Module 7 : Keys to Motivation for Online Learning

From the start of this course, I learn to track my schedule by creating the google calendar events and tracking my weekly activities. The google calendar made me aware about the tasks that I bound to. I got the reminder for the classes that were about to start and assignments that were about to due. More importantly, the time tracking activity made re evaluate my time behavior. From looking what I did that week, I realized that I spent too much time doing leisure activities that kept me away from doing school works. To deal with those disturbances (watching TV and playing games), there was a module that taught me strategies to escape from procrastination. I manage to treat myself after doing certain amount of workload as a part of the strategy to minimize procrastination. Another module that is very useful to me is managing search and learning behavior. There are list of useful web resources, such as, infographic and mind map website, that help me to enhance my study. To prepare exams, I normally just re-read my notes and read powerpoint notes that are available. However, after trying those websites, I began to use it for preparing my exams and I found those websites are interactive and enjoyable that kept me using those ever since. The discussion posts also mentioned a lot of useful websites to enhance learning experiences. For me, the one that I started using was khan academy, which is helpful for learning mathematics and chemistry. Meanwhile, regarding the search behavior, I found that utilizing google advanced search, google scholar, or playing around the keyword synonyms and boolean factor of the search engine really effective for writing essays or research papers. By using advanced search, I can minimize the search results to the desired keyword, by using the google scholar I can find a reliable scholarly source immediately, and by entering synonyms and boolean phrase to the search engine, I can precisely find what I want. The most meaningful insights that I got were the netiquette and google docs. Many people do not learn how to write a proper e-mail because there are not much classes to offer that knowledge and I believe that proper communication is essential to send the message effectively with a neutrality. I mentioned the word neutrality because if an email is not properly written, the receivers will have a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what the email means. By adding greetings and signing name will make the receiver less offended, as sometimes both parties are unfamiliar with each others. Meanwhile, google have many forms to create and keep documents. Those tools like google docs and google slides are very helpful to support me doing essays or presentation, especially that the document can be shared to another people, so that my teammates and I can do the work altogether in a separate places. In the future, I will utilize the online resources, the time management strategies, and the netiquette to enhance my learning experience.