Final Blog Post

There are a lot of important thing that I have learnt from this class and I am very glad that I took this. When it comes to technology, I learnt a numerous amount of web pages and about other software that would be help through my college life as well as my future career it self. The main importance I found about web tools is the using Google to get the knowledge of your needs. Google has a wide variety of applications in its database that we do not even know. Google contains an advance search that will help us to get scholarly articles and other content and can even be searched through publish dates and domains. If you find that there is an important article but it is in a different language, you do not have to worry because Google also has an application called “Google translate” which will translate everything for you. Also, if you need to find scholarly articles from libraries, the best place to search is www.worldcat.orgĀ . It is database that contains articles of your need and show you the location and mostly it will be at libraries. If you need it, you can go to that library or ask them to send a copy. It is a very convenient web site for all the college students that work on their research papers.

After taking this class, I have been able to manage my work immensely. I learnt about how task lists and schedules are important and work according to a schedule. I always try to do my work one day before deadline and it completely have an effect on the procrastination and frustration part of the work. If something goes wrong while I am doing my work, I can make use of the personal deadline I had and use the remaining day to get my work done. Also, I learnt that it is important to make short notes so that it will become easy for your mind to grasp it. I also learnt that there are different types of people and they learn in different ways. As for myself, my mind clearly uses pictures to think and I will need to make use of graphs and images more so that it will be helpful for me to study.

The most meaningful part on this course for me was the time management modules. Personally, coming in to this class I was a bad time manager and was always behind work or either wait until last minute to do the work. However, after doing time tracking and managing quizzes, I have realized my bad qualities. I am trying my best to get rid of them and manage my time in order to finish my assignments without procrastinating at the end.

Finally, I will always try to make task lists and schedules in order to manage my work. I will try to prioritize the work in order to focus more on the work that needs the most importance. Also, I will make use of web pages such as Google and Worldcat in order to write my research papers and other documents. I would like to thank the course instructor for putting together a class that can help students to manage their time and help them with their college work.

Good luck to all the college students for their final exams!

Sachinda Liyanaarachchi

One thought on “Final Blog Post

  1. Google is a very useful suite of tools, and I’m glad you found some that you can use for your learning process. I use Google Translate myself to go between Spanish and English from time to time. Quite frankly, I’m amazed at how well it works.

    Schedules and lists are probably my number one key to overcoming procrastination. Like you, seeing it in writing and having personal deadlines makes a significant difference in how I wrap my mind around what needs to get done.

    It sounds like you have a good grasp of what you need to do to be successful. I have complete confidence that you will do well in all of your academic and professional pursuits.

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