Tech Thursday: Study Skills Videos for Students

Study skills videos & supporting discussion topics.

I stumbled upon this great resource created by Jessica Bernards and Wendy Fresh, math instructors at Portland Community College. They have created a series of short videos about study skills and a document with suggested follow-up questions/discussion topics. They also have playlists of math-focused videos on their YouTube channel.

Each video is short, animated, and very student-friendly. They are’’t content-heavy, but are a good discussion starting point to get students thinking - and hopefully chatting! - about different study-related topics.

Happy Viewing!

Past Tech Thursdays

• Student engagement: Climer cards / Digital exit tickets / Interactive quizzing / Online question management for classes & presentations / Wheel of Names (random name generator) / Providing audio feedback

• Health: Two programs to reduce eyestrain

• Zoom: Screen share in Zoom / How to Zoom in in Zoom

• Research: Managing references / Find free versions of articles / Text Capture Apps

• Using images: Extract text from images / Remove distracting backgrounds from photos / Using screenshots

• Google: “Publish” from Google Drive / Google Classroom updates / “Make a copy” function in Google Drive / Working in shared Google docs / Collaborating in Google Slides / Turn Google Forms into a formatted document

• Canvas: Canvas “What-if” grades

• Productivity: Keeping Notes on Students / Keyboard shortcuts / Text Expanders / Mailbird email program / Voice-to-text options / Custom URLs & QR codes / DropBox Paper for collaboration