Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Literacy Blog: Virtual Reality Games Help Stroke Patients Recover...
The Literacy Blog: Virtual Reality Games Help Stroke Patients Recover...: "Virtual Reality Games Help Stroke Patients Recover Motor Functions A new study suggests that virtual reality and other video games involvin..."
Virtual Reality Games Help Stroke Patients Recover Motor Functions
A new study suggests that virtual reality and other video games involving motion can enhance motor improvement after a stroke (SharpBrains.com 2011).
The Stroop Test is a perfect example of testing your attention ability. The Stroop test is used in neuropsychological evaluations to measure mental vitality and flexibility, since performing well requires strong attention and self-regulation capability.
What you do is read the colour you see in every word not the word you read. Go!!!!!!
This is a fun warm up activity to do with your class or if you home school. It really is gym for the brain.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Literacy Blog: Say No to Bullying in the Workplace, Online, at Sc...
The Literacy Blog: Say No to Bullying in the Workplace, Online, at Sc...: "Here in Australia, the Victorian government recently passed a law that makes bullying in the workplace illegal. http://www.abc.net.au/news/..."
Say No to Bullying in the Workplace, Online, at School, Everywhere!
Here in Australia, the Victorian government recently passed a law that makes bullying in the workplace illegal.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/04/05/3183259.htm
Workplace bullies in Victoria will face up to 10 years in jail under changes to stalking laws to be introduced to the State Parliament.
Facebook has also recently announced changes to their social networking site to help keep children safe from online bullying. Young users will be able to request two passwords to make it harder to sign in to their account and have their session encrypted so their movements on the site cannot be intercepted.
Let's stomp out bullies in the workplace, schools, online, everywhere!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/04/05/3183259.htm
Workplace bullies in Victoria will face up to 10 years in jail under changes to stalking laws to be introduced to the State Parliament.
Facebook has also recently announced changes to their social networking site to help keep children safe from online bullying. Young users will be able to request two passwords to make it harder to sign in to their account and have their session encrypted so their movements on the site cannot be intercepted.
Let's stomp out bullies in the workplace, schools, online, everywhere!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
The Literacy Blog: Discipline-How and When to Praise your child
The Literacy Blog: Discipline-How and When to Praise your child: "Hi Everyone, Today I thought I would talk about 'praise' as a positive form of discipline. Experts say that for every negative comment,..."
Discipline-How and When to Praise your child
Hi Everyone,
Today I thought I would talk about 'praise' as a positive form of discipline. Experts say that for every negative comment, you need 10 positive comments in order to counteract the fall out from that one negative comment. So the question remains, how often do you praise your children? One important thing to remember is to be mindful and aware of their behaviour all the time so that when something good is happening, you can jump in and praise that good behaviour. What 'good' behaviour means is actually another huge topic I could perhaps address another time.
Mark Hutton has an online parenting site with some good tips on praising your child. Have a look and let me know what you think. The link is here
http://www.onlineparentingcoach.com/2011/04/how-to-use-praise-effective-parenting.html
Cheers
Christine
Today I thought I would talk about 'praise' as a positive form of discipline. Experts say that for every negative comment, you need 10 positive comments in order to counteract the fall out from that one negative comment. So the question remains, how often do you praise your children? One important thing to remember is to be mindful and aware of their behaviour all the time so that when something good is happening, you can jump in and praise that good behaviour. What 'good' behaviour means is actually another huge topic I could perhaps address another time.
Mark Hutton has an online parenting site with some good tips on praising your child. Have a look and let me know what you think. The link is here
http://www.onlineparentingcoach.com/2011/04/how-to-use-praise-effective-parenting.html
Cheers
Christine
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