Learning Commons Workshops
The Learning Commons offers free learning-based workshops for Davidson-Davie students. Each workshop is designed to be informative and empowering so you can take what you’ve learned and begin applying it to your studies. We offer a variety of topics each semester. Workshop offerings, dates, times, and locations are listed below.
Current Workshop Offerings
These workshops are currently available upon your request either in-person or online. Simply log in at davidsondavie.thinkingstorm.com using your StormTrac username and password to view scheduling options. During the appointment the coach will host the workshop one-on-one with you. For more information please contact Carmen Davis at carmen_davis@davidsondavie.edu.
College Success
- Fueling Your Brain for Academic Success
- How to Study in the Sciences
- Becoming a Successful Nursing Student
- Effective Note Taking
- Thinking About Your Thinking: Learning to Think Critically
- Something to Say: 4 Effective Ways to Communicate
- Developing “People Skills”: The Key to Successful Relationships in Life and Work
- 9 Steps to Overcoming Indecision (Problem Solving and Decision Making)
- 9 Ways to Manage Your Time
- Becoming a Successful College Student
- How Do You Learn? (Learning Styles)
- Making Groups Work
- Dream Big, Live Every Day: Daily Decisions to Help You Achieve
Writing
- Style & Format: MLA
- Style & Format: APA
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- How to Fix Your Writing: The Big Stuff
- How to Fix Your Writing: The Small Stuff
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Toulmin Method of Argumentation
Accounting
- Recording Business Transactions for ACC 120 & 121
Math
- GCF and Factoring Trinomials (2 parts) for MAT 171 and higher
- Absolute and Relative Differences for MAT 143
- Growth: Linear vs. Exponential for MAT 143
- Introduction to Statistics: Key Terms, Sampling Methods, and Types of Studies for MAT 143
- Finding and Interpreting the Least Squares Regression Line and Residuals for MAT 152
- Discrete Random Variables and the Binomial Distribution Using Technology (Geogebra/StatCrunch) for MAT 152
- Finding and Interpreting Confidence Intervals for MAT 152
- Motion, Work and Mixture Problems for MAT 171
- Using Your Graphing Calculator for MAT 171
- Solving Systems of Equations Using Substitution and Elimination for MAT 171
- Basic Trigonometric Identities and Verifying Identities for MAT 172
- Translating Vector Word Problems into Mathematical Expressions for MAT 172
- Completing the Square for Conic Sections for MAT 172
- Review of Integration for MAT 271 Mid-Term