8 Articles match "John Medina","Presentation"

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• Brain Rules - John Medina
  
  Dr John Medina’s an eccentric, he’s also an academic, an American academic, and therefore not scared of getting his message out to practitioners. The ten minute drop off in attention in lectures/presentations should lead to lectures and presentations being bootstrapped at ten minute intervals through interaction, emotional or other attention-demanding events. Enough said. STRESS Rule 8: Stressed brains If only this were true in the UK. His book is readable, full of good examples and not short on serious research.
  Donald Clark Plan B - Monday, March 2, 2009
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• John Medina's "Brain Rules"
  
  John Medina - source: John Medina's web site "Toss your PowerPoint presentations. Burn your current PowerPoint presentations and make new ones." I enjoyed John Medina's excellently implemented, thoroughly referenced, browsable and entertaining Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School partly because it complemented some of my prejudices. I did my teacher-training in 1976-1977, and the proportion of the 1-year It's (sic) text-based (nearly 40 words per per slide), with six hierarchical levels
  Fortnightly Mailing - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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• How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace
  
  One study by John Medina showed that "adults with chronically high stress levels performed 50% worse on certain cognitive tests than adults with low stress." Cheryl Dolan is an Executive Coach and Speech/Language Pathologist, specializing in Leadership, Presentation, Communication and Creativity. Workplace bullying directly impacts the bottom line by affecting productivity, wellness (with subsequent rise in employer benefit costs), attrition, attraction and retention. Other studies estimate the financial costs of this lost productivity (at work) at more than $200 billion
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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• Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target.
  
  But waiting for people to change doesn't give you much control in the present. Men who do the same thing are often praised as decisive," says John Medina . Cheryl Dolan is an Executive Coach and Speech/Language Pathologist, specializing in Leadership, Presentation, Communication and Creativity. The total jobless rate in the US is 10.2%, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . As the number of employees dwindles, companies are requiring fewer people to do more work, burdening an already stressed workforce.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, November 19, 2009
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• Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box
  
  Dr John Medina Out of the box At a Futurelab conference, while I waited to give a keynote talk, the organiser gave us all a piece of card, which you could fold up into a box. Dr John Medina had trialled spaced practice with mathematics, showing powerful increases in learning, by repeating practice later in the afternoon after morning sessions. Contrast this with the rather " If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. And if you wanted to change
  Donald Clark Plan B - Thursday, February 12, 2009
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• Brain Rules
  
  The closing keynote at DevLearn 08 by John Medina, author of Brain Rules , knocked my socks off. Read John’s book, but in the meanwhile you might want to ponder this shaky video I shot from the front row. Also, see John’s book site . Memory is not what you thought it was. “Immediate 8220;Immediate memory” holds onto things for 30 seconds. “Working
  Internet Time - Saturday, November 15, 2008
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• Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009
  
  This sounds a bit like a sale pitch, so I have to warn you in advance, there are a lot of other solar panels for different equipments out there. Brain rules #3 - Clive on Learning , April 1, 2009 Rule 3: Every brain is wired differently In this chapter, John Medina explains how every brain is different from every other: "When you learn something, the wiring in your brain changes." "What 2. Prezi goes live - Clive on Learning , April 6, 2009 Prezi is the most exciting new presentation aid I've seen in ages and today sees its formal launch. Coming back after a week of being mostly disconnected I'm woefully behind on email and even more so on my reading.
  eLearning Technology - Monday, April 13, 2009
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• Learning to Work, Working to Learn
  
  At the moment, my book wish list includes: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Cliff Atkinson) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) (John Medina) From Training to Performance Improvement (Jeanne Farrington) via Harold Jarche Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) (Robin Williams) Principles of Instructional Design (Robert Gagne) Be sure to check out Essential Reading
  Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 2009
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