overdo things a bit. Too much transition, too many fonts, far too much sound and animation. These can distract rather than gain attention for a presentation.

Two Articles about Eating

How to Get Free Birthday Meals Many chain restaurants have special programs in effect that give people free meals on or around their birthday. Advice on which restaurants do this and how to properly take advantage of it are provided in the article.

How to Reduce Salt in the Diet If you eat processed food of any kind there's a very good likelihood it contains salt. This article provides some suggestions for reducing your salt intake. It doesn't suggest eliminating all salt, just reducing it.

Happy New Year--Chinese Style

Matching Birth Dates to Chinese Zodiac Animals If you think you know your animal in the Chinese zodiac, you may have to think again--especially if you were born in January or February. Since the Chinese New Year occurs on a different day every year, your animal may be different than you think. This sight explains more thoroughly how to discover the animal that fits your birth date.

Editor's Choice Award

Accessing Extinct Websites This one received an Editor's Choice award, which means the editor really thought it was a good article and it gets linked on several special locations within the magazine besides the contents page. The article talks about what to do when a website is no longer available on the net. Many times it's still hanging around somewhere. This article tells you how to find it.