Beef Up Your Brain and other Assorted Edutweets

by Jeff Cobb

Time for another round of linky learning via Mission to Learn on Twitter. Seems we had the mind on our mind this time around. Enjoy.

The Human Mind & Learning

Top five ways to beef up your brain: http://bit.ly/rhU8F
Daniel Goleman on building willpower, neuroplasticity http://bit.ly/19iTuX
Why is it hard to “unlearn” an incorrect fact? http://bit.ly/Sae7G
50 tips to improve memory http://bit.ly/gt3eB
Do we learn more from success than failure? http://bit.ly/BpDcG
4 Steps to Mindfulness: http://bit.ly/bvMDh
10 Questions for Your Reflective Practice: http://bit.ly/19qvy8
New Mission to Learn post on improving and maintaining memory: http://bit.ly/qPGhX #

Cool Tools & Resources

15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps: http://bit.ly/196Aqe #
Just came across http://www.charityhowto.com/ – site with video training for nonprofits. Looks good #learningmonitor #
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life via BoingBoing: http://bit.ly/rLruD
4 sites to get good free advice online: http://bit.ly/mciTd
10 simple ways to back up your life. http://bit.ly/18SNZn Hit home, given that I recently lost quite a bit due to not backing up properly.
The Ultimate Self Education Reading List http://bit.ly/4rRAd8 #learningmonitor
New M2L post 7 Language Learning Widget Sources http://bit.ly/3357jg #languages
5 TED Talks on Science that Will Blow Your Mind http://bit.ly/eUL2U #learningmonitor
RT @bookoven: @LibriVox now has a catalog of 2,500 (!) free, public domain audiobooks: http://librivox.org #learningmonitor

Health & Medical

10 Free Online First Aid Resources – Learn to Save a Life! New M2L post – http://bit.ly/poLCZ
The King Kong List for Feee Medical Online Resources from @zaidlearn http://bit.ly/8S2k3 #learningmonitor

Learning News

Duke professor uses crowdsourcing to grade – via Digg http://bit.ly/1hs34F
via @openednews Creative Commons launches DiscoverEd http://bit.ly/OyOjb
A little trivia fun on Mission to Learn: http://bit.ly/11Bb6a
Open Courseware Consortium Webinar series http://bit.ly/3tqbMb via @openednews #learningmonitor

Serious Games

Top 100 Learning Game Resources http://bit.ly/IHKVe #learningmonitor
Survey of electronic games that teach: http://www.wingz2fly.com/Ga… via epistemic games
The CEO Game: A Serious Business Game http://www.theceogame.com/ #learningmonitor
Will Wright on educational gaming: http://bit.ly/9Pq5X

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