Don't forget! - Template. Print Email Details Written by Melanie Day Published: 06 September 2011 I first saw the idea to print on post-it notes on Kristen's blog "Inkablinka"....
(here). It got me thinking it would be fun to make little post-it note handouts for various reasons. 3 x 3 Template - Click here 2 x 1.5 template - Click hereSTEP 1 - Open your file and print it BEFORE you start working on the file. STEP 2 - Keep the same file open and type your message or notes in the first box. STEP 3 - Before you print, put a post it note on each box of your template. STEP 4 - Finished! Let's say you've printed a set of notes as a reminder for an activity, choir practice, etc. Don't forget template 1 - [doc] [docx] Don't forget template 2 - [doc] [docx] Don't forget template 3 - [doc] [docx] Graphic Organizers. Thinking & Learning. Digital Games for Brains. By: Alvaro Fernandez The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) just announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research teams to study how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes (both brain-based and behavioral).
The press release: Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players’ Health “Digital games are interactive and experiential, and so they can engage people in powerful ways to enhance learning and health behavior change, especially when they are designed on the basis of well-researched strategies,” said (UC Santa Barbara’s Dr. Debra) Lieberman. All 9 studies sound interesting, 3 of them are closer to what we track: University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA) A Video Game to Enhance Cognitive Health in Older Adults. The press release: Here. More information: Health Games Research.
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It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all. The Memory Palace has been used since ancient Rome, and is responsible for some quite incredible memory feats. Eight-time world memory champion Dominic O’Brien, for instance, was able to memorize 54 decks of cards in sequence (that’s 2808 cards), viewing each card only once. And there are countless other similar achievements attributed to people using the Memory Palace technique or variations of it. Even in fiction, there are several references to the technique. Of course, most of us are not in Dominic’s memory championship line of business (or in Hannibal’s line of business for that matter). The Memory Palace The Memory Palace technique is based on the fact that we’re extremely good at remembering places we know. Improve Your Memory by Speaking Your Mind’s Language.
By learning the language your mind uses, you’ll be able to tap into your mind’s full potential and develop a remarkable memory.
It’s easier than you think – and you’ll actually have fun doing it. Your Mind Thinks in Pictures Along its evolution, the brain has become amazingly effective in dealing with sensory data. It is by correctly interpreting the five senses that the mind understands the environment and takes decisions. Among the human senses, sight has become the most sophisticated and developed of all. Imagery is the real language of the mind.
If I ask you to think about a horse, what comes to your mind? Visual Thinking and Memory To fully illustrate the astonishing effect that images have on your memory, let’s walk through a basic memorization technique called memory pegging. Before getting to the technique, let me give you a simple challenge: memorize a groceries list of ten items. Baconeggswinebatteriesbubble gummilkenvelopesspinachcoffeetomato.