Brain Cues

Today is my Dad’s 83rd birthday! As some of you may know, my Dad has Alzheimer’s and resides in a nursing home some twenty minutes from where we live. Today is also a snow day, causing our December vacation to begin one day early! And today my eighth post for SharpBrains was published. I have written extensively about the Learning & the Brain conference, and my Sharp article discusses how some of the recent conference content applies to education.  

Neuroplasticity and the Brain That Changes Itself

SharpBrains post seven, with some thoughts about how plasticity and professional development are related.

Zull, Kolb & the Cycle of Learning

Take a gander as to what this Wordle is about. It contains all the text in my most recent SharpBrains blog post.

Summer to School: Schedules that Segue

Sharpbrains.com post number five! I’m curious to know what those of you who are teachers think about the content of this piece. Please feel free to leave your comments here or there.

What do YOU think it’s about?

Am pleased to point you to my third SharpBrains guest post.

Wait!

Before you click that link to check out the post, scope out the words below and take a gander at what YOU think the post is about.

A Sharp Post

Oh my gosh, I am a guest blogger! Well, I’ve written one post and it’s too early to know if this will continue, but for now please feel free to pop over to SharpBrains.com and check out 10 Brain Tips That Help Me Teach…and Learn.

It was an interesting process writing a post to be published elsewhere. I had a tough time getting started and Alvaro kindly gave me some topic suggestions, which helped get my flow going.

The curious part was maintaining my voice while trying to take into consideration the readers of the SharpBrains blog.

Both for SharpBrains and Neurons Firing, I’d like to work on keeping my style while whittling down some of my wordiness. A student sent me a link to a recent Slate article, Lazy Eyes – How We Read Online, which makes some helpful and entertaining points about not only how we read online text, but also about the usefulness of blogging. Ahem, a quoted source in the article is not a fan of blogging, however, the points on how text should best be formatted for reading online are well taken (though that doesn’t mean I’m going to always follow them )