Module 1
Tech tips: It is important to know about different softwares and websites. Important ones are: Office 365, Box, Google Drive, Adobe Acrobat, Carmen, different features of Google.
Organizing: Files can be organized in Google drive, Onedrive, Box and similar cloud softwares as they can be accessed any moment very easily.
Setting goals: Goals and plans needed to be made before starting, thus procrastination can be avoided.
Campus resources: Ohio State University provides several resources like OSU Library, MLSC tutors, academic advisors, Dennis learning center and many more.
Module 2
Netiquettes: Netiquettes means the etiquettes in internet. It is really important to behave nicely and mannerly with everyone on the internet. https://youtu.be/gvkbDc1LiVI
Emailing: Emailing to professors takes proper rules for eg, good grammar, straight forward point, politeness, maintaining a good email structure, signature. https://youtu.be/d3zCLMWR38E
Collaborating: To make collaboration with group members a success, the group leader must make a detailed plan and work schedule, short checkpoints of work should be assigned with a deadline, and finally the final project would be composed under the leader’s guidance. https://youtu.be/NZRyDgDlvqA
Module 3
Procrastination: It can be dealt with by 10 mins rule, Ultimate goal vs Immediate desire techniques. https://youtu.be/VA8D1cGW5Qk
Time Management: Time can be managed by tracking daily activities in excel sheets. Also setting up google calendar, google tasks can help here a lot. https://youtu.be/b3fVtWfhitc
Digital Distractions and Supportive Environment: Distractions like mobile notifications, social medias etc should be put off and supportive distraction less should be created.
Module 4
Memory and Learning Strategy: Proper learning strategy needs to be adapted in accordance with memory. Memory are of 4 types, Sensory memory, Working memory, Short term memory and Long term memory. Chunking, Priming, Mnemonics are effective ways of learning.
https://youtu.be/QwOBQsjClo0 https://youtu.be/SZbdK9e9bxs
Study tools and Study apps: Significant study tools and apps are Ease.ly, Bubble.us, Timetoast etc
Module 5
Note taking strategies:Some mentionable note taking strategies are Cornell method, Outline method, Flow stem method, Bullet point method, Writing in slide method etc.
Notes can be taken both in paper and digitally by iPad, Onenote etc.
https://youtu.be/Yc5qyMTjO3k https://youtu.be/LoRl9uL1J0w
Module 6
Finding and evaluating resources: Resources after finding needs to be evaluated by criteria of reliability,quality and utility,
Search engines search: We can conduct search in google, yahoo and similar web browsers. Scholarly articles can be found in Google Scholar and Ohio State Library.