Events and More: Skillshops
Join us for Skillshops!
The Skillshop Series is designed to help you become more effective, efficient, and self-empowered learners. Register on CampusGroups for in-person or online sessions:
- Join us for our in-person Lunch and Learn Skillshops with FREE PIZZA! These interactive workshops occur on select Tuesdays in the Pendleton Learning Commons, Student Success Center 314.
- We also offer LIVE ONLINE SKILLSHOPS on select Wednesdays via Zoom. Access the Zoom links for the live online Skillshops by:
- registering for Skillshops on CampusGroups, or
- clicking the link in the Weekly Edge email, or
- accessing the link via the SI/Skillshop Portal located on the Academic Resources tile in MyTCTC.
Spring 2024 Skillshop Line-Up
5 Keys to College Study Success!
January 23, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now We have the five keys you need to unlock success in all your classes! This hands-on skillshop will equip you with strategies to get motivated, create the conditions for success, manage your time effectively, study in a way that you actually remember what you’ve learned, and more. Feel free to bring your course materials, and we’ll make a plan to get you off to your best possible start!5 Keys to College Study Success!
(ONLINE)
January 24, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now We have the five keys you need to unlock success in all your classes! This hands-on skillshop will equip you with strategies to get motivated, create the conditions for success, manage your time effectively, study in a way that you actually remember what you’ve learned, and more. Feel free to bring your course materials, and we’ll make a plan to get you off to your best possible start!Distance Learning Essentials: Navigating Online Classes
January 30, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Hybrid, synchronous or asynchronous – so many different types of online classes! How will this course be different from a traditional face-to-face one? Distance learning classes offer convenience but can be intimidating. Dispel the misleading myths of online classes and discover effective strategies so that you can approach your distance learning classes with confidence.Distance Learning Essentials: Navigating Online Classes (ONLINE)
January 31, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Hybrid, synchronous or asynchronous – so many different types of online classes! How will this course be different from a traditional face-to-face one? Distance learning classes offer convenience but can be intimidating. Dispel the misleading myths of online classes and discover effective strategies so that you can approach your distance learning classes with confidence.Notetaking to the
Next Level
February 6, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Pages and pages and pages of notes! Notes on lectures, notes on PowerPoints, notes on textbooks! But what makes something noteworthy? And how can we get more return on this ginormous investment? We’ll examine the intrinsic purpose of notetaking, and how we can use more effective and more streamlined techniques, not just to fill up pages, but capture, keep, and internalize knowledge and understanding.Notetaking to the
Next Level (ONLINE)
February 7, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Pages and pages and pages of notes! Notes on lectures, notes on PowerPoints, notes on textbooks! But what makes something noteworthy? And how can we get more return on this ginormous investment? We’ll examine the intrinsic purpose of notetaking, and how we can use more effective and more streamlined techniques, not just to fill up pages, but capture, keep, and internalize knowledge and understanding.The Perils of Plagiarism
*Thursday, February 15,
12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Plagiarism is an opportunistic predator. It strikes in a moment of doubt and panic. It takes advantage of our ignorance. But we can fight off plagiarism, or banish it altogether, by better understanding what it is, how it happens, and how to countermand it.The Perils of Plagiarism
(ONLINE)
February 14, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Plagiarism is an opportunistic predator. It strikes in a moment of doubt and panic. It takes advantage of our ignorance. But we can fight off plagiarism, or banish it altogether, by better understanding what it is, how it happens, and how to countermand it.Examination Domination
February 20, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Are you someone who passed all your tests in high school without having to study? It might have seemed easy then, but, now, you’re in college, spending hours going over the material! Even so, has all that studying ever disappeared as soon as you wrote your name on top of the test paper? If you’re not sure how to study most effectively for college tests or your old preparation strategies Examination Domination
(ONLINE)
February 21, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Are you someone who passed all your tests in high school without having to study? It might have seemed easy then, but, now, you’re in college, spending hours going over the material! Even so, has all that studying ever disappeared as soon as you wrote your name on top of the test paper? If you’re not sure how to study most effectively for college tests or your old preparation strategiesCritical Digital: Sifting Web Content and Claims with a Critical Eye
February 27, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now The web is full of information and, even more so, misinformation. Deep fakes, propaganda, trolls – it creeps insidiously into blogs and websites, news feeds and social media threads, challenging us, in journalistic fashion, to ferret out fact from fantasy. We’ll explore quick and accessible strategies for verifying web content and for critically assessing the misinformation churning around us.Critical Digital: Sifting Web Content and Claims with a Critical Eye (ONLINE)
February 28, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now The web is full of information and, even more so, misinformation. Deep fakes, propaganda, trolls – it creeps insidiously into blogs and websites, news feeds and social media threads, challenging us, in journalistic fashion, to ferret out fact from fantasy. We’ll explore quick and accessible strategies for verifying web content and for critically assessing the misinformation churning around us.The Physiology of Learning
March 5, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now The evidence is clear: our bodies help us learn, and doing so involves more than just that crinkly organ between our ears. How we use our bodies impacts what our minds are able to accomplish – movement links to memory, sleep links to stress, creativity links to neuroplasticity, and it all links together. We’ll examine ways to hack the body-brain connection to boost cognitive function and increase our learning power.The Physiology of Learning (ONLINE)
March 6, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now The evidence is clear: our bodies help us learn, and doing so involves more than just that crinkly organ between our ears. How we use our bodies impacts what our minds are able to accomplish – movement links to memory, sleep links to stress, creativity links to neuroplasticity, and it all links together. We’ll examine ways to hack the body-brain connection to boost cognitive function and increase our learning power.Everyone is Biased, Except Me
March 12, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Instructors entreat us to avoid bias, but what does it really mean to say that something is “biased?” -- that the media is biased, a report is biased, an author is biased? Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, right? So what’s the difference? How do I know what’s really biased in a bad way? And when do my own views and opinions become “biases” rather than “perspectives?”Everyone is Biased, Except Me (ONLINE)
March 13, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Instructors entreat us to avoid bias, but what does it really mean to say that something is “biased?” -- that the media is biased, a report is biased, an author is biased? Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, right? So what’s the difference? How do I know what’s really biased in a bad way? And when do my own views and opinions become “biases” rather than “perspectives?”
T.E.A.M.: Together Everyone Achieves More
March 26, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Nearly everyone hates group projects the first time out. It’s new; it’s different; and, often for the first time, we’re dependent on someone else to carry their weight! But, like it or not, teamwork and collaboration are essential skills, not just for college, but for workplace success, too. Fortunately, there are some key steps we can take to transform the team experience from ugh to awesome. We’ll explore some proven ways to better organize, motivate, and inspire a top-grade team!T.E.A.M.: Together Everyone Achieves More (ONLINE)
March 27, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now Nearly everyone hates group projects the first time out. It’s new; it’s different; and, often for the first time, we’re dependent on someone else to carry their weight! But, like it or not, teamwork and collaboration are essential skills, not just for college, but for workplace success, too. Fortunately, there are some key steps we can take to transform the team experience from ugh to awesome. We’ll explore some proven ways to better organize, motivate, and inspire a top-grade team!Presentation
Make-Over
April 2, 12:45pm - 1:35pm
Register Now “Death by PowerPoint!” Yep, it’s a thing! But presentations are an essential part of both college assignments and the professional world beyond. So, how do we construct cohesive, coherent, and visually appealing presentations that don’t put our audience into a narcoleptic coma? We’ll examine the science and the aesthetics of perception that converge to create effective presentations, and how you can use them to win over your audience!Presentation
Make-Over (ONLINE)