Curated OER
How Does Your Memory Work? Part 2/3
Here, in part two, the BBC video on memory picks up right where it left off in part one (originally this was most likely one thirty-minute video). We begin by following a man who was born prematurely and is not able to recall his past...
Curated OER
How Does Your Memory Work? Part 3/3
The BBC production on memory continues in part three. Picking up right after the connection between forming memories and ruminating on the future, we follow John and his inability to mentally "time travel." Memory gives you more than...
Crash Course
How We Make Memories
The final lecture in a 13-part Crash Course in psychology examines memory, the "chain that connects our past to our present." How the brain works and how we access short-term, long-term memory, and working memory, as well as remembering...
Curated OER
Mnemonics
Are your students trying to memorize facts? Presidents? Or definitions? Use this video to teach students about mnemonics, a way to help students memorize. He focuses on acronyms and physical devices.
Curated OER
The Story of Bill Gates
A computer on every desk, and in every home, running Microsoft software. This slogan seemed like a crazy vision in the mid 1980s ,but as this brief look at the early days of Microsoft shows, Bill Gates and his pals were on to something.