https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw Title your padlet with the "name" of the strategy/tip/trick. Then tell us what you were doing and why you were doing it. en-us 2020-06-12 20:04:37 UTC 2020-06-22 17:34:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/580030460/852405036a057fde1ce26ba6330dffae/prompt.png https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/631434859 I noted 8 specific strategies I was using, but I'd group several of them into a broader "writing things down to make my life easier when I go back to this text in the future" approach. I never use a highlighter, but I use colored pens so I can differentiate between the text and my notes (and I use a different color each time I reread). I summarize key points, examples, questions raised, etc. in the margins, so I can read through those quickly when I'm reviewing rather than having to reread the text itself. I underline difficult passages with a squiggly line and add a note re: my question(s). I star passages that seem particularly rich--and maybe underline them (with straight lines)--so I'll be able to easily find them again later. Laurie]]> 2020-06-18 01:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/631434859 https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/632952917 1.  scanned it first to just get a gist of what it was about
2.  formed pictures in my mind as I read.  I do this automatically.  
3.  reread for more understanding
4.  slowed down after each paragraph and thought about what it was about
5. used my knowledge of scientific roots, prefixes, and suffixes to break down what was said and help myself understand it better]]> 2020-06-19 01:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/632952917 debbieminter2 https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/633840016 1. grab paper and pencil for note-taking based on reading the electronic version of the text (because it's a short assignment for a class vs. a longer project at which point I'd probably print it out and write on the paper copy).
2. Each paragraph: What's the big idea here. Jot a note to remind myself but nothing too involved.
3. Next paragraph: How does the big idea here connect to one that came before. What's the relationship between these big ideas. Is this making sense--if yes, good! If no--go back and try again.
4. Check myself for when my focus is drifting (because the long sentences and abstract language doesn't really engage me). Try to force myself to "stay in the text"]]> 2020-06-19 17:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/633840016 dsamleech https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/634230565 Unpacking the reading
1.  I read the whole thing first and tried to get hints as to the meaning.  I had to "try on" or try out the ideas that seemed to be there.  I noticed that there was vocabulary I didn't know.
2.  I read a second time and made notes with three goals in mind.
a) To pick out important ideas and paraphrase if possible so I could figure out the meaning within the words
b) To highlight and/or shorten what I felt it would be important to remember or review later.
c) To note and look up words I didn't know - homology, nosology, clonic.
3.  I called up visions of drawings of cells and imagined this kind of illustrations of diseases.  Then I envisioned the human body and how it might look with a disease superimposing on it or changing it in some way -- and a doctor or scientist observing this.
Dorothy


]]> 2020-06-20 07:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/634230565 https://padlet.com/christopherwenz/njatojq5y4s9vhmw/wish/636414476 The first thing that I did was to print out the article. I am one of those people who still needs to have paper in hand to read.
Next, I grabbed a pen to make any quick notes while I do a first read. I could not figure out the meaning of 5 words based on context clues so I quickly underlined then.
Then I looked them up and wrote the definitions near the word.
Read the article a second time and jotted notes to summarize what I read and understood the paragraph to mean.

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