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Daydream: Daydream: It is essential for the creative hemisphere of our brain.

It is not lack of concentration!It is not lack of concentration!

Dream: Dream: Try to catch your dreams, jot them jot them

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Play Creative Games Play Creative Games

Tell jokes and stories: Tell jokes and stories: Make up yours!Make up yours!

Think of “Six impossible Think of “Six impossible things before breakfast”things before breakfast”

Game of associations:Game of associations: Da Da VinciVinci said that we can find a connectionconnection between two objects, regardless their nature

Entails the capacity to understand oneself, to to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivationsappreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations.

Talk to Yourself: Talk to Yourself: Watch your internal internal dialogsdialogs

Be your BF (Best Friend): Be your BF (Best Friend): If you are If you are not, take care of yourself and be happy. not, take care of yourself and be happy.

Express your feelings:Express your feelings: Say “I love “I love

you” and “Thank you” you” and “Thank you” more often. Silence: Silence: Take at least 10 minutes each at least 10 minutes each

day. day. It is worth it

Empower your MIEmpower your MI

It is concerned with the capacity to to understand the intentions, motivations understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. and desires of other people. Educators,

salespeople, religious and political leaders, all need a well-developed

interpersonal intelligence.

Remember that Remember that each individual is important and uniqueimportant and unique

IntensifyIntensify your cultural agenda: Theaters and film libraries Theaters and film libraries

Learn from the best: Learn from the best: Make a Mind Mind Map about the common traits of Map about the common traits of the top ten communicatorsthe top ten communicators

Listen more, speak lessListen more, speak less

Hold on…Hold on…

First:First:Take a deep breath… Take a deep breath…

StopStop

Now:Now:Sorry to interrupt, but…Sorry to interrupt, but…

Felt stale, bored or… stuck for ideas while you're sitting at your desk?

Have you everHave you ever

Fresh air... Fresh air... provides more oxygen to the brain. It uses It uses 21% of the body's oxygen.21% of the body's oxygen.

Animals, birds, plants and Animals, birds, plants and scenery scenery may stir new ideas new ideas about projects.about projects.

The mind relaxes in an The mind relaxes in an environment with less environment with less stressstress. Stress actually shuts Stress actually shuts down the brain's capacity down the brain's capacity to reason and problem-solve.

Movement... Movement... stimulates stimulates blood flow to the brainblood flow to the brain, which enhances the oxygen supply.

Spatial IntelligenceSpatial Intelligence

Are we lost? Women tend to describe Are we lost? Women tend to describe directions as ‘right of’ and ‘left of’ landmarks, directions as ‘right of’ and ‘left of’ landmarks, while men are better at reading maps, a study while men are better at reading maps, a study

foundsfounds

Spatial IntelligenceSpatial IntelligenceInvolves the potential to

recognize and use the the patterns of wide space and patterns of wide space and

more confined areasmore confined areas

Scribble, draw, design web Scribble, draw, design web pagespages

Design rooms, make cards, Design rooms, make cards, create logos, map outcreate logos, map outroutes, mind mappingroutes, mind mapping

Play poolPlay pool

And dance too!And dance too!

More tipsMore tipsMen: Men: Do not stop playing Do not stop playing

videogamesvideogames

And women please,And women please,

Have you ever used music at work to jack up productivity or change your mood?

Some rhythms. Some rhythms. such as such as baroque, induce baroque, induce enzymes in the enzymes in the brain and add brain and add amazing well amazing well being and being and focus.  Other focus.  Other tunes leave you tunes leave you punchy … and punchy … and unable to focusunable to focus.

According to Howard Gardner, musical According to Howard Gardner, musical intelligence runs in an almost structural intelligence runs in an almost structural

parallel to linguistic intelligence.parallel to linguistic intelligence.

Gregorian chant creates quiet in our minds and can reduce stress.Slower Baroque music, such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi or Corelli, can create mentally stimulating environments for creativity and new innovations.Classical music, such as Haydn and Mozart, often improves concentration and memory when played in the background.Romantic music, such as Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky , Chopin and Liszt, enhances our senses and increases a sense of sympathy and love.Impressionist music, such as Debussy, Faure and Ravel, can unlock dreamlike images that put us in touch with our unconscious thoughts and belief systems.Jazz, blues, soul or calypso music can uplift and inspire us, releasing deep joy or even deep sadness, conveying wit and affirming our common humanity.Salsa, rhumba, merengue and any form of South American music sets our hearts racing, gets us moving, both relaxing us and awakening us at the same time.Big band, Top 40 and country music engage our emotions and comfort us.Rock music, from Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones, stirs passion and activity, and so can release daily tensions. Rock can also mask pain and cover up unpleasant noises. It also has the power to create dissonance, stress or physical pain if we are not in the mood for energizing.Ambient or New Age music such as Stephen Halpern and Brian Eno has no dominant rhythm, so it elongates the sense of space and time, inducing a state of relaxed alertness.Heavy metal and hip-hop music excites our nervous system, and sometimes leads us into acting out dynamic behavior and self-expression.

Psychologist Don Campbell’s list

BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE

Entails the potential of using one's one's whole body or parts of the body to whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. solve problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements.

Play sports, enjoy Play sports, enjoy movement, movement, walk on walk on tours, notice body tours, notice body language language

Swim regularly, play Swim regularly, play basketball, or do basketball, or do pilates pilates to get your heart beating fast.

Girls, listen up:“A new study confirms that exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the production of neural stem cells stem cells in the hippocampus of the brain”

It makes us

younger!

How do you ensure all of your students' How do you ensure all of your students' intelligences are being tapped? Here is a list intelligences are being tapped? Here is a list of activities that speak to each intelligenceof activities that speak to each intelligence.

Verbal-Verbal-LinguisticLinguistic

Visual-SpatialVisual-Spatial Bodily-Bodily-KinestheticKinesthetic

•Choral speaking Choral speaking

•Declarizing Declarizing

•Storytelling Storytelling

•Retelling Retelling

•Speaking Speaking

•Debating Debating

•Presenting Presenting

•Reading aloud Reading aloud

•Dramatizing Dramatizing

•Book making Book making

•Nonfiction reading Nonfiction reading

•Researching Researching

•Listening Listening

•Process writing Process writing

•Writing journals Writing journals

•Graphing Graphing

•Photographing Photographing

•Making visual Making visual metaphors metaphors

•Making visual Making visual analogies analogies

•Mapping stories Mapping stories

•Making 3D projects Making 3D projects

•Painting Painting

•Illustrating Illustrating

•Using charts Using charts

•Using organizers Using organizers

•Visualizing Visualizing

•Sketching Sketching

•Patterning Patterning

•Visual puzzles Visual puzzles

•Hands on experiments Hands on experiments

•Activities Activities

•Changing room Changing room arrangement arrangement

•Creative movement Creative movement

•Going on field trips Going on field trips

•Physical education Physical education activities activities

•Crafts Crafts

•Dramatizing Dramatizing

•Using cooperative Using cooperative groups groups

•Dancing Dancing

MusicalMusical InterpersoInterpersonalnal

IntrapersoIntrapersonalnal

NaturalisticNaturalistic

•Humming •Rapping •Playing

background music

•Playing instruments •Tapping out

poetic rhythms •Rhyming •Singing

•Classroom parties

•Peer editing •Cooperative

learning •Sharing

•Group work •Forming clubs •Peer teaching

•Social awareness

•Conflict mediation

•Discussing •Cross age tutoring

•Study group •Brainstorming

•Personal response

•Individual study •Personal goal

setting •Individual projects

•Journal log keeping

•Personal choice in projects

•Independent reading

•Reading outside •Cloud watching

•Identifying insects

•Building habitats

•Identifying plants

•Using a microscope •Dissecting •Going on a nature walk

•Build a garden •Studying the

stars •Bird watching

•Collecting rocks •Making bird

feeders •Going to the zoo

References

•Buzan, T. (2004). Usted es más inteligente de lo que cree. 3ª Edición, Barcelona: Ediciones Urano.•McMaster, R. (2009). The 8 types of Creative Intelligence. Disponible: http://lateralaction.com/articles/multiple-intelligences/ [Consulta: 2010, Junio 26]•Smith, M. (2008). Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education. Significativo [Artículo en línea] Disponible: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm [Consulta: 2010, Junio 26]• Weber, E. The Brain on Music. [Artículo en línea]. Disponible: http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/multiple-intelligences/musical/the-brain-on-music/ [Consulta: 2010, Junio 26]•http://www.teachervision.fen.com/intelligence/teaching-methods/2204.html•http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1153842/Are-lost-Why-women-worse-reading-maps-misplaced-keys.html