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Tweaking Your Faux-Infinite-White Video Background

TWEAKING YOUR FAUX-INFINITE-WHITE BACKGROUND! https://www.youtube.com/user/briandavidphillips http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.net http://www.InOurOwnVoices.info Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the TWEAKING YOUR FAUX-INFITINITE-WHITE BACKGROUND for videos, a quick and easy way to enhance the look of a less than optimally lit white background in videos. Dr. Phillips is using Power Director in this example but most video editors have similar options you…

Tongue Twisters for Articulation and Pronunciation Practice

Twist your tongue with some Tongue Twisters! Students in my communication classes receive a list of Tongue Twisters as an exercise in articulation and pronunciation. While the students receive a printed list to practice from, this video is for reference in pronunciation. Students should listen to the native speaker pronunciation and articulation then record themselves…

Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom

Updating a post from a few years ago, on 26 December 2007, I presented a workshop on "Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom" to senior students in an elite English program at Taipei First Girls High School, the top girls high school in Taiwan. The program is an adaptation of one I have presented elsewhere in…

MONROE MOTIVATED ACTIVATION SEQUENCE ~ Persuasion Process ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

ATTENDANCE POLICIES ~ NCCU Students ~ Video Discussion

As most regular readers here know, I teach various classes from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, where I am an Associate Professor. In the following video, Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses ATTENDANCE POLICIES for his courses at National Chengchi University. This brief talk is essentially the same information as…

TIME PRESSURE ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

CREDIBILITY ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

Realm of LARP Complete Unreality Series!

Nerdist has produced a digital ton of programs and the like for nerds . . . it had to happen sooner or later, but they eventually shone their light on Live Action Roleplaying and created REALM OF LARP, an unreality series about LARPers and their passion. For your viewing pleasure . . . here is…

PLEASE & THANK YOU ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

THE NAME GAME ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

LARPing as Therapy

Kristin Brumley (https://www.youtube.com/user/OrlySunja) has begun a fascinating new series which will become regular live online conference sessions via Google Hangouts on Youtube in which she is gathering a group of LARPing experts to discuss various topics. In this particular LIVE Google Hangout of 26 March 2014, they had a discussion on how LARPing and RPGs…

SECRETS ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

DYSTOPIA Edition of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About LARP (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Here we go . . . DYSTOPIA ROLEPLAY AND INTERACTIVE DRAMA! Okay, this video thingie is yet another sequel to an earlier video I shared (here) and it’s followup (here) and like the earlier version, this one is also cute and a half while addressing some intriguing issues such as Dystopia in Interactive Drama or…

BECAUSE ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video

As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…

Hierarchy of Motives

Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the HIERARCHY OF MOTIVES or the Hierarchy of Needs that essentially looks at what drives human behavior as based upon the work of Abraham Maslow. As students of the assorted communication and influence courses I teach at the university or various institutes are well aware, if you can peg someone’s…

The Monomyth: Mythic Structure or the Hero’s Journey Model

Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the MYTHIC STRUCTURE or the Monomyth or the Hero’s Journey Model of literature, film, and psychological transformation as adapted from the work of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. Students in my literature and film courses as well as a number of other courses that I teach at the university or various…

Ars Amandi: An Introduction to Love and Physical Intimacy Mechanics for Interactive Drama LARPS

Here we go . . . An Introduction to ARS AMANDI with Emily Care Boss, Lizzie Stark, and Sarah Lynne Bowman Okay, this video thingie is a more formalized continuation of intimacy and love simulation in interactive drama that we have seen from a few earlier videos I have shared and like the earlier pieces,…

Student Poetry Recitals

Students in my Communication and Broadcasting Journalism courses at the university present readings of selected poems as part of the Poetry Recital Project. The poems were chosen by the students and had to be of one to two minutes in length. To my students: you should watch the video of yourself and note strengths and…