Posted in Learning on Apr 20th, 2008 No Comments »
What they are: You’re reading a blog! “Blog” is short for “weblog”. Blogs are a series of articles, kind of like a newspaper or magazine, which are called “posts”, and are shown in date order (most recent first). The idea is that the blogger regularly publishes new content to keep their readers informed or to [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
It has a funny name. But bear with me … it’s awesome.
What it is: del.icio.us is a “social bookmarking” site. When you’re surfing the internet, and want to go back to a page,
you probably save it to your Favorites or Bookmarks, right? Instead you can save it to del.icio.us, which is online, not on your [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
My aim is to help you study smarter, not harder. Here’s some simple things you can do that will improve your test and exam performance without studying more. Honest
The day before the test:
Go over all of your notes, skim through the text book and thoroughly review everything.
Pack your bag with everything you’ll need: [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Previous posts in this series:
1. Know thyself
2. Use it or lose it
Why write study notes:
1. Less to revise:
Textbooks have a lot of information that helps you understand; once you understand, you only need reminders
Your notes will have information that is now second nature to you
Some of [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Previous post in this series: 1. Know Thyself.
Now that you know your learning style, the next step is to use it. If you didn’t take the learning style test in part one, here it is again.
Auditory and read/write learners have it easiest in western education settings, which often involve listening, talking, writing and reading text [...]
