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What Lectures actually achieve

Posted March 16th, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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Lectures have limits when used for education.

Lectures are a great way to share information. However they are not as effective as discussions for getting learners to think, develop attitudes or change behaviors.

Why Lectures?
In politics lectures are called speeches. In faith institutions lectures are called sermons. In colleges and universities lectures are called teaching. Most conferences begin with a cornerstone lecture often called a general session keynote.

New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom

Posted March 5th, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states , including frustration and boredom, has been developed by University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Psychology Sidney D'Mello, Art Graesser from the University of Memphis and a colleague from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
D'Mello also is a concurrent assistant professor of computer science and engineering.

Technology: Ideal In Its Place EVENTCAMP VANCOUVER

Posted November 13th, 2011 by maarten.vannest...
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Host Committee Member, EventCamp Producer Tahira Endean, CMP.  
As we began planning EventCamp Vancouver there was an overriding sense that this would follow the model that focused on innovation, Social Media and technology, following the vision laid out when these began.

Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

Posted February 11th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.

Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal Cues Enhance Visual Detection

Posted July 26th, 2010 by parbuckle
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Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the object.

More Balls Than Most Acrobat Act at IMEX. Visit the stand D730

Posted May 6th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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MSI Booth at IMEX. D730. 
A spectacularly dazzling opening to an event, training programme, symposium or corporate party that both explains the theme and sticks in your mind. 

Luise Maria Sommer

Posted July 5th, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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In highly interactive seminars, Luise M. Sommer first stuns her audience with some live memory experiments by spontaneously memorizing names, facts and/or figures presented to her by her audience. After having successfully passed this ‘entrance exam’, Luise M. Sommer then involves the participants in unexpected interactive exercises full of humor and surprise where they get to know the most important tools for enhancing their own memory power.

4 Best Practices for Getting Presenters to Submit Their Materials

Posted June 18th, 2010 by mireia.iglesias
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When it comes to getting things done on time, it’s not easy. It’s in our nature to wait until the last minute to do even the most important things like Christmas shopping or doing our taxes. And, there are many things in life we commit to, yet don’t follow through on such as: helping people move, paying bills on time or just walking the dog. We’re human, what can you expect?

Andrea Driessen. Chief Boredom Buster

Posted June 23rd, 2011 by mireia.iglesias
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Andrea Driessen, Chief Boredom Buster at No More Boring Meetings, has been serving the speaking industry for over 20 years.

She and her team transform status-quo meetings into engaging, rip-roaring events that boost productivity and motivation. Audiences are fully awake and able to learn all they need to be more effective and productive.

How Does Alcohol Affect Memory? Study Offers New Insight

Posted April 25th, 2011 by parbuckle
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Drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better, says a new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin. 

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