Links

Learning on the Brain

(learning/relearning/unlearning)

 

Dr. Joanie Farley Gillispie
http://medialiteracyandcyberculture.com or contact Dr. Joanie at: drjoanie@hotmail.com.

 
 

Berkeley City College
https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu

 
 

Berkeley City College
Multimedia Arts Department and Programs
https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/multimedia

 
 

SEPUP
Science Education for Public Understanding Program,
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley.
http://www.sepuplhs.org

 
 

SEPUP
Bubonic Plague video clip:
http://www.sepuplhs.org/movies/odys08_vid_bubonic_350.mov

 
 

KQED Education Network
Media literacy resources
http://www.kqed.org/education/digitalmedia/media-literacy.jsp

 
 

PBS Independent Lens
“Please Vote for Me” video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEB-uH49AQ

 
 

APA Stress Link
American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/topics/topicstress.html

 
 

BioDot® Skin Thermometers
http://www.biodots.net

 
 

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
From the University of North Carolina
Dr. Richard Felder
felder@ncsu.edu

 

 Complete the test, click submit, and then explore the Learning Style explanations.
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

 
 

Howard Gardner’s Theories of Multiple Intelligences
Organized by Alan Chapman, Leicester, England, Business Balls Website
ac@alanchapman.com

Click on the first test (self-calculating) then save to disc and browse the explanations. http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm#multiple%20intelligences%20tests

 
 

TED Conference Sound Bytes: Whole Brain Living

 

 TED Conferences on YouTube – Technology, Entertainment, & Design
http://conferences.ted.com/TED2009/program/speakers.php

 
 

 
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Creativity & Fear: What Are We Put on this Earth To Do?”
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
(see also Amy Tan)

 
 

Jill Taylor
“Dreams, Delusion, and Reality: Stroke of Insight”
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

 
 

 Lawrence Lessig User
“Generated Content on Your Mind: How the Law Strangles Creativity”
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

 
 

 
Mattieu Ricard, Molecular Biologist-Buddhist Monk
“The Habits of Happiness”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_habits_of_happiness.html

 
 

Yale University
Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org/subjects/psychology

 
 

McGill University
The Brain
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_i.html

 
 

University of Michigan
What is Psychology?
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/umichpsychclips/introducing_psychology

 
 

JOLT – Journal of Online Teaching and Learning
http://jolt.merlot.org/

 
 
 

 Mind Mapping

 

Tony Buzan
“Thinking Tool”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ

 
 

John Medina
“Brain Rules”
http://www.brainrules.net/

 
 

Dr. Oliver Sacks
NOVA on PBS
Neurologist, best-selling author of “Awakenings” and “Musicophilia”, and inspiration for the NOVA documentary “Musical Minds”, Oliver Sacks believes musical training should be a part of early education because of music’s huge effect on the brain.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/musicminds/

 
 

Stephen Pierce
“Mind Mapping to Retain What You Read”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnbKEHOQIY

 
 

mind42
Free browser-based mind mapping tool
http://www.mind42.com/

 
 

FreeMind
Free mind mapping software written in Java
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

 
 
 
 

 Media Literacy

  

 

 National Association of Media Literacy Education
http://www.namle.net

 
 

 
Media Literacy Curriculum Model
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/media_literacy/perfect_curriculum_1.cfm

 
 

Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/

 
 

“Steal this Film”
Culture as Copying
http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part1/

 
 

 
John Suler, Rider University
“The Psychology of Cyberspace”
http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

 
 

 
Spike Lee
“You Choose the Best Babelgum”
Babelgum Online Film Festival
http://www.babelgum.com/

 
 

Internet Memes
“An interactive view of the all the memes that swept across the internet and burrowed in our zeitgeist. Built from Wikipedia and Memelabs, open for you to add and maintain”
http://www.dipity.com/tatercakes/internet_memes/