How to get into Second Life without really trying

Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

If memorizing is so hard, how did you learn the alphabet?  You probably learned a song.  How many popular songs do you know well enough to sing at least a few lines?  How much effort did you put into memorizing those?  Do you know any commercial jingles?  When did you memorize those? 

So there it is.  If somebody will just write a jingle and play it to you a few times, you can learn it without even noticing.  If you have something to memorize, you could use a jingle.  But only if somebody writes it. 

Now you know who to blame.   The People Who Won’t Write Jingles.  The PWWWJ.  They write jingles for little kids.  They write jingles for advertisers.  But they don’t write jingles for students who really have to study. 

We have met the enemy and he is us. -- Pogo

Nothing to be done.  Unless you want to write the jingles yourself.  Could you write a jingle about something need to memorize? 

If you don’t go, you won’t know.

If you had a jingle, you could make an audio file with it.  You could play it on your computer from time to time.  Not several times in a row.  Treat it like a commercial and spread it out.  You could mix it with your music.  Put it on your mp3 player.  Mix it in the sequence just like a commercial.   Maybe even share it with your friends. Maybe you could be the local jingle jockey.  Maybe you could turn it into a podcast. 

The Head Sounds page offers some samples and suggestions about how to make the audio files.

Acronyms

Silly sentences

Route to remember

Memorize this!

Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition, Team Study

Head Sounds