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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
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- MLA format by Kathy
McLain, M.A., PVCC
- APA format and
writing questions by Kathy McLain, M.A., PVCC
- Basic elements
of most short essays by Kathy McLain, M.A., PVCC
- Guidelines
for research projects by Kathy McLain, M.A., PVCC
- Grammar and
punctuation by Kathy McLain, M.A., PVCC
- Writer's
Block by Dr. Tom Butler, PVCC (links to websites
to help improve your writing)
- KnightCite,
a free online tool for creating citations in MLA
format
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.
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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. |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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Last
updated:
2009-02-20
Learning Support Center at Paradise Valley Community
College - http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/
© 2002 Maricopa
County Community College District. All Rights Reserved.
Questions or Comments to Rick
Sheets, Richard Morales, & Sandra Beeman |
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