I found the first section of this module to be very helpful when it talked about active reading strategies. Often when doing long reading assignments I find myself not paying full attention all the time and as a result I end up missing out on some important information. One of the strategies mentioned in the power point was to highlight things and I think this is a rather obvious tip but it is something I have yet to really utilize. I think this could be incredibly useful for longer reading assignments where there are a lot of high level ideas that I need to internalize. I also enjoyed the video clip explaining how to highlight properly and effectively ( https://youtu.be/E9GrOxhYZdQ).  It made me realize that highlighting can help but I must make sure I do it for deep processing. Another part of the module I took a lot from was its mentioning of multitasking. I find myself multitasking while doing easy assignments and it works well. However it puts me in a bad habit because if I try to multitask while doing more lengthy and difficult assignments it becomes a huge hindrance. For this reason I realized I need to cut out multitasking completely and focus on one thing at a time when doing school work.

I found this module to be very informative and it gave me a lot of new strategies to deal with time management that I had not previously thought of. In the past I have often found myself waiting until the last minute to start decently large and sometimes just large assignments. One strategy shown in this module really stood out to me. It was a tip shown in one of the Youtube videos (https://youtu.be/VA8D1cGW5Qk). The tip was to break all assignments down into small five to ten minute tasks. This is something I never thought of doing before this module and in the future I think I can use it on my large and small assignments. I think using it will make me more motivated to start things early and as a result I will do better on my bigger assignments. Another thing discussed in this module that I found helpful was the idea of tracking my time throughout a week on a spreadsheet. I plan on doing this in the fall semester that way I can see when I am wasting the most time and when I am being the most productive. If I consistently do this I feel like I will be able to get better use out of my time.

One of the biggest takeaways I had from this module was how to write emails to professors correctly. In the past I feel as though the emails I have sent have not been as professional as they should be. They weren’t terribly informal either but I was not sure how to properly writing a greeting and closing in an email. The 18 tips for E-mailing You Professor article really helped me as well because it broke it down in to many different tips to use when typing an email ( https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2010/09/30/18-etiquette-tips-for-e-mailing-your-professor). I found the salutations tip to be the most helpful. Another thing that stuck out to me in this module was the video about how to deal with lazy group members. I have utilized setting multiple deadlines with groups in the past and it really does help a lot. I found the last tip in that video to be the most interesting though. I think a lot of students need to realize that sometimes school is not the most fair thing especially in terms of group work. Pushing yourself to carry the load of your other group members is not an easy task but when its needed it is well worth the effort even if the other group members are getting a free grade.

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