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Viv's post on our Blog... Mindmapping is the focus with a great video from 'Mind Explosion' with tips and strategies to help you study. Includes links to some online mind mapping tools...

Hi Nursing Team - I have highlighted the great tips from the MW team using the highlight tool in Diigo. This will hopefully reduce your reading time - by just tuning into the highlighted sections. Some excellent and varied strategies for Time management - thanks everyone for sharing your ideas.

I have highlighted hints from the team - so you can hone into the strategies. I hope this helps. (A great feature of Diigo)

A blog with weekly posts to give you tips, strategies, resources and tools to help with managing your learning.

"5 Ways to Lift Your Mood Tecchniques to help you change your mood for the better! Research suggests that although some people are born happier than others, we can all learn from their habits to raise our own happiness levels. Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky from the University of California found that adopting certain exercises - or, "happiness strategies" was very effective in perking people up. The issue of working at happiness is crucial to her approach, however, there needs to be a balance - if you do the exercises too often you may get bored; if you don't do them often enough they may not make a difference. It is generally agreed that writing down your thoughts can be useful as it gives you an opportunity to learn about who you really are and to see the big picture of your life."

A variety of quizzes to help with the Nursing maths exam. Post a comment here in Diigo or on the Blog to give us and others feedback as to whether they are useful to you and your revision.

Tips for writing an assignment - tips such as using headers & footers, referencing, wordcounts and more

"The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a calculation of the ratio between your weight and your height. The formula is used to determine the amount of body fat you carry. The formula is your weight divided by your height squared (BMI = kg/m2)."

Follow our Blog posting which has the Powerpoint (link in brown on the page) from the revision session on 7th & 8th. You can use a quiz to stimulate your thinking before you start a topic... So a lot of these quizzes relate to glands (that were mentioned in your Tissues presentation.) But the focus will come up soon in your Endocrine system session. So let the quiz stimulate your brain just like hormones stimulate your body to take action!

More info added to the blog posting on how to create flashcards... Watch my video demonstrations and lets start creating and sharing flash cards! The challenge is out there!! Got a smartphone then why not try the app and tell us how it works for you!

"How to draw the mind map: Write the topic in a circle in the centre of a piece of paper (landscape position). For each of the main points, draw arms out from the circle. Write the key words of the main point along each or at the end. Draw smaller arms out from the main arms and write the sub-points that relate to each main point. Continue with smaller arms if you have other points or examples for the sub-points."

This blog post contains a link to our powerpoint from 7th & 8th March. It contains video links of demos on how to use Diigo, saving useful websites.

Check out this blog posting with the key info about the metric system. Follow the links (in brown) that show you how to convert... and move the decimal places... a series of neat little flash animations!