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LSC ONLINE LINKS

Course Management Tools

Blackboard: Takes you to the district Blackboard Home Page. Demos available.

MIDAS: Takes you to the district MIDAS Home Page. Demos available.

English & Writing Tips

Writing Tip Sheets - The LSC has writing tip sheets compiled from the Purdue Online Writing Lab, and the Modern Language Association and American Psychological Association manuals, in the center or online.

 
at http://www.kingdomality.com provides a fun profile based on eight questions and assigns you to one of twelve medieval vocations. Once you have completed it, ask your friends and family members to try it. A list of the characters of the realm is available as a printable MSWord document.

Maricopa's Librarians Online is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Click here to to chat with a librarian about your research questions. Librarians
can teach you how to find your way through the information maze.
Math Tips

MAT082 & MAT092

Online Math Resources by Diana Tomanek, PVCC at http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/tomanek/

Math Tip Sheets - The LSC has math tip sheets created by Mary Liz Pierce and Suzy Law, in the center or online.
Online Assessments ON COURSE STUDENT SELF-ASSESSMENTat http://college.hmco.com/collegesurvival/downing/on_course/4e/students/index.html: Take the free On Course Self-Assessment online. You will get an immediate and printable report of your scores and also get the average scores of everyone else who's taken the self-assessment. You'll also find other nifty On Course resources at this link, such as self-management forms, practice quizzes, a learning style inventory, and additional articles on being successful in college.
Online Tutor and FAQs ASK THE TUTOR - at http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/online/tutormain.htm
Online discussions with a tutor for accounting in ACC111 & ACC112 and for
chemistry in CHM130.
FAQs at http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/online/tutor.htm are faculty-developed "frequently asked questions" to help students in biology, chemistry, economics, English and writing papers, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology.
Study Strategies & Tips

LSC Study Tip Sheets - The LSC has study tip sheets created by Dr. Jane McGrath, in the center or online.

Learning Your Way at http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~sheets/lmw/ is a web page created by Dr. Rick Sheets, PVCC. It presents study strategies using a metacognitive approach. The simple model can help learners understand four powerful aspects of learning new information: motivation, acquisition, retention, and performance. Suggested strategies are listed under each aspect. An evaluation form is provided. (Also a handout by Dr. Sheets on the "Cycle of Anxiety" and "Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety.")

http://www.howtostudy.org/ offers effective and powerful tips from a site with a national reputation for providing excellent support for online learners; sheets were created by Lucy MacDonald a.k.a LucyOnLine.

The Study Guides website at http://www.studygs.net is a learner-centric educational public service of 120 guides organized into fifteen sections and translated into 32 languages including Arabic (Iraq), Chinese (PRC), Greek (Greece), Indonesian (Germany), Hebrew (Israel), Persian (Iran), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Argentina) and Vietnamese (Viet Nam).
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Professional and LSC-Related Links Links to other LSCs, LSC-Related Research, Learning Support Centers in Higher Ed., Winter Institute, TIDE, LRNASST, and Links for PVCC LSC Staff.
   Last updated: 2008-01-21
   Learning Support Center at Paradise Valley Community College - http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/
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   Questions or Comments to Rick Sheets, Richard Morales, & Sandra Beeman