Build Your Own Brain Gym: 100 Tools, Exercises, and Games | Healthcare Administration Degree Posted by Site Administrator in Health Tools May 28th, 2009 By Meredith Walker Stay on top of your game mentally and slow the effects of aging on your brain by keeping it in excellent shape. It’s easy to do and costs little to no money with all the resources available on the Internet. The following tools, exercises, and games will stimulate your brain and give it the exercise it needs to stay in top form. Mental Exercises These mental exercises can be done every day to ensure your brain gets the necessary work-out. BrainMetrix. Physical Exercises These physical exercises will help keep your brain working at its peak. BrainGym Exercises. Online Brain Games The online games listed here are designed specially for working out your brain. Strategy Games. Especially for Seniors Stimulating the brain is known to slow dementia and keep the aging brain in great shape. Brain Age. Word Games and Puzzles Thinks.com Jigsaw Puzzles. Riddles Riddles. Trivia Useful Trivia. Learning Tools Instructables.
Teaching Carnival 4.1 Here at ProfHacker, we devote about one-third of our posts (and our time) to teaching-related issues and activities. Our posts have covered, among other things, pedagogy, students, colleagues, tips, tricks, books, and lectures. We understand the importance of teaching in higher education. Nevertheless, we are not the only ones who understand it. At ProfHacker, we believe in collaboration in and the sharing of knowledge. Back in April, George Williams (re)introduced ProfHacker readers to the Teaching Carnival, a round-up containing teaching related posts from around the blogosphere, or, what George has termed, “a traveling collection of constantly updated links to blog entries about teaching in higher education.” In that spirit of collaboration, the Teaching Carnival is back. OK, there have been many busy bloggers at the beginning of this semester. Several bloggers considered the beginning of the semester in their posts: Whew! Return to Top
Martin Scorsese Sunar: Görmeniz Gereken 85 Film Oscar töreni yaklaşıyor. Malumunuz Martin Scorsese’nin son filmi Hugo en iyi film ve en iyi yönetmen dahil tam 11 dalda aday gösterildi. Hollywood’un en etkili yönetmenlerinden biri olan Scorsese, Fast Company adlı derginin Aralık-Ocak sayısına verdiği röportajda kendisini en çok etkileyen filmleri listeledi. Scorsese, röportaj esnasında seçtiği filmlerden bazıları hakkında görüşlerini bildirmiş, bazıları hakkında da o filmlerle ilgili anektodlar anlatmış. Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder): “Bu Billy Wilder filmi sinizminde o kadar sert ve acımasızdı ki gişede feci şekilde başarısızlığa uğradı. All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk): Bu Douglas Sirk melodramında Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman’ın canlandırdığı sosyetik dula aşık olan bir bahçıvanı oynar. America, America (1963, Elia Kazan): Elia Kazan’ın ailesinin hikayesinden direkt olarak alınan film, 19. yüzyılın sonunda Yunan göçmenlerin karşılaştığı zorlukları anlatan tutkulu ve yoğun bir manzara sunar. Cape Fear (1962, J. Mr. Mr.
Top Ten Links Week 45: Dealing with a Bad Day, National Ed Tech Plan, Technology Training, Visualization and More My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 11/5/2010 through 11/11/2010. For the record I had a very hard time choosing only 10 this week. In no particular order: 1. Love this idea! RT @BaranCLE: How to Destroy Your Past Lives by @evbogue This post centers around the idea – “We evolve into new and better individuals every single day. ” As someone who works hard to evolve into better versions of me I also struggle with letting go of the old me too. The choice though is this: will you continue to build up your energy in order to focus on the person you were back then? 2. great post! Focus on outcomesUse people within your communityWork with local businessTalk about successes 3. 4. very cool visualization RT @andypowe11: nice “what mobile really means” mindmap by @m1ke_ellis for #cetis10 5. 6. very cool really. check it out. “Draw how the Internet works” That was the assignment John Britton gave his School of Webcraft class, “Web 200: Anatomy of a Request.” 7. 8. 10.
Answer to Intelligence: What are the most productive ways to spend time on the Internet? librarians are awesome I was recently invited to participate in an awesome literacy project, and I wanted to share an excerpt from my contribution: I want to take a moment and say thank you to librarians, because it was a librarian who made me fall in love with reading. In third or fourth grade, part of our curriculum was a monthly trip to a local library in Tujunga, California. Libraries are constantly under attack from people who fear knowledge, politicians who think guns are more important than books, and people who want to ensure that multi-millionaires pocket even more money.
some library love links from astronauts and actors and poets and fans Sometimes it’s a good thin to remember that libraries have big imacts on people who do big things. The ripple effect is hard to quantify, but it’s a good thing to remember. From my inbox Ronald McNair was one of the astronuauts killed in the Challenger explosion 25 years ago. g