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4 minutes of Randy Pausch's lecture on time management. You can't go wrong with this video. Goals, priorities, and planning.

"Learning involves many activities: managing your time, taking notes, reading books, listening to lectures, memorizing, having discussions, and writing tests. We'll cover each of these activities individually, and teach you to do them more effectively. Feel free to learn the sections in any order that makes sense to you; however given that this is a text, we suggest that you start with the Reading Textbooks section."

""Two heads are better than one." That's the simple idea behind study groups. By participating in a study group, you take advantage of one of your best academic resources at UW: other students. You get to add their understanding to your own. Study groups also bring a social quality to your study time."

Includes how to find the online schedule, useful resources, how to search for classes (including Gen. Ed. courses), and how to read the schedule. Recorded by Susan High. (second time posting this link. Hoping it will work this time.

"As seen in The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, CNN and more, we are a mar­ket researcher and innno­va­tion net­work track­ing the research and mar­ket­place for brain fit­ness and cog­ni­tive health. Our blog was recently ranked # 3 Ana­lyst Blog." Includes links to 20+ articles; see word cloud on site a quick look

"The Curve of Forgetting describes how we retain or get rid of information that we take in. It's based on a one-hour lecture. "

Good resource--I use this all the time. In fact, I tried to post this on diigo yesterday but for some odd reason it didn't post. (??) I probably forgot to hit the post button like I did when I intially tried to send this comment.

15 question survey

Thanks -- great links

Includes study skills handouts and videos

"In From up North's inspiration galleries we present the latest of our findings from the wonderful world of design. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe." Not just plain text quotes. These are nicely designed graphic and pics--very visually appealing. Take a look

Some really good quotes and graphics! Some relate to CPD topics like goal setting, following your dreams, using your time wisely, etc.