D' Due & Do and Fritter Finder

Hi, all!

D' s Due& Do:

For the last a few weeks, I used D’s Due & do on my planner and I found it not easy to follow initially so I did some changes with it.

At first, I drew a line on the right page using orange color because I am a visual learner, to divide the due column and do column. Based on the design of my planner, I did the "school" thing on the right page and plan the rest on the left page. On the do' s column, I wrote what I would do in terms of courses.

I found it did not work after a week because I left many lines blank and did not write down the enough important for each assignment or exam, not to mention those I should do. So the goal of due and do did not achieve. So I thought that I should combine the strategy of chunking the tasks with Do & Due. After I finished with each tasks, I crossed out the tasks to make myself feel better.

I did feel more organized after the adaptation but I found my planner is messy!!! Since I am a visual and linear learner, I have to make the planner neat and easy to read. Plus, in order to keep on my mind of those tasks I did not finish on time, I divided the original Do's column into two columns, and the left is the things I need to and I write down assignments I need to make up on under the other column. As usual, when I completed with one, I put a check before it.

After the adaptations I made, I felt more confident controlling my time and being more efficient with time.

Fritter Finder:

Even though I had the planner with me every minute, I felt I wasted a lot of time and did not know what to do when I wanted to do some homework or review. I guess that was because I am a linear learner and I need to be more organized. So I listed the courses and what I have to do for everyday:

I did this with the hope that I can be more productive with this table and my planner but after several days experiment, I still did not follow the planner and this table, and I did not catch up with my assigned homework and readings. So when Dr. Blumin said in the class, " if you do what you always do, you will get what you always got", I know I have to change. After thinking about it over again, I felt I need to assign the specific course for my time, which may be helpful for me, so I tried myself with Fritter finder.Basically, I followed the steps as the fritter finder was described before, and I mixed with the table I had before and for each course I have a color to make it visually good for me.

This adapted strategy helps me to utilize time better and keep myself busy all the time!!

Plug-In and 1 Plus 3 Notes for SPA 102 and PSY 205!

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend!

So this past week, I modified my Plug-In Notes for my SPA 102 class. Plug-In Notes is an effective way of studying and reviewing what the professor went over during class after class. I thought these notes would help me keep better organized.

This week, we distinguished the two past tenses, the preterite and imperfect. To make it easier for me to understand the differences between these two tenses, after class I wrote down the regular and irregular conjugations, verb expressions, and when to use them. Since I am a visual learner, I organized these notes in a chart-like form. This helps me in that when I need to differentiate the preterite and imperfect, I can easily flip and refer back to my notes.

Here is a chart of my Plug-In Notes:







I haven't used the Plug-In Notes strategy in my SPA 102 class because I didn't think it would have worked. However, I adapted to it and it actually did help me keep my notes organized and help me study for future quizzes and tests. I didn't need to write down questions in these notes because it is very hard to anticipate test questions when the test is mostly fill-in the blank.

This week I also decided to try 1 Plus 3 notes again in my PSY 205 class. I thought it would help me summarize the notes I took during lectures and anticipate test questions. Before class, I took notes as usual and then after class I created a chart with key terms, graphic organizers, and test questions that I thought might appear on tests. I used Microsoft OneNote to help me organize these notes. Last time I did not include a graphic organizer, but this time I thought it was vital for me to include some. I ended up making 3 organizers! Since I am a visual learner, the graphic organizers really helped me with remembering certain key words. These notes also helped me anticipate test questions.

Here are my 1 Plus 3 Notes I took for PSY 205:




All in all, both the Plug-In and 1 Plus 3 Notes really helped me keep my notes organized. Plug-In Notes helped me differentiate different terms while 1 Plus 3 Notes helped me anticipate test questions and remember key terms.

Ranking Priorities in...well, all of my classes!

Hi girls! I hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend! I'm so glad it didn't snow like it was supposed to! In honor of the holiday, my blog will be Halloween colors this weekend!

Since we got to choose which strategies to use this week, I decided to use Ranking Priorities in all of my classes, because I have a lot of work from every class, and I know it can help me organize myself so I get my work done without getting stressed.

I chose to use this strategy again because it was so helpful the first time we used it for CLS. For my Intro to Theatre class, I have a lot of reading, and a lot of the time it can get really overwhelming. A lot of the time, it gets put off in favor of things that are due in the near future, as opposed to the reading which is due at the end of the semester. I also get a lot of work in my other classes, and though it is not traditional college work (I have to memorize ancient Greek speeches, monologues, and scenes, rehearse with my partner, and practice on my own), it is still a lot. Here is my list of priorities before I organized it into a neat, prioritized list:
Unfortunately, I did not have any optional tasks this weekend, so I had no "C" category, only "A" (Absolutely essential), and "B" (Important). Here is my list after I determined which tasks fit into each catergory:
This strategy not only helps me simply by organizing what I need to do, but it also helps me get what I need to do into my head so I won't forget it. Because I am a Kinesthetic learner, taking notes in class helps me keep focused, and when I use this strategy, writing my tasks down somehow makes them seem more doable for me.

This is a great strategy, and I would definitely recommend it to all of you, and my friends who don't take the class! It's an easy way to manage what you need to do, and when.

See you all tomorrow!

D's Due and Do Organizer & Ranking Priorities Combo!

Hello all! Happy Halloweekend..

Remember the D's Due and Do Organizer? How about Ranking Priorities? These two strategies I have found to be the most useful for me over the course of the semester that I actually began combining them into one! It's been totally effective for me as it keeps me on track with what I need to do and to see what is actually due, all the while I can rank what needsto be done first.

Again, I use my iCalendar to use this powerful strategy combo. First, I fill out what needs to be done on each day of the week. Then I fill in when certain assignments are actually due. This part is almost exactly identical the D's Due and Do Organizer.

Next, I take each do and rank each in terms of top priority, middle priority, or optional; this part is similar to the ranking priorities strategy. You can get these by adding a new calendar on iCalendar:

I then changed the color of each DO. Top priority is red, middle is light blue and optional is green. My DUE's remain the color yellow:

I'm a visual learner so having the colors to highlight what needs to be done at which priority is extremely helpful. In the end I feel so much more organized than if I had just thrown a bunch of to-do's on my calendar. This is my past week on my iCalendar:

Shuzie' new Due&Do and LINK

Hello, girls! Today is the first day of snowing in Syracuse. I am so excited about it because in my hometown, it is hardly for me to see snow, even in cold winter!

Anyway, because I will fly to Boston tomorrow, so I need to finish this weeks TECH assignment today. During this week, I retried Due& Do for my 4 courses homework assignment schedule and I tried LINK in my own way for my ECN203 class.

Let me talk about Due& Do first.

I know, according to the requirement, I should to retry DUE&DO in just one course. But since this week's assignment is to create our own ways to use learning strategies, and I do need to have a general homework assignment plan for myself, I decided to use Due& Do to arrange my whole weeks stuff, including academic plan and daily life.

Before this week, even I used Do& Due, and I used Fritter Finder, I still felt I could merely guarantee myself to finish assignment right before Due Days. And for Fritter Finder, I always created one on Sunday nights for the following weeks. But the truth is things always change. I could not forecast whether there would be some new things that I didn't know when I created my Fritter Finder but I have to do. In this situation, sometimes I feel like my time is out of my control again and it is really sacks that I read my Fritter Finder every night and always find I didn't finish all the things on the list.

In order to change this situation, I use Do& Due again, but add Ranking Priorities in it. Especially for this week, as what I mentioned at the beginning, I will spend the whole weekend in Boston, so I need to finish all my homework before Saturday. Here is the picture of my this week's new Do& Due.

In Due column, there is no change. But in Do column, I use the Ranking Priorities Strategy. Since I am a visual learner, I use three colors to write down all the things I will do on each day. Red means most important, which also means that I MUST do this today! Blue is important, which represents those stuffs I can finish today or I can just finish some part, don't have to finish whole. Green means less important, which is the signal that if I do not have time, I certainly can put off. Usually, for blue and green stuffs, I always give two days for them. So even I don't have time for one day, I still have the other day to finish it.

This helps me create some time spaces for those things happened suddenly but I need to finish them. For example, on Wednesday, my best friend asked me if I would like to go to the hospital with her because she was very sick at that time. Definitely, I have to accompany with her. So I didn't do the "Reading Mos - Between the World". But on Tuesday, I only had one class on that day, so I finished all the stuffs from red to green, including this reading assignment.

And on Thursday and Friday, since I only have one class for each day, I arrange all my homework for weekend in these two days Do column.

Combining Do& Due and Ranking Priorities together, it not only help me to use my time much more effectively than merely using single strategy, but also help me to finish different kinds of assignments much more earlier than due days easier.

Okay, know I will introduce my LINK usage.

During the class, we were taught to using pictures to memorize terms. But for me, especially I am a new international student, I do not have such a big vocabulary knowledge, so it is a little hard for me to use LINK in that way. Also, for this semester, I do not have any courses that I need to memorize different kinds of awkward terms. The class I need to remember things most is my ECN203 class.

In this week, I learned a lot of Macroeconomy terms. I think the most difficult part for me to memorize is not the names of terms, but the meanings of terms. Every terms has a big word explanation. Remember all the meaning of terms is my headache problem. When I read my professor's powerpoint, I always find it is hard for me to understand and remember those terms. Reading explanations in words is totally makes me feel boring!!

As a result, I draw comics to explain those terms. I have already remember the names of terms, what I need to do is remembering their meanings.

Here is an example of the explanations of Comparing Nominal GDP with Read GDP.

On my professor's powerpoint, the explanation is :

And my comic is :

Nominal GDP is unadjusted GDP. So I draw it in blue, which is a color of quiet and the blue "Price" baby is sleeping. That means the price is unmoved, which is unadjusted.

Real GDP is GDP adjusted for changes in prices. So I draw it in red, which is a color or energetic and active. The red "Price" baby is driving a car and singing. That means the price is alive, which is adjusted.

Another example is Types of Unemployment.

My Professor's explanation is:

And here is my comic:

In my comic, the little blue child represents JOBS and the pink tiny child represents people who are unemployed and seeking for jobs. I find that the time I drawing comics is also the time I think about these terms. I need to figure out a situation for each term and draw them out. Plus dialogues and explanation. But by using this method, terms are not boring any more and easily to remember their meanings. Visual Learner loves colorful pictures!!!!

Based on reality, making some changes in strategies will be more helpful for me to using those strategies. Hope you love my methods and wish you all had a perfect weekend.

Charlie Reads SmarT for APH 262 & SPA 301

Hello again! This week I'd like to discuss Charlie Reads SmarT. Do long reading assignments make you cringe? Do you get easily distracted while reading? Do your readings feel so overwhelming that you decide to not do them at all? Well this strategy is absolutely perfect for you!

This strategy makes me almost wish I had a class with long chapter readings. I know how tedious those can be! However, I found that thisstrategy can really be adapted to work with all types of readings. For example, I used this strategy for my Spanish 301 class where we read multiple short stories every week.

First, I took a look at the reading and figured out exactly how long the short story was. Because the story was four pages long, I decided to chunk my reading by reading one page at a time throughout the day. This is what each chunk would look like:

This strategy especially works well with languages because dividing the reading up allows you to digest and understand the reading and the language without getting frustrated.

The next step is to *Summarize*. You can do this in many ways, however since this reading is in a different language, I decided to highlight words I did not know and find out the definition to each. These are my key words; by highlighting them they stand out and I will be able to remember them to use in the future in Spanish:

Lastly, test yourself! I'm a visual and kinesthetic learner, so I wasn't quite sure how this strategy would work for me until I reached this step. For this step I created (kinesthetic) note cards to help me memorize the definitions of the words I highlighted (visual). I also created a couple of questions that would keep me prepared should we have an essay test on this particular story:

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Secondly, I used the same strategy for my Art Photography class. We're required to read many tutorials that explain different techniques in Photoshop and as you can imagine, the readings can feel quite boring and a bit complicated.

So, I took one of my tutorials and chunked it into different sections just as I did with my Spanish reading. This reading was especially easy to chunk because it was already broken up into different sections based on different photoshop tools:

I then tested myself by trying out the technique:

This also works to summarize my work because it shows a side by side comparison of what I did to correct the image.

Overall I believe this strategy was more effective in breaking down my Spanish reading. I was really able to fully understand what was going on in the short story while learning new vocabulary and not getting frustrated. My tutorials for my Art Photography class almost already work in the way Charlie Read Smart does, so I didn't have to adapt much!

Charlie Reads SmarT DRA 115!

Hey girls! I hope you all had a great parent's weekend! I loved getting to see my family - only a month until Thanksgiving!

This week, I chose to use the Charlie Reads SmarT strategy in my DRA 115 class and my Theatre Production class. Being an Acting major, I really don't have any classes besides CLS that use textbooks, so I have chosen two classes for which I have to read plays.

In my Intro to Theatre class this week, we were assigned to read the play Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy written centuries ago about Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who, due to a prophecy, accidentally kills his father and marries his mother. It's hard to believe someone could actually accidentally do such a thing, but if you read the play, which I hope you all will because it's brilliant, you'll get it. The play is 18 pages long, so I decided to read 9 pages at a time, just so I knew that my attention wouldn't have time to vanish. I "CHUNKED the task" so that I could read 9 pages, go to dinner, and come back to finish it up. This was a great way to read, as I didn't have an opportunity to get bored, but I did find myself going back to reread sections of what I had read in my previous session to clarify things that were happening in the second 9 pages. Because I am an Aural learner as well as a Kinesthetic one, I got together with two of my friends who are also performance majors to read the play out loud. I read Oedipus's part, which proved to be pretty amusing to all of us :) After I finished the play, I created a list of scenes and SUMMARIZED what happened in them, including which characters were in them. Here is the first page of the final product:
After I made my scene breakdown, to TEST, I came up with a few questions that the professor could possibly ask us. Here they are!

After doing all of this, I feel much more confident in my knowledge of the play than I would have had I simply just read it.

Next, I used the same strategy in my Theatre Production class! In this class, we are making Vision Books, which are scrapbook-like books that directors use to organize their vision for the play they are directing. For my vision book, I chose to create a vision for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. It is a gorgeous play, and I am so excited to create my book. But before I was able to create a vision for it, I had to read it. So, naturally, I used the Charlie Read SmarT strategy again, since it worked so well on Oedipus. I used the same adaptions I made to the strategy for Oedipus, and found that it worked just as well with The Glass Menagerie. I CHUNKED the reading, and once I finished, I created another scene breakdown. The play only has four characters, so I didn't include which characters were in which scenes. Here's my scene breakdown:
I just love this play so much! You all should read it! After I did the scene breakdown to SUMMARIZE, I created some questions to TEST myself on the play. Here they are!
All in all, I found this strategy to be very helpful, with the adjustments I made to help it fit my learning styles and classes. I feel prepared for the work I have to do using these plays, and I am eager to use this strategy again for other readings in the future. See you all tomorrow!

TART and Charlie Reads SmarT

Hi, all!
I decided to use Charlie Reads SmarT for ECN302 and TART for my HOA105 this week.
For Charlie Reads SmarT, I chose the macroeconomic class because usually it takes me a lot of time to read the textbook and I feel sleepy everytime when I read the book so I feel that I need to chunk the task.
First, I counted the pages I need to read for the next lecture (which is 10 pages) and I found that I lost my attention after two pages so I divided it into five small tasks. I took only 5 minute break in order to finish the 10-page task as soon as possible. [Chunk]
After that, I browsed the 10 pages and had a idea what the authors talk about in the 10 pages because I found in the syllabus the pattern for this course is cause and effect so I knew I had to make it clear on the relationship between some concepts. [Read]
According to the strategy was presented, I should summarize it after I finish reading, but I was afraid that I forget important information because I have bad memory and the relationships between concepts are complex so I did it when I was reading and I used the colors to highlight the main relationships. Here is my summary and graphs: [Summarize]

After reading, I created some questions in order to finish my preparation for the next lecture and I used pencil to write question and black pen to answer it and it shows as below: [Test]
After trying , I feel that it made me more comfortable during class when the professor introduce
new concepts and it is extremely helpful for this course because most of the time, the professor will talk beyond the textbook in the lecture.

I tried TART with my art history course because there are a lots of terms and explanation in this course and I am not good at memorizing things so previewing terms is supposed to be a good solution.
First
I read the terms in the art history book but I did not read the every term and definition as the strategy is explained in Dr. Blumin's book because this chapter we have almost 30 pages and I did not have enough time for this many pages, so instead, because we believe that every piece of work reflects the idea of that times so I read the most important information- the ideas for this period, which is active life, contemplative life and tradition and innovation, which I found the three ideas in the student manual for this chapter. By that method, I only have to read 5 pages before lecture. So I made notes on the computer for the five pages in order to edit them when the professor add something new to explain them and I used some colors, bold and question marks to remind myself. I did this because I am a visual and kinesthetic learner. Here is what I did:
Second
I attended the lecture and took notes on the computer.

After that
as Dr. Blumin said about this strategy, I should read the whole chapter but I do not have time for that and the major source of this course is lecture so I just need skeleton reading for this course so I checked the ideas with every slide she discussed with us and think how does the idea relate to the work specifically. Fortunately, I figured out how the work reflects any of them this time. But if it is not clear to me, I would browse book for more information.

Finally
I created question on the most important idea, which is contemplative life in this case and type down how does it relate to architecture, paintings and sculptures in order to review in the future and anticipate exam questions.

This strategy is really helpful for this course because it combines with anticipating questions and I do not have to read comprehensively so it gives me a good and time-saving method to review and prepare for the essay questions in the exam, which usually incorporate the relationship between ideas and works.

TART and Charlie Reads SmarT Strategies

Hey everyone!

So for this week, I decided to use both the TART and Charlie Reads SmarT reading strategies for my PSY 205 class. I chose these two strategies because I thought that they would help me effectively read and learn how to prepare test questions.

PSY 205 is my only lecture course where reading the textbook is suggested in order to understand the material better. Although reading is not required in this course, I thought it be best if I read the textbook before lectures for clarification and review. Our professor provides us with outlines on Blackboard before the lectures so I took the time to quickly scan them to see what would be most important to read. We don't need to read everything within the textbook, so that is why I skimmed through the lecture outlines beforehand.

For this week's reading, I read parts of Chapter 7, which was about intelligence. For the TART strategy, the first step was to read the terms and definitions in the chapter's glossary. I skimmed through the chapter and highlighted the terms with their definitions; abbreviating the most important ones. Since I am a visual learner, highlighting key terms was really effective.
Here are two pages from my textbook where I abbreviated and highlighted key terms:





The second step was to attend the lecture. I listened for the terminology used by my professor that I found in the textbook. During class, I highlighted the terms in the lecture outlines that were also mentioned in the textbook. Here are two examples from my notes:



The next step was to read the chapter to review what was covered in class. I highlighted anything else that seemed important to know.

The last step was to create test questions that I thought my professor might ask on future exams. I used the same questions from Charlie Reads SmarT strategy.

For the Charlie Reads SmarT strategy, I had to do the following:

1. Chunk the reading assignment
2. Read with a purpose
3. Summarize
4. Test

For the first step, I had to determine my attention span. I started to read until I felt to lose focus. I determined that I could read 5 pages, so for every section I read 5 pages then took a break before continuing to read. I had to read 20 pages in all and there were also certain sections that I did not need to read because they were parts that my professor would not go over. This really helped me keep focus and understand the reading better.

According to my syllabus, we would spend two days going over the intelligence chapter. For this week, I only had to read half of Chapter 7. While reading, I took note of the topic and turned the headings into questions. There were already questions concerning the topics at the head of each section, so I used them because my professor would most likely use them as questions on tests. Upon reading, I wrote down the answer to each question. I also took note of key terms within each section.

After reading, I combined the summarize and test steps by creating an outline organized by section and topic with questions and key terms. Since I am a visual learner, I highlighted the answers and key terms. I wanted my outline to be visually appealing.

Here is the outline I created:





I thought that the Charlie Reads SmarT strategy was more effective for me compared to TART because it helped me clarify and review important definitions within the textbook. TART helped me get an understanding of what the reading was going to be about.

TART and Charlie Reads SmarT on ECN 203

Hey girls! Do you enjoy the time spend with your parents?

For this week, I tried TART and CHARLIE READS SMART on my ECN 203. The reason why I choose to use both the strategy on my ECN 2O3 is not for the textbook is hard to read and understand, but for I treat it as one of the information resources for my class notes. Since in my ECN203 classes, my professor pay all the attention on his powerpoint but not mention the textbook; and all my exams are all about his lecture information and powerpoint, not have business with my textbook also. So even now it's mid-term time, I didn't read my textbook much. However, for this week, I decide to read my textbook for Chapter 11, which is the beginning of Macroeconomy. I found there were a lot information in the textbook, even the professor didn't mention them and the exams wouldn't cover them, but understanding them will help me understand other important terms much better.

Now, let me talk about TART first.

Amazingly, I am the combination of four types of learner! But I still prefer Visual learner. So when I read the terms in my textbook at the first time, I highlighted those terms in blue and create their abbreviations at the marginal of each page. It will help me to remember the full and abbreviations of terms at the same time and I will know where can I find them just by checking the margin. Here are two pages of textbook shows what I did as an example.

After I read all the terms and definitions, I had the basic idea of what will my professor talk about during his lecture. Then, I went to his lecture on Wednesday and Friday.( On Monday, we took the second exam so we didn't have a lecture) I made notes during the two lectures. When the professor come across the terms, I will draw line under those terms! Since I am an international student, right now I cannot take notes and listen to my professor at the same time. So I did bring my recorder to class, and listen to the recording after each class. ( As a result, the blue part on left side are notes I took during the classes and black part on right side are notes I took when I listened the recordings) Again, I draw lines under each terms or use capitalize them or circle them. ( I didn't have enough time for changing different colors when I took notes) Here are some pictures of my notes.

At the end of the whole week, which was at Friday night, I read all pages of Chapter 11. Since I had learned those terms for at least twice, I felt it's easier and faster for me to read, understand.

The time when I finished reading, I created a quiz for myself. On the left column, I wrote down questions in blue and then answered them in black on the right column. Here is my DIY-QUIZ:

As those questions were based on the information from textbook and my notes, they all about definitions and functions. I can find out the answer directly from my textbook or from my notes.

I am suitable for visual and kinesthetic learning methods, as a result, I found that TART provided me a good way to read my textbook efficiently. Especially for the past half of the semester, I ignored the importance of reading textbook. Even though my professor will not pick up exams questions from textbook, but it's still worthy for reading it. For more complete information materials and for better understanding principles.

At the same time, I also tried CHARLIE READS SMART on the same ECN203 classes.

The first step, I chunked my reading assignment.

According to my real situation, I made some changes. First of all, since my perfect time for my attention span is 20-25 minutes. The time I read textbooks, I also love to making notes or drawing graphs to help me understand them, so I decided to chunk time period based on the number of pages I can finish read with 15 minutes. That means the total time for each of my chunk is 25 minutes ( 15 minutes for merely reading and 10 minutes for taking notes or drawing graphs).

Second, based on the contents, I divided the whole chapter into 4 parts. They are: Intro. Macro& Micro; GDP; Labor and Price Line. According to their difficulty, Micro& Macro is the most simple part. So I decided to read pp 157- 161 in a chunk. For the most hard part, GDP, I read pp162-163, pp 168-169 ( total 2.5 pages) in a chunk. The easier the content, the more pages in a chunk. Otherwise, the harder, the fewer pages in a chunk.

So, finally, here is my chunk plan.

pp 157-161 Intro. Macro& Micro

pp 162-163, pp 168-169 GDP

pp 163-166 Labor

pp 166-167, pp 170-172 Price Line

For reading, because my professor's syllabus didn't mention reading materials for each class, so what I did was turning the heading into a question and read for the answer. And marked the parts which related to my powerpoint. As a result, I knew we will focus on GDP, LABOR AND PRICE LINE, but not for INTRO. MACRO& MICRO.

The third step is Summarize. I made graph for words and definitions. For this chapter, what we do is merely generally introduce terms but not research on examples. So I just listed important terms and their definitions. For definitions, I highlighted the notation part.

And also, I created an outline of key words for Chapter 11.

For the last step, I didn't want to just copy those questions which I created for TART ( they are basic questions and I can find answers directly). So even though I only created 2 questions for TEST part, but they are both questions need to be analyzed and discussed with my professor. After I got the accurate answers, I wrote them down.

Comparing to TART, Charlie Reads SmarT is more helpful for me to summarize and review after I had already known the whole chapter and took all the lecture about the chapter. TART helps me to get to know the chapter, Charlie helps me to review.

Plug-in notes and One plus three notes

Hi, all!
This week, I tried Plug-in Notes and One plus three notes on my history of arts and macroeconomics class. I chose these two in order to compare which one is better for me to get organized and do the quick review after class.
For one plus three notes, I changed a little in order to fit in this economics class, the professor presented this course really quick and he usually finish a chapter in two lectures, so we covered a lot information in this course and he does not give us handouts or anything to review so I need to make summary of book in order to review and I do not want to do it before the test because that book has more than 500 pages. His exam problems came from each chapter so I did not make notes by chapter, not by dates. He talks a lot beyond the book so you have to read the book before his lecture and remember the material in the book, if not, you will be lost in the lecture so I have to do the summary of book before the lecture anyway so I took notes of the book on the first page using black pen and then wrote lecture notes on the back of the page using blue pen. Here is what I did for the lecture part.


After the lecture, when I was reading the notes, I highlighted the terms I need to remember for this whole chapter and think about the relationships between different concepts. After that, I made a table and made a slightly different table from Dr. Blumin showed us in the class. I wrote the most important terms and relationship with graphs, on the bottom of the page, I wrote down several questions to anticipate the exam questions in this chapter.


For art history class, I took notes on the computer during class and because I am a visual learner, I plugged in the slides showing the artwork I need to recite and listed the points I have to remember for each one and changed the colors and size by the importance. You can see how different they are by following screen shots:





After done with notes, I create a table to quick review and anticipating questions from the material presented that day and then type down the answers before the next class in order to review them.
After using this two note-taking strategies, I found that both of them are great strategies which can help me and one plus three helps when you have a course which has a lot of terms, concepts and relationships you need to be clear about and Plug-in notes are really good for computer note takers and visual learners. Both of these two strategies are effective for me to review materials after class and participate more in the class.