During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading of the Vision chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rules. Also, write about how important vision is to communication–from the side of the communicator as well as the audience. Before our next class, post a comment here based on your in-class notebook writing.

During class, you will spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of your reading from John Medina’s Brain Rules, “Sensory integration” chapter. Before our next class, remember to type up your response and add it as a comment to this blog post.

During class today, you will spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of your reading of the “Long-Term Memory” chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rules (or the second half of the “Memory” chapter if you have the updated edition). Before our next class, type up and revise your summary. Copy-and-paste a copy of it here in the comments of this post.

During today’s class, you will have spent the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of the “Short-Term Memory” chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rules (if you happen to have the newer edition of his book, you the first half of the “Memory” chapter–up to the section on “Long-Term Memory” essentially the same material). Before our next class, you will want to type up and edit your in-class writing and post it here as a comment to this blog post.

Before class on Wednesday, type up your in-class writing on John Medina’s Brain Rules, Attention chapter as a comment to this blog post. Remember, to receive credit for in-class writing, you have to use the writing process (drafting and revising). This means write during the first ten minutes of class in your notebooks, and then before our next meeting, type your in-class writing (editing and improving it in realtime) and post it here as a comment to this blog post.

For today’s class, you read the chapter on “Wiring” from John Medina’s Brain Rules. After spending the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of your reading, type up and post your summary as a comment on this blog post before our next class meeting.

For today’s class, you read the first chapter from Michael O’Shea’s The Brain. The book from which this chapter was taken is “A Very Short Introduction” published by Oxford University Press. These books are meant to give readers a brief introduction to major subjects. In this case, the subject is the human brain.

During the first ten minutes of class, I would like you to turn to a clean page in your notebook and write a summary of what you read. You may look at the chapter while you are writing your summary, but it is not necessary. This is meant to help you organize your thoughts and give you some practice with writing in complete sentences. I will not grade this writing in terms of content. I am looking for your best effort to use all 10 minutes for writing. If you run out of things to write about from the reading, you can write about what you have planned for today, what you are doing in your other classes, what you are doing this weekend, etc.

Before our next class, I would like you come to our OpenLab site and type up your in-class writing as a comment to this blog post. When you do this, I would recommend that you revise your writing–make it better–when you type it up. This might involve improving your sentences’ structure, correcting grammar, choosing a variety of words (diction), etc. In addition to helping you remember your summaries, this extra writing–typing instead of writing by hand–will help you improve your writing ability overall!