The Ivy Tech Virtual Library has developed Lib Guides for students.  In Campus Connect, click on the Library tab, under the Help tab is a link to these guides.  There is a wide range of courses and topics with library guides.  Organizing Material often times begins with organizing one’s time.   For example, check out the Ivy Tech Student Skills Guide under Academic Skills on the Central Indiana Library link, specifically the tab devoted to organizing study materials.  Lib Guides are a great way to supplement your course work.

http://www.ivytech.edu/library/

Another academic skill that comes up when managing our time is test prep.  Often times we do not give ourselves enough time to absorb the new information.  Remember back to chapter one and the reading on how our brain works using CORE.  The better quality of our processing the more we review (quantity of processing) the better the results.  If we wait and cram we may retain the information for a short amount of time – to get through a test perhaps.  But it doesn’t stick with us.  If we give ourselves enough time to read and review we can find a way to connect it to prior knowledge.  If we have time to do so (starting to study while the test is in quadrant II) we are setting ourselves up for more potential success.  Here are some links to various college websites that have help about memorization methods, this too has been gathered from the Central Indiana Virtual Library Student Success lib guide.  These guides already reviewed by our very own media specialists and librarians are a great resource.

In this folder you will find your readings.

• Lumen: Planning and Prioritizing