provides definition and other components of mental imagery

provides brief history of the study of mental imagery and the leading debate concerning this theory

shows how mental imagery can benefit education and other aspects of life (for Blackboard users)

Imagery – Links

 *IMAGERY & MATH*

 Here’s an absolutely entrancing example of imagery and math:

 http://www.artbymath.com/MainPage/

 *IMAGERY & MUSIC*

 Here’s a tremendously valiant effort from the ThinkQuest Library on Music:

 http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=17

 More on music:

 http://aolsvc.pbs.aol.com/researchandlearn/jazz/

 Charles Ives might as well get in on the picture.  His musical images of American life are amazing:

 http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761551849

 Last but not least, the famous, or infamous, “Mozart Effect”:

http://www.mindinst.org/

 *IMAGERY & POETRY*

 Imagine:

 http://lyricx.com/johnlennon/imagine.html

 *IMAGINATION*

 For a brief synopsis of Imagination, go to the following site and click on “imagination” (in blue):

 http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761561348

 Here’s a lovely collection of Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, and Sacred Arts & Traditions for elementary school teaching:

 http://www.mythinglinks.org/reference~teachers.html

 *IMAGERY & ART*

 Everything you need to know about the controversial images of Chris Ofili:

 http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Painting/Artists/Personal_Exhibits/Ofili__Chris/

 We’ve been around for a long time:

 http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/archaeo/paleofig/pal00eng.html

 Further brain twisters:

 http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/signcon2.html#venus

 *LESSON PLANS*

 Here is a beautiful presentation on making learning truly meaningful and relevant.  It includes ideas for creating lesson plans and sample comparison charts.

  http://www.unicef.org/teachers/resources/mod5.htm

 *MOTIVATION*: The Images that we project, expect, and allow

 Learning, Memory, & Motivation:

 http://www.wpi.edu/~isg_501/motivation.html

 Here’s the perfect list on Motivation.  Hang it on your wall at home, inside your medicine chest, on your refrigerator, and on your classroom door.  Give it to all of your friends, colleagues, the principal of your school, the students, and their parents.  Glue it to your forehead!

 httphttp://www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/mscitedu/101/T3/CognitiveScience.html

 This website is an absolute must for all educators.  Happy Trails!

 ://www.queensu.ca/idc/trainers/hand/motivate.html

 Definition of Mental Imagery with interesting areas of study, although, unfortunately, not yet complete.  Contains an amazingly extensive list of references.

 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/