Time Management

For this assignment, I’d like you to take a look at your timetable schedule again and start thinking about some strategies that will help you to organize your time for this class.
The assignment has four parts overall and it should take around 30 minutes to complete:

    • Part 1. Review your planned schedule.
    • Part 2. Explore some time management strategies for this class.
    • Part 3. Learn about time management strategies in general.
    • Part 4. Write up a blog post with some thoughts about time management.

Part 1. Your schedule for this class.

You can change your schedule at any time, and you can adjust it in any given week based on what is going on, but it is very important that you have a schedule of your own. In other words: do not let the Moodle due dates determine when you do the work! The Moodle due dates may or may not coincide with your preferred schedule. To make this class both fun and productive, you should do the work at a time that is convenient for you, not at the last moment based on the Moodle deadlines.

Part 2. Time management tips for this class.

Here are some strategies that will help you manage the time commitments for this class; this is all the information you saw earlier in the week, and it is also definitely information worth reviewing:

Weekly Calendar. Bookmark the Semester Calendar of assignments. That is your go-to page for all the work you will be doing in class this semester. And, as you can see, you can work ahead as much as you want: all 12 weeks are right there in the calendar now.

Reading. Each week you will have reading, the topics covered will help you with your project.

Extra Credit. In addition to the extra credit Reading option each week, there are a LOT of other extra credit options. You can use extra credit to make up work that you miss earlier in the week, and you can also use extra credit to get ahead in the class so that you can finish early. Hopefully, you will find one or two extra credit options that you like so that you can do those extra assignments each week. And you don’t have to wait until the end of the week to do extra credit; you can do those assignments at any time during the week.

Work Ahead. Even better than staying on your schedule is working ahead by a week or more. If you can work ahead like that, you won’t have to worry about days and times; you’ll be able to do the work whenever is convenient for you without worrying about deadlines at all. As I’ve mentioned before, the main piece of advice that past students have for you is this: WORK AHEAD. You will find that the class is so much easier to manage if you stay out in front of those due dates.

Part 3. More time management strategies.

Pretty much everybody struggles with how to manage their time, which means you can find lots of advice online for time management, avoiding procrastination, staying organized, etc. I’ve listed here a few articles that I think could be useful; please pick TWO (or more) of these to read and see what useful tips and ideas you can take away from the articles to start your semester with a focus on time management:

Part 4. Blog post

To finish up, write up a blog post with some thoughts about time management strategies, both for this class in particular and for your semester overall.

Let me know which of the articles you read by including the titles and links. Were the articles useful? Did you learn anything new that you can try this semester? Based on your classes overall last semester, what do you think your biggest time challenges will be? Do you already have a time management strategy that works really well for you? Please share!
Find a good image to use in your post, with image information. For the title of the post, use “Time Strategies” and use “Week 2” as the post label.

When you are done, complete the Gradebook Declaration… and you are now done with the Orientation week: CONGRATULATIONS. You can move on ahead to Week 3 now if you want!

declaration image DECLARATION:
I have reviewed my schedule for this class and written up a post with ideas for organizing my time.
POST TITLE: I used “Time Strategies” as the title for the post.
POST LABELS: I used the “Week 2” label.
IMAGE: I Included at least one image with image information.
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