Typing has now become a crucial part of our lives where the use of computers is so common everywhere. It has now become a part of our everyday life.
To become an expert at this, we should start it young. It is no wonder kids are set to an early start to learn typing.
There are great many tools that are designed to help practice typing for kids.
Some programs have been written especially for this purpose.
These programs come in the form of typing lessons or games.
Kids can either indulge in games to help them learn the alphabet or typing lessons to help them learn the keys on the keyboard.
No matter which method they choose, the motive is still the same i.
e. practice typing for kids.
Apart from honing their skill in typing, these programs are highly educational for the kids.
You can even download some of these games or lessons free from the internet. There are also those that charge a fee for their program or online access to the lessons.
The good part about having these lessons from the internet is that these typing programs can allow the kids to pick up typing skill easily, all in the comfort of their homes.
There is no need to source for a tuition center or even a tutor.
In addition, these programs have been written to resemble computer games and therefore some may find this type of software an effective way to encourage and hold the interest of their kids.
More practice would mean more improvement in their typing skills!
This is definitely a fun and easy way to practice typing for kids.
Some games are suitable for kid and adults alike.
Adults too can take this as an opportunity to try out and experience it in order to assess the efficiency of these typing programs for kids.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Kids Party Games - Great Ideas For A Great Party
Are you wondering what kind of kids party games to hold for your child's next birthday? The games are going to depend on the theme of the party, the age group of your child and his/her friends, and the time of the year.
There are HUNDREDS of games to choose from -- here are a few good ideas to help you out! Games For Indoor Parties When the weather is bad, or if it's simply too hot or too cold to hold a party outside, then an indoor party is in order.
But that's okay -- there are lots of games out there that can make indoor kiddie parties just as enjoyable as their outdoor counterparts.
For instance, there's the timeless Twister -- it's great for all ages, and even the parents can join in and have a few laughs.
Other kids party games ideas include Freeze Dance, Musical Chairs, and the Ha Ha game.
Older kids and teens might like quieter, more intriguing games, such as Truth Or Dare. Games For Outdoor Parties If the weather is good, then by all means, hold the party outdoors! It's a great opportunity to have some fun, sun, and fresh air.
And running after the kids will mean some good exercise for the parents and other adults, too! Popular outdoor kids party games include the perennial sack race -- if there are a LOT of kids, you can pair them up! You can also get the parents into the game with a three-legged race. Treasure hunt games are also great for pirate-themed parties, or when your child's birthday falls close to Easter.
An outdoor party will also let you have attractions such as carousels, pony rides, and petting zoos. On a hot day, you can have a pool party, waterslides on the lawn, and even a "foam bubble" area where the kids can cool down and have fun.
These aren't games per se, but are still guaranteed to keep the kids occupied for hours.
Games Or Shows? Why Not Both? Sometimes, the best children's party games aren't games at all.
You can have shows and other attractions instead! You can have face painters, magicians, and balloon artists going around and giving everyone a good time.
Now if planning a kid's party sounds like a lot of work for you, that's because it is. That's why our next piece of advice is to find an experienced, passionate professional to help you out. It's always, always a good idea to enlist the help of someone who entertains at children's parties for a living! So if you're wondering what kids party games to hold at your child's next party, have an expert help you.
They can give you great ideas and great deals, and they can take care of the whole party from start to finish. That way you can focus on enjoying the party with your child -- and that's what's most important.
There are HUNDREDS of games to choose from -- here are a few good ideas to help you out! Games For Indoor Parties When the weather is bad, or if it's simply too hot or too cold to hold a party outside, then an indoor party is in order.
But that's okay -- there are lots of games out there that can make indoor kiddie parties just as enjoyable as their outdoor counterparts.
For instance, there's the timeless Twister -- it's great for all ages, and even the parents can join in and have a few laughs.
Other kids party games ideas include Freeze Dance, Musical Chairs, and the Ha Ha game.
Older kids and teens might like quieter, more intriguing games, such as Truth Or Dare. Games For Outdoor Parties If the weather is good, then by all means, hold the party outdoors! It's a great opportunity to have some fun, sun, and fresh air.
And running after the kids will mean some good exercise for the parents and other adults, too! Popular outdoor kids party games include the perennial sack race -- if there are a LOT of kids, you can pair them up! You can also get the parents into the game with a three-legged race. Treasure hunt games are also great for pirate-themed parties, or when your child's birthday falls close to Easter.
An outdoor party will also let you have attractions such as carousels, pony rides, and petting zoos. On a hot day, you can have a pool party, waterslides on the lawn, and even a "foam bubble" area where the kids can cool down and have fun.
These aren't games per se, but are still guaranteed to keep the kids occupied for hours.
Games Or Shows? Why Not Both? Sometimes, the best children's party games aren't games at all.
You can have shows and other attractions instead! You can have face painters, magicians, and balloon artists going around and giving everyone a good time.
Now if planning a kid's party sounds like a lot of work for you, that's because it is. That's why our next piece of advice is to find an experienced, passionate professional to help you out. It's always, always a good idea to enlist the help of someone who entertains at children's parties for a living! So if you're wondering what kids party games to hold at your child's next party, have an expert help you.
They can give you great ideas and great deals, and they can take care of the whole party from start to finish. That way you can focus on enjoying the party with your child -- and that's what's most important.
Please Let Them Work!
It has only been summer for a few weeks and they are already bored! I, like many parents, am frantically trying to figure out how to work and keep my children in a positive, productive environment while they are out of school.
Now, I recognize that I am one of the lucky ones-able to juggle my schedule to make sure the kids get back from camp-but instead of being shuffled around, imagine if they could work and contribute to the family economy (and to the frequent stops of the ice cream truck)! Can they do it? Despite society's overwhelmingly negative view toward children working, I'm willing to find out.
I understand how the pendulum may have swung this way over history in regard to children working.
In the early 1900's people took advantage of child labor, putting our precious little ones to work in the factories, on the streets, and in the fields.
Kids were kept home from school to work and to financially support the family or to care for younger siblings. There was a different view of child labor then; today, however, most people I know hardly want to risk their children in the mines.
When I was a child, I had many opportunities to work at a young age, and so did many of the kids I knew. I got my start stuffing envelopes for political campaigns and doing office work; my husband worked in an orchard and sorted dirt clods out of filbert processing equipment-by the time he was in middle school he worked in a machine shop and painted houses. Our friends picked beans and berries which left us waiting for them to come home each day so that we could play. Their red-stained hands were proof of a long morning in the field.
So, why can't young people get jobs today? It seems that there are cultural beliefs that kids can't legally work, that they don't have the attention span, or, perhaps even the desire to earn. We've got our kids so tightly scheduled or supervised they have busier schedules than we have! When would they find the time to earn? I have a general belief that people want to work-to be a contributor to their own success and society.
There is a pride in earning and we care for things we earn.
Kids who work build character, find purpose, and learn to spend only what they have.
They may even come to a hands-on knowledge of the benefits of staying in school-some jobs can make the classroom look pretty good come fall. As for the legalities, I looked up the Oregon minor laws on the Bureau of Labor & Industries website (and found that young people can work as early as 14 years of age.
Fourteen and 15 year-olds can work 3 hours per day during school (8 hours on non-school days), 18 hours per week maximum and up to 40 hours when school is not in session. By the time kids are 16 or 17, they can work up to 44 hours per week. Now, there are restrictions on the types of jobs kids can have and there are special rules for agricultural work, so make sure to check with the Bureau.
Jobs like newspaper carriers/vendors and minors performing domestic work or work in private homes generally do not apply.
The standard laws of minimum wage, overtime, working conditions, etcetera will still apply. The only question that remains is can your teen actually get hired? In reality, kids are now competing for jobs with many more experienced workers. Without getting too political, who would hire an inexperienced young worker a full minimum wage? However, I see huge benefits to learning how the work-force operates at an early age, and while I know my kids are still too young to work for a regular paycheck, I'd like to see them give earning a try-at least then they could satisfy their own ice cream indulgences.
Now, I recognize that I am one of the lucky ones-able to juggle my schedule to make sure the kids get back from camp-but instead of being shuffled around, imagine if they could work and contribute to the family economy (and to the frequent stops of the ice cream truck)! Can they do it? Despite society's overwhelmingly negative view toward children working, I'm willing to find out.
I understand how the pendulum may have swung this way over history in regard to children working.
In the early 1900's people took advantage of child labor, putting our precious little ones to work in the factories, on the streets, and in the fields.
Kids were kept home from school to work and to financially support the family or to care for younger siblings. There was a different view of child labor then; today, however, most people I know hardly want to risk their children in the mines.
When I was a child, I had many opportunities to work at a young age, and so did many of the kids I knew. I got my start stuffing envelopes for political campaigns and doing office work; my husband worked in an orchard and sorted dirt clods out of filbert processing equipment-by the time he was in middle school he worked in a machine shop and painted houses. Our friends picked beans and berries which left us waiting for them to come home each day so that we could play. Their red-stained hands were proof of a long morning in the field.
So, why can't young people get jobs today? It seems that there are cultural beliefs that kids can't legally work, that they don't have the attention span, or, perhaps even the desire to earn. We've got our kids so tightly scheduled or supervised they have busier schedules than we have! When would they find the time to earn? I have a general belief that people want to work-to be a contributor to their own success and society.
There is a pride in earning and we care for things we earn.
Kids who work build character, find purpose, and learn to spend only what they have.
They may even come to a hands-on knowledge of the benefits of staying in school-some jobs can make the classroom look pretty good come fall. As for the legalities, I looked up the Oregon minor laws on the Bureau of Labor & Industries website (and found that young people can work as early as 14 years of age.
Fourteen and 15 year-olds can work 3 hours per day during school (8 hours on non-school days), 18 hours per week maximum and up to 40 hours when school is not in session. By the time kids are 16 or 17, they can work up to 44 hours per week. Now, there are restrictions on the types of jobs kids can have and there are special rules for agricultural work, so make sure to check with the Bureau.
Jobs like newspaper carriers/vendors and minors performing domestic work or work in private homes generally do not apply.
The standard laws of minimum wage, overtime, working conditions, etcetera will still apply. The only question that remains is can your teen actually get hired? In reality, kids are now competing for jobs with many more experienced workers. Without getting too political, who would hire an inexperienced young worker a full minimum wage? However, I see huge benefits to learning how the work-force operates at an early age, and while I know my kids are still too young to work for a regular paycheck, I'd like to see them give earning a try-at least then they could satisfy their own ice cream indulgences.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Earn A Real Living As an Online Adjunct College Instructor
To say that new and veteran college instructors find earning an actual living from their academic pursuits on the traditional post-secondary campus an exercise in futility is a gross understatement.
The irony in this situation rests on the growing student enrollments in community colleges and four-year state universities and the amount paid to teach courses such as composition and college-level math in physical classrooms, and this irony is increased dramatically by the cost of transportation between the two or three schools within driving distance of the residence of the adjunct college teacher. Obviously, as the cost of physically moving from one campus rises and there is no mitigation of that expense through increases in the amount paid to educators there comes a point in time when it is necessary to address the economic imbalance in a proactive fashion.
The difficulty inherent in any proactive stance when it come to a college teaching career is the need for a serious evaluation of the rise of distance learning and its distinct impact on an academic career.
By and large, when an intellectual exits graduate school with a master degree or doctorate there is an expectation that a state job with regular salary increases, solid benefits such as access to group health insurance rates and retirement programs and definite employment security after reaching the tenured level in a public college or university is available provided the academic produces research on a regular basis and demonstrates excellence in teaching in the classroom.
The reality now is distinctly different because tenured faculty positions are viewed as a tremendous drain on dwindling budgets for faculty salaries. The solution for this disagreeable situation is to begin building an online teaching schedule as quickly as possible.
The cost efficiency of distance education for public universities and colleges is too great for administrators of these post-secondary institutions to ignore any longer and the result will be a distinct shift of the academic employment landscape from the physical classroom to the online classroom.
The academic that wants to meet this shift head on and erase the cost of transportation from the economic formula any teacher must address in order to actually earn a living for providing instruction to students should begin to aggressively transition out of the physical academic setting and into the available online college degree programs.
It will be difficult to make this transition at first, but diligence needed to earn a graduate degree can be applied to this effort and eventually an online adjunct college teacher will be able to entirely erase any need to spend even a small portion of their teaching income on transportation expenses while exponentially increasing the number of college and universities that can be applied to each semester. Educators wanting to acquire online college courses that can be taught from a personal computer should not fool themselves when they begin submitting applications to the online degree programs.
There is no getting around the need for college instructors teaching on an adjunct basis to grind it out when searching for online adjunct faculty employment.
Some reliable estimates put the amount of college faculty members teaching on an adjunct basis at seventy percent now. This huge block of individuals with graduate degrees is being dismissed from the traditional college and university landscape at a very rapid rate, and in some cases hundreds of adjunct college instructors are being fired at one stroke by college and university administrators who are trying to save their own perks and incomes. This means that the competition for online adjunct jobs is fierce simply because of the lack of opportunity for an educated person in any other area of the economy besides accredited online college degree programs.
This competition does not in any way mean that it is not worth the time to pursue online adjunct employment opportunities with online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs.
It just means that it will take longer to find online college classes to teach with online degree programs and it will require a very sharply focused, rotational search strategy to be successful.
New and returning college students understand that enrolling in online college courses leading to an online criminal justice degree, an engineering degree online or an elementary education degree online, is much more efficient and effective than driving a personal vehicle to a remote college or university campus, often at night after a full day on the job for non-traditional college students, parking, walking across vast swath of ground in order to sit in an unpainted, drafty college classroom and listen to an underpaid traditional adjunct instructor who knows his or her days on the faculty payroll are numbered because most of the adjunct instructors have already been laid off due to budget cuts.
Some individuals with earned graduate degrees, and a small number of the laid off or fired traditional college instructors are among those individuals, have learned digital navigation to the extent they understand how to find and apply for online college faculty positions through the faculty application portals of the websites of the thousands of community colleges, technical schools, state colleges and four-year universities.
It is true that there are several very good academic labor websites that are not affiliated directly with the individual post-secondary academic institutions and they distribute online adjunct job openings to their readers, but these academic labor websites have to wait until the college and universities send the information to them before they can distribute it to prospective online adjunct instructors.
A much better way to grind out the search for online adjunct faculty employment is to visit the individual websites of the over five thousand colleges, universities and for-profit college that confer the bachelor online degree and the online master degree and apply directly to each of them every two weeks until a positive response in the form of an invitation to attend the mandatory training every online adjunct instructor is required to successful complete before being placed on an online college classroom is received by the prospective online college teacher seeking online adjunct jobs with accredited online college degree programs.
The irony in this situation rests on the growing student enrollments in community colleges and four-year state universities and the amount paid to teach courses such as composition and college-level math in physical classrooms, and this irony is increased dramatically by the cost of transportation between the two or three schools within driving distance of the residence of the adjunct college teacher. Obviously, as the cost of physically moving from one campus rises and there is no mitigation of that expense through increases in the amount paid to educators there comes a point in time when it is necessary to address the economic imbalance in a proactive fashion.
The difficulty inherent in any proactive stance when it come to a college teaching career is the need for a serious evaluation of the rise of distance learning and its distinct impact on an academic career.
By and large, when an intellectual exits graduate school with a master degree or doctorate there is an expectation that a state job with regular salary increases, solid benefits such as access to group health insurance rates and retirement programs and definite employment security after reaching the tenured level in a public college or university is available provided the academic produces research on a regular basis and demonstrates excellence in teaching in the classroom.
The reality now is distinctly different because tenured faculty positions are viewed as a tremendous drain on dwindling budgets for faculty salaries. The solution for this disagreeable situation is to begin building an online teaching schedule as quickly as possible.
The cost efficiency of distance education for public universities and colleges is too great for administrators of these post-secondary institutions to ignore any longer and the result will be a distinct shift of the academic employment landscape from the physical classroom to the online classroom.
The academic that wants to meet this shift head on and erase the cost of transportation from the economic formula any teacher must address in order to actually earn a living for providing instruction to students should begin to aggressively transition out of the physical academic setting and into the available online college degree programs.
It will be difficult to make this transition at first, but diligence needed to earn a graduate degree can be applied to this effort and eventually an online adjunct college teacher will be able to entirely erase any need to spend even a small portion of their teaching income on transportation expenses while exponentially increasing the number of college and universities that can be applied to each semester. Educators wanting to acquire online college courses that can be taught from a personal computer should not fool themselves when they begin submitting applications to the online degree programs.
There is no getting around the need for college instructors teaching on an adjunct basis to grind it out when searching for online adjunct faculty employment.
Some reliable estimates put the amount of college faculty members teaching on an adjunct basis at seventy percent now. This huge block of individuals with graduate degrees is being dismissed from the traditional college and university landscape at a very rapid rate, and in some cases hundreds of adjunct college instructors are being fired at one stroke by college and university administrators who are trying to save their own perks and incomes. This means that the competition for online adjunct jobs is fierce simply because of the lack of opportunity for an educated person in any other area of the economy besides accredited online college degree programs.
This competition does not in any way mean that it is not worth the time to pursue online adjunct employment opportunities with online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs.
It just means that it will take longer to find online college classes to teach with online degree programs and it will require a very sharply focused, rotational search strategy to be successful.
New and returning college students understand that enrolling in online college courses leading to an online criminal justice degree, an engineering degree online or an elementary education degree online, is much more efficient and effective than driving a personal vehicle to a remote college or university campus, often at night after a full day on the job for non-traditional college students, parking, walking across vast swath of ground in order to sit in an unpainted, drafty college classroom and listen to an underpaid traditional adjunct instructor who knows his or her days on the faculty payroll are numbered because most of the adjunct instructors have already been laid off due to budget cuts.
Some individuals with earned graduate degrees, and a small number of the laid off or fired traditional college instructors are among those individuals, have learned digital navigation to the extent they understand how to find and apply for online college faculty positions through the faculty application portals of the websites of the thousands of community colleges, technical schools, state colleges and four-year universities.
It is true that there are several very good academic labor websites that are not affiliated directly with the individual post-secondary academic institutions and they distribute online adjunct job openings to their readers, but these academic labor websites have to wait until the college and universities send the information to them before they can distribute it to prospective online adjunct instructors.
A much better way to grind out the search for online adjunct faculty employment is to visit the individual websites of the over five thousand colleges, universities and for-profit college that confer the bachelor online degree and the online master degree and apply directly to each of them every two weeks until a positive response in the form of an invitation to attend the mandatory training every online adjunct instructor is required to successful complete before being placed on an online college classroom is received by the prospective online college teacher seeking online adjunct jobs with accredited online college degree programs.
Why Is Scrabble So Popular?
There are lots of table games and activities that develop our intellect. Many folks enjoy chess or crossword puzzles.
However, verbarium is perhaps one of the most amazing puzzles.
Indeed, it fun to create new words out from the given word. For example, how many words can you create from "magazine?" If "amazing" is the only option you have, you are definitely not a champion.
Read on to learn more about verbarium and how to become an expert in it.
Scrabble is word making activity that was initially introduced to the public in 1938.
The game quickly gained popularity among people of all ages.
The point is to create new words out of existing ones. It may resemble a crossword puzzle a little bit.
However, the point is not to guess, but create own.
To become an expert, you need at least elementary knowledge of the rules and some experience.
In fact, you need a rich vocabulary to be able to compete with seasoned experts.
The more vocabulary you have, the better.
Of course, you should use only existing vocabulary units. To improve your verbarium skills you, you may visit specialized sites and forums.
There are sites that help you create new words from existing ones.
So, you enter any word, and the website turns in lots of words and variations.
This can significantly help you acquire necessary skills and enrich your vocabulary. Such sites are usually free to use. Moreover, they can be addictive since it is incredibly interesting to look at the list of words you can create from the word "ambulance" for example.
You will not only learn new lexical units that other people never suspected even to exist.
You will also train your brains to be flexible and creative.
The majority of psychologists and researchers recommend word making online activities for kids since this is the bets tool to develop their intellectual potential. It is also popular among students, especially those who are bored at lectures.
Scrabble is a perfect time killer as well. Besides, there are lots of apps for Android and iOS phones, so you can enjoy it anytime you have got a few spare minutes. By the way, there are plenty of communities and forums. You can play against people from across the world.
There are champions who never lost.
It's very interesting to play against experts and gain new experience.
It's amazingly interesting!
However, verbarium is perhaps one of the most amazing puzzles.
Indeed, it fun to create new words out from the given word. For example, how many words can you create from "magazine?" If "amazing" is the only option you have, you are definitely not a champion.
Read on to learn more about verbarium and how to become an expert in it.
Scrabble is word making activity that was initially introduced to the public in 1938.
The game quickly gained popularity among people of all ages.
The point is to create new words out of existing ones. It may resemble a crossword puzzle a little bit.
However, the point is not to guess, but create own.
To become an expert, you need at least elementary knowledge of the rules and some experience.
In fact, you need a rich vocabulary to be able to compete with seasoned experts.
The more vocabulary you have, the better.
Of course, you should use only existing vocabulary units. To improve your verbarium skills you, you may visit specialized sites and forums.
There are sites that help you create new words from existing ones.
So, you enter any word, and the website turns in lots of words and variations.
This can significantly help you acquire necessary skills and enrich your vocabulary. Such sites are usually free to use. Moreover, they can be addictive since it is incredibly interesting to look at the list of words you can create from the word "ambulance" for example.
You will not only learn new lexical units that other people never suspected even to exist.
You will also train your brains to be flexible and creative.
The majority of psychologists and researchers recommend word making online activities for kids since this is the bets tool to develop their intellectual potential. It is also popular among students, especially those who are bored at lectures.
Scrabble is a perfect time killer as well. Besides, there are lots of apps for Android and iOS phones, so you can enjoy it anytime you have got a few spare minutes. By the way, there are plenty of communities and forums. You can play against people from across the world.
There are champions who never lost.
It's very interesting to play against experts and gain new experience.
It's amazingly interesting!
Earn Your Degree Online To Improve Your Career
So you want to advance in your career but your educational limitations have not allowed you this simple pleasure? Not to worry, the road has not come to an end in your career yet.
It's just that you've never had the right information where distance learning is concerned.
Wondering what I'm talking about? I'm simply implying that you can get that higher-up executive position in that department you've had your eye on for quite a long time now.
Yes, you can do this while still working with them, but not if you are murmuring about letting go of your job, you won't; just through distance learning.
There you have it - it's out of the bag.
The problem that has hindered you from getting that position is the certificate you lack, and even though you can't get away to go to school for fear of losing the job you currently hold, you could study for it online, you know. Online distance learning offers you that opportunity to get the degree you desire while conveniently working.
You don't have to go through a lot of stress with online study because you can sit in the comfort of your home and earn your degree for the duration of the course.
You can get many accredited colleges and universities online that offer distance learning programs in various courses.
All that is required is that you know the area in which you want to study and conduct a search to pick the most suitable school that offers the course as well as flexibility in the learning process. In online study, you have access to chat rooms where you can discuss freely with students offering the same course with you.
You can also get a lot of materials to aid your study without stress.
Your assignments as well as tests can be taken and submitted online to be graded and returned through the same means to you.
It's left for you to decide when and where you want to have your study and your wish could be granted. So, online distance learning is the right kind of education for you.
There, of course, are a few challenges that come with it, such as coming up with the needed funds and avoiding distractions during the duration of the program. But if you are serious enough about what you are about, you should have them covered with relative ease.
The truth is that many people have done it before and more are successfully doing it now.
.
.
so why not you?!
It's just that you've never had the right information where distance learning is concerned.
Wondering what I'm talking about? I'm simply implying that you can get that higher-up executive position in that department you've had your eye on for quite a long time now.
Yes, you can do this while still working with them, but not if you are murmuring about letting go of your job, you won't; just through distance learning.
There you have it - it's out of the bag.
The problem that has hindered you from getting that position is the certificate you lack, and even though you can't get away to go to school for fear of losing the job you currently hold, you could study for it online, you know. Online distance learning offers you that opportunity to get the degree you desire while conveniently working.
You don't have to go through a lot of stress with online study because you can sit in the comfort of your home and earn your degree for the duration of the course.
You can get many accredited colleges and universities online that offer distance learning programs in various courses.
All that is required is that you know the area in which you want to study and conduct a search to pick the most suitable school that offers the course as well as flexibility in the learning process. In online study, you have access to chat rooms where you can discuss freely with students offering the same course with you.
You can also get a lot of materials to aid your study without stress.
Your assignments as well as tests can be taken and submitted online to be graded and returned through the same means to you.
It's left for you to decide when and where you want to have your study and your wish could be granted. So, online distance learning is the right kind of education for you.
There, of course, are a few challenges that come with it, such as coming up with the needed funds and avoiding distractions during the duration of the program. But if you are serious enough about what you are about, you should have them covered with relative ease.
The truth is that many people have done it before and more are successfully doing it now.
.
.
so why not you?!
Study Skills for Successful Online Students - Online Is a Whole New Game
You will need a different set of study habits to keep up with online classes.
The online world moves faster than a traditional college classroom. You will have to research for more information yourself.
You will be on your own to work through the class material and find additional resources. Set up a place to study Find the quietest place possible, large enough and comfortable.
Get a real desk and a good chair.
You'll need to set up your computer and have space for books and supplies.
Get your software set up and have all your supplies at hand. Organize Your Time Go through your course calendar and syllabus and work out a study schedule.
You need to budget 10 hours a week, every week for a course. If you want an A, plan 15 to 20 hours per week. You can break up your study time into small blocks whenever you have a short break.
Participate Fully in online discussions Engage in depth, ask useful questions.
Prepare ahead of time.
Review all your reading assignments.
You need to study for discussions. There's no time limit to discussions.
Dig deeper into the subject.
Interact and respond to your classmate's questions.
Don't just make lone comments. Don't dominate the conversation. Give others a chance to participate.
Be friendly but professional. You may find those discussions count for a large part of your grade. You can't just skip them.
Make connections and network with your fellow students.
Communicate with your instructor Introduce yourself as soon as you start the class.
Before you ask a question, be sure it's not covered in the materials you already have.
Remember the response you get in technical forums, RTFM.
Time your e-mails when he's not apt to be swamped.
Be polite even when you think he's in the wrong and don't go over his head. If you're not getting anywhere by e-mail ask for a meeting on the phone.
Don't be afraid to ask for help if you have a problem.
Understand and remember class material Highlight your class materials or make an outline for your notes.
Every so often, write down what you have read in your own words.
Paraphrase.
If you don't understand an idea, bring it up in your online discussions or ask your professor for his opinion.
Now when you have a test, just go through your highlights and your notes.
Start out slow with online courses.
A full load right off will swamp you.
Start out with one or two classes until you're used to the technical challenges.
You need to get used to working on your own and budgeting your time.
And if you are working full-time or have a lot of family responsibilities, the work involved in just one class will surprise you. You can succeed if you become skilled in the different study skills necessary as an online student. Your college degree becomes possible even if you are short on time and money.
You can work full-time and still succeed. No matter what your challenges, it's possible to earn your college degree online.
The online world moves faster than a traditional college classroom. You will have to research for more information yourself.
You will be on your own to work through the class material and find additional resources. Set up a place to study Find the quietest place possible, large enough and comfortable.
Get a real desk and a good chair.
You'll need to set up your computer and have space for books and supplies.
Get your software set up and have all your supplies at hand. Organize Your Time Go through your course calendar and syllabus and work out a study schedule.
You need to budget 10 hours a week, every week for a course. If you want an A, plan 15 to 20 hours per week. You can break up your study time into small blocks whenever you have a short break.
Participate Fully in online discussions Engage in depth, ask useful questions.
Prepare ahead of time.
Review all your reading assignments.
You need to study for discussions. There's no time limit to discussions.
Dig deeper into the subject.
Interact and respond to your classmate's questions.
Don't just make lone comments. Don't dominate the conversation. Give others a chance to participate.
Be friendly but professional. You may find those discussions count for a large part of your grade. You can't just skip them.
Make connections and network with your fellow students.
Communicate with your instructor Introduce yourself as soon as you start the class.
Before you ask a question, be sure it's not covered in the materials you already have.
Remember the response you get in technical forums, RTFM.
Time your e-mails when he's not apt to be swamped.
Be polite even when you think he's in the wrong and don't go over his head. If you're not getting anywhere by e-mail ask for a meeting on the phone.
Don't be afraid to ask for help if you have a problem.
Understand and remember class material Highlight your class materials or make an outline for your notes.
Every so often, write down what you have read in your own words.
Paraphrase.
If you don't understand an idea, bring it up in your online discussions or ask your professor for his opinion.
Now when you have a test, just go through your highlights and your notes.
Start out slow with online courses.
A full load right off will swamp you.
Start out with one or two classes until you're used to the technical challenges.
You need to get used to working on your own and budgeting your time.
And if you are working full-time or have a lot of family responsibilities, the work involved in just one class will surprise you. You can succeed if you become skilled in the different study skills necessary as an online student. Your college degree becomes possible even if you are short on time and money.
You can work full-time and still succeed. No matter what your challenges, it's possible to earn your college degree online.
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