NEW WORDS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a
deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was
responsible.

CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce
the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean
hands.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea
generator running.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly
in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to
see what's going on.

SITCOMs: (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage)
What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them
stops working to stay home with the kids.

STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in
divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed
out and whiny.

SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive
use.

TOURISTS: People who take training classes just to get a
vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in
the class; the rest were just tourists."

TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed
material.

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from
one's workplace.

ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient
person in an office or work group.

CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well,
first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or
your salsa.

Classroom Etiquette (with thanks to Shauna)

1. Be respectful
2. Turn off cell phones-- or manner mode
3. No talking while professor or other students are talking
4. Try to be on time
5. Be prepared
6. Participate constructively

Word Dafinitions

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway)
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN downunder.
16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat

What do you see (#2)?

What Do You See?

Link to Freemind Mind-mapping software (fopen source)

Here is the link to the free mind-mapping software. Please be sure to download the Windows versions of Java Resource Environment (JRE) first and then Freemind.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Critical Thinking Links from Text

Text:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072473762/information_center_view0/

Learning Style Inventories

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html

Fill out this questionnaire, submit responses and receive feedback. This site can be

used to help confirm your learning style preference.

http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/discuss/kolb1.htm

Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (for faculty)

http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm

McKeachie's article on learning styles (for faculty)

http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/LS-Prism.htm

Matters of Learning Styles (for Faculty)

http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Secondtier.html

Learning Styles in Science

http://cyg.net/~jblackmo/diglib/styl-a.html

Learning Styles and Pedagogy (for faculty)

Concentration

http://www.loyola.edu/studycenter/studyskills.html

Provides general study skills information, including concentration and learning styles.

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/humanities/english/memcon.htm

Provides quick information on memory and concentration strategies.

Good for review purposes.

http://www.k-state.edu/counseling/concentr.html

Offers explanation and practice of concentration strategies

including the spider technique.

http://adulted.about.com/library/weekly/aa091601a.htm

Study Time! How to Make the Most of It

http://www.ipfw.edu/casa/txtr.html

Pre-Reading Tips

Test Taking Strategies

www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/testskil.html

Test Taking Skills -- Essay Questions

http://www.glencoe.com/ps/peak/studyskills/pitfalls/pitfalls.html

Study and Test Taking Skills for Peak Performance

http://www.cs.gasou.edu/student/test10.html

The Ten Commandments for Taking a Test

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/tests.htm

The Basics of Effective Test Taking

Vocabulary Enhancement

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm

Building a Better Vocabulary

http://www.smsu.edu/studyskills/new/vocabulary.html

Tips for a Greater Vocabulary

Memory

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Strategies for Improving Concentration and Memory

http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/mem.html

Memory Principles

http://www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/remread.html

Remembering What You Read

Mnemonics

http://www.wm.edu/OSA/dostud/moresski/memory.htm

Improving Your Memory Skills

Time Management Tips

http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/time-manage.htm

Managing Your Reading Time

http://www.rio.maricopa.edu/distance_learning/tutorials/study/time.shtml

http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_manage.html

Time Management Tips

http://www.usu.edu/arc/idea_sheets/time.htm

Utah State Time Management System

http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/patsm96.htm

Self-Management

http://www.mheso.state.mn.us/mPg.cfm?pageID=688

Managing your Time

Speed Reading

http://www.brainquicken.com/px_project_article.asp

Brain Quicken - Speed Reading Technique

Will it work for you?

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/suggest.html

Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed

http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/handouts/512.html

Brief Suggestions for Increasing Reading Speed

http://www.readingsoft.com/quiz.html

Speed Reading Quizzes

Main Ideas

http://gwired.gwu.edu/counsel/counsel.php?id=2140

Top Ten Tips for selecting Main Ideas

http://www.ccis.edu/departments/cae/studyskills/mainidea.html

Reading for the Main Ideas

http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/reso/mainIdea.htm

Main Idea Exercises

http://vclass.mtsac.edu:920/readroom/Mainidea.htm

Main Idea Exercises

http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html

Finding Main Ideas in Paragraphs

Finding Details

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Supporting%20Details/details.htm

Supporting Details

Textbook Reading Systems

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/sq3r.html

SQ3R -- A Reading System

http://www.arc.sbc.edu/sq3r.html

Reading Methods

http://www.mindtools.com/sq3r.html

Mind Tools -- Increasing Your Retention of Written Information

Textbook Marking

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Study Skills Self-Help -- Textbook Marking

http://www.psywww.com/mtsite/mindmaps.html

Improving Notetaking with Concept Maps (also good for Chapter 11)

http://www.hlnd.wnyric.org/diffinstruction/cornell%20note%20taking.htm

Cornell Notetaking Method

Using Visuals

http://www.mindtools.com/mindmaps.html

Mind Tools

http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~lac/mindmap.htm

Mind Mapping

http://www.ourtimelines.com/

Create Your Own Family Time Line

http://www.lionden.com/using_outlines.htm

Using Outlines

Arguments

http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/What%20Should%20Students%20Know%20to%20Succeed%20in%20College.doc

%20to%20Succeed%20in%20College.doc

What Should Students Know to Succeed in College

http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/

Logical Fallacies

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

Fallacies

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html

Mission Critical -- a full-scale tutorial for critical thinking

Advanced Critical Reading

http://www.le.ac.uk/castle/resources/mcqman/mcqappc.html

Helpful review and practice of Bloom's Taxonomy.

http://www.litstudies.com/BloomTaxonomy.htm

More on Bloom's Taxonomy

Evaluating Websites

http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Tips on Mastering a Google Search

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

Evaluating Sites

http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm

Critically Analyzing Information Sources