Roadside America

For Thursday’s class on 9/10, we’ll tap into some of the learning resources we can find in the university library (aka Learning Resource Center). In preparation, please listen to this 14-minute public radio call-in show interview with Ken Bain, author of the book What the Best College Students Do. Take some notes on his success tips, and think about how his advice might be relevant to your approach to college learning & making this year something much more than “13th grade.”

Making A Success of College

For class, we’ll meet in the library cafe at our usual class time. You will find your laptop and/or a cell phone handy to have.

PS – here’s the list of tools and tricks we talked about in Tuesday’s class

Helpful or May Be Required on Campus: Blackboard, Aplia, DineOnCampus, free download of Microsoft Office

Campus Gmail: add a nice photo, try Priority Inbox (here’s why), and Settings –> Labs –> enable “Canned Responses” and also “Undo Send”

Back Up Your Work! And/or use Dropbox

Notetaking: OneNote (pre-installed w/ Microsoft Office Suite), Evernote, or Google docs

Bibliography: EasyBib

For more advanced students: Zotero (notetaking + research management + archiving from online research + bibliographies integrated with Word = total genius)

General College Advice: HackCollege

Stay Informed: BBC, NPR

Save Stuff You Find: (Evernote, Zotero, see above) and Pocket, Pinboard

Organize a Group: Group.Me

Keep Track of Long Term Projects and To-Do’s: Trello, Any.Do, Remember the Milk (integrates w/ Evernote)