THE EFFECTIVE STUDENT
VIDEOS AND LINKS
Videos
  • Brain Power. Learning Corporation of America, 1992. 1 video cassette (12 minutes) + 1 discussion guide. Summary: Based on Dr Karl Albrecht’s book, Brain Power, the video discusses the three principles of perception (recognition, interpretation and expectation). Call No.: BF408 Bra. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Brain Power: How to Unleash Your Extraordinary Range of Mental Skills. New York: International Center for Creative Thinking, 1991. 6 sound cassettes + 1 text (6 pp.). Summary: Tony Buzan, the creator of Mind Maps, teaches you to use both the right and left brain to maximise your mental abilities. Call No.: HD 53 Buz. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • The Break-It! Thinking... Thoughtware for Our Times. GrowthWorks Inc., 1995. 1 video cassette (15 minutes) + 1 guide (34 pp.). Summary: Teaches how to survive changes in technology and economy in the 21st century. Call No.: HD 30.29 Bre. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Burnout. MTI Teleprograms Inc., 1979. 1 video cassette (27 minutes) + 1 booklet (9 pp.). Summary: This film alerts viewers to the danger signs of burnout and encourages discussion of this subject. Practical ways to deal with it are compartmentalising job and personal responsibilities. Call No.: BF481 Bur. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Creative Problem Solving: How to Get Better Ideas. CRM Productions, 1979. 1 video cassette (27 minutes) + 1 leader’s film guide (11 pp.). Summary: Steven Katten teaches you to free yourself of unconscious mental restrictions and discover your creativity and increase your ability to solve problems. Call No.: BF441 Cre. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Creative Thinking: Breaking New Ground for Creating Innovative Business Solutions. Kantola Productions, 1997. 1 video cassette (42 minutes). Summary: Lynda Curtin helps you generate ideas in a very fast and systematic way through the use of lateral thinking, provocative operation, concept extraction and random entry. Call No.: BF408 Cre. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • Creative Thinking: Breaking New Ground for Creating Innovative Business Solutions. Stanford Video Media Group, 1997. 1 video cassette (40 minutes). Summary: Lynda Curtin, President of The Opportunity Thinker, talks about the tools used in generating ideas in a very fast and systematic way, such as lateral thinking, provocative operation, concept extraction and random entry. Call No.: HD 30.29 Cre. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Creativity: Touching the Divine. Insight Media, 1994. 1 video cassette (60 minutes). Summary: Exploring the universal human ability to create, this video probes the spirituality of creativity through interviews with artists and non-artists. Call No.: BF408 Cre. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • A Degree of Success: Skills in Study (Kit). Unilearn, 1994. 1 video cassette (28 minutes) + 1 sound cassette (45 minutes) + 1 course book (214 pp.). Summary: Suggests many techniques and procedures to help you study better and become an independent learner. Call No.: LB2395 Deg. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Study... But Were Too Afraid to Ask. Learning Curve Productions, 1997. 1 video cassette (12 minutes) + 1 book. Summary: Designed to help teachers and students get the most out of the classroom situation from the moment the student first steps into class until his/her first attempts at formal essay writing. Call No.: LB1049 Eve. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • How to Get the Most from What You Read: Using Clue Words to Unlock Meaning. Center for Humanities, 1986. 1 video cassette (40 minutes) + 1 teacher’s guide (45 pp.) + 1 student activity book (15 pp.). Summary: Introduces basic thinking patterns such as simple listing, sequence, comparison/contrast, and cause and effect. Shows how to identify and use mixed patterns as a study aid. Call No.: LB1050.45 How. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • Jamming. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996. 1 video cassette (41 minutes). Summary: Based on his book, Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, John Kao proposes flexible improvisation which would cultivate creative thinking within organisations and gives case studies of small entrepreneurial firms. Call No.: HD 53 Kao. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Making Humor Work. Crisp Publications Inc., 1991. 1 video cassette (25 minutes) + 1 leader’s guide (36 pp.) + 1 guide (77 pp.). Summary: Introduces the value of humour in enhancing communication, promoting sales, defusing resistance to change and managing stress. Call No.: HD 30.3 Mak. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Managing Stress. CRM Productions, 1978. 1 video cassette (34 minutes) + 1 leader’s film guide (7 pp.). Summary: Points out that manageable stress levels can increase productivity, while excessive stress levels that are improperly managed can be debilitating. Explains how to recognise undue stress and how to handle stress correctly. Call No.: BF575 Str.M. Location: Hon Sui Sen Library/Science/Medical Library Multimedia.

  • Masterthinker: Your Easy Guide to Innovative Thinking. International Center for Creative Thinking, 1988. 4 sound cassettes + 3 books + 1 game card. Summary: Edward de Bono introduces the ‘body frame thinking method’ that divides thinking into different aspects which correspond to the different parts of the body: bones, nerves, fat, skin and health. This framework allows a thinker to direct his attention to one thing at a time. It is applicable to both active and reactive thinking. Call No.: BF408 Deo. Location: Central Library/Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Masterthinker II: Six Thinking Hats. International Center for Creative Thinking, 1988. 6 sound cassettes + 3 books + 1 pocket guide. Summary: Edward de Bono reveals a method that allows a thinker to focus his or her attention on one aspect of a problem at a time. The method is designed to systematise the thought process, allowing the thinker, in any situation, to concentrate on one thinking mode at a time. Call No.: BF408 Den. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • MindGym: Fit Thinking for Fast Times. Melrose Film Productions, 1997. 1 CD -ROM. Summary: MindGym is a mental fitness programme that helps to build your own natural abilities and develop thinking methods and techniques. Call No.: BF441 Min. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Mindworks: How to Become A More Creative and Critical Thinker. South Carolina ETV, 1990. 2 video cassettes (133 minutes) + 1 text (81 pp.). Summary: Presents ways of becoming a more creative and critical thinker. Call No.: BF441 Min. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • Foundation Course. NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 1993. 7 sound cassettes (313 minutes). Summary: Sound recordings of lectures given during the pilot programme of the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Foundation Course (1993–94). Call No.: LG395 Nat.F. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

    1) Launching of the Foundation Course & University education Augustine Tan
    2) Study/Writing Skills Mary Ng
    3) Academic Writing Skills Antonia Chandrasegaran
    4) Examination Writing Skills Antonia Chandrasegaran
    5) Participating in Tutorials Antonia Chandrasegaran
    6) Critical Thinking Skills, Analytical Skills Wayne Patterson
    7) Creative Thinking Skills Augustine Tan

  • Power Think: Achieving Your Goals Through Mental Rehearsal. United Educational Services, 1989. 1 sound cassette. Summary: For individuals who want to create a workable system to accomplish their goals. Includes relaxation exercises. Call No.: BF408 Fie. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Re-energise Yourself. American Management Association, 1991. 1 video cassette (30 minutes) + 1 leader’s guide (44 pp.). Summary: Shows busy professionals how to eliminate energy-draining habits and focus their mental and physical resources to maximise well-being. Call No.: HF 5548.85 Ree. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Study Patterns (3rd ed.). University of Strathclyde Audio Visual Services, 1985. 11 video cassettes (288 minutes) + 1 guide (22 pp.). Summary: A series of eleven learning units aimed at helping students improve their learning skills and study habits. Topics covered include basic reading, writing, listening, participation, examination, math and science, and numeracy skills; relaxation training; and units for mature students and disabled students. Call No.: LB1049 Stu. Location: Central Library Multimedia.

  • Super-Creativity. Audio Renaissance Inc., 1988. 1 sound cassette (60 minutes) + 1 guide book (32 pp.). Summary: Tony Buzan presents an innovative programme on creative enhancement through specific exercises. Call No.: BF408 Buz. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Tapping into Your Creativity. American Management Association, 1990. 1 video cassette (30 minutes) + 1 leader’s guide (40 pp.). Summary: Presents examples of applying creativity in business and discusses specific techniques for meeting on-the-job challenges. Call No.: HD 53 Tap. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Team Creativity. CRM Films, 1995. 1 video cassette (23 minutes) + 1 leader’s guide (40 pp.). Summary: Techniques to help the viewer gain the courage to be creative in a work team situation, to support the ideas of others, and to accept and protect creativity in teams. Call No.: HD 57.7 Tea. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • The Time Trap II. American Media Incorporated, 1990. 1 video cassette (23 minutes) + 1 training leader’s guide (21 pp.). Summary: Dr. Alec Mackenzie’s practical and realistic solutions to help people overcome time management problems. Call No.: HD 69 Tim.T. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Thinking in Action. BBC Enterprises, 1982. 2 video cassettes (75 minutes) + 1 student’s manual (39 pp.). Summary: Demonstrates how an educated perception allows us to direct and use our thinking more effectively. Call No.: BF455 Thn. Location: Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  • Tony Buzan’s Mind Power. BBC Training Videos, 1991. 2 video cassettes (38 minutes) + 1 trainer’s manual (57 pp.) + 1 participant’s workbook (57 pp.). Summary: Deals with Tony Buzan’s concept of mind mapping. Call No.: HD 30.29 Ton. Location: Central Library Multimedia/Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Multimedia.

  
      
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