Study Skills

With Bj being halfway through middle school, one of the tools I'd really like to start thinking about is how to give him the study skills or organizational skills he'll need to get through college. Putting some of that in place now, or at least being more aware of some of those skills, will hopefully make it easier down the road.

I came across this very cool website to explore further -- addressed to the kids, talks about first deciding your learning style in order to make the organization fit with who you are, then talks about different areas of organization/learning and moves on to specific topics like note-taking (Cornell format). "The Basics of Effective Learning" by Bucks County Community College.
http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/index.htm

Robert Felder, professor emeritus at NCSU, has a lot of information on learning styles, engineering, etc. -- worth looking more at. I think he's written some articles with Linda Silverman who wrote "Upside Down Brilliance." I wonder if we could get him to speak for us?
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/RMF.html

AND, a website that compares different systems for note-taking systems that's very good. Includes Cornell method, Outlining, Mapping, Charting and Sentence methods.
http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.systems.html
(They also have other study skill online information:
http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl.html )