Perhaps you are a manager who would like to support your staff as they broaden their professional knowledge. Perhaps you are developing asynchronous or course-embedded content for students or faculty to use. Perhaps you are collecting training material for peer helpers you supervise, or perhaps you are seeking a resource on a particular topic to share with a student you’re helping. We hope you find what you need in the sections below!
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Author: GoodNotes This app helps students take notes digitally and save them into different folders to help keep each subject organized. It is very low cost and extremely convenient for students View App Details
"This app is great for someone like me who is a visual learner. It allows me to make different study materials and collaborate with other people. This free app allows student to create study materials such as flashcards and study maps"
Using a metaphor as "life as a tree", draw yourself as a tree as you choose how to progress in your degree, define your success, and create goals.
Glean is a note taking app that combines multimedia notes with audio recording. it can be used both online and offline to be able to take notes and annotate lectures, audio recordings, and meetings. Quick labels and speech bubbles make it easy for students to navigate the audio recording.
This article explores the language about safe spaces, and provides guidance on how to change the conversation to become more inclusive.
Forest is an app that can help you break the habit of constantly being on your smartphone. The app works by “planting a seed” in a forest. If you stay away from your phone, your forest will grow, but if you use your phone, your forest will wither.
Focusmate changes the way you work by connecting you to other professionals who have committed to being accountable for finishing their most important work. You choose a time to work, and Focusmate pairs you with an accountability partner for a live, virtual coworking session that will keep you on task. This is a paid service.
"Flippd allows students to track their productivity, boost motivation, and connect with a community through virtual study sessions. It offers both a Basic and Premium experience."
"This resource booklet provides a framework for interested parties for future discussions about Aboriginal Knowledge (AK)."
Author: Tara Brach Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves. To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion. The acronym RAIN, first coined about 20 years ago by Michele McDonald, is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing […]
A more documentation and examination of the challenges in excellence and equity.
This resource helps students apply Bloom's Taxonomy to their own learning. It explains the various levels of Bloom's and provides generous examples of individual and group study strategies that relate well to the different levels of Bloom's. This is one of the more comprehensive Bloom's Taxonomy resources I have seen that makes this learning theory very applicable to students and gives them many ideas about how they can engage with their course content in a deeper and more meaningful way.