My first blog

The note-taking strategy that I use is cornell notes, I often use it during Anthro because while he is talking I would abbrevate certain words to remmeber it better. As a learner note-taking has improved my studing skills, by taking the right notes It was easy for me to really understand what I was studying and learning. Note-taking strategies have improved my reading skills because it made me more aware of what I was reading and showed me the main ideas.

I used Cornell Notes to help me with Dr. Garcia’s homework and notes. when taking cornell notes I asked myself a question on the left side and looked for the answer. I also used abbreviations which was one of the tips that actually made me get done taking notes a liitle faster than I noramlly did. The cornell notes made it easier for me to find the main points and key terms. For an example in Dr. Garcia’s class I usally take heavy notes about culture not knowing what I am even taking notes about but using cornell notes helps me find the main point about culture. Cornell Notes helped me improve not only my note taking skills but also me as a learner,by learning a new strategies I have expaneded my options and have done research on diffrent topics.

Some reading strategies I haves used while reading Dr.Garcia and Dr. Corkery’s class materials are turing the title into a question, underlining main points and writing in the marigin, I found these strategies very helpful and easy to use.  Some strategies that I did not find useful were activating my prior knowlege of the topic, I found this very hard because I did not know anything about the reading prior to it. Also I found mentally visualizing the main points hard as well, because I am the type of person that has to write everything down and if I do not I will forget the main points. The strategies that I would like to keep using to read to comprehend new course materials are turing the title into a question, cricling main points and writing in the marigin. Turing the title into a question made it easy for me to find what I was looking for, also circling the main points and writing in the margins made it easy for me to summize the paragraphs. I can make new reading strategies my learing habits by giving the strategies a chance. It takes time to make for a reading strategies to sink in so by giving a strategy a chance.

One learning experience from my life that I have is learning how to play volleyball. Some steps and responsibility of playing volleyball and being a player are learning how to pass the volleyball, serving the ball to the other team, learning how to talk to your team members, being on a diet and being a team player. While being a volleyball player most of my time was spent practicing with the team to develop new skills. Some challenges I have faced was learning how to recover from a lost and fixing my mistakes. Also while playing volleyball I gain a lot of satisfaction and respect for myself because I use to not believe in myself but by playing volleyball and winning games I have realized that I can do anything as long as I put my mind and heart into it. My learning experience relates to many of my strengths such as belief,competition, and harmony. Volleyball relates to my belief because my belief is that I stand for all the people who think that they can not doing something because of their negativity holding them back, my belief keeps me going. Also competition is a big one for me I love to win so when there is a game that is what i strive for to be number one. If I lose or come in second place that is an issue for me, winning gives me satisfaction. Harmony gives me the power to believe that I can win and be number one.

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