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Learning about active reading is something I am not new to hearing about. The difference here is that now most of my close reading is now done on a screen. When I first learned to close read- or even read at all, it was not from a screen. This makes things a little different as it is just a different experience but it still does. not change that much. One of the biggest differences I see is not being able to write down notes as easily unless it is in editing form, which it is most likely not, unless an effort was made to make it that way. What I found to be the most helpful and interning part of this lecture was actually the assignment where we looked at online study tools. This helps me a lot because there are so many resources out there that I am unaware of that could be very helpful to me. I was able to share some study tool websites that I already use, explore some new ones and also look and see what my peers have been using, what they are trying out and what their recommend. There are so many free resources online that many people do not know about. These resources can help you to be the best online student that you can be.

One of the biggest topics we talked about in the module was procrastination, what it is and how to stop you from doing it so that you can get your work done in a timely fashion. I am no newbie to procrastination, and I have do e it far too many times, which is why I was excited to see that I would be able to get some real helpful tips and advice on how to actually beat it. One method I have tried that was introduced to me in this module is using a study timer to help keep me on track. These times give you intervals timed for you for work time and then break periods. This helps me and many others to make sure they are on the right tasks during the correct timing. Another nitrating point that came out of this module was looking at my time tracking and looking at how I spend my time. When looking at a whole week of time I was bad to see when I was doing good work, when I was procrastinating and looking at it overall helped me realize where my time was being wasted and how to use it more effectively so that I can be effect with my time and get all my work done.

In this module we learned a lot about searching on the internet, to find the resources you need in able to be able to research the topics that you are looking for. I have learned many times the best and my favorite routes to find good, credible and strong resources. I have good search engines as well as many other good libraries of information provided to me through Ohio State that I can use to find high quality resources to use for papers and other assignments. One thing that has not has not been taught to me before is how to search- on any search engine- to find what you are looking for as easily as possible. What I learned through this module that is most important when using a search engine is to really focus on the key words. It is not very efficient to type very much in a search bar as you may be looking for something too specific. When searching using a search engine, it is best to use few, but important words instead of writing a whole sentence and giving the search engine too much to search for. The video from Western that is on slide 20 of the powerpoint talks about using boolean operators when searching when looking for keywords. This is very useful and also made a lot of sense to me as I have already learned about what Boolean variables are in computer science classes.

My favorite way to make motivate myself to study/do more productive work and make it less boring is to continue to listen to music while I am doing work. This is what I learned the most from this module is that there is some music that is shown to help concentration and studying. I do not like to listen to the music I normally listen to, because I often find it distracts me and I will just end up sitting listening to my music instead of doing work. Another suggestion I have had is to use white noise, but I prefer music to this option. What I have found and what I have been using all week is a playlist I found on Apple Music called “lo fi study beats”. These songs have little to no words and help to keep me on task. The music provides a consistent noise in the background when I am doing anything and it really helps me enhance my study environment to make it even more conducive to be a good learning environment. One other thing I would like to try is keeping my phone (main distraction) somewhere at least a few steps away from me so I would have to get up to go get it. Creating this barrier will make it harder for me to pick it up and also silence most notifications.

One idea that inspired me from this module was what the second blog post circled around. Watching videos about the topics I am learning about is a great start to help me better understand whatever we are learning about. Even if the video isn’t about the exact topic we discuss in class, leaning more in the field is always helpful and can always help you to better understand what is going on overall. Getting more commutable with any topic is great, especially if it something you are currently learning about it is a great skill to be comfortable with the material. Watching videos is man easy way to expose yourself to more on a topic without having to do much besides sitting and watching but I think it would also be great to that this idea of just watching videos and tuning it into more. Creating or participating in activities relating to what you’re learning or even just going out and trying to see your topic in the real world will help you be more comfortable and confident in knowing things about a subject. For example, I am taking a class about the geology of national parks so I like to watch videos about that national parks. I have been to many national parks and using that experience also helps me feel more comfortable with the subject. Something I would like to try to also help me in this class is to go out and try to identify rock types in nature so I can learn to identify them for tests.

One thing that I learned a lot of in this module was about netiquette. This is an important topic especially right now, where so much, even more than usual, all or most of out communication with people is digitally. Netiquette refers to etiquette on the internet (the net) and how we should be treating others through digital communication. Something that I have put into practice was creating an email signature that goes at the bottom of every email I will send. It gives important information such as my name and contact information. Once I grow and get a job, I can put my position title and other information there. This helps people be able to find the things they need to know about you all in one place. I would give advice that using good netiquette is very important, especially in this day and age where many of the people we interact with may be fully online and we may never even meet in person. Because of this it is extremely important to know netiquette and now how to effectively communicate online. This is the link to the video we watched that we’re attached to our class slides about netiquette. UCz7gM4XmSZmL3vwRkUkb7UA 

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