It’s the end of the course but not the end of the strategies and tools application. Now all sorts of feelings well up in my mind. I really appreciate the professor.

Before taking the course and at the beginning of the course, I knew nothing about the wonderful strategies, authoritative resources and useful tools. All I knew was what former students and teachers told me. However, after taking this course, I knew google calendar, an online tool that better than hand-written plan. I knew how to make the best use of time by learning time management strategies. I knew which websites was the best in which fields. I learned more than that. I would like to apply all the strategies and tools in my future study.

The blog posts are the most important, useful and interesting things I learned. It’s like weekly work report. I will clearly know what I’m done this week rather than do it once and forget it forever. As a matter of fact, every tool and strategy is useful and saving time. I also learn about myself. I learn I am not stupid but I don’t have excellent approaches in the past. Now I am learning strategies, including these but not limits with this. I find some confidence in learning.

The most meaningful experience in the course should be the time tracking. During that week, I checked my schedule every time, hoped everything would happened like schedule. I was afraid of missing some task and forced myself to complete within the time period. However, I gradually found the shortcoming of the schedule and perfect it step by step. Thanks to the great schedule, I found my daily life was well-aligned and organized. At that time, I didn’t feel sleepy during study and I also improved my ability to focus on one thing rather than be distracted.

I will apply nearly everything in this class in the future. As I get the motivation and good direction in this course, I personally think it’s a chance that perfect my study methods. Each week, each topic fixed one problem. Every time I think it is the best strategy or tool, professor would provide another better one. Then I know there is no the best but the better. So, I start to find resources by myself and compare which one is more suitable for me. There is an old saying: “Select the essence, abandon its dross.” Always want to be the best one, I think I will success one day.

Learning so far, I would like to recommend my reader to find the true approach that suitable for them and time is really precious. Making the best of time is better than any methods in the world. After learning control your time, everything you do is much easier than you do now.

In this module, I’ve learned a lot like how to use the online resources to help myself to find accurate files I need. The most useful thing maybe the Eight Great Search Strategies for College Students.
Google Basis, a huge database that can find anything students want. And Understanding Google search can make students easier to find the kinds of resources they need. Then, using Google advanced search can help students narrow down the range if they are not sure about what they really want to search for. And Google Scholar is an authoritative tool for students to search which advance the paper’s technicality.
Additionally, students need to find the searching way suitable for themselves. Through using TLC (terms, limits, construction) principles, students can have more approach to assess files they need. Moreover, the library is also can guide students to success in study. And using Library Multi-search (default search) is super convenient for students to screen the useful information. The last one is locating the right database that can assist students to screen unsure database according to the subject.
After learning this, I have used several databases to help me do other homework. It works very well due to I find the article I need, which makes my whole paper more authoritative, accurate and advanced. The ideas from this module I would put into practice in the future is always checking articles’ reliability, quality, and utility. I would like to recommend students to apply these strategies in academic works, which will lead students to success.

The most effective strategy for web-enhanced listening and viewing strategy I learned in this module is note-taking part. When I am taking lectures, it spends me most of time taking notes. Sometimes I even cannot record every key point I heard.  Fortunately, I have learned the five note-taking option in this module.

Get PPT before lecture and print it out (that was what I was doing in STAT class, it works good and my notes was better), type notes at the bottom of slides (not suit for me because I am not good at typing, but also a good methods), break up notebook paper that correspond to slides and focus on professor’s words when I don’t have PPT (very practical), type outline key points and divided to several parts for online course video (This is a completely new method for me, but super good). The best one I think is using templates to taking not like set a series of questions, cues, examples, summaries and then answer it during lesson.

As far as I am concerned, these are useful and can put into practice in the future. I would like to say that as long as the methods suit for you, you will study with more effciency.