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26 Apr 09

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb

    • Tell stories. Venus Flytrap, a character from the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, once taught a student gang member about atoms, electrons, and protons by saying that an atom was one big neighborhood, and the protons and neutrons had their own smaller neighborhoods and never mixed. Just like rival gangs. The story worked, and understanding sparked in the students eyes.
  • Go beyond the public school curriculum. The public school system is woefully lacking in teaching advanced learning and brainstorming methods. It's not that the methods cannot be taught; they just aren't. To learn more, you have to pay a premium in additional time and effort, and sometimes money for commercially available learning tools. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, but what is taught in schools needs to be expanded. This article's author has proven that a nine-year old can learn (some) university level math, if the learning is approached correctly.
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17 Mar 08

YouTube - Google Advanced Search Techniques (series)

  • Good-looking series of YouTube vids on advanced Google search techniques.
    - cburell on 2008-03-17
30 Dec 07

Bafta 60 Seconds - home

60 second film competition with advice from top British directors.

www1.orange.co.uk/60secondsoffame - Preview

digitalstorytelling editing education film howto tutorial

20 Nov 07

Blogging Tips for Beginners

  • A great place to start for new bloggers, students included.
    - cburell on 2007-11-20
04 Nov 07

Animation For Education- scrapblog.com

  • Great claymation tutorials (and they use iSight webcam to film them).
    - cburell on 2007-11-04

Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere - washingtonpost.com

  • Good beginners advice, and a nifty handout for students - WaPo gives blogging some legitimacy.
    - cburell on 2007-11-04
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