Field Trips for Chapter 1 -Using your Resources
Learning Styles Profile Complete the Learning Styles Profile online, if you haven't already and email it to lucy@chemeketa. This will give you an idea of where to place your emphasis in Chapter One and in the following field trips. You need to report on a minimum of three field trips. You will be able to read what others say as well and comment on their visits. Sometimes several students go to the same place, but see different things and get different meanings out of the same site. This is fine. I am looking at what is important to you and how you can apply what you find.
The How to Study Model The focus for this week in YOU as a learner and learning or studying itself. So we are going to look at Chapter 1 and pp. 25 - 29 of Chapter 2.
Learning Styles Analyze your own learning styles, so you can build from your strengths. You can do the learning styles inventory from page 3 online.

Now compare what this learning styles inventory says to what Diablo Community Colleges survey says about you. Try the Learning Style Survey for College at http://silcon.com/~scmiller/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi

Is there any difference in the results?

Maybe you would rather try your luck at the University of Hawaii. Maybe there is a difference for University students as opposed to community college students. Try this VARK Inventory and see. Note: VARK stands for visual,aural,read, and kinesthetic.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/vark.htm
Other Learning Styles Are you a Right Brain or Left Brain learner?. Try the Hemispheric Dominance Inventory at Middle Tennessee State University at
http://www.mtsu.edu/~devstud/advisor/brainta.html

Here are four other dimensions of learning. Where do you fit? Are you like Jessica Fletcher. Read this chart Four Dimensions Underlying MBTI and let us know.
http://www.gsu.edu/~dschjb/mbti1.html

Tell me and I'll forget.
Teach me and I'll remember.
Involve me and I'll learn
Multiple Intelligences At The Classroom Pie of Seven Basic Intelligences you can click on the pie and get an explanation of that intelligence.
http://www.aenc.org/ABOUT/MI-Pie.html

8? Hey, I thought there were only 7. Read The Eight Intelligences and find out . Which famous people are like you?

http://www.zephyrpress.com/articles/eight.htm

See how technology can enhance each of the intelligences in How technology enhances Howard Garnder's Eight Intelligences. at
http://www.america-tomorrow.com/ati/nhl80402.htm
IQ?
Your textbook says Howard Gardner's theory of mulitple intelligences is a "direct challenge to the traditional IQ (Intelligent Quotient) tests measured by standardized IQ tests." Want to know what your IQ is? See the IQ-Revised online quiz at
http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq.html
Study Skills Checklist What do other colleges expect of their students? For FREE you can take the study skills placement test at Virginia Tech. You will find the Study Skills Checklist at http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/checklis.html

Print out the checklist and do it offline. See where your strengths and weaknesses are and if you agree with the Virginian Tech's assessment. Let us know in the discussion area in the conference labeled Wk1 Field Trips what is most important to you in this Study Skills class.
Take Charge! Who is in charge of your learning? One way to tell how you view your world is to see where you place the control. This is called the locus of control. Try Where is your Locus of Control? at http://www.queendom.com/lc.html
Chapter 2
The Information Processing Model		 What does it mean to study? Get the picture here.
http://studyweb.chemeketa.edu/overview.htm

Have you ever been here? You study and study and study for the test and still get a D! Read The Six Hour D (and how to avoid it!)

http://www.psywww.com/discuss/chap00/6hourd.htm

Visit Indiana University for Ronald Blue's perspective on How to Study.
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuepsyc/Study.html

University of North Carolina has put together a list of the 10 Traps of Studying. Have you fallen into any of these?

http://www.unc.edu/depts/unc_caps/TenTraps.html#Ten Traps

Tips for Success in Distance Learning at DuPage University

http://www.dupage.edu/excel.html
If you have reached this far, without going on any field trips, go back and try at least three.

If you don't know what day it is, you've probably spent too much time on field trips!

While things are still fresh in your mind, you may want to come and tell us what you found in the discussion area. Remember to summarize your field trips to turn in. Then check out the activities to see for fun interactive learning that will apply what you learned here or extend your learning. Fun detours are on the activities page.
@Lucy MacDonald 8/06/2001