Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Success Strategies Assignment 1



CMS 185 Reading Across the Disciplines




Strategies







  1. Develop New Skills for Each Academic Discipline



  2. Acquire the Right Tools



  3. Learn the Language of the Discipline



  4. Communicate with Classmates



  5. Communicate with Professors



  6. Develop new Means of Acquiring Information



  7. Use New Means of Acquiring Information



  8. Use New Means of Recording Information



  9. Become Familiar with Online Courses



  10. Demonstrate Academic Integrity



Assignment # 1 CMS 185




Read the Ten Success strategies pages p 2-24




1.Choose one point from 4 individual strategies. List the strategy and relate it to your academic program. Example Allied health, Social and Behavorial Science, Engineering Technology.



Example Strategy 3



Learn the language... Record new terms for later review. My Biology course has twenty new terms each day like Mitochondria, phagocytosis.....I need to learn some memory techniques.




2,Visit a website in one of the strategies. Write something that will give the rest of the class and idea of how it may help them study and learn more. paste the link in the email so others can use it during the semester. i will collect links and paste them on this web page for future reference.




examples Strategy #1 Develop new skills for each discipline




Establish overview. Study table of contents,




Life Sciences http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/culture/2006/scinotes/




Sunday, August 16, 2009

Something I Learned in Class

On this page I will include the sentences you write on the 4x6 card. Remember you need only one sentence with 140 characters or less.

Your 3 Words

YOUR 3 WORDS
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009