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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share my tips for successful distance learning during the Coronavirus outbreak.  These are unprecedented times.  People are sheltering in place, everyone who can is working from home, and college students who normally learn on campus are home on lockdown trying to figure out how to best learn online.  I've been in grad school in a distance learning program for the past couple of years, so I thought I'd share some of my tips on how to make it go as smoothly as possible.  First, let's talk about the differences between  Online vs. Classroom Learning In my experience, with online learning you basically teach yourself by doing the assigned readings or watching the assigned videos and then you use that newly gained knowledge to answer discussion questions either directly to your professor or in an interactive forum like a text-only Blackboard discussion board...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I use Todoist to manage my work in graduate school. I've been using two task management platforms in parallel to manage my work for grad school this semester.  I just did some videos recently on how to use Trello to manage school work in college/university and also high school.  This video is about Todoist.  Apologies in advance if you've already seen the other videos -- there will be a little duplication. Although I really like the versatility and richness of features from Trello, in the end, I've decided to use Todoist based on my requirements and needs.  I've actually started using it for all my task management, but in this video, I'll just talk about managing college work.    I'm in a part-time, partial distance learning program and am taking three classes this semester.  Because of this, my set up will be a little simpler than...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share some tips for organizing your notes and making them easily searchable in Evernote. I use Evernote as my main note-taking app.  I've done a couple of videos about Evernote, but in this one, I want to talk specifically about organizing and finding notes.  First -- a quick overview on how Evernote structures itself organizationally.  The primary organizational unit for Evernote is the  Notebook Notebooks should contain broad topics.  You can add as many as you want, but I think you should limit the number you have or it will be unwieldy.  Obviously, if you are just starting out, you aren't going to have any notes yet, but my rule of thumb is that each notebook should contain at least 100 notes.  If you don't ever think you'll put that many notes in a notebook, it's probably not notebook worthy.  The 6 notebooks I have are: Books ...