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Learning Center Exchange Articles Index

The following is an index of articles that appeared in the Learning Center Exchange (formerly known as the Learning Center Newsletter) between February 2000 and October 2005. The index is organized alphabetically. Note that this index was created manually. If you find any errors email us .

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Andrea Kösling Articles

	Tutors' Reflections: Hey, Stories with Pictures Can Be Fun
	Tutors' Reflections: The Benefits of the Training Cycle

Book Reviews

	Eminent Educators : Studies in Intellectual Influence
	Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research
	Homework: Motivation and Learning
	How to be a Successful Online Student
	Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy : A Critical Primer
	Learning and Development: Making Connections to Enhance Teaching.
	Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education.

Conferences

	2001 NCLCA Summer Institute
	ATP (Association for Tutoring Profession)
	NCLCA 2000 Annual Conference
	NTA 2000 Conference
	NWCA 5th National Conference
	TIDE (Technology Institute for Developmental Educators)

Dennis H. Congos Articles

	A Boardwork And Note Formatting Model For Learning Mathematics Coursework Using Writing
	It Only Takes Seconds in Class to Speed Learning
	Note Organization Formats That Inhibit or Promote Learning
	Playing the “Game” of Test
	SELF-TESTING CONCEPT: Discovering what has been learned before an exam is taken, not after.
	To Other Voices Crying in the Wilderness of Ignorance
	The Radial of Learning
	What Does Study Mean in College

Elke A. Kleisch Articles

Establishing Guidelines for the Email Tutor

Gary Probst Articles

	Creating Tests with Respondus
	Concept Maps
	Do College Reading Placement Tests Measure College Reading Skills? Part 1
	Do College Reading Placement Tests Measure College Reading Skills? Part 2
	How glasses can cause reading problems
	Intrapersonal Communication and Reading Comprehension
	Learning continues to take place while we sleep
	Overcoming Or Preventing Math Anxiety That Causes Learned Helplessness In Mathematics
	Skips Downing's Study Skill Website
	Tip of the Tongue Memory Problem
	Using Java scripts to enhance your website or Blackboard program.
	Using The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) To Measure Psychological Attributes That Prevent Academic Success
	Vocabulary Development is the prerequisite skill required for applying a rule to solve a problem
	What is the Omphalos of Your College Reading and Study Skills Course?
	When luck, not reading and study skills, helps students pass their tests.
	Why A Grade Of 90 Percent Can Mean Failure?
	Why a good night's sleep is required to learn principles and solve problems

Grant Writing

	Approaches to Grant Writing
	Communicating to the Reader

Helping Students with Disability

	Awareness, Accommodations and Technical Assistance for University Students with Neurological Disabilities
	Support Groups for Students with Learning Disabilities
	Stress and Students with Learning Disabilities

Internet Resources for Learning Centers

	Academic Resource Center of Utah State
	Academic Success at the University of Northern Iowa
	AceReader
	Blackboard.com
	City College of San Francisco
	DSSHE Listserv
	Educational Clipart on the Net
	EDTECH
	H owtostudy.org
	Humboldt State University's Web Site
	James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
	Learning Support Centers in Higher Education (LSCHE)
	Learning To Learn
	Learning Strategies Database
	LRNASST, Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
	Making the grade and writing tools sites
	National Center for Education Statistics
	NWCA Homepage
	"Preparing Independent, Effective, Life-Long Learners"
	Purdue University's on-line Academic Success Center
	South Mountain Community College's Learning Assistance Page
	QueenDom
	Retro Chic
	Review of LSCHE
	Speed Reading on the Web
	Southwest Tennessee Community College
	Spelling Sites
	SQ3R at CSB/ SJU Web Site
	Study Guides and Strategies
	Study Skills in September
	The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience
	The Place to be Seen
	The World Factbook
	Time Management
	Visiting the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
	Touring the SBI Website
	Visual Thesaurus
	WCENTER, Open Forum for Writing Centers Professionals
	Westchester Community College Web Site
	Writing Resources on the Net
	The University of St. Thomas Study Guides & Strategies

Julianne Scibetta Articles

	Resources for Emergency Preparedness
	Understanding the Millennial Generation: Marketing Your Services
	Understanding Millennials: Parental Relations
	Understanding Millennials: Technology and Tutoring

Kyle Cushman Articles

	Internet Research Requires Healthy Skepticism
	Percolation-a productive form of procrastination
	The Hardest Part is How to Begin: Tackling the First Draft
	Writing Before Writing: Coaching Students to Play and Plan

Learning Assistance

	2003 Learning Support Center Website Awards
	Appointments and Attendance Tracking Software
	A tale of two students
	Communicating With Your Staff: An Effective System May Be Right Under Your Nose.
	First Annual Learning Center Awards
	GRE
	LSCHE 2001 Web Site Excellence Awards
	Mentoring
	National Tutoring Week
	Online Developmental Studies Degree
	Professional Opportunities for Learning Support Center Personnel
	Sharpen the Saw!
	Supplemental Instruction (SI)
	Technology Institute for Developmental Educators
	Thinking processes, reverse engineering and external representations in the generation and application of stress models
	Tracking software usage.
	Using a cow to promote peer tutoring!
	WI 2003 is the last Winter Institute!
	The Winter Institute is back for 2005

Linda Sweeney Articles

	Guidelines for Being a Good Online Student (or Helping Someone with Learning Online)
	The Electronics of Teaching Developmental Reading
	The Importance of Genre in E-Writing

Management Strategies & Tips

	A Management Model for Individualized or Paired Self-paced Tutorials
	Beginning a New Academic Year
	Beliefs & Actions
	Budget Awareness
	Building Staff Professionalism Through A Learning Support Center Professional Library.
	Campus-Wide Publicity Through a County Fair-Like Event
	Communication Connections
	End of Semester Recommendations
	Getting the Word Out on Campus, Within your State, and Nationally on Learning Support Centers in Higher Education
	Keep a Management Journal.
	Keeping Up-to-date with Technology
	Keeping Up with the Information Explosion
	Getting Involved in Online Teaching/Learning
	Hallmarks of an Award Winning Web site
	Leadership & Stress
	Learning Center Resolutions
	Learning Center Web Sites .
	Learning Support Center Outreach to Online Students
	Maintain a Learning Center Scrapbook.
	MAINTAIN PROGRAM VISIBILITY ON CAMPUS WITH BOOKMARKS.
	More on Program Visibility
	Necessary Fun
	Partnering with the Campus Bookstore
	Passionate Work
	Principles for Effective Learning Centers
	Publicizing Your Center to Teaching Faculty
	Psychic Evaluations
	Staff Meetings
	THINK RESOURCES RATHER THAN MONEY
	Three Respects
	Traveling Beyond Status Quo
	Using ROI for professional conferences.
	Using the Web for Staff Orientation and Ongoing Training
	A note from Frank L. Christ
	Up & Down the Ladder

Mona Pelkey Articles

	How to Jump Start Your Textbook Reading in One Easy Lesson
	Seize the Day: Backwards Planning for Optimal Student Performance

Online Learning and Learning Technology

	Study Strategies for Online Courses
	College Level Literacy and Technology in the 21st Century
	Encouraging Healthy E-Learner Behaviors: Tips for E-Moderators and Learning Professionals
	Using Information Literacy for Computer Research Success: Part 1
	Using Information Literacy for Computer Research Success: Part 2

Person of the Month

	Frank L Christ, Visiting Scholar, U of AZ
	Jennifer L. Hurd, Harding University
	Linda Thompson, Harding University
	Gen Ramirez, Director of the LAC at Cal State U Long Beach
	Gene Kerstiens, Andragogy Associates, Torrance, CA
	Karen G. Smith, Director of the Learning Resource Centers at Rutgers
	Lucy Tribble MacDonald
	Marie-Elaine Burns, Skyline College
	Martha Maxwell
	Michael O'Hear
	Muriel Harris, Professor of English and Director of the Writing Lab at Purdue
	Rick Sheets
	Sandra M. Ayaz, Ed.D.

Publications

	Academic Exchange Quarterly
	The CRLA Monograph, Starting Up A Learning Assistance Center
	The Journal of College Reading and Learning (JCRL)
	The Learning Assistance Review
	The Writing Center Journal (WCJ)
	The Writing Lab Newsletter

Student Study Skills Tips

	Ask Questions in Class!!!
	Combating Test Anxiety
	Combating the eyeball reading syndrome
	Cramming
	Dealing with students during exam times .
	Forming Study Groups
	Having a Winning Attitude
	How Heavy is Your Backpack?
	How much textbook reading do you have to do?
	How my erasers saved my grade!
	Listening and being "really present” in class
	Optimizing Your Study Space
	Positive Reflections!
	Practicing for Essay Exams
	Procrastination Success .
	Smart Lecture Notes
	Starting Over!
	Steps for Using Index Cards for New Vocabulary
	Study ad though you are preparing to take a test
	Study Reading
	Study Rewards
	Study skills handouts on the web.
	Task Management .
	What's on the test

Supplemental Instruction (SI) Series

	Getting Started with Supplemental Instruction (SI)
	Department to SI Program Dynamics
	Recruiting Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leaders
	Training Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leaders
	More on recruiting Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leaders
	Faculty Support and the SI Program
	Evaluating the SI Program
	Developing An SI Proposal

Computer and Software

MS Word Tips

	Adding Drop Caps to Word documents
	Changing Line Spacing
	Commenting Students Papers
	Expanding the Recently Used File List
	Fields
	Figuring out changes between documents
	Highlighting Paragraphs
	Horizontal Lines
	Inserting comments in documents
	Interesting document info
	Quick Navigation
	Quick Selections in Word
	Recovering Documents After Crashes
	Using Cross Referencing
	Using Images Efficiently
	Vertical highlights
	WordArt

Windows Software Pick

	Anti Spy Software
	FTP Voyager
	FlashGet
	FullDisk
	GuruNet
	ICQ
	InoculateIT Personal Edition
	iMarkup
	NoteTab Light
	Password Plus
	Proxomitron
	TypingMaster 2001
	Versaverter
	WebTime
	WinZip
	ZoneAlarm

Windows Tips

	Accessing the Device Manager
	Adding Items to the Windows Start Menu
	Changing Application Associated with a File Type
	Changing File Type Association, a Quicker Way
	Changing Screen Settings
	Copying and Moving
	Disable Start up programs temporarily
	Email Attachments
	Finding files
	Getting to your Desktop in a Hurry
	Hidden Windows Utilities
	How do you know how much resources Windows has lost?
	Keep your PC running at peak performance
	Keyboard Shortcuts
	More Windows Explorer Tips
	Quick Access to Windows Find
	Renaming Files
	Right Clicking without a mouse!
	Screen Capture
	Shortcut to the Net
	Starting programs Automatically
	Start programs each time Windows starts
	Starting Windows without the applications in the StartUp folder
	Time for a reboot?
	Time for Spring Cleaning!
	Toggling Window State
	Using the Character Map
	Windows Explorer Tips (Showing File Details, File Operations, etc.)
	Windows XP, should you upgrade?

Jokes, Quotes, and Misc.

Brainteasers

	May 2005
	June 2005
	August 2005
	October 2005

On the Lighter Side

	Actual Business Signs
	Actual Headlines
	A letter from a University
	A student letter to parents...!
	Amazing Brain!
	Before I came to college I wish I had known...
	Bribe
	Chemistry Exam
	College Prayers
	Course Evaluations
	Creative Writing
	Discipline
	Disorder in Courts!
	English is a crazy language!
	Essay!
	Final Exam Prayers
	First Grade Proverbs.
	First Grade Proverbs, Part II
	From the Files of Computer Support Desks
	Improving the English Language !
	Interesting Bumper Stickers
	It's all in the punctuation
	It's not what you think
	Know You've Been In College Too Long If...
	Linguistics Professor
	Little Girl
	Math Jokes
	Ponderable!
	Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn
	Secrets of the Rich
	Students Excuses
	Subliminal Messages
	Test Papers
	THE SEAMAN AND THE PIRATE
	Tip!
	Top 15 best things to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk
	What I've Learned at College Reading and Learning Association Conferences
	Who I am
	Why?
	Why must we learn this?
	Wise Words?
	Word Origin
	Word Parts
	Words that should be in the dictionary!

Quotes

	February 2000
	March 2000
	April 2000
	May 2000
	June 2000
	July 2000
	August 2000
	September 2000
	October 2000
	November 2000
	December 2000
	January 2001
	February 2001
	March 2001
	April 2001
	May 2001
	June 2001
	July 2001
	August 2001
	September 2001
	November 2001
	December 2001
	January 2002
	February 2002
	March 2002
	April 2002
	May 2002
	September 2002
	October 2002
	November 2002
	December 2002
	February 2003
	March 2003
	April 2003
	May 2003
	November 2003
	January 2004
	February 2004
	March 2004
	April 2004
	May 2004
	February 2005

Miscellaneous Articles

	AccuTrack 7: Learning Center Management Software
	Are you ready for the new Millennium?
	Be Thankful
	Blue Mountain .
	Browsing the web can be a good deed indeed!
	Chew on this ....
	Do you Google?
	Domain Name Registration .
	E-Mail Tips .
	How much of this stuff is true .
	How to Stay Young
	If I had my life to live over.
	Instructions for life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama
	The Pleasure of Attention
	The Secret of Success
	Shake It Off!
	What Goes Around Comes Around
	Whatever happened to Spritsma!
	Values.
	White Flower Farm

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