"Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project-based learning, social-emotional learning, youth development, and 21st-century school design. He formerly directed the Buck Institute for Education's national training program in PBL and is the primary author of BIE's Handbook on Project Based Learning. College readiness, always a hot topic, is getting hotter." (Posted 2/7/11)

"Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn." Nice inventory based on Gardner's MI. Provides follow-up info to learn more about each type and tips for learning.

Hi CPD150 Diigo Members. When you add a website to the CPD150 group, please be sure to add tags. This will be increasingly important as our collection gets bigger.

Also, Diigo has a cool feature you should know about: It can automagically capture the description/abstract for the site, if there is one. Before you bookmark a page, simple select the description, or whatever text you want captured, and then when you bookmark the page, Diigo adds that text.

"Positive Affirmations work. This page explains how and why positive affirmations can be used to manifest your needs and bring positive and permanent change to your life. You will also learn how to Create and supercharge your own affirmations. "

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"Our minds set up many traps for us. Unless we're aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions. Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them."

50 tips to make your college experience more fun and satisfying! Published on August 23, 2010

Planning for College and Student Success Skills; Good Work Habits, Writing Skills, Academics and more

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Learning Disabilities Association of America - This page has symptoms and strategies for Dyscalculia but also provides links to other resources for parents, teachers and professionals

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