Sam Elman-Ranking Priorities

This week in CLS105 i decided to use my favorite strategy RANKING PRIORITIES. The reason that choose this was because i have many assignments, projects and finals coming up. For me being able to rank them and see which is most important for me is very helpful. The two courses that i used for this was WRT105 AND COU101.

Ranking Priorities is a strategy where you can rank anything in order for what is most important. This strategy also helped me organization skills.

The reason that i choose to use WRT105 was because i have my last huge paper coming up and there is a lot of steps that i need to do in order to accomplish it. My rankings went like this. 1. Researching topic. 2. outline. 3 rough draft. 4 final draft. 5. Essay. This has really helped me stay focused on the task.

The reason that i choose COU101 was because i have my last big project and my final coming up. So there is a lot of work left to do and i need to be organized to manage both things. the Rankings went like this. 1. make a study guide. 2 study. 3. start project. 4 finish project. I found this to be very rewarding for me and i hope it works out.

Since i am an Aural Learner this was very rewarding for me because i was just able to make a list of something and not have to make a diagram or chart which i usuallly have trouble with.

Looking back on this RANKING PRIORITIES it has worked for me all year long and it is my favorite strategy.

Acronym's By Andrew Zelin

This week in CLS 105 I experimented with the acronym strategy in my accounting class and my strategic management class. I chose to use the acronym strategy because I am a visual and aural learner. Seeing and picturing things helps me learn much more easily than other methods.

To implement the acronym strategy in accounting the first step I took was to look for a group of terms I have to recognize. I found the relevant costs and benefits section. This section consists of four terms. The terms are as follows: avoidable costs, irrelevant costs, sunk costs, and relevant costs. The next step to implements this strategy is to take the first letter of each term and create an existing word to better help me remember these terms. A word I found all these terms creates is 'AIRS'. Now when I take the exam and I am required to identify and recognize the relevant costs and benefit's I remember 'AIRS' and I thus am able to piece together which terms belong.

Due to the benefit I received from this strategy in an especially difficult class like accounting, I decided to experiment with this strategy again in my strategic management class. I used an acronym word to help me identify the barriers to entry into an industry. The barriers are economies, capital, differentiation, access, and government policy. The word I found from the first letter of each term was 'CAGED'. From now on when I am required to identify the barriers to entry in an industry I immediately think 'CAGED' and each term easily comes to me.


In conclusion, I found the acronym strategy all in all extremely effective. It is easy to use and it does a phenomenal job with helping me remember key ideas of any given topic. I have to credit my visual/aural learning style for this. If this wasn't my learning style, I fear creating acronym's wouldn't be nearly as useful.

Stress Diagram By Andrew Zelin

This week in CLS 105 I experimented with the Stress Diagram strategy in two of my classes, Accounting 252 and Business Statistics 262. I chose to use this strategy twice because I am a visual/aural learner and I definitely learn and interpret information better in an organizational diagram. I chose my accounting and statistics classes because both of these classes are very diverse in work demand and I believe it would help to write/divide out the sources of stress.

In order to implement this strategy the first thing I did was I drew two large diagrams, one each for both accounting and business statistics. The next step I took was I created a list next to each diagram that consisted of sources that cause stress for that particular class. For accounting I wrote 1. Exams, 2. Quizes, 3. Homeworks, 4. Keeping up with material, and 5. Attendance. For business statistics I wrote, 1. Exams, 2. Group Projects, 3. Homeworks, 4. Keeping up with material, and 5. attendance. As it turns out, my stress factors are similar for both of these classes. When I made my diagram I cut the pieces of the pie with the biggest being most important and smallest being least important. I found that the degrees for the factors of stress were very different for both classes. From creating stress diagrams, I learned that I need to focus more and work harder on study for exams in accounting, and I need to evenly allocate my time more evenly in business statistics for things like exams, projects, and homework's. I like the way the stress diagram tech assignment helped me identify which tasks I need to prioritize more in order to successfully reduce stress.

Based on my experience with stress diagrams, I found that this tech assignment worked wonderfully with my visual/aural learner style as expected. Now I have my prioritizes more so in order thus making my life all together less stressful thus facilitating my chances of success in college.

Sam Elman-Stress diagram

This week in CLS105 we learned about some stress strategies. Everyone gets stressed and it is a big part of life. I get stressed very easily. The strategy that I decided to use was Stress Diagram. So i was very excited about this strategy. The two courses that i thought would work best with this strategy was WRT105 and COU101.

Stress Diagram is a strategy where you can list out everything that stresses you out and rank them by making a diagram. The reason that i choose this was because i get stressed very easily and it can create a problem for me. So i thought this would be very helpful for me to be able to list it all out and see how to improve from getting stressed.

The reason that i thought WRT105 would be good a choice for this is because their are times where are i can get very stressed with essays and other readings. It was important for me to be able to identify the small things that i get stressed out from and see how i can improve.

The reason that i thought COU101 would be helpful was because this is also a course were i get really stressed because i need to be on top of everything and all the assignments are due at similar times. Exams are my biggest issues and i get anxiety. Its not that the assignments are difficult its just very stressful how its all so close to each other and not much time to get it done. This strategy was able to make me a little less stressed because i was able to write it all out.

Since i am an Aural learner i sometimes have difficult making charts and diagrams. So i was worried if this would help me or not. But after doing it i had a very positive experience and it really made me feel less stressed.

Stress Diagram by Jin

In this modern society, a number of people have suffered from painful diseases or illnesses caused by stress. "Stress" is one of the mental pain or injury related to our psychological tiredness. For today's tech assignment, I am supposed to talk about stress management. Among three different choices, I chose "Stress Diagram". I used this strategy for ENL 207 and CHI 101, because these two classes have given me most a lot of stress among all the courses that I am taking now. Today I would like to introduce one of the most useful skills for any students who received lots of stress and teach how to deal with it.

Firstly! I will explain how to use this skill plus what kinds of steps people should follow. First of all, this strategy are able to help people have some time to check themselves to know about their priority. By knowing about theirs, they would notice that higher priority causes more stress. Next step is practically using "Stress Diagram"; list the sources of stress that you have suffered from. It does not really matter how many sources you list. Then you should divide the pie chart that you already draw on the piece of paper into the number of sections as many as the number of sources. Each section of the pie chart which has individually different portion represents the amount of stress in your life.

ENL 207! This class is one of the most stressful courses in my life because as this is a language teaching-class, I have had quite tough time to do essay, exam or even exceptional stuff. Honestly, I am the person who is like I am trying to do not think about something even though I got too much stress. Essay? Exam? Being punctual? Who can tell those are easy to do. What I have done for this course by using this skill was firstly listing the sources of stress. I put essay, exam, being punctual and grammar in this order, and then draw a middle size of circle. On the next step, I divided a circle into four different sections which represent the amount of stress depending on the size of each section. For instance, the most stressful one in ENL 207 is writing an essay, so I set it up at the biggest section. (The full circle has total 10 and essay takes 4 out of 10.)

By having done this strategy, I had a chance to think about which things have given me stress. I felt fresh. Of course, after I figure out the causes, I should have solved these problems. Personally, I strongly suggest this strategy to many students who have stressed out.

Next course in which I used "Stress Diagram" was CHI 101. CHI 101 has lots of exam, quiz (almost everyday), homework (everyday), or even new words so that this course also has given me lots of stress. This is why I chose this course for stress management assignment. What I had done for this course was basically same as what I had done for ENL 207. First of all, I listed the courses of stress; exam, quiz, homework, absence, and pronounciation. Again I charged different number for each section that also represents different amount of stress. I draw a circle and divided into 5 different sections to put the sections into each division.

I was also able to easily see which things had given me what kinds of stress and how much I suffered from. I believe that being noticed by myself is the most important step which I MUST do. Realizing the causes of stress will allow me to self-check and think about the solution too.

Since lots of students have received stress from the school work or specific courses, we should know what kinds of stuff especially give us stress and pressure. By using this strategy, the beginning-step of releasing stress has been succeeded almost half way which is knowing the causes. Of course, I thought of the solutions too. Among them, I strongly prefer to use "Chunk". For example, when I have a huge exam such as final exam, I can chunk the work, so I can study the way earlier a little by a little. I believe that it will definitely help me study and avoid staying whole night on the last minute call. Although there are a number of good-quality methods of solving stress-issues, "Stress Diagram" has positively influenced me a lot. Use it!

Sam's Ants R Quick and Time Wasters By Andrew Zelin

This week in CLS 105 I experimented with two strategies. The "Sam's Ants R Quick and the Time Wasters Strategy. I experimented with the Sam's Ants R Quick strategy in Accounting 252 and I'm applying the Time Wasters strategy to all of my classes because my procrastination methods are the same for all of my courses. I chose to use Sam's Ants R Quick and Admitting the Consequences because I am a visual and aural learner. Because lecture attendance/surverying are incorperated in Sam's Ants R Quick and organization charts are incorperated in Time Wasters I thought both of these strategies would work well based on my learning style.




The first strategy I experimented with was Sam's Ants R Quick in Accounting 252. The first step I took to implement this strategy was surveying the chapter. I read the basic information, objectives, summaries, and questions at the end of the chapter prior to the class. This helped me become familiar with concepts like budgeting and cash distribution. The next step of this strategy was attending the lecture and paying attention to the key idea's from my chapter survey. I found that the pre-lecture chapter surveying greatly helped me follow what the professor was explaining. After class I read the chapter focusing on each section. In the margin's of the book I jotted down key terms in order to test myself on how well I understood the material. The final step of this strategy was creating test questions. I found that the test questions helped me determine which material I was strong on and which material I needed to further review. I loved the way this strategy familiarized me with material. This way when the exam comes around I won't be as confused when I study the material.



The second strategy I experimented with was Time Wasters. Again, because my procrastination methods are the same in each class, I didn't specify any class. The first step to experimenting with strategy is creating a two column chart with labels on each column. The labels are "Time Waster" and "Avoided Task(s)" respectively. In the Time Waster strategy I wrote down activities that cause me to procrastinate. Activities I wrote down are television, video games, browsing web, phone, gym, and fatigue. In the avoided tasks column I wrote down tasks that these things cause me to avoid. Lined up with the time wasters, I wrote studying for accounting, doing accounting homework, studying for strategic management, studying for strategic management, doing economics homework, and doing statistics homework. I like this strategy because by writing these things down, it made me realize how much of a problem this is. I am now more motivated to get work done.

Based on my visual/aural learning style both of these strategies worked incredibly. I plan on using Sam's Ants R Quick more in the future and thanks to the Time Waster's strategy, I am now much more motivated to get my work done.

MR.R & Time Wasters by Jin

I would like to introduce about two different strategies; MR. R and Time Wasters. I used these skills for 2 different courses; CFS 388 and CHI 101. As I have often tended to procrastinate my assignment or studying tests, I literally needed something to boost myself to focus on what I have to do as a student. Therefore, I want to talk about Mr. R and Time Wasters!

First of all, MR.R, which is one of the reading strategies, helped me to be on a right track when I was supposed to read lots of reading stuff. In order to follow the basic steps of this skill, you should know three steps to work it well: Measure, Read, and Recite. On the measure section, you should determine the length of your reading assignments and the length of your attention span. Briefly, you should manage your time on the reading like how many pages are you going to read within a certain time. Next step is reading what you had divided reading passages. By reading each division, you should point out the key terms and make a brief note on the side so that the work will make you organize what you have to know in an easy way. The final step for MR. R is the recitation! On this step, you should use the key words noted in the margins and tried to memorize the terms, but I was supposed to create flash cards to memorize. However, I thought that flash cards do not work for me so I decided to just memorize without using flash cards.

Two classes in which I used MR. R are CFF 388 and CHI 101. As people might guess that these two courses require students to read a number of reading and memorize new terms which are very uncommon to me, I thought that MR. R strategy would work well on these two courses. Fortunately, I think I was right.

First of all, for CFF 388, I was skimming one chapter to analyze how many chunks I need, and I started to read one of them. When I read it over, I was trying to find out the terms that I don't know. After I finished to read it, I was looking for the definitions of the terms and tried to memorize the meanings.

The second class for this skill was CHI 101. What I had used this skill was basically on the same process as What I had done for CFF 388. Firstly, briefly read a chapter, jot down some words that I don't know, and lastly tried to memorize them.

By using this strategy, I thought about the importance of reading again. What I meant is that the whole process of reading skill sounds really easy and basic so that some people might ignore the method. However, the easy and basic strategy is the most important than any other advanced skills!!!

Moreover, I also used Time Waster. For this strategy. I believed that I didn't have to choose which classes with which I'm going to use it. This is because Time Waster seemed like one of the most effective methods to generally let me do not procrastinate my works, not matter which courses are them. When I study for exams and do my homework, I usually procrastinate by doing Facebook, talking on the phone, or watching TV. Furthermore, I tried to find out how to avoid the deathly harmful things to interrupt me to study!!

By using Time Waster, I thought that the skill worked for me not only my particular courses but also my all the classes and furthermore my general college life. I loved this strategy!