Study Tools
This section contains some extra tools to help you with your studies and assessments. Including:
Active Reading Guide
Making Videos Guide
Creating Infographics Guide
Finding Academic Articles Learning Tool
Active Reading Guide
This short self-paced guide will develop your active reading and your learning skills. You'll learn how to read academic information and effectively note-take. By engaging with the guide you’ll learn tips and tricks to make it easier to:
Read different types of information sources
Find and use Unit Readings
Read and take purposeful notes
Reference articles, books, and other resources
Making a Video
This guide provides information and activities that will help you make a video. There are tips and downloadable templates to step you through the process of making a video. If you are a more experienced video creator, this guide offers handy links to:
Free music
Images
Sound effects
and other content to put in your videos
Creating an Infographic
Infographics are visual representations of data and/or information that are intended to be quickly and easily understood. This guide will take you though the process of planning, drafting and sourcing free tools and images to create an infographic.
Illustrating data
Comparing two or more things
Raising awareness
Simplifying or summarising complex information
Finding Academic Articles Learning Guide
This self-paced learning tool will take you through the process of finding Journal Articles in Library Databases. There are videos and activities throughout to help you solidify your skills in understanding journal articles and using Library Databases.
Pick apart a research topic
Develop a search strategy
Find academic articles
Reference an article.