How to Balance School and Work: 5 Strategies for Academic Success

How do you juggle your career, classes, family, and friends? Deb Levy, a certified life and business coach, and a Harvard Extension School workshop leader, offers five tips to help you find success in and out of the classroom.

Students’ Top Tips for Becoming an Engaged Learner

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Cengage Learning has a post over at the Engaging Minds blog by Tami Strang addressing tips for students about how to become a more engaged learner.  The tips have to do with note taking, studying, participating, etc.  There are 10 tips provided by students to help other students become more engaged and successful in the learning.

The post is available here.

TLC Resource of the Week – Academic Search Complete

TLC Resource of the Week

This week’s resource is one of the JALC Library online databases: Academic Search Complete.  The database is available both on campus and off campus to faculty and students (see links below).  The library has also created a video tutorial for using Academic Search Complete.

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Nobody Likes a Copycat: The Ethical Use of Information

This is a neat little video exploring copyright, plagiarism, and the ethical use of content.  The video was created by La Trobe University Library.

Top Three Steps Students Take to Ensure College Success

Picture of 4 StudentsIn a recent blog post the results of Cengage Learning’s Student Engagement Insights survey showed the top strategies students employed to guarantee their success in college.

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New Version Available – Forwarding Your Volmail

If you do not check your JALC Volmail account regularly, you can miss important information from your instructors or the college.  If you prefer to receive your mail at a different email address, you can forward your Volmail to that account.  This video shows the process.

Infographic: 10 Attributes of a Successful Online Student

Here is a link to the PDF version of the infographic: http://www.cengagesites.com/sites/1094/13P-IN0218_PluggedIn_Infographic_w.pdf 

New Version Available – Stop Forwarding Your Volmail

If your are graduating or not retuning to JALC next semester, you will want to stop forwarding your email if you have set Volmail up to do so.  The video below shows how to do that.

Infographic: Resume Cheat Sheet

Infographic Resume Cheat Sheet

This is a useful graphic showing what types of phrases, action words, and fonts to use on your resume.  It also includes some words to avoid.  The graphic was released by Business News Daily.

College Success Advice: Time Management

Students from Phi Theta Kappa’s 2014 NerdNation convention discuss the keys to being successful in college and the importance of time management.

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