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3. How to taking notes?

Personal Experience

The class ESLTECH 2011 teaches me some skills in note-taking. Reflecting myself, I always require my notes to be very organized and clear. So next time, I am willing to look at it again. But It’s taken too much time. I already knew some methods of abbreviations that mentioned in the video, however, I still had a concern to use it. I had a situation that I don’t what the abbreviation words mean meanwhile there is nobody I can ask. So I rarely used abbreviation. But the video gave me the solution which is simple but I never noticed. I need to often review note in 24 hours to remember the meaning of acronyms. I think I can doubtless use abbreviate right now.

Digital Note-Taking

 

2. How to do Time, Task, & Environment Management?

Personal Experience 

  I identified myself as a procrastinator. Even though I know my disadvantages and tried to change it, but I don’t have a system to found out my problems and solve them. This week’s readings and videos help me review myself.

I usually make a plan for every day, but I still cannot follow the plan or finish it on time. after reading Marano’s article, I know procrastination is not the problem of time management, is the problem of estimating time. Just like Marano said: “ Procrastination is not a problem of time management or of planning. Procrastinators are not different in their ability to estimate time, although they are more optimistic than others”. Thinking about myself, I always listed lots of things I needed to do for a single day, which is almost impossible for me to finish. I think my problem is having trouble to correctly estimate using the time for a task, just like Marano said. Additionally, sometimes I realized that maybe I cannot finish all plans in a day, but I still cannot give up something to do. I think this mindset reflects that I have difficulty to know self-ability. I have a higher expectation of myself than my ability. So, in the long-term, I become lack confidence. Because I always cannot finish the plan successfully.

The reading also reminds a problem I had and I needed concern— study environment. I have a study table and a bright table lamp. The stable study environment is not a problem for me. The problem is I often watch YouTube or teleplay at the same spot. It causes me when I studying I always want to play because I have a bad routine habit. I think I need to find a new place which is easy for me to concentrate on the only study.

Articles about procrastination

 

Digital planning tool

 

1. How to do the online reading?

Personal Experience 

I am bad at reading especially for online reading. When I read some articles through a computer, I often felt it difficult to concentrate. I was thinking it’s may because I didn’t get used to it yet. The position of looking at a computer is different from the position of reading printed books. I thought about reasons, but this week’s content directly answers my confusion and give me relevant solutions.

In the reading, Watkins (2004) mentions some points that I never noticed before. For example, he mentions changing the resolution setting of your monitor and using the visually impaired in software options. He also clearly lists nine steps of reading:

  1. Identifying the Purpose of Online Readings
  2. Previewing the Reading
  3. Creating a Good Reading Environment
  4. Active Reading, Questioning
  5. Taking Notes
  6. Increasing Proficiency
  7. Reflecting On and Reviewing Notes
  8. Developing Your Skills.

I didn’t think much about it before, I started to read the article directly. Although before I started, I had a vague awareness about the purpose of my reading, I often forgot when I reading. After reading Watkins’ article, I will try to clear my reading purpose and write it down before reading next time.

work citation: Watkins, R. (2004). Online Readings: Gaining the Most from What You Read. In G. M. Piskurich (Ed.), Getting the most from online learning: A learner’s guide (pp. 93-110). San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.

Tools for Reading Electronic Copies