Types of Online Activities

Essential Study Skills, 4e has a powerful, interactive student web site designed to provide you and your students with companion exercises and enrichment activities. The Internet icon used throughout each chapter of the textbook indicates that a companion exercise for that topic is available online. For each chapter, you will find the following kinds of activities:

Learning Styles Profile   The chapter profile that appears in the textbook can be completed and scored online. Students can then record their score in the Appendix of their textbooks.

Reflective Writing 1, 2, 3   ; Each of the Reflective Writing assignments in the textbook may be completed online. Students write their responses inside text boxes and then choose to print a copy of their work or email it to you.

Case Studies   The case studies in the textbook appear online in the section Textbook Case Studies. Online Case Studies consists of additional case studies that are available only online. For all case studies, students write their responses in text boxes and then use the options to print or email their responses to you.

Interactive Activity   For these activities students answer objective fill-in-the-blank, true-false or multiple-choice questions. Informative, instructional feedback appears next to both the correct and the incorrect answers. After students answer all ten questions, they receive a score for the exercise. Many of the Practices and all of the Practice Tests use this format.

Text Box Activity   Students need to write responses to open-ended and closed questions. After they type their responses in the text boxes, they can print a copy of their work or email their work to you.

Links to Related Web Sites    Each chapter has extensive links related to chapter topics. Students can explore these links on their own or visit the web sites to fulfill an assignment you create for specific links or search activities.

Options for Using the Web Site

Incorporating the web site into your course increases student interest and motivation. It also provides a multitude of enrichment opportunities for students to experience beyond the textbook pages. Consider the following possibilities for incorporating web site activities into your instructional approach:

1. If you have access to a computer lab, schedule a class session in the lab to familiarize students with this textbook's web site and activity formats. Introduce students to the web site by having students complete a Chapter Profile, one reflective writing activity, one practice exercise or case study, and one ACE Practice Test. Finish the session by using the related links to visit other web sites.
   
   
2. Include one or more of the web site activities in your regular weekly assignments. Refer to the following section, Web Activity Highlights, to preview activity formats chapter-by-chapter. Decide if you prefer students to work with interactive exercises scored online or to work with exercises with text boxes so responses can be emailed or printed.
   
   
3. Combine textbook reading assignments with the web site activities for online or distance learning courses.
   
   
4. Bring students' attention to the web site and encourage them to take practice tests and explore the other activities and links for reinforcement of skills and personal enrichment.
   
   

Guide to Online Activities

Click on one of the chapters below from Essential Study Skills, 4e to preview the activities online for that specific chapter.

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Chapter 1 Discovering and Using Your Learning Styles
Chapter 2 Processing Information Into Your Memory System
Chapter 3 Managing Your Time
Chapter 4 Setting Goals
Chapter 5 Increasing Concentration;Decreasing Stress and Procrastination
Chapter 6 Boosting Your Memory and Preparing for Tests
Chapter 7 Using a Reading System
Chapter 8 Strengthening Comprehension and Critical Thinking Skills
Chapter 9 Creating Cornell Notes for Textbooks
Chapter 10 Listening and Taking Lecture Notes
Chapter 11 Using a Variety of Notetaking Techniques
Chapter 12 Developing Strategies for Objective Tests
Chapter 13 Developing Strategies for Recall, Math, and Essay Tests