Editorial Welcome
Recreational & Reflective Reading
A State of Preparedness
Notetaking Time Savers
Whose Words Are These?
Procrastination
How Can You Help This Student?
Brainteasers
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Editorial Welcome

By Mona Pelkey

Welcome to The Learning Center Exchange (LCE) and another issue chock full of information I am lucky enough to have some pumpkins growing in my yard. They were planted through serendipity; I dropped last year's mushy, rotten jack-o-lantern on my way to the compost pile, and some of the seeds sprouted right where they fell. The emerging vines were a novel surprise, and I eagerly watched as the vines stretched from six to twelve, to twenty, to thirty or more feet in length. It was as though a giant green octopus from a sci-fi movie was taking over my lawn. This "octopus," however, was adorned with...
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In the Spotlight: Recreational Reading and Reflective Reading Responses for College Students

By Barbara McLay, University of South Florida

Understanding Millennials: A State of Preparedness

By Julianne Scibetta, Albany College of Pharmacy

Bird flu is coming, and in many parts of the world it has already arrived. For those of us living in North America, the question of bird flu is not if it will cross into our territory but when. Like anyone with an eye towards skepticism, I'm not yet willing to let myself hit a panic button. But from rumblings in higher education in my neck of the woods, many colleges and universities aren't taking their chances…
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Much research shows that reading for recreation at any age is highly correlated with reading rate, comprehension, and vocabulary. We decided to encourage reading as a leisure activity for our college students by allowing them to use self-selected materials as one component in our Critical Reading and Writing Course. The written responses to what we hope is pleasurable reading are designed to be less intimidating than typical essay questions requiring analysis of literature. The responses require students to relate what they have read to their own lives...
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Whose Words Are These?

By Kyle Cushman, Vermont College of Union Institute and University

Notetaking Time Savers

By Dennis Congos, University of Central Florida

When writing academic papers, students can find it challenging to share the ideas of others (such as researchers, authors, or speakers) because they are unsure how to quote, paraphrase or summarize information from outside sources properly, or they are unclear about the differences between each...
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Keeping up with a lecture while taking notes in class is difficult to impossible for learners who try to write down every word. Notetaking is more effective if learners practice a few simple Time Savers designed to make taking notes faster and easier....
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Procrastination: If You Only Have a Minute, It Only Takes a Minute-Right?

By Mona Pelkey

How Can You Help This Student?

By Mona Pelkey

I am guilty of procrastination as I sit here typing this article the day that it is due. Procrastination is a lapse of discipline that nearly all of us have been guilty of from time to time, and it is one of the hardest habits to break. What are some of the reasons we (and our students) put off working on assignments until the very last minute...
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Poor Candace!

She can't get any help at her learning center. Everyone seems to ignore her. Nobody wants to help her. She has personal problems, it's true, and she has brought some of them on herself. She is not a "fun" drop-in, that's for sure. But hey, she is standing in your doorway, and you are pretending to be on the phone…but she just won't go away!...
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Brainteasers: October 2006

Compiled by Julianne Scibetta, Albany College of Pharmacy

Answers to last month's brainteasers:

Marathon Math: 12
Share and Share Alike: If there were 8 bottles and 3 children, each child drank two and two-thirds of a bottle (2 and 2/3). So the boy who had three bottles gave away only 1/3 of a bottle, while the boy with 5 bottles gave away 2 and 1/3 of a bottle. Thus the second boy gave away 7 times as much as the first boy. The boy who had five bottles should receive 7 sweets and the boy with three bottles should receive one treat.
Triple Trick: 3 appears between 1 and 50 all of 15 times.

Once again thanks to the loyal readers who gave their best!
Peggy, Bruce, etc.

October's challenges hopefully offer you new opportunities to fire up those cerebral synapses and warm up those late autumnal nights.

HIDDEN WORDS
Many children delight in the masquerade that is Halloween. Test your sleuthing skills in finding the hidden word in the following sentences. Your category is US Presidents, and the first one is given to you. Hint: Sometimes it helps to read the sentences outloud.

1. The old style radio is very much out of date. (Tyler - hidden in "sTYLE Radio")
2. A fishing pier certainly is good to fish from.
3. His little dog ran to meet him when he got off at the station.
4. We intend to make the floor at the attic level and straight.
5. Answer my question with a "yes" or a "no."
6. These modern dances don't compare with the old timers, like the waltz and polka.
7. I told you not to open any cartons of that whiskey or that rum and not to remove them.
8. The fact that he is mad is only natural.
9. Of course you wear the poncho over your coat.
10. I expect to get my new car Thursday.
11. What makes John so nervous?
12. He spent a dreary life working in the sugar fields.
13. It's very hard in getting started but after that it's okay.

LisTEN

1. BASEBALL. Name 7 other games played with a spherical ball. (Note: A football is not a spherical ball.)
2. HORSESHOE. Name 4 other symbols of good luck.
3. WALKING UNER A LADDER. Name 5 other things considered unlucky.

CONCENTRATION - Get out a blank piece of paper and a pen!
In the center of a sheet of paper write the word "dollar." If a cent is less than a nickel write "penny" to the left of dollar. If there are exactly twice as many nickels in a dollar as there are quarters in five dollars, don't cross out "dollar" but write "dime" under "penny." Unless there are not exactly as many dimes in a dollar as there are nickels in a quarter, cross out the word "penny" and write "nickel" over dollar.
Now underline the word "dime" only if you have crossed out "dollar." If there are more pennies in a nickel than quarters in a dollar, don't write "quarter" over "nickel" unless a nickel is more than a penny.
Now draw a line under "dollar" only if a dime has more pennies than a dollar has dimes.

As always, submit your answers and brainteasers to me at jscibetta3@hotmail.com.

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