Two Teaching Tools

1. Effectiveness: students use in other courses because they work for them.

2. Click on the circled arrows above to link to web sites

3. Purposes

3.1. Assure students read text

3.2. Diagnose student's capacities

3.3. Increase student comprehension

3.4. Provide singular review document

3.5. Enable brainstorming for paper/project

4. Context

4.1. Students did not read text

4.2. Students lack study tools

5. Strategies

5.1. Outlining

5.1.1. Use Table of Contents

5.1.2. Subheadings from chapter boldface

5.1.3. Other subheadings from italics

5.2. Mind Mapping

5.2.1. Processes

5.2.1.1. Branches from chapters

5.2.1.1.1. headings

5.2.1.1.2. detailed notes

5.2.1.2. Convert to outlines or powerpoints

5.2.1.3. Brainstorming paper/project

5.2.1.3.1. Linking to other resources

5.2.1.3.2. attaching rough notes

5.2.2. Resources

5.2.2.1. Freemind

5.2.2.2. Mindmeister

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