This year's theme is "Ideas"

 I took me a few weeks to come up with a theme for this year, but I have decided on “Ideas” as my theme for 2023. I was cleaning out my closets and realized that I will probably not keep my web site up to date because there is just that one extra layer of effort needed to post on it. So here are the Relics of the Past, as I like to call them. I hope they help you all.

The first place I wanted to take you was to an article by Glenda Thorne. Yesterday I searched to find it and it was gone. I hope you see this Glenda and repost the chart you entitled “Memory Self-Test.” I downloaded it in 2008 from the Center for Development and Learning, which is no longer available. While it is written for students, i think there is a whole generation that could use this advise; the Boomers. As I approach three quarters of a century, I am constantly frustrated by short-term memory loss and word retrieval problems. I have begun to read books on improving memory, but your article was short, simple, and thorough.

Luckily for all of us, she has a new article up, called 10 Strategies to Enhance Student Learning. (1) I should say I hope it is the same Glenda Thorne, because when I searched for a way to get in touch with her, I found many Glenda Thornes with PhDs. I hope you will all check out her article.

On the same page is another article by By Jonathan Mooney called “Strategies for Improving Memory.” Seven tips are listed that use more than one sense, which is always a good idea. I do better with numbers, but my short-term memory is weaker than it used to be, so I have to keep repeating the numbers out loud if I am going to use them right away (like all those numbers we use to log in with double security).

This page may disappear like Glenda’s first article on memory, but at least you have the name of two researchers in the field.

(1) Thorne,Glenda”10 Strategies to Enhance Student Learning,” https://impactofspecialneeds.weebly.com/uploads/3/4/1/9/3419723/10_strategies_to_enhance_students_memory.pdf, accessed on Jan 24, 2024.

Mooney, Jonathan, “Strategies for Improving Memory,” ibid.