For this week's blog I chose to do ranking priorities again because I thought this strategy was really effective for me. I chose it because I'm a visual learner and its easy for me to see things I need to do if I have a list. It also helps that I can cross things off the list so it makes me feel like I'm working towards a goal or a finish line, which also helps me a lot. It was easy for me to make up a list this week because of how busy I will be. As you said in your email, this week is very hectic for most of us, and I feel like this list will help me conquer this week. Pretty much all the assignments I chose to put on this list are getting evaluated by test or exams, I do have one paper but either way this strategy helps me with doing well and getting evaluated the best that I can. I used this strategy for my CLS 105 class and CFS 388 class. These are the two classes with the most work this week, so I feel like it would be most effective to do this strategy for these two classes.

D's Due and Do Round Two Blog

For this weeks Tech Assignment I chose the D's Due and Do strategy because I have been using since the beginning of the year and it is really effective. Since it was mid term week and Halloween I knew I was going to have a lot on my plate. I used this strategy for my CFS writing paper that is due this Wednesday. I also used it for religion 244 paper as well. I had an eight paper for my CFS class that I knew I had to spread out the paper and break it up so that I was not waiting for the last minute to write out eight pages. I started with making an outline, then broke it up to two pages a day. I finished my paper by Friday, which gave me the whole weekend to edit and make revisions. I also had my Religion paper that only had to be two pages but I had to also respond to two other peoples in my class by Saturday. So the D's Due and Do strategy was really effective for me because I am a visual learner and was able to lay out all of my assignments in front of me and was able to plan out when I was going to actually do the work and see when it was due. This was very was very effective once again because I was really stressed last week and this was a good reminder for me by writing down and looking over it each day.

Daddio's D's Do and Due Blog

For this weeks tech blog assignment I decided to go back and take a look at something that has been helping me more than anything lately with all of my courses. This strategy is known as D's Do and Due agenda. I never have really done a good job with keeping an agenda or making sure that I have all my assignments written down in a planner of any kind so I was always bad at getting assignments in on time. This little trick has seemed to really help me out lately as I have gotten a handle on how it really works!

The who main courses that I am using this strategy on this week is CFS 388 and this course CLS 105. Its also helps because my paper experiment which I am doing in CLS I have decided to do about my research paper that is due in CFS next week. I chose to do this because it is the most important assignment that I have due coming up in the next week or two. The paper experiment is doing a good job of keeping me on track with my progress on my research and is gonna help me get it done and turned in on time. The D's Do and Dues is helping me with making sure that I give my self enough time to get all of my steps in my CLS project completed on time which in turn well get all of my CFS steps also completed on time. Hopefully I can do a good job of continuing my success that I have had so far in the second half of this semester.

post of your choice

Since this week we can blog and post about whatever we want I chose to talk about how the PROJECT this week went. This week I knew I had to get a lot of my assignment done before the weekend because I wanted to be able to hang out with friends for halloween festivities. I met with doctor Blumin to start getting my paper done and the steps of the project. The part that really helped me get started was my graphic organizer. Seeing it in the chart and laid out part by part really helped.

The thing I struggled the most with was the source outline. I thought that the hardest part was understanding what exactly you were looking for. I was not clear on what we were being evaluated on and that was the only thing that really tripped me up.

To make sure i

got the assignment in on time i made the DO and DUES on my agenda so that I could have plenty of time to get it in. And hopefully get it finished so that I could get extra credit!

Tech #6

This week for my tech assignment I chose to use D's Do and Due again since it was topic of choice. The first time I was introduced to this strategy I fell in love with it because it organized all my upcoming assignments. This way I know when the assignment is due and when I have to start the assignment by. Since i learned this strategy I have been using it since, i would recommend this strategy to any student because it's very helpful.
I use D's Due and Do for my Earth Science class and my philosophy 107 class. These two classes are the ones that give out the most work and assignments for short term and long term. When using D's Due and Do i can space out the days when i want to start the assignments and it gives me cushion to do the work. I don't have to stress about my work and try to jam everything in one night. I sometimes have a problem with procrastinating but this strategy helps me get started on my work and have a consistent pattern to finish the work, and when I'm with my work i still have a day or two to look over it and see if there is any mistakes.

CJ Documentation

ChrisDaddio's T.A.R.T Questions

For this weeks tech blog assignment I have chosen to use the T.A.R.T reading strategy. I chose to use this strategy for my Earth science and my Chemistry class. I chose this strategy because I feel like I can relate my learning to this method the best. I feel that it also helps me pay attention in class. I like being able to take notes in class then look back at them and find the main points that I put in bold when I took the notes and make out some really good questions first with those points then go back and put in some other questions to cover all of the other information that might not be as important but is still important enough to know.

This method I feel works best in these courses because these are manly lecture courses in which you get all of the information in the lecture and then go to the section and do small assignments to exercise your knowledge and refresh your memory on what you learned in lecture. So I feel that it really helps when I sit in my lecture and take notes and then the next day I sit at home and take my notes and make up good questions to help me practice before my section so I’m on track already to get my work done and stay on pace with the rest of the class in section.

Pat's Documentation

Tart Strategy

I used Tart strategy for this week studying my notes. Tart was a good strategy for me to used because it's kind of familiar strategy i usually use to study. When i go to class and take notes i usualy look for the key terms to write down and write the definition next to it, also i write out an example next to the definition so i can use the term in a sentence and understand it. TART stands for Terms, Attend, Read, Test.
I Make sure I attend all my lectures and classes because i hate when i miss a class it feel like I'm way behind in the class. I don't like raising my hand that much in class to ask a question so i usually go to office hours or see the professor after class. After I'm done writing all my notes and format it I read over it so it can be easy to read, then i make test questions. Tart strategy was very simple for me to use and I know for sure i will use it in the near future, especially for my earth science class.

Pat's TART Strategy

For this weeks blog I tried the strategy T.A.R.T which I felt was extremely effective in study for my Earth Science and my History test. I knew that I was a visual learner so I decided to try out the T.A.R.T study technique because I could lay out all my notes and questions in front of me, that I could study and that way I didn’t have to flip through pages and then forget what I just learned. I feel like if I am using this technique in class it will help me stay focus and busy by writing down the notes and then writing out the questions after class for review. I tried this strategy for my Earth Science 105 and my History 101 class. I knew for my history test that I would be responsible for knowing key terms that I would have to identify on the test. So by writing out the questions for the key terms like they do on the test I would be able to do exactly what he asks for on the test when I am studying the terms. For Earth Science the whole test is around 60 or 70 multiple choice questions. So I knew if I was able to connect terms together and answer the questions that I thought would be potential test questions. I felt like this TART strategy was very similar to some of the study technique’s that I have enjoyed learning so far and is very effective. I feel like if I continue to do this technique or the 20 minute test prep, I will improve my grades and not waste time on notes or questions that I don’t think will be on the upcoming tests.

Tart

I chose to use the TART learning strategy because I felt that this fit me the best. I am a visual learner so when I am in class I struggle to get much out of a class if Im just sitting there listening and paying attention. I need to have QUESTIONS infront of me with notes so that I am forced to follow along and pay ATTENTION.

I chose to use this for my human sex and chemistry class. as you can see in my documentation the human sex was very affective and easy for

this. I was able to come up with questions easily because there are straight right or wrong answers in this class. Classes like that are the easiest to use this for I believe, for example in math or a class like that it would be hard to use this strategy I think, or a writing class would also be difficult.

My human sex teacher evaluated on half from lecture half from book so this part of the strategy really helps in how the teacher evaluates me on the lecture part. We only have two tests so if i keep this up and do this every week for notes, when the exam comes around at end of semester i will be in good shape and not stressed because i will have been studying bit by bit the whole semester.

My one complaint about this strategy is that it was a little too similar to other strategies i have used. i feel like every strategy is questions for your notes. i do find them all very helpful though!

T.A.R.T MATT HARRIS

The strategy I chose to use this week was the TART reading strategy. I chose to use this strategy for my EAR 117 class and my PSY 322 class. As it says on the book on page 133, "This strategy is well suited for lecture dependent courses". Both of these classes are 100 percent lecture based, so I thought it could be most effective to use in these classes. The main reason I chose this strategy though is because I feel like it suit's my style of learning the most. I'm a visual and kinesthetic learner so seeing the questions in front of me helps me. I also feel like this helps me listen and pay attention in class, I don't want to say give a purpose to class because that would be rude! But it really does help me focus and challenges me to pay attention and read the notes I take then create test questions. The way that my teachers evaluate me with both classes is through tests and exams, so I feel like coming up with test questions will also benefit me in the long run.

The only adaptations I made was the way I took notes for my classes, each one is different so for some I took bulletpoint notes and for some I just wrote a list of most important things I needed to remember. Again, I feel like this strategy was really effective, although its similar to some of the other strategies we've done so far, there's one thing in common that I keep finding that works for me. It's the fact that it makes me pay attention in class, and challenges me to take good notes so I can come up with some test questions. I will continue to use this strategy and make adaptations as I go a long in school. SEE YOU NEXT WEEK BLOGGERS!

Plug In Notes

Plug in notes was very helpful to me in my two classes i used it for. I used it for my sociology class and my earth science: climate change class. This was an good strategy for me to try it because it showed me another way to keep notes fresh in my head. After each of them classes i went through all of my notes and came up with a few questions that i thought would be important and could possibly see on a test. This help me in my sociology class because my second meeting with that class we had an pop quiz on information from the previous two meetings. When i made my plug in notes i two questions i came up with was on my pop quiz, and it was only 5 questions and the other 3 i knew from paying attention in class.
For my earth science class plug in strategy was good for me because this class is all lecture and power-point notes. Sometimes you get caught up in writing so many notes that when you wait to study for an test you are overwhelmed with notes. Plug in helps me to organize and shorten my notes because I'm picking out the important notes and making them into possible test questions.

Daddio's Plug In Notes

For this weeks tech assignment I decided to do plug in notes for human sex and earth science. I thought that making the notes into questions helped me remember what I had to know better. First I went through all my notes for human sex and turned them all into question format. For human sex most of the things I needed to know were all terms and definitions so it was easy to turn them into questions. This really helped me this week because it was the week of midterms and it was extra applicable.

For earth science I did things a little differently. Most of the terms had pictures or visuals to go with the definitions so in my answer category I had descriptions of the pictures. This week really helped me study for my exams this week and up coming mid terms this coming week!

Plug-In Notes

For my blog this week I chose to do Plug In Notes. I used this strategy for my Human Sex CFS 388 class, and for my Oceanography EAR 177 class. I chose this strategy because its easy and keeps me organized. During class I can take notes, then after I can come up with five or 6 questions that I think will be seen on the next test. Then when my tests come around I already have a study guide with somewhere around 50 questions, which I'm sure at least half of the one's I asked will be on the test.

I didn't really make any adaptions because I thought that it was really clear cut for me the way it was in the book. It's worked so I just stuck with it. But if anyone out there has any suggestions on any ways I can improve my note taking skills I would love to hear!

For LAME, I'm more of a visual learner so its more effective for me to look at a chart, and see the specific questions and the answers as well. I took this into action by paying close attention to what kind of notes I wanted to take then eventually I got to a point where I felt comfortable taking the notes a certain way. I also used this strategy because I know the professors will be evaluating me on how well I do on the tests obviously, so I knew this strategy would help because it could make some test questions as well as good notes.

I thought that this technique was really effective. I know that I've said this about most but every one I've used so far has helped me in one way or another. I feel like it gets me prepared for class and It also helps me pay attention because I know if I take notes, I will have some answers to tests questions at the end!

Thats it for the blog this week! See you soon.

Plug-in Notes

For this weeks blog I decided to use the Plug-In note strategy, which I found extremely effective. I had a big CFS Human Sex test on Wednesday night so I took all the notes that I had in the class and wrote out six questions that I assumed would be on the upcoming mid-term. I made sure to write the questions that he stressed highly during lecture and hinted that they might be on the test. I drew out a few diagrams in my plug-in notes that were important to know for the midterm. I also used this strategy for my History 101 class. I knew the format of the tests was one big essay and than four identifications. So I knew to focus on individual people a major war’s or events that took play and that he stressed in lecture. I tried to focus on the major points and study them so I could tie it all together during the essay part of the test. I completed this technique before I met with my tutor so we could go over these terms and events in greater detail. She thought it was a great way to prepare for the exam as well.

I found this study technique very affective because I could see both the questions and answers spread out on one giant page and so I didn’t have to keep flipping back and forth through pages. I felt that I did very well on both exams and the majority of the questions that I answered in my plug-in notes were on the exam or somehow tied into other terms and questions. I will definitely continue this technique because it keeps you busy during class and then refreshes your mind when your answering the questions after class and is a helpful study guide. There were a few questions at first that I couldn’t answer in great detail, so it was helpful to know what I did and did not. So I went back and looked up the answer until I knew it perfectly.

This weeks blog was for us to use plug in notes in order to help us study for up coming MIDTERMS. I went through my notes and picked out things that I thought would be useful to know and that I would need for the upcoming EXAMS in the next couple weeks.

The first class I used this strategy for was EARTH SCIENCE. I had one category with questions and one category with answers. I went through my notes and made all my notes and definitions into question form. For earth science a lot of things you need to recognize are visuals and pictures, to help me better remember what they look like in the answer column I drew pictures to help me recognize it. As you can see in my documentation I have pictures of plate tectonics and how they look and move in relation to each other. When I go to study its going to very helpful to see it in this table lay out so that I can see not only see the DEFINITIONS but the PICTURES to go with them.

The next class I used this strategy for was HUMAN SEX. We had an exam this week so this was extra applicable. For Human sex there was a lot of definitions that I had to turn into question format. This actually helped me because making into a question form helped me to remember it better.

Directional Word Analysis

EAR 117 test

For my third blog I chose to use Directional Word Analysis for Exam prep! I chose to do this for my EAR 117 class. We had a test last week so I figured this would help me most in this class. I chose this strategy because I was interested in how can I do better on the tests. I thought that If I used this strategy I could get an inside look at how my professor creates the tests and what I can look for specifically on the next exam. I also chose this because I will feel more comfortable going into the next exam. I get really nervous sometimes going into tests and feel unprepared, but with this strategy I feel like I'm ready to go into my next one! The only adaptation I made with this strategy is that it wasn't just a simple multiple choice test, it was 10 questions and I had to write the answer. I thought this was extremely effective strategy because after applying it to my EAR 117 class, I feel more prepared and more comfortable going into the test. I can now anticipate questions on the next exam and have a good understanding for what the professor will be putting on the next exam. Overall, I really liked this strategy. I feel like these exam prep strategies will help me a lot and I will definitely use these throughout college.

Pat Powderly Ranking Priorities

For my 2nd blog I chose to do Ranking Priorities. I felt like this was an effective way to know what you have to do during the busy week, not only for your schoolwork but to keep a heads up on when your meetings are and other little things that you cannot forget to do. I did this strategy for basically all my classes and things outside of school. I knew I had a big CFS paper due this week and an Earth Science test so those were my top two biggest things to take care of this week. I also have been struggling in my Religion 244 class, so I decided that I should sign up for a tutor this week.

A few weeks ago I set up a meeting with my advisor in human ecology. So this a good reminder for me that I have a meeting this Tuesday at 11 because they don't send out an e-mail or call you to remind you. The other day I ran out of my aderrall, which is key for me to stay focused and on top of my assignments, so I have to be sure get a new subscription. And the last two things were to re-write my history notes so they stay fresh in my mind and to find a time during the day to laundry.

I hope to keep this up on my wall so I see it every morning and before I go to bed so it stays fresh in my mind. I also need to make sure I make a new one each week because this is a great way to stay up with all my assignments and stuff outside of school that I need to get accomplished.

For me I chose to use Ranking Priorities in for problem solving. This type of strategy I have been using since high school just not in this detail and it works very well for me because I am busy with not only school but athletics. When I have commitments for lax and school I have to distinguish between what is IMPORTANT and what is NEEDED. I used this strategy in classes such as Womens and Gender studies and Earth Science. I liked this because I can rank things from most needed such as studying for a TEST all the way down to important things such as cleaning my room and keeping my place organized to have a good study environment. I also liked that it gave me a list of things and as I get the most needed done I can start working my way down the list to important things that will help me be successful. Before when I used this strategy I did not use the ABC concept I just had a list but I like how the book lays out the ABC and the numbers to go with it. It can really me with my organization of what is NEEDED vs IMPORTANT. Every sunday now I sit down and make one of these lists with ten or so things on it that I need to accomplish that week. For example this week, I had studying for my earth science test that is actually this week at the very top, this is the most important because it will currently affect me and I have no time to put it off. But things such as a rough draft for womens and gender studies was a little lower because that is not due for another week or so. Both need to get done in order for me to be a good student, but right now!......earth science is more important. This strategy is very helpful and I will continue to use it in the future!

Ranking Strategy

The strategy i used was Ranking Priorities. I used this strategy for PHI 107 and SOC 248. This was a strategy for me to figure out what assignments i had coming out and see what was the more important one for me to start with. I usually do what's assignment is do first but this was different to do the more important assignment first. I had to adapt using this strategy because ranking these assignments on a chart help me determine which one was more important to start with and i could do a check list to mark off the assignments i did.

I think this strategy was a good one, it has it pros and cons but overall i felt it useful because it made it easier on my week. As the week went on my work started to get easier and I didn't have to stress so much towards the weekend.

Ranking Priorities! Matt Harris

For my second blog I chose the ranking priorities. This strategy has been proven to be effective for me, so that's why I chose to blog about it. For the particular blog I used the strategy for my EAR 117 class, my CFS 388, my PSY 322 and this class, CLS! I chose this strategy for many reasons. I have a hard time with my priorities so thats what initially drove me to use this strategy. I also like the fact that I can make a list and when I'm done with a task I can check it off as something I've finished. It makes me feel like I'm accomplishing things I need to do when I can make a list and check of my priorities. I also like the fact that I can visually see what I need to do and how important they are. Usually I do these lists in weeks, so it helps me visualize what I need to do that week. I also like the fact that I can add onto the list, its never a set thing, which with lacrosse and academics, helps me stay organized. The only adaptations I had to make was sometimes I didn't really use the A,B,C concept. But that was only when I was adding things, and was on the move so to say. This strategy is really effective for me, I've been using this for a while, probably since around my junior year of high school. It keeps me organized, and I can visually see what I need to do each week. That's it for blog number 2!