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This web site was created to help teachers and students learn memory strategies and the history behind them. From this site you can be linked to other web sites that will help you understand how certain strategies, mnemonics, and learning styles work and their criticisms.
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1. The Art of Memory: This site takes you back to the time of Cicero. Cicero believed that memory was an art created by an earlier poet named Simonides. This site traces this new art from the time of Cicero through the Medieval time period. The page also gives the beginnings of mnemonics and how they were started. This is a good site to use when doing research on the Art of Memory.2. Braindancing for Students: This site talks about the new strategy for memory, metalearning. This site gives simple instructions and a brief history and development lesson on different kinds of memory strategies. This site will also lead you to information concerning the new book BrainDancing.
3. The Memory Page: This site was created by Kevin Jay North to teach the art of memorizing. He gives specifics on how to memorize verbal lists, the periodic table of elements, and Bible scripture along with other printed passages. This is a great tool for students just beginning to actively memorize certain things in school.
4. MindTools: This page gives you access to powerful methods for significantly improving the power of your memory. It also shows how you memorize things when you are playing cards or dealing with numbers.
5. Mnemonic Memory System: This site is full of Mnemonics and how they work. Mnemonics is a word that simply means 'A Memory Aid', and this System is just that, it will enhance your memory. It is a whole style of learning that is easy to use, because it is more natural to your brain than the way that you are probably using right now.
This site was created by Christa Marie Sanders for Dr. Bruce Lewis,
Educational Psychology, FHU. Last updated November 15, 1999.