Teachers Pay Teachers: Links to Using Podcasts in the Classroom

New Year, New Routine - Looking Forward to 2016 | Teachers Pay Teachers

I taught English for quite a few years, and I was always looking for new ideas to help engage my students.  I  get email updates from quite a few teacher websites, and I always find the info. from Teachers Pay Teachers to be helpful.

The site uses tips from teachers around the United States, and I like this latest information because of the podcast suggestions, such as  lets-podcast/, and other info. from a teachers utilizing podcasts in the classroom.   I follow many podcasts, and really like the way this free source of communication can help students and teachers learn new things.


Links to using podcasts in the classroom:

University of South Florida: Using Podcasts in the Classroom

From: http://www.edtechnetwork.com : Educational Podcasting

College Success: College Free Study Skills Links and Downloads

The Learning Commons I worked at was awarded department of the year by Central Lakes College students. We had a celebration yesterday, and I want to thank all of the tutors for their assistance, collaboration, and feedback concerning effective study skills.  Their efforts have helped a great deal with my study skills research.  Here are a few helpful links my students and I have used:

University of Wisconsin River Falls: Study Skills Links (plethora of free study skills info.)

http://www.howtostudy.org/ (tons of info.)

Long Beach College Free Study Skills Downloads


I keep researching study skills, because I realize we all learn differently. But by being persistent and trying out different assessments, it is possible to find strategies that work.  Try and try and try again...and don't give up!  Learning to study is like learning to play guitar. You can always keep progressing!

Great study skills tips/ The Art of Manliness

This is a great website and the tips found at the following link are very helpful in terms of educations success. The Art of Manliness is a site known for providing profound information and making it humorous.  I would have to say my main successes as an educator can be contributed to the blending of these two items. Speaking in front of people for hours on end is stifling, so I would usually break my hour long classes into three parts. By lecturing roughly a third of the time, and letting the students do peer review or cooperative learning, it seemed to break up the class.  The humor wasn't usually provided by me...the student would do a great job with many writing assignment, and even in upper level classes I would try to incorporate games or real world scenarios into the workshop style classroom and  having humor in a writing or Literature classroom can be very important.



-Look for my upcoming book on success in college!

Keep on learning for life!

Free Study Skills Links

During my years in school I had many challenges.  I love and excelled in certain courses and struggled in others. Over time, I found my way into a tutoring center at the Bemidji State University Tutoring Services.
This is never an easy step to take as like many other students I was scared at admitting I struggled with certain things, especially test taking. The tutoring center at BSU was very helpful in teaching me general study skills...things I had never learned before or had learned and didn't apply them to my college studies. They diagnosed my study skills and I learned for the first time in my life that I was a visual learner.
If you would like to get an idea of your own learning style, here is a link to one online assessment. It is only 20 questions long, but learning my learning style (as weird as that may sound) helped me succeed in many areas, and although it didn't completely alleviate my test anxiety, the skills I learned from the tutoring center sure diminished my rising frustrations.

Check out the links below for more study skills information:
The best: https://www.360gsp.com/news/study-skills/

http://www.memory-improvement-tips.com/best-study-skills.html

http://www.distance-education.org/Degrees/Student-Education-Guide--Good-Study-Habits-A525.html


https://outwittrade.com/study-tips-techniques

http://www.howtostudy.org/

http://www.gradebook.org/index.htm