Slept a little better today. I still woke up at 3:30 AM, that's 6:30 AM my time, but at least I was able to go back to sleep. I skipped the 8 AM keynote session. It just didn't interest me and it was kind of early.
Today's first session was another energizing session called Use Your Noggin: Science to Make Your Presentation Brain-Friendly. It was run by Dr Spencer Kagan, a psychologist who specializes in training since 1968. He gave us five tips by which we can use the brain to it's fullest capacity to stimualte learning and retention. It involves using more than one intelligence at the same time such as hearing and kinesthetic, linguistic and hearing, etc. The idea is that by using more than one intelligence you stimulate more than one area of the brain and that facilitates learning and retention. He said we can only keep about 10 things in our short-term memory at one time. We need to move it outta there so more stuff can fit because once you take in number eleven, number one disappears. It's the theory of immediate action or it is lost. Have the trainee do something with the information. Have them share it with someone else in the class. Play a game that requires the trainee to use the information. Good stuff and some good techniques. I'd like to try some of them when I get back.
Two more sessions today and off to Sea World tonight for the celebration. Party hardy with Shamu!
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