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Brad Smith
I found this to be an interesting song/video to use as an aid to learn about multiple intelligences...enjoy! []

Interview explaining IQ vs EQ and how to help cultivate EQ for your child/students []

Good short NPR broadcast on IQ in regard to teens...about 4:30 seconds long...good info.! =IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teens= []

Stephanie Green
In Middle school I realized I struggled in the basic classroom because my learning style was different than the way the teacher was teaching. I am a visual, hands-on learner otherwise know as Visual Spatial according to Howard Gardner. By college level we probably know how we all learn but as an educator we need to know how our students learn too. I found this website with a free quiz to determine your learning style according to Howard Gardners Multiple intelligence. I did take the test I scored different than I thought I was going to. I thought Visual Spatial would be the strongest for me but according to this test Naturalistic is. I also love nature and do spend alot of time outdoors and have since I was little. In the future I would like to be an organic farmer so I would agree with this.

@http://www.edutopia.org/node/6140/done?sid=56249 These are my results

There website has alot of resources for educators. Here is a video I found on a school that is implamenting Multiple Intelligence that has some good points, but also explains how difficult it is with the No Child Left Behind act. @http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-key-learning-community-video

Our genes and environment do play a role in our intelligence. They interact to produce the kind of intelligence we have.

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdHDTIPPU8 Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence Video

There is a book that I found Rachel Ray was talking about on her show called Raising Happiness. It is about building Emotional and Social intelligence in children. I work in the school system in first grade and I see alot of students not knowing how to deal with feelings let alone express them. As educators in district where students are coming from broken, hurting families we have to be the ones who teach them Emotional intelliegence. This book is designed for parents but I believe they are steps that we can implament in the classroom.

@http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/build_emotional_literacy/

[] This website shows examples of four aspects associated with emotional intelligence from the TV show, “The Office”. The four aspects they cover are as follows: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skills. The video goes through strong and weak examples of these four aspects. Personally, I am not a fan of “The Office” but I know a lot of people enjoy it. The examples are pretty ridiculous but that just comes with the show! Emotional intelligence deals with the ability to read and respond to others and also being able to understand you own emotions. Our book didn’t go into depth about these four aspects of emotional intelligence, so this video might help you to get a better understanding of it.
 * Stephanie Hubler **

[] This video is posted by NewLineLearning. It starts with a principal describing what emotional intelligence is and how it has been incorporated into the curriculum at their school. Unfortunately, I do not know where the school is located. They have incorporated an emotional literacy program in their school that teaches students about 500 words related to feelings, which helps them to be able to express how they are feeling. The impact of the program has been astonishing. Exclusion rates have dropped by 95%, students are becoming much more aware of their own and others’ feelings. Bullying has also gone down dramatically. I think this would be an excellent way to raise awareness of emotional intelligence and possibly increase awareness.

Lisa McKee
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=**Joe Dumas**=

Short news piece on the smartest man in America []

Kids IQ website with a list of famous IQs []