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Caitlin Foley’s Module 7 Blog Post

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Hi everyone, I’m Caitlin!

Today I am talking about Module 7 and something that stood out to me during this last module was staying motivated.

At the start of a semester, I am usually excited to start my new classes and have a lot of motivation to get assignments done early. As the semester goes on I lose my excitement and my motivation for getting things done early falters. So I was intrigued by what tips the slides were going to say about how to keep motivated. I thought slide 15 had great advice saying to use your progress as motivation. When I think back through this course and the past month in my personal life, I see how far I have come. It gives me a boost to keep working hard and push to keep doing great in class but also to keep giving my all in everything I do in my life. Something I needed to add in more while studying was taking breaks. I would hammer out my studying but get burned out really quickly. I think taking breaks more often when I am studying has made me retain more information faster because I am not swamping my brain for too long of a time.

I referenced slides 15 and 17 from the Module 7 slideshow.

Caitlin Foley’s Module 6 Blog Post

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Hi everyone, I’m Caitlin!

Today’s topic is on module 6 and I want to talk about research questions and the struggle to create them.

I would say I am decent at writing. When I find a topic I’m really passionate about the words come easy to me and I can write pages of information and get through it pretty quick. But when it’s a topic I’m not interested in, it can take days and days to figure it out which can be stressful and annoying. When I saw this week’s discussion question was about making a research question and researching about it I was happy that we had the opportunity to pick a topic that we want to research. Even though we got to pick the topic I still took a while to finally pick what I wanted to do for my research question. I ended up picking; when do you know an athlete has been overworked? I have been surrounded by athletes my entire life and so many of my friends who I thought were going to play college soccer for the next three years with me have decided to quit the sport.  I definitely understand how they feel burned out and there are a lot of days where I myself feel drained and tired from the work. So I thought researching the topic would be very beneficial and interesting for me. Being able to use the new ways I learned about in the slides about source credibility I found some great information from very reliable sources. That being said if you were able to find a topic that you’re passionate about you could write something really interesting for yourself and others.

Source Credibility slides: 14-16 Module 6 slide show

Caitlin Foley’s Module 5 Blog Post

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Hi everyone, I’m Caitlin!

Today’s topic is on module 5 and I wanted to talk today about the Cornell note-taking strategy.

So I have a story from back in my junior year of high school. My school had gotten a brand new English teacher. He was an older man and was very serious. I was a little nervous going into the class because and he had been teaching college English for the past like 10 years of his life and he had really high expectations. And I’m not bad at English it’s just he was pretty intimidating so I was like oh this will be an interesting year. Halfway through the year, we started reading some book (I’m pretty sure it was some Shakespeare book because I swear we read every Shakespeare known to man in that class). Anyways he decided to show us a new form of notetaking called the Cornell method. He said that we would use them in college all the time and that it would be essential for us to learn how to do it. We all thought it be completely fine because it’s notetaking, how hard could that be? We would read to a certain point take notes on stuff that made no sense and then the teacher would have us turn our Cornell notes in. The first time he had us do that he basically ripped everyone’s notes apart and we were all like wow. So we quickly learned how to do it the correct way according to him. But who would’ve thought that going into my sophomore year of college I would finally hear about taking Cornell notes and it’s like a full-circle moment?

The slide that included the video about different types of note-taking was on slide 7.