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This award-winning multimedia CD-ROM teaches students how better to manage their time,which studies show reduces stress, improves grades, and helps students achieve their goals. Jam-packed with step-by-step instructions and relevant examples, this CD-ROM uses some of the latest techniques to teach time learning skills to students. The instruction uses multi-modal teaching to help students learn through hearing, reading, and interacting in live examples.

Throughout the learning, your progress is tracked, and advanced hyperlinking and bookmarking features allow you to move to the topics of most interest to you. At the end, the CD-ROM will link you to a web site where you can access and download time management tools for your own use. The web site will also point you to other time management resources on the web.

Detailed Description

Time Management for Students is an interactive, multi-media CD-ROM designed to introduce you to selected concepts of Time Management. The tutorial comprises 5 sessions, each with a number of lessons to help you learn, practice, and apply the strategies covered. Here's a look at what each session contains:

Introduction and Overview

This section shows you how to use the CD by reviewing its navigation features.

Time Awareness.

This section introduces concepts such as importance, urgency, effectiveness, and efficiency and describes how understanding them can help you deal more effectively with time.

Goal Setting

This section will define what goals are and why you need to set a variety of goals to be an effective time manager. It describes how to set long-term and short-term goals. Then, you can go through the process of setting both long- and short-term goals yourself.

Planning Tools

This section talks about a variety of paper-based planning tools that can help you use your time effectively. The monthly planner, the weekly planner, the weekly objectives list, the time tracking sheet and the weekly summary of time use form will be introduced along with tips on how to use these effectively.

Time Difficulties

This section helps you resolve a number of difficulties people face that make it difficult to manage time effectively on a day to day basis. Lineups, commuting, time between classes, interruptions, procrastination, balancing time, following a plan, and disorganization are all discussed in-depth with tips on how to handle these obstacles when they arise.

Time Management is among the most important of student skills. Research shows that improving your ability to manage time can improve your grades at school substantially, can help you reduce stress, and help you achieve your goals. The authors of Time Management for Students have more than 15 years combined expertise helping students to improve their time management skills. They know how important these skills are. They know what concepts and skills are important. They have put them all together in Time Management for Students. Don't allow poor time management skills to get in the way of your grades, your confidence, or your success.

Publisher: York University, Toronto, Ontario

Date: Fall 1999

Medium: CD-ROM

Status: Available

Price: $29.00