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<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"Exercise for the brain" by Softtechie</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/trails/39287</link><category>Softtechie/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Playful exercise</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/marks/108658</link><description><![CDATA[<SPAN STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Board games that are based on planning strategy and executing moves based on them make players put on their thinking caps. Here you can find several board games that belong to the genre – strategy. A few games are also designed to teach small kids comprehension about basic cash transactions.</SPAN>]]></description><category>Exercise for the brain</category><author>Softtechie</author><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:52:53 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:108658</guid></item><item><title>Ideal Inputs</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/marks/108659</link><description><![CDATA[<SPAN STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The human brain works better if it is provided with plenty of inputs of the right kind. Board games based on skill certainly fall into this category as they make the players think a lot. Playing board games of this sort helps children hone their thinking skills and direct their efforts towards a specified goal.</SPAN>]]></description><category>Exercise for the brain</category><author>Softtechie</author><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:55:13 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:108659</guid></item><item><title>Thoughtful work</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/marks/108661</link><description><![CDATA[<P><SPAN STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Here is a book that tells you about board games that will make you think even before you start playing them. That is because it teaches you how to make the board games from scratch. So, plenty of thinking required here. Put on your thinking caps, make your own board games and then work your brains a bit more while playing them.</SPAN></P>]]></description><category>Exercise for the brain</category><author>Softtechie</author><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:57:10 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:108661</guid></item><item><title>Board games that will help your child speak</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/marks/108664</link><description><![CDATA[<SPAN STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">This is a website that has plenty of resources for someone who would like to make speech therapy a fun and interesting session. Images, ideas and instructions on how to play these games are also made available. You can even make variations using a few suggestions given here.</SPAN>]]></description><category>Exercise for the brain</category><author>Softtechie</author><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:58:27 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:108664</guid></item><item><title>Read, Write and Think</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/Softtechie/marks/108667</link><description><![CDATA[<SPAN STYLE="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">An interesting account of how small groups of students can get together and create board games based on specific material to help them learn in an engrossing manner. Such games make it possible for students to review lessons and estimate how much they have learnt.</SPAN>]]></description><category>Exercise for the brain</category><author>Softtechie</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:06:24 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:108667</guid></item></channel></rss>
