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Everything
is going
to be OK ~
Undergraduate Study Support Handbook
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Contents
Page
Introduce Yourself to PSI Tutor:Mentor … 4
The (You) Student-Centered Learning Focus 5
How to be a 21st Century Student 5
Discover Your Learning Style Combo 5
Get Things Done (GTD) Now! 6
Calendar Your Semester 9
Take Note~ 9
Flashcard Moments… 10
Mindmap Your Way 11
Academic Tips & Tricks 12
Academic Search Engines 15
The Sociable Student 17
Cultivate Reflection 19
Be Constructive! 20
References 22
Acknowledgments
Thanks to; You the students whose feedback and questions helped to shape the focus of this
Handbook. Looking forward to your edit suggestions for the next edition ~:-) ; to Carnival
contributors whose links helped with resarch efforts; and much appreciation to Nicholas Browne
for reseach, writing and checking of links; all without whom this Handbook would have
remained an intention.
Note: Are You an EFL Student? You may find Google Translate useful.
http://translate.google.com/#
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Introduce Yourself to PSI Tutor:Mentor …
Inspiring Your academic achievement is the key objective of PSI Tutor:Mentor services. This
unique Undergraduate Study Support Handbook is one step toward achieving this goal.
The Handbook is intended to provide You with improved availability, quality and
comprehensiveness of study resources in Social, Health and Business disciplines.
It is intended for You to share in the resources provided here to become a part of an ongoing,
dynamic exchange of ideas. The Handbook is part of an umbrella of study resources that
includes:
• A blog, PSI Tutor:Mentor www.psitutor.org
• A Study Club (Membership requried), http://budurl.com/studyclub
and
• A free e-study supplement newsletter, Juice! http://budurl.com/juicesupplement
Hi~ My name is Charmayne (Char) Paul and I am the director ofPSI Tutor:Mentor, an on and offline academic coaching servicefor Social, Health & Business Students across the globe.
Come visit the site sometime at www.psitutor.org, andintroduce Yourself. We would love to hear from You. Chat aboutYour academic goals, start a conversation about a studychallenge or join the Study Club.
And don’t forget to subscribe to our free monthly e-studysupplement~ Juice!http://budurl.com/juicesupplement
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PSI Tutor:Mentor aims to help You as student to gain greater competence in Your undergraduate
field. Better planning, understanding and application of Your subject knowledge is a fantastic
way to succeed in academia.
To provide You with quality consistent study resources is only part of the PSI Tutor:Mentor
vision. The role of the Tutor:Mentor is one of study companion, sounding board, devil’s
advocate, academic coach and educator.
The ultimate goal here as You read these pages is to ensure You have an easy to use study
resource reference. The experiential learning experience empowers Your self-esteem and
confidence as a professional-in-training. All of the resources provided in this Handbook are
tailored to enable You to apply knowledge learnt in Your Social, Health and Business fields.
As such, this reference Handbook aims to complement, enhance, and deepen Your learning. If
You dip into just a few of the wealth of resources given in this Handbook You will have the
opportunity to learn more about Yourself as a professional-in-training.
The (You) Student-Centred Learning Focus
This Handbook for Your learning support operates within a learning and teaching plan that is
informed by student-centred principles. Placing the student at the hub of the professional
development wheel enables effectecive academic learning.
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Skill development support at college and university requires a multifaceted approach. One-to-one
assistance and specialised workshops and resources are the PSI Tutor:Mentor way to focus on
You, the student.
The student support strategies pointed to in this Handbook are to facilitate Your learner success.
Focusing on Your needs for the duration of Your studies will allow You to develop as an
independent learner.
Underpinning the goal of learning support is a developmental model of adult learning rather than
using a deficit model. A clear pathway to supplementary study support can provide You with a
sense of direction and reassurance. Draw on the diverse study support resources provided in this
Handbook to better integrate Your learning efforts.
Flexility of learning support in Your studies is essential to enable ongoing learning successes.
Knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will develop You as an evidence-based professional
committed to ongoing learning.
How to be a 21st Century Student
Discover Your Learning Style Combo
Recent months have seen the learning style approach receive a lot of crticism (Felder & Spurlin,
2005). At PSI Tutor:Mentor, the approach remains valid and useful to students. We are keping an
open mind, and reading and writing about the topic. Join our critiques over at the blog
(www.psitutor.org).
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Meanwhile, a lot of literature exists to support You as the student being aware of Your personal
comibnation of learning styles (Coffield, Moseley, Hall, & Ecclestone, 2009).
Knowledge of what type of learner You are enables You to learn more effectively. Apply Your
understanding of how You engage best with information delivered in class, to help You to adapt
to teaching styles that You clash with.
Discover Your Learning Styles: A graphic learning style inventory.
http://www.learning-styles-online.com/
Getting to Grips with Learning Styles: More details about each style.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nd3103b.pdf
Get Things Done (GTD) Now!
The academic-work-personal life of an undergraduate student can be highly stressful. The more
organised You are, the more time You will have to do the things that releive the build up of
stress. Try some of these links to help organise Your academic schedules.
Organisation is an art form that will enable You to make time which is productive and
meaningful.
Archive Tweets: Sort and file Your tweets; they have an expiration date You know ~:-)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_Your_tweets.php
Basecamp: A great option for sharing files with classmates or amongst a study group.
https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/free/signup/account/new
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Firetask: A phone app to organise Your tasks and ideas.
http://www.firetask.com/
Google Docs: Organise and share Your documents, spreadsheets and folders.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=158074&hl=en
Murdoch University Time Management Handout: A brief organisational tip sheet for
undergrads.
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/pdf/time_management.pdf
Omnifocus: Personal productivity management software. iPhone app option, tutorials provided.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/
Omni Outliner: Organise Your ideas and assignments with an alternative application from the
Omni Group.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/
Omni Plan: Another project management tool from the Omni Group. Set goals, monitor
milestones, break You project down into lists.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/
Rcampus: Set up Your own e-portfolio to manage Your academic career.
http://www.rcampus.com/index.cfm?nocache=1261896193007
Remember The Milk: Share tasks, set SMS reminders, create to-do lists and much much more.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Smart Sheet: Another great to do list program to help You get things done.
https://www.smartsheet.com/
Ta-Da Lists: Create checklists and to do items that are organised and academically focused.
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Ta-Da Lists: Quick check it off style to do lists.
http://tadalist.com/
Todoist: Another great option for organising Your study day.
http://todoist.com/
Twitter Desktop For a list of Twitter apps check out this article on Desktop software. You can
better organise Your contacts and study groups etc.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_Your_tweets.php
Twitter Lists: Putting Your contacts into different lists can help You to make lists and to
organise Your groups.
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/theres-list-for-that.html
Zenbe: Integrate Your email, lists and shareflow Your data amongst classmates.As they say,
‘work better’.
http://www.zenbe.com/
Zoho Project: Project management and collaboration, so much to see there that I needed to
include a pic!
http://projects.zoho.com/home.na
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Calendar Your Semester
30 Boxes: A straightforward way to organise Your calendar schedules, assessments and
activities for Your study breaks.
http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
College Ruled: Set up Your personal class schedule, link it to Your Facebook account, and
create study group discussion boards.
http://collegeruled.com/
Datewheel: An online calculator for determining the amount of time between due dates.
http://datewheel.net/desktop/en/index.html
Google Calendar:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/about.html
HipCal: Group as well as personal calendars, set up alerts, coordinate with to-do lists
Rainlendar:
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
Take Note~
EverNote: A neat way to collect and organise Your notes and ideas.
http://www.evernote.com/
Google Notebook: Manage Your notes with this Google application.
http://www.google.com/notebook/#b=BDQGMIgoQueWkxKki
Murdoch University Handout on Taking Good Lecture Notes:
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/good_notes.html#notes
MyStickies: An alternative to Boobkmarking is to use web-sticky notes.
http://www.mystickies.com/
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Notecentric: Another option for You to access Your notes online.
http://www.notecentric.com/
Notemesh: You can share notes with classmates and create pages similar to that of a wiki.
http://www.notemesh.com/?a=home
shortText: A very simple application for typing up notes online. You can also connect to Twitter
and del.icio.us.
http://www.shorttext.com/
Yahoo! Notepad: Similar to other online notebooks, with Yahoo You can connect to Your
calendar and share notes with classmates.
http://notepad.yahoo.com/
Flashcard Moments …
Cramberry: An iPhone and iPod flashcard app.
http://cramberry.net/
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Flashcard Exchange: As it says, a website for creating, swapping and printing flashcards.
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
ProProfs: Embed, share, print, and review flashcards online.
http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/
Quizlet: An alternative online flashcard review application.
http://quizlet.com/
Study Stack: You can find and add flashcards across a variety of subjects.
http://www.studystack.com/
Mindmap Your Way
Buzan’s iMindMap: A cartoon like mindmapping tool with brainstorming strategies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzan%27s_iMindMap
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Compedium: A highly visual mindmapping application to record those brainstroming sessions.
http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/about.htm
Freemind: Excellent software to help You to organise Your thought-flow to create easy to read
mindmaps.
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Visual Understanding Environment: Another visual mindmapping application focused on
educational purposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VUE_(Visual_Understanding_Environment)
Academic Tips & Tricks
100 Great Twitter Tips, Tools & Tutorials for Serious Students
http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.org/blog/2009/100-great-twitter-tips-tools-tutorials-for-
serious-students/
Blackboard Mobile: iPhone®, iPod Touch®, Blackberry® and other web-enabled mobile devices
can coonect with Blackboard Learn.
http://www.blackboard.com/Mobile/Mobile-Platform.aspx
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Carmum Killer Bib Tool: Help to format Your paper.
http://carmun.com/easy-bibliography-formatting-APA-MLA.php
CliffsNotes: iPhone and iPod study aid apps, competitions and tips for academic life.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/
Connotea: A reference and management tool.
http://www.connotea.org/
Cramster: An study community social networking site.
http://www.cramster.com/
dict.org: The ultimate dictionary.
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict
Glossarist: Glossaries across the disciplines.
http://www.glossarist.com/
Google Mobile: Use Your mobile phone to enhance Your learning experience.
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/more.html#tasks
Google Search Techniques: Timeline searches and search navigation experiments.
http://techtracer.com/2007/12/03/google-experiments-are-brilliant/
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Mindtools: Problem solving and organisational tips and trickes. Well worth the visit.
http://www.mindtools.com/index.html
Mocha VNC: Gets Your iPhone/iPod access to a server where you can connect to you can
connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X.
http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm
Murdoch University Assignment Tip Sheet: A host of links for writing up Your assignments
or presentations.
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/TipSheets.html
Murdoch University Handout on Paraphrasing and Referencing
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/pdf/paraphrasing_referencing.pdf
OmniGraffle: Diagrams, laYouts and graphics can be created here for a professional
presentation.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
OmniGraphSketcher: Create graphs with class.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraphsketcher/
Sparknotes: Take a study break, visit test prep blogs and fun spark tests. There is even an advice
column.
http://www.sparknotes.com/
Sparknotes Study Twists: Used with a Nokia phone, tips and tricks for the student that wants to
review on the go!
http://www.sparknotes.com/studytwists
Study Guides & Strategies: Time mangement and learning strategies.
http://www.studygs.net/
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The Owl at Purdue: Writing and study aids.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
SearchEdu.com: Dictionaries, calculators and other education resources.
http://www.searchedu.com/
Twitblocker Allows You to block out twitter chatter when You need to focus on particular
tweets, such as interviews about a topic You’re studying or participate in a study group.
http://www.tangerineworks.com/twitblocker/
Twitter Guide Book A barebones guide to usign Twitter. Many good tips about using hashtags
and the value of re-tweeting to support Your studies.
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Twply: Means You can forward Your @replies to Your inbox.
http://www.twply.com/
Zotero: A Firefox application so that You can cite Your research as You find them online.
Choices of automatic formatting style.
http://www.zotero.org/
Academic Search Engines
Academic Index: http://www.academicindex.net/
African Journals Online: http://ajol.info/
Airiti: http://portal.airiti.com/modules/tinyd0/
All Academic: http://www.allacademic.com/one/www/research/
Arts and Humanities Citation Index: http://www.thomsonscientific.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=H
arXiv.org: http://arxiv.org/
Babieca: http://www.babieca.com/
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE): http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
CiteSeerX: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
EBSCO: http://www.ebscohost.com/
EMBASE: http://www.embase.com/
GENESIS: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/
Gold Rush: http://goldrush.coalliance.org/index.cfm?inst_code=NONE
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Highbeam: http://www.highbeam.com/
IntegentaConnect: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/;jsessionid=1rg5u09afu9r2.alice
Informaworld: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/1231878851-81054667/home~db=all
InterScience: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/?cookieSet=1
Journal Finder: http://journalfinder.wtcox.com/uncg/
JournalSeek: http://journalseek.net/
National Diet Library: http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Science Digital Library: http://nsdl.org/
National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/
Nature.com: http://www.nature.com/
OJOSE: http://www.ojose.com/
Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org/
OpenJ-Gate: http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx
Original Sources: http://www.originalsources.com/loginos.htm
PhilPapers: http://philpapers.org/
Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Questia: http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp
ResearchChannel: http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/
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RefSeek: http://www.refseek.com/
Science/AAAS: http://sciencemag.org/
ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Scientific Commons: http://www.scientificcommons.org/
SciNet: http://www.scinet.cc/
Scirus: http://www.scirus.com/
Scopus http://info.scopus.com/
SpringerLink: http://springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
SSRN eLibrary: http://ssrn.com/
The National Academies: http://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/
UESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/
Vadlo: http://vadlo.com/
WebSEEk: http://persia.ee.columbia.edu:8008/
Whitney Medical Library: http://cushing.med.yale.edu/electronic/
The Sociable Student
A New Ingredient for Student Succes: Social Networks
http://www.bobpearlman.org/Articles/Student_Success.htm
30+ More Ways to Create Twitter Groups: This guide will show You how to make the most
of Twitter groups.
Alley Dog: Excellent social networking site for psychology students.
http://alleydog.ning.com/
College-Cram: An educational social networking site.
http://www.college-cram.com/
Facebook: A popular social networking site where You can set up private groups and fanpages
or run surveys.
http://www.facebook.com
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Green College Network: For the student who adopts a green lifestyle as part of the work-study-
life balance.
http://greencollegenetwork.ning.com/
GroupTweet: Set up private communication with group members using this tool. are files —
including videos and images — with TweetCube.
Library Thing: Booklover resources and groups.
http://www.librarything.com/
Ping.fm: Ping.fm is another tool for syncing FB, Twitter, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM
and more to get the most of collaborating.
http://ping.fm/
Share videos and photos: For school projects and presentations, share videos and photos via
Twitter.
Twitter: Microblogging at its best. Great for study groups, research and networking.
http://www.twitter.com
Wikispaces: A collaborative space which is easy to use and edit.
http://www.wikispaces.com/
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Cultivate Reflection
Blogger: Create a blog as a part of a project or just to stay in touch with friends and family in an
easy way.
http://www.blogger.com/features
Creativity Prompts: Picture and thought prompts to get Your creatice juices flowing.
http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/writing.prompts.html
Live Journal: A popular journaling platform.
http://www.livejournal.com/
Online Diary: This online journal also has a weekly email subscription.
http://www.my-diary.org/
Reflective Writing at UNSW: Read about the reflective writing process and access releated
resources.
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/reflect.html
Wordpress: Another popular blogging platform.
http://wordpress.com/
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Be Constructive~
A Google search on the topic of contsructivism as a learning approach reveals the topic is broad
in nature and application.
The theory of constuctivism has become popular in the West as a means of learning and
teaching;
“Constructivism is now one of the dominant pedagogies used in education” (Paurelle, 2003, p.
1).
Students are facilitated in developing their own knowledge base on a topic, drawing on their
personal experiences and application of learnt knowledge in their day-to-day environments.
Constructive theory is about the nature of knowledge and how it can be applied to understand
how we learn. It is a learning approach that does not view knowledge as a tangible thing existing
in the external world. Rather, each of us interprets the physical world through the process of
perception, which draws on past experiences and knowledge. In this way we construct our own
personal understading of the world.
You, the student, are better able to construct the academic reality You require to excel, with a
better understanding of how You learn as a person. As well as the physical environment, there is
a social aspect to the context. Besides Your peers, the learning facilitator (lecturer, tutor, mentor
etc) contributes to the social environment, and their personlity will influence the learning
experience. Finally, You, as the student of focus, brings to the setting Your previous cognitions
and interpretations of experiences within similar settings.
In any learning environment, learners must contend with the environment (social), their previous
knowledge (cognitive) and the influence of the instructors’ personality (instructional presences).
Thus, context aids construction of meaningful knowledge. Maybe that is why we tend to learn
more when we are having fun!
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And as we are social creatures, our social environments contribute to the learning process,
because they create opportunities for meaningful interactions.
Thus, constructivism views learning as a social experience. You, as the student is encouraged to
explore and discover the unique ways in which you learn, which includes Your interactions with
others, rather than waiting to “be taught”.
The e-learning environment is an ideal medium for promoting a constructivest learning
approach. As Paurelle (2009) notes, online interactions provide more opportunities for self-
pacing, self-learning and increases student learning choices. You (Student) become the hub of
your study support endeavors when you use the Internet to complement your academic activities.
As social, health and business scientists in training, You would do well to be aware of how to
bridge theory into action. This Handbook aims to aid You in the construction of an
understanding of our brave new technological world, and its links to Your learning and
professional development.
The greatest advantage of a constructivist approach to You the student, is that drawing on your
own experiences allows you to embody new knowledge. Embodiement of knowledge occurs
through engagement and reflection on experiences. The process creates links between present
and prior experiences, allowing You to generalise and apply knowledgte across contexts (DeLay,
1999).
Thus, Your needs and expectations as a student in relation to the topic You are learning about
indicate how material is best delivered (pedagogy).
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References
Coffield, F., Moseley, D., Hall, E., & Ecclestone, K. (2009). Should we be using learning
styles? Retrieved January 17, 2009, from
https://crm.lsnlearning.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=041540
DeLay, R. B. (1999). Forming knowledge: Constructivist learning and experiential education.
Retrieved January 20, 2009 from http://www.rongen.com/artikelen/construct.htm
Felder, R.M. & Spurlin, J. (2005). Applications, reliability and validity of the Index of Learning
Styles. Retrievedn January 18, 2009 from
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ILS_Validation(IJEE).pd
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Paurelle, S. (2003). E-learning and constructivism. Retrieved January 20, 2009 from
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/Support/learning-teaching-enhancement-
unit/Resources/Documents/BriefingNotes/ConstructivistPedagogy.pdf
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