Reading and Organizing Course Material

This week was an interesting one, to say the least! I had a complication Monday that made reading alittle hard for a few days! I am a horse trainer and I not only train other peoples' horses that just need work, but I also break horses as well. On Monday I got kicked in the shoulder and eye by a horse I was training. Luckily, nothing was broken, but my eye was swollen almost shut for a few days and it is still black and still has a cut. My shoulder is also still really bruised.











Anyway, week 3 was titled: Reading and Organizing Course Material. This was put into use alot this past week. I had to be really organized to keep up with my reading and assignments due to me eye and having to read slower because of it.
The objectives for Week 3 were:

• Read assignments for maximum retention and benefit.
• Take notes for in order to enhance learning: Cornell Method, S-Run-R, and Outlining.
• Complete homework assignments in order to enhancing learning and recall.

I learned some new ways to take notes and also some new tips on how to organize homework to make sure that it gets done. In reading the How To Do Homework page, I found that I already use some of the steps that were referenced. I did get many great tips from the reading though. I also learned this week, that I really like the Cornell Method of note taking. I had never heard of the Cornell Method before this course so that was something new to me. I had also never heard of the S-RUN-R reading/studying system before taking this course. That system was also very useful.

Despite being slowed down in my reading by my injury, I was able to take away from this past week alot of great tips and some new ways of reading/studying and also some new note taking methods.