As the last week of class approaching, finals coming up, our 
CLS blog has come to a last entry. After many blogs talking about many different strategies, our last blog touches on the last strategy, the Task Management. Because we have learned a lot of strategies so far from the class and many of them very effective, the task management might not be very new or different compared to other strategies. However, it is never useless!
As the finals approaching, and many projects, exams, and papers are either due or beginning, it was really helpful when I kept the Divide by Four strategy, which is a great one to manage our tasks. For this strategy, I applied two courses on it: CLS 105 and HOA 106.
For CLS 105, the last project, major/career exploration, was due on the 25th. And the last HOA exam was the earliest exam coming up. In order to complete these two in a successful way, I had to somehow organize them. So, for major/career exploration, I decided to divide into four pieces: The proposal, organize, execution, and reflection. With this order I began my project, which helped me keep on track. This helped me in finishing the project for it made me finish it a lot quicker than my regular pace. In fact, I turned in the project last week.
Because I ended my CLS 105 project early, I had plenty of time to start preparing for my HOA 106 exam, which is in two weeks. First, I created flash cards for they were the most effective study guide for this class. And I started memorizing and pictures, which was the second part. The third part was to look over the lecture notes and textbook to read the information of the paitings in more detail. The last part of this strategy was to review the memorized contents. The importance about this part is that while I am reviewing is that I can prepare for the essay questions for the information I put from my study guide for they will be critical when I write the answers for the essay questions.
So far, this strategy has been working perfectly well! After the long weekend of Easter Break
ends, we will all be back into focusing in school and especailly the finals. The end is approaching, and this is the last blog. Even though all the assignments from the CLS 105 is over, I hope we all can remember some of the strategies that were mostly effective to us and continue to use them in the future. Good to work with you all! Great job
I'm proud of you as you finished your CLS early and got a perfect score on it. That allowed you to study for HOA in exciting mood and i'm sure that divide by four strategy worked for you effectively. Since I planned what I had to study, it had a tremendous effect on starting and finishing my works. Overall, good job Adrien!
ReplyDeleteI also used the Divide By Four strategy, and it worked out really effectively. I was able to finish my works in an organized way. It was really useful, and I think that it would be nice to continuously use the strategy whenever I am having trouble.
ReplyDeleteI have found Dividing By Four very useful for the important, heavy tasks of mine. I see that you have also made a chart where you divided the tasks into four parts. These are four manageable, different parts in one task that you can finish one by one. It makes the job so much easier and lighter that it actually gives motivation and keeps you away from procrastinating. It tells you exactly what you need to do for each task; it is not like read and memorize the concepts that will be on next week's exam in an hour. You can perform every parts in full effect and soon you will get the whole task done without wasting a bit of time. Hope this can help you out a lot for all your tasks.
ReplyDeleteI also used Divide by Four strategy for this week's tech blog assignment. It's great strategy for many of the tasks in college because it lets you focus on small sections of projects and make that section more successful. I make my projects smaller by diving it into four sections and work on each section one at a time and finally bring all together to make it whole. I will definitely use this strategy later in the future to make my other works great.
ReplyDeleteEveryone just loves the Divide by Four strategy. It is easy and fast, but it gives you a clear view of what you are up against. And the good thing is, you can't really cheat yourself on doing this because you can't do part 3 unless you do part 1 and 2. It will force you to work your way up there until you finish the task. I think this is what we all need in the time of loads of work.
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