the encouragement lounge: October 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012

Guide to Trading Candy

Your moment of stress relief!

Guide to Trading Candy

Cheering you on in your work!
Harriet

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Improve your PowerPoint presentations

Many of you will be making presentations to your peers in class. Here is some research on what students prefer in powerpoint presentations:

Research about student preferences for powerpoint presentations

Cheering you on in your work!
Harriet

Photo by HLS

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

I Love Lucy and Grad School

The now-classic comedy series "I Love Lucy" debuted this week in 1951. Here's a clip, one of the great Lucy moments, that may also remind you of life as an adult student:

I Love Lucy

I hope it gives you a smile!

Cheering you on in your work!

Harriet

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Help with APA -- Best of the APA Blog -- check this out!

Several staffers at the APA host a blog to help users understand the ins and outs of APA style. Each fall, they compile a "best of" post. This year's features links to a number of previous posts, covering areas such as: getting started with APA, sample papers, general reference help, how-to citations, grammar, and formatting. This is a useful list of some of their most helpful posts. Check it out!

Best of APA Blog

Cheering you on in your work!
Harriet

Working adult students, on my mind...

I hope this blog will be helpful to friends and others involved in a variety of endeavors. However, I created the blog with students in mind and continue to develop it with that specific group as my focus.

I believe that with the increase in evening, weekend, and low-residency programs, students are working more and more in isolation. If we were all full-time students on campus, we would have the informal support that comes with being able to go down the hall and talk with a colleague, etc. But instead, we are working late nights and weekends at home in front of the laptop.

With that in mind, I hope the encouragement lounge provides brief moments of respite and energizing connection. This does not at all replace valuable face-to-face contact. Many aspects of the academic journey can only be addressed via in-depth conversations with colleagues and teachers. And I would always rather sit down and talk with someone than to communicate online. Nonetheless, my aim is to give you one more channel for quick hits of support.