Keynotes
Don't Leave Your Students in the
Heartbreak Hotel
Plenary Session 1
IPD/CAAHE Student Services Conference, April 15-16.
Memphis, Tennessee
With the advent of technology, students have greater access to student
support resources. That's the good news. The bad news is that these are
hard to locate, they move frequently, and it takes time to find them.
Hence, the birth of http://www.howtostudy.org - one location-a portal-of
juried learning resources for students.
During this engaging, interactive session, participants will identify
their learning resource needs on the "sticky wall." This high
touch/low tech activity will help focus and frame the discussion and the
demonstration of howtostudy.org specifically targeting the needs of student
services professionals.
The Internet tour of howtostudy includes a model for howtostudy from class
to test. Much too many a student's surprise "studying" includes
more than just reading the textbook. The howtostudy site is based on this
howtostudy model and resources are gathered around the activities required,
from getting going (motivation, procrastination, time management) to processing
(note taking, textbook reading, memory improvement) to performance (objective
test taking, essay test taking, test anxiety). The site also includes
howtostudy various subjects, i.e. howtostudy accounting, howtostudy math,
howtostudyhistory, howtostudy biology. A new update has now included "howtowrite"
in these discipline areas. So if students visit howtostudy biology then
they can also see howtowrite a lab report.
This site is an interactive site for students to voice their concerns,
issues and reviews of the handouts. Students can choose to remain anonymous
or become famous. The only requirement is the name of the college and
which year the student is in. These mini reviews are usually only a paragraph
long, but speak to other students internationally. There is nothing more
powerful than the student's own voice. All comments are juried and edited,
if needed.
There are free graphical "badges" both static and animated for
support services professionals to use on their own web sites to link back
to howtostudy.org
So Don't Be Cruel and leave your students in
the Heartbreak Hotel.
Online Trends and Issues
Teaching Online in the Community College Conference - 1998
This is an example of an interactive keynote address, where
participants can create their own keynote. Be sure to check out the closing,
which continues to be interactive, even today.
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon98/keynote/macdonald.html
Who are our online students?
NC5, Northern California Computer Consortium
Conference
Student profiles help craft the vision
that online classes are for all students.
Possibilities in uses of online
learning
South Plains College, Texas.
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