Summary: I wrote before about exercises in active reading. Here I look especially at textbook chapters and active reading. The steps may seem time-consuming, but in practice it is an incredible time saver: with interactive reading, you can read the chapter once instead of several times, because you retain the content at a much higher rate than through passive reading.
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Summary: Not everyone is equally prepared for online learning. What would you want to ask of a prospective online student, to help her make a no-B.S. assessment of whether distance learning is for her? If you have been an online learner, what do you know now about “what it takes” that you didn’t know then?
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Summary: Students whose textbook cites primary literature (like the Bible) should keep that primary literature open before them while reading the textbook.
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Summary: Dr. Crazy has suggestions for getting students into her office. So do I. Have you?
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Summary: Students need glowing letters of reference, and professors want to write them when they can. This post offers strategies for getting good letters, and for helping your profs to write them.
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If a student wants to prepare for elementary biblical Hebrew before the course begins, I recommend spending time with modern Hebrew tapes or CDs.
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