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**praxiser** · 10-23-2008, 02:43 AM

Web Resources
Below is a list of online resources with information on many of the topics covered on this site.

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This site provides before, during, and after class strategies that lead to successful study in college.
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This site describes the characteristics of active learners. Most importantly it points out behaviors that lead to student success in college.
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The six levels of learning are described. A list of verbs that describes the type of learning at each level is coordinated with the various types of intelligence identified by Gardner.
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The Counseling and Development Center at York University in Toronto, Canada offers advice on setting goals, planning with monthly, weekly, and daily schedules, and using waiting or commuting time. A summary of time management principles are also provided.
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The University of Minnesota at Duluth offers advice on planning the weekly schedule. Blank weekly planners are available to download.
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This page provides offers advice on many topics connected with time management such as scheduling, planning, procrastination, measuring progress, deadline pressures, etc.
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This page discusses how to improve communication skills through a study group. Click on the "Students" tab, then on "Study Handouts," then on "Learning, Studying, and Test Taking," and finally, click on "Study Groups."
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This Web site provides a hypertext learning styles inventory of personality traits. Directions for completing and submitting the inventory are provided.
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This Web site presents techniques for learning and retaining information, such as association and organization.
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This site provides information on improving study skills. The hypertext list of topics includes listening, memorization, note-taking, reading improvement, exam preparation, and time management techniques.
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The Web site provides a multitude of tools for becoming successful in college.
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This site provides many simple to follow study tips for activities ranging from learning to listen better to giving oral presentations.
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This Web site explains how to evaluate a Web site. The primary concerns listed are accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
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This Web site provides suggestions for evaluating Web pages. The mechanics of determining authorship, publishing body, and currency on the Internet are discussed along with suggestions for recognizing propaganda, misinformation and disinformation.
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This Web site describes how to read a textbook chapter using the SQ3R method. It provides guidelines on when to use this technique and instructions on how to incorporate it into your study routine.
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This Web site provides suggestions for reading textbook material that has difficult and/or unfamiliar concepts.
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This Web site contains study skills self-help information, including study skills guides and assessments, tips for reading and understanding texts, suggestions for examination preparation and increasing motivation, and a humorous student survival guide to study skills and many other aspects of college life.
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This page provides information concerning opposite types of learning styles: (1) active vs. reflective, (2) sensing vs. intuitive, (3) visual vs. verbal, and (4) sequential vs. global.
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Good note-takers do more than copy information while the lecturer is speaking. This Web site describes what students should be doing before, during, and after the lecture to take good notes.
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This Web site describes the four phases of note-taking, various note-taking systems, and ways to improve note-taking skills. It also presents information on professor's lecture styles and how to cope with poor or disorganized lectures. A survey for testing note-taking habits is also included.
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This Web site offers strategies for success on essay tests.
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This Web site provides study tips as well as a 5-step strategy for preparing for an exam. The five steps include predicting, organizing, rehearsing, practicing, and evaluating information that may appear on an exam.
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This site is “for those instructors in college developmental education who orient toward a ‘whole language’ and/or ‘constructivist’ philosophy of teaching reading.”
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This Web site gives an extensive list of links to study guides and strategies, including college reading, writing, studying, and test-taking.
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Offers Web-delivered instruction for adult literacy using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Included are the full text of each story with interactive comprehension tests. Options are provided for reading and listening to the text, or viewing a short video clip of the story.
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This site connects the news with the classroom. Students can read articles online and enable the Vocabulary Knowledge Tool, which links difficult words to their definitions in the Merriam Webster Collegiate^™ Dictionary. Instructors can use tools to prepare lesson plans to correspond with the day's news.
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CRLA is the oldest professional organization dedicated to reading and learning assistance at the college level The friendliness and willingness to share information has been a trademark of CRLA through the years.
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This is a hypertext list of links to reading strategies and reading study skills resources on the Web.
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This site is geared for teaching English as a Second language through the use of the Bankok newspaper. The feature focus is a five-day program that includes an archive of feature stories with lessons for applying reading strategies.