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Where, Oh Where, Should Content On A Screen Go?

Association eLearning

That probably made your brain hurt. Overall Blog. On the web, readers tend to skim text in an F-shaped pattern, rather than reading word-for-word. Now imagine what it would be like with graphics and interactions sprinkled in too. It’s frightening, but it does happen. Here’s the same content with a better treatment. Introduction.

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Visuals and Visual Thinking

Association eLearning

And there are lots of articles floating around that discuss how much faster the human brain can supposedly process images than it can process words. When they’re used effectively, visuals can distil content down into recognizable symbols, colors, patterns, shapes, etc. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words. Simplification.

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Break Out the Crayons – Your Brain Needs to Color!

Learningtogo

There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill. This entailed filling in the black and white illustrations in the book with any colors you wanted.

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Twitter’s Impact on Your Brain-Same as Bilingualism

Kapp Notes

Studies on infant brains have shown that knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity, but this becomes even more important as people get older. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.

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The Music of Your Sphere – The Multiple Ways Your Brain is Wired for Music

Learningtogo

While he didn’t have the benefit of today’s brain imaging technology, he just may have been right. Human brains interpret waves that fall between 20 to 20,000 Hz as sound. The vibration, usually carried by the air, enters our ear, eventually stimulates the auditory nerve , which sends a signal to the brain.

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Time to Create Branching Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

It’s strong for the eyes but weak for the brain. However, since that was a project for my blog and not an actual client, I’d assume a few more hours for planning and revision as an actual project. Cathy Moore has discussed the cost of eye candy in scenarios. The cost of eye candy is often a too-easy activity.

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The Ceiling Effect: How the Height of Your Ceiling Affects Brain Performance

Learningtogo

Now I’m returning to architecture again, to share how ceiling height can affect the way your brain processes information. Neuroscience was a very new concept at the time, so it is no surprise that this enlightening paper mentions “processing” and “stimuli” at least 73 times each but never once mentions the brain or neural connections.

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