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.