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As an English teacher
from New Zealand I would like to say thank you for
such innovative and helpful ideas in the area of
learning and preparing to learn. An excellent
resource which I'm sure will assist my students
(high school level). 12/10/99
A well layed out site
with good facilities to help and educate all types
of problems 11/25/99 from England..
Thank you for having this
on the internet. I am a disabled student a a
local university. 12/17/99
Tes pages sont tr? bien
faites il n'y a pas beaucoup de fautes, de plus moi
comme la majorit? des francophones avons comme
lacune l'orthographe fran?ise (ce n'est pas une
langue facile...) . Je doit avou?que mon talons
d'Achille est mon orthographe , ainsi que la
grammaire; Dieu merci j'ai un correcteur
d'orthographe sur mon traitement de texte. Tes
textes sont compr?ensibles et c'est cela e plus
important . 12/1/99 from Belgium
I am very impressed with
your website which gives a lot of info to students
on learning methods and skills. What I wanted to
emphasize is are there any info that you can provide
us on case studies i.e. as a student of strategic
management or post graduate students, case studies
is a very important thing for us to link to the real
business world when writing essays. 12/10/99
(Yes, the millenium page!)
I thought your site was very easy to
follow. The format was user friendly and covered a
lot of important requirements. 11/03/99
Just visited (Study Guides)
Excellent work! 11/14/99
I just came across your
web site and was very impressed by the scope and
clarity of your materials. I would like your
permission to use information in your web
development presentation for staff development
courses that I do for teachers and librarians.
10/30/99
"Study Guides for
testing, reading, writing, and classroom
participation" was quite helpful to me, even as a
6th grade student. I read through each and every
section, followed all of the links, and got some
magnificent ideas. Thanks so much! 10/11/99
Congratulations! I think
you're on to something important here. Students,
including myself (:-) do cram - and a systematic
approach will clearly provide the best results.
Check out also David Ellis' "How to cram, even
though you shouldn't" in Becoming a Master Student.
My students always seem to get a kick that cramming
is even acknowleged. like they invented it! 10/15/99
I LOVED these test-taking strategies. Who doesn't
want to become a better test-taker? As I think I
talked about before, I think that the "confer with
other students" suggestion is especially helpful.
Sometimes when you're talking to others in your
class, you see things in ways that you've never seen
them before. (And also, one of your classmates may
know someone who has had the class before and has
given them helpful hints that they can pass on to
you!) 10/18/99
Interesting web site on
test preparation. Thanks for sharing. I have no
comments for improvement to offer. 10/19/99
This is a very good web
site. Thank you for providing. 10/15/99
Your SQ3R page is the
best one I've found so far--that's why I linked to
it from my Reading 90 online class.
I just wanted to say that
your site is excellent, and that it really made my
day to come across it... I am going to recommend
your site to all that I know and refer to it often.
Keep up the great work!! 10/7/99
Thank you for developing
this site. I am a second time around college
student. It is very helpful. I just added your site
to my "favorite places" list. 9/27/99
Thank you for this great
site. My son is a fifteen year old high school
sophomore who has never developed note taking or
study skills. He always managed to do very well up
until this point. I'm sure that the strategies you
outline will be of great service to him. I have also
initiated the help of a very successful senior who
is on the football team with him to help him set
some goals and using your strategies I'm confident
he will reach them. I think that these skills should
be taught in high school because there are so many
children like my son who never had to work so they
never developed them. They are our "underachievers".
We have given him two weeks to adjust his focus, and
starter or not we will take him off the football
team. I'm quite sure he won't allow this to happen.
9/30/99
Thank you
for the wonderful advice. 10/5/99
This web site is a
teacher's dream! Thank you for all of your hard
work! 10/3/99
(I am a) elementary
gifted instructor (in Pennsylvania), and I was
wondering if I could obtain an official "OK" from
you to utilize your site in our gifted program. I
need to teach study skills and was extremely
impressed with the information available at your
site. 9/21/99 (Yes)
I visited your site
looking for help for my less-than-studious
granddaughter, and noticed you have not visited
Texas. When you do, as with other places, be
sure you learn the language first! Your site
is well done and quite informative. 9/20/99
Family Fun Magazine, September 1999: The
group of Study Guides hosted by the University of
St. Thomas in St. Paul,
Minnesota, is even more comprehensive.
It covers goal-setting, managing stress, paying
attention, memorization techniques and more.
Although it is written for college students, parents
can easily adapt the guidelines here for
children of any age.
As the parent of a
struggling 8th grader, I appreciate your website.
I'm so happy to find information to help my student.
Thank you for your time and effort. I feel it will
truly help us. 9/14/99
A very informative site.
Thank you. 9/13/99
The study skills
information you provide is excellent and I would
like to ask permission to use some of it. I work at
(a Community High School in Indiana). I have been
asked to assist some students in improving their
study skills. Educators advise students to study,
making the assumption the student has the talent
naturally. Unfortunately, study skills (for most
students) need to be taught and practiced just like
other skills. 8/27/99
I was looking through the
Study Guides and things that you have done with
them. Sounds like you are doing work for Moscow
State.... That is so cool!!!... I will talk to a
local (U.S.) Russian magazine about doing an article
for the local community about the site and the
partnership that you have created with Moscow State.
8/27/99I teach a middle
school reading strategies class. I am also a reading
teacher. This is a wonderful resource. A million
thanks to you ! 9/13/99
I've been looking through
various sites today, particularly for information
for my 11th grade students at the secondary college
I teach at in Brisbane, Australia. Your site came
up, and I found it extremely interesting. I was
wondering if, it is at all possible, I could use
some of your information in collating some resource
material for my "LIFE SKILLS" classes for next
year???? 8/27/99 yes!
From
Uppsala University: I am most impressed
by your web sites about study habits! 9/9/99
WOW!! As a mentor
teacher, I have been perusing the web for resources
to help all those involved in the learning process.
This Site is PACKED with helpful and well organized
information. I would like to share some of the
contents with new teachers. May I have permission to
focus on portions of this site, making reference to
authors and site? Thank You. 8/12/99
YES!
YAY!! How delightful to
find such a comprehensive and helpful site. I teach
at both a technical college and a county jail. Thank
you for presenting such great information in such an
easy to access format. Your site is the best example
of one stop shopping I can think of! : )
8/16/99
Thank you for the
thoughtfulness and thoroughness of your web site. I
have been teaching test preparation courses and
incorporating test prep into the classes I teach
both in college and high school for 15 years, and
yet when I needed to put together a presentation for
a group of teachers, I found your site most helpful.
It incorporated the best tips I have learned along
the way in an easy-to-use and comprehensive format.
6/9/99I am very impressed
with your site, both in terms of content and format.
I particularly like the WebTruth area. 6/9/99
I work at
(a Hispanic Serving Institution). I would like
to thank you for this wonderful web site. I
have found it very useful in working with young high
school students who are in (a health careers
program). I teach the academic skills
component and have used much of the information
found in the web site as well as the links. You have
done a great job! Thank you! 6/15/99
Just came across your
wonderful sight.What a help it has been to me in my
English Lesson.I hope to use it many times in the
future. 7/12/99
I came across your site while doing a
little bit of research on websites that would be
interesting for youth and young adults. I think it's
great. 6/23/99
We are a group of
teachers in a high school learning community who
were asked to prepare and implement a unit on study
skills for the coming school year. We visited the
professional library and found many good books on
the subject, but nothing immediately useful in the
classroom. When we found your site, we knew we'd hit
pay dirt! 7/2/99
I ran across a link to your study
guides on a general chemistry page elsewhere on the
web and found some of them particularly useful. I
would like to encourage my students to read through
them. 6/28/99
Throughout this last year
I have been planning my final project. The topic I
am very interested in is teaching young students
good study skills. This summer I plan to concentrate
my efforts on the completion of this capstone final
project. I have done research on this topic through
the internet thus far. When I came upon your site I
was thrilled! 6/24/99
Our state organization
Adult/Community Education of Florida is working with
the Florida Department of Education the develop a
new GED WEB site. We would like to use some of your
material in our new site . Can you give us
permission? 7/1/99
Yes!
Wow EXCELLENT WEBSITE 714/99
 
The Open Directory Project's goal is to
produce the most comprehensive directory of the web,
by relying on
a vast army of volunteer editors. Top
rated as a " Thoughtfully constructed study
guide..."We would like to
include links to your webpages on our schools'
(K-12) websites. Thank you for the hard work you
have done to provide such an excellent resource.
5/2/99
I want to
thank you for preparing such a wonderful tool!
I have just been thrown into a Middle/High School
Study Skills class and was at a loss as to where to
begin. Someone told me about your site,
and it has been such a huge help to me!
Thanks again! 6/23/99
I am an instructional
design doctoral student.... Starting this summer,
the Instructional Design program will implement a
new on-line graduate course entitled, Instructional
and Learning Strategies. We are looking for web
resources to supplement this course and believe that
your web page would make an invaluable contribution.
4/23/99
I just wanted to write you this memo
to say a job well done in putting together the Study
Guides and Strategies Web site. I will be directing
people to your site. 4/7/99
Excellent job! It must have taken a lot of work and
I'm glad you took the initiative of making the
resources available on the net. 2/7/96
This is a wonderful site.
As a facilitator of a student success course for
first year students and a study strategies course
for students on academic probation--this site is a
real gold mine. I look forward to the time when I
can contribute to this site. :-) 1/16/99
American Library Association, CHOICE
(publication) FEB '99: ...offers information
to help students be more effective both in and out
of the classroom. The site starts with a
well-organized table of topics and subtopics.
For example, Study Preparation gives tips on time
management, organization, and stress; In the
Classroom gives advice about preparing for classes,
taking notes, and participating in oral discussions
and presentations; and Testing Skills talks about
test taking, preparation, and questions on tests.
Writing Skills may be the weakest topic, since it
focuses on finished products rather than on helping
students with writing process itself;
organizing Term Papers, for example shows the basic
note card style but omits the important steps for
selection topics, prewriting, drafting and revising.
The section Reading Skills however, offers
information on enhancing reading comprehension and
on mastering difficult texts. Most impressive
about this site is that most of the material resides
at the site itself, though off-page links lead to
sites devoted to grammar, written languages,
dictionaries, reading , using primary versus
secondary sources, designing syllabi, and study
strategies and skills. The site compares
favorable to others on study skills...
Those who nominated your
site, did so from their "heart", because in some way
you have made a lasting impression on them
11/12/ 98As a
college student, it is helpful to see web sites that
can help with this sort of problem. I hope it is
recognized as a true disability in the near future
to help those of us who know the material, just
blank out when tested on it. Thanks for the tips..
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Wow! I
like your site. It offers an excellent
collection of study strategies for
students in several languages. As a
director of the writing center--where we
emphasize study skills in reading and
writing--I would like to make your
materials available to (my) students.
Can I have your permission to create a
link...? YES!
 "Studyguides
shows what Web can be"
by James Romanesko,
St. Paul Pioneer Press/Dispatch
Studyguides is a no-nonsense site that doesn't try
to make homework seem cool with the use of funky
graphics or groovy fonts. It's all-text and
serious, but very practical. 8/3/98
I was searching for one basic answer
to a question and found a bevy of info. Bless you
and thank you for maintaining such a valuable
resource! I've bookmarked this site and will refer
to it constantly over my college career!
12/7/98I am a Special
Education teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. I just
wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your web
site. Actually I've added your link to my web site.
My students find your site to be one of the best
we've found for study skills!
2/11/99
 Your
site--Study Guides and Strategies--has been chosen
as a selection for the
Scout Report,
the premier weekly collection of useful
Internet sites for discerning Internauts. September
4, 1998
I found your site via the
Scout Report. It has some fantastic tips and hints
that I would very much like to share with my
students (Secondary - ages 12 to18) and colleagues
here in (Australia). We have an intranet at our
school and I was wondering if you would mind if I
"whacked" it? Thanks once again for a very useful
site. 12/9/98
This is the best study guide info on
the Internet! 02/26/99
You have a great website. I am going to reorganize
my (website) organization after looking at your
site. 11/26/98
"Information Technology
Resources", by Bianca P
Floyd,
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Vol XLV, October 30, 1998: A
website that offers tips for improving
academic performance...
I pulled your address from The Chronicle of
Higher Education and will definitely make sure
my students (freshmen in history surveys) have
access to and use the information next semester.
Concise and informative.
I looked up your website
and was thoroughly impressed with the
comprehensiveness of the site. Anyone interested in
using the Internet for a study skills course could
use your site without having the students buy
textbooks. I could easily see the material you
provide used as a stimulus for journal writing and
class room activities that would reinforce the
recommendations you make. I can also see the value
of a comparative study assignment for students to
compare the value of the different study skills
sites that you link to.
 USA
Today Tech Web Resources School Prep:
Get the most out of school this year with the help
of Study Guides and Strategies from the University
of St. Thomas at St. Paul, Minn. How-to lessons
range from stress management and taking notes to
test prep and writing skills. With links to other
online resources.
I am a junior in high school. I
located your material on the www and I thought is
would help me become a better student. Thanks for
all the good tips
 Moser,
APICS Online (The Educational Society for
Resource Management): In addition to sound
advice in six general areas, the site features
numerous reference and link to a wide range of
resources from other universities November 1998
I am so thankful for the
most helpful links and other information you have
provided. I am sort of the URL-man on campus, so I
was delighted with the info and will pass it along
to my colleaguesYour
(website) is truly a work of art. Chocked full of
information, which is readable and useable.
I would
like to thank you for organizing all of this
information into such a helpful piece of work.
3/29/99I
am working with a committee of high
school teachers trying to come up with ideas and
ways to decrease the dropout rate at our school. one
of the areas we are looking at is providing study
skill instruction for ninth graders over our
intraschool t v network. I found a great wealth of
information to include in our presentation. thank
you for your help. 3/24/99
I want to cheer! St. Thomas
website source is very helpful and easy to access. I
thank you for the computering persons who do this
job!I teach study skills to
5th and 6th graders and have found your site very
helpful even though the language must be simplified
to their level.
I looked up your website
and was thoroughly impressed with the
comprehensiveness of the site. Anyone interested in
using the Internet for a study skills course could
use your site without having the students buy
textbooks. I could easily see the material you
provide used as a stimulus for journal writing and
class room activities that would reinforce the
recommendations you make. I can also see the value
of a comparative study assignment for students to
compare the value of the different study skills
sites that you link to. 9 Dec 1998
I think that your website is the most complete site
I have seen. 11/26/98
I am not in college --
now retired -- but I wish I had your studyguides
when I was in college.the
(writing) pages were extremely enlightening and
clarified the process for me
thanx for the help and info it really
helped with my STS tests I had to take!!! thanx
again!
I have been trying to
explain to my students for 36 years the benefits of
the kinds of preparation that you advocate. I am
encouraging my students to use your site. Keep up
the good work.
Thanks for the info. (on the Cornell
Note taking method)! Why can't you summarize the
advanced system?I just
happened across your web page and thought I'd send
my two cents worth...Bravo!
sometimes
the way a former teacher has treated you during test
will stay with you well into your college and even
professional career, and you will never think that
what happened to you back in
pre-kingergarden will stay with
you 12/10/98
Thanks for the information re test anxiety,
test-taking skills, etc. I'm a school counselor and
will give it to some of my students 12/10/98
I really have to congratulate and in
fact thank you for holding the tradition of free
info on the net alive and publishing a document of
such immeasurable importance thank you
I love this web site. It
gives me a lot of confidence and made me feel as if
I hadn't studied in vain! Thanks a lot!
I think your study guide website is
excellent. I will be sending my students to your
site to gather information! Thanks.
WOW, Great - so much better than the ... site!
May I link to (Study Guides) for a
personal Web page that I have designed for my
library instruction students? ... Thanks for
sharing. This is a great
web site! I am going to put a link to it..
What a wonderful resource!!
I think this website is
very useful. For one of my classes I had to write a
paper on note taking tips as well as group dynamics.
This information made writing the paper much easier.
Thank you. 2/15/99
I am helping a student with writing
this summer. Your ideas are very much appreciated.
I am
writing to ask permission to link to Study Guides
from my website. I am having my high school
Health students do a project in which the
information on your site is very useful. 3/24/99
May I share your website
with the faculty here ...? Can they share the
resource with students? Great job!!
I visited your website today and I wanted you to
know...it helps!
Thank you (from Cairo).
I would like to laud and
thank you for your pages. I find them to be really
helpful and I feel a lot more prepared for this
coming semester due to the intelligent suggestions
and advice provided at your site. 1/16/97
I am a "non traditional
age" student (55) who has long forgotten how to
study and take tests, etc. I really enjoyed your
information and would like to print it out and put
it in my binder to jog me into good habits when I
get off track. I will share it with the rest of my
class, all older students re-entering school to
attempt to finish.
We are trying to give our
(middle school) students an opportunity to utilize
the Internet as a research tool...I found your
web pages while researching for sources our students
could use while they are studying their current
units. You have compiled a wonderful source of
information and I would very much like our students
to be able to learn from your work.
Just stumbled onto your study page.
Good job! I am the Director of Technology Services
for a K-12 School District in Arizona....
I have a problem with
writing essay. I need some help I would appreciate
it if you would help me learn how to write an essay.
I' trying to get my GED. So please write back.
I am also doing graduate
work in ... and find your site to be a nice
compilation of tech resources I use or want to use
in the incorporation of tech in my teaching.
One more thing, I am presenting my set of strategies
at ... I am going to plug your site as "the best one
I've seen".
I am writing in regards
to the information on Test Taking that I found on
the internet recently....we work with middle school
students who are at-risk. (Our office) is wanting to
produce a booklet (brochure) using the test taking
information. This booklet (brochure) will be given
to students who are in the program or any other
middle school students who may benefit from this
information. This information (we feel) is greatly
needed and therefore would be of a great benefit to
these students.
I am a special education director for
a six school district cooperative in Texas. I am
researching this topic for a principal and counselor
in one of my districts. you have some good
information here...I
thought "Greg would find this interesting" and used
the "send this page" feature in Navigator to email
it to him. I underestimated his reaction. He was
EXCITED! He crawls the web on a regular basis trying
to find things of true value, so he's inclined to be
jaded, but that wasn't his reaction to your pages.
He knew in his gut he'd found a gem and told me so.
I think a link to it will be a very
beneficial addition to the website I am developing
Thanks to you for
organizing a nice set of information for students.
I will be encouraging my graduate students to peruse
it, especially the international ones who have such
trouble their first few months here, figuring out
the U.S. system
I finally got time to view your
website. Very nice!! |
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