Showing posts with label study skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label study skills. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Free Back to School Guide for students - scheduling, budget, study habits and more



This Back to School Guide, is a free resource for helping students achieve greater success in school. The new guide offers tips for efficient scheduling, how to maintain a budget, creating good study habits and more using office productivity software.
The guide is available here for download: http://blog.wps.com/2016/09/26/pdf-back-to-school-guide/.


The guide includes these topics:
• Back-to-School Basics: Tracking Tools Can Help You Prepare for Fall
• Getting Back in the School Mindset
• Templates, Style Trends, and More
• Good Study Habits and Why They Help Students
• The Importance of Scheduling for Students
• Additional Resources for Students
• Helping Students Start Thinking Ahead to College
• Summer Assignments to Prepare for the Next Year Ahead


To download the full Back to School Guide, visit https://goo.gl/UO4rBr.


Other resources for students:

10 Great, Free Apps for Students for Notetaking and Class Planning

Successful Studying Tips and Resources for Students

Study Tips and Notetaking Resources

Resources on How to Study

Study Aids

Important Skills Students Need for the Future that we need to help them learn

10 Important Skills Students need for the Future

10 Technology Skills Every Student Needs for the Future

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Successful Studying Tips and Resources for Students



Study skills are often lacking in many students. They struggle to learn material and retain it, no matter what is done in the classroom. Here are some resources and tips to help them learn better study skills to help them learn and succeed.


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Study Tips and Notetaking Resources

Important Skills Students Need for the Future that we need to help them learn

10 Important Skills Students need for the Future

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

20 Free Online Resources to Upgrade Your Studying Process


Guest Post by Julie Petersen. Julie is a tutor and a blogger, who features the latest career and educational trends in her articles. At present time she is working on her first ebook dedicated to online learning. You may see Julie's latest publications and contact her via Linkedin


All students would agree that it is difficult to study. When you just have too many assignments and projects to work on apart from the other responsibilities, you really need to develop good studying habits if you want to get good grades in class. Thanks to the Internet, there are free online resources that you can use to upgrade your studying process.

This website is a home to lots of free study skills resources not just students but as well as for teachers. It contains 100 practical articles, study tips and self-assessment exams.

Studygs.net is a home to various study guides and strategies that you can use in various types of learning. They provide valuable information that you can use for learning, research, writing, project management, etc. the site also has exercises and games to make your studying more fun.

This website gives you study tools that you can use to learn more effectively. At Quizlet.com, you get to access different tests, study games and flashcards which add fun to your learning experience. The site is free to use and you can access it on your mobile device anytime and anywhere.

Reading content related to students is also useful as you get to know many interesting facts and certain experiences that you can personally relate to. The student blog of Acca Global offers nice posts that you can read to further improve your studying and learning habits.

Essaymama.com is a reputable writing service which regularly publish really useful articles on their official educational blog. These articles are written by professional tutors and writers, so if you are looking for reliable and practical studying tips, infographics and essay samples, this is one site to visit.

Studyblue.com offers one of the biggest libraries of study materials online. The site has more than 350 million digital notecards covering various topics from Algebra to natural science subjects. Anywhere you go, you can access these online study materials. To get started, you can sign-up for a free account.

Howtostudy.org is basically a site where you can get lots of very useful online resources that can help you succeed in college. From study guides, strategies to writing techniques, the site gives tips and essential information that you can use to create topnotch papers and to ace your exams. The site provides various tools for organization, time management, learning styles, etc.

Studystack.com offers free flashcards for students who want to add fun to their studying and learning experience. To have access to these flashcards, you can just login with facebook or register an account. You can search the site for various subjects from mathematics to medical related subjects.

Practice is essential especially if you are taking a major exam. The Internet is home to various resources where you can take free practice exams. 4tests.com provides you with free online practice exams. Whether you are taking up TOEFL, ACT, SAT or GED, you can choose among the free practice exams that you can use to test your knowledge and skills and to see if you are finally ready to take the exam.

Learning has never been so fun and creative with Study.com. The site has various videos that can help students in their learning. These videos are taught by the best teachers to ensure that students get to access quality materials. To enjoy the complete features of the site, you sign up for a free trial.

If you are looking for free resources for students, professionals and for others who are taking up exams, this site is the one of the best sites to use. Study Guide Zone provides various resources and study guides that you can use in taking business tests, primary and secondary tests, undergraduate tests, etc.

Novel Guide is a great website where you can read summaries of various literary works. Apart from the sypnosis and analysis of these works, you also get to access interesting articles, reports, essays and even videos that you can use when you are studying a particular literary work.

Pink Monkey is a useful resource site for students, teachers and even professionals. The site has printable notes, digital library, study guides and other online materials. Pink Monkey also provides parents tips for parents who want to help their kids in school.

Taking a test requires preparation and practice. With Shmoop.com, you get to have a great site that offers solutions for schools. Apart from students, it is also a site for teachers. In this site, you get to access valuable materials for you to pass your exam with flying colors.

Hippocampus.org provides you with thousands of free videos. From subjects like mathematics to biology, you get to enjoy watching these videos where you get to learn so many things about a particular subject. This is a site perfect for free education resources for middle school and college students.

Are you looking for a great site where you can access free literature booknotes? Bookwolf.com offers a wide array of literature booknotes that you can use to have in-depth analysis of various literary works. You can just choose among the different literary works in their library.

GradeSaver is unlike no other resource site for students. The site offers topnotch study guides as they are written and edited by students from Harvard University. You can rely on these high quality study guides. Apart from that, there are also literature essays, writing help articles, lesson plans and a whole lot more.

To write without any error, you have to keep on practicing and honing your writing skills. When you access the site, there are various writing and grammar exercises and activities that you can use to work on your writing skills.

Being top of your class is now made more possible with the help of websites like Bookrags.com. Through this site, you can access more than 6,000 study guides, 22,000 essays and other useful materials not just for students but as well as teachers.

Project Gutenberg is home to about 46,000 ebooks that you can download for free. Whether you are looking for your favorite classical work to other literary work, you can just search the database of the site and download the book that you want to read. You can download the material in kindle, epub or txt format.





Related:



zen.do - free tool to take notes and turn them into flashcards

Wordstash - digital flashcards

Braineos - Flashcard games to make your brain happy!

Student Study and Help Sites

Gooru - online study tool with great resources

Thinkbinder - free way to create online study groups with lots of features







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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Study Tips and Notetaking Resources


All of these sites have great tips and resources for studying, taking notes, doing homework, and succeeding in school.

You'll definitely want to share these with your students.

Developing Study Skills - BYU
Great resource for students on how to develop effective study skills for high school and college success. Hosted by Brigham Young University.

High School Study Skills resource
This site is designed to be a self-help tool to assist students in making the most of their high school years. The collection of pages in this site will help you assess your current skills, acquire new ones, and apply what you learn to study more effectively, in less time, for greater understanding and better grades. Use the links in the menu bar to work through the site from beginning to end, or click on a link below to focus on a specific skill area.

Notetaking 1

This is a page on Sweet Briar College, VA, Academic Resource Center. It is in outline form, and is a very good resource to use for a quick review of note taking skills. It is simple, easy to read, and easy to implement. It gives basic guidelines, how to abbreviate, and how to set up your notes.


Notetaking 2
This is on Dartmouth University’s web site. It has a lot of good information on note taking, and includes a guide to using the Cornell Note Taking System.


Notetaking 3
This is from the University of Exeter in the UK. I really like this site because it not only gives a short tutorial on how to take notes, but it has fill in the blank forms students can use to improve their note taking skills. The entire note taking section can be downloaded as a single PDF file for offline use.

Notetaking 4
The University of South Wales, AU, has another great resource for note taking. Their site is simple, easy to read, and gives instructions on what to do before, during, and after a lecture to make sure you take good notes. They also have tips on abbreviating and using pictures and concept maps.

Notely is the new tool for students of all ages looking for help to get better grades.

Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.

Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organise your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organised and achieve better grades.

Homework HELP!
site contains over 780 great links to sites that will help you with your homework.


Study Curve
This is an online study community where you can get help on projects and homework and network with other students and mentors.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Student Help Sites




I have found a variety of student help websites that I share with my students. These sites have 
study skills, homework tips, and other resources and references for them to use.


InfoPlease Homework Center - This site has subject area help, resources, study skills, homework help, writing tips, and research help.


HowtoStudy - study skills, resources and tips.



EducationAtlas Study Skills - tips and help for: notetaking, studying, writing, solving math word problems, test taking, reading textbooks, reading comprehension, and more. A great resource. The site also has information on schools, financial aid, college selection, pedagogy, and educational technology.


Study Guides and Strategies - this site has a plethora of information for students, including study skills, working in groups, how to learn, time management, getting organized, classroom participation, test taking, research, writing, reading, math, and science help. It is well organized and easy to use. 


HowToStudy.com - another great study resource. This one includes articles on studying, test taking, homework, note taking, college planning, test taking (including standardized tests), and more.

Share these with your students. These sites will help them in their education.

Please share any other resources you have with us.

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