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Have you ever tried to remember what a word or term means?
Or what word fits a definition?
Or is there an easy way to link terms, their defifnitons and
a visual so that you can recall them anytime you want?
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After you have learnt this strategy,
you will be able to learn and remember terms and definitions
as well as associate pictures to those terms and definitions.
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Cards (index cards) are used
for remembering terms and their definitions. You will be able
to recall the definition and also a picture to illustrate
each term.
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Making Cards - Choose a term
and its definition that you want to remember. Front
of the Card
Write the term in large letters on the front of the card.
You can add your name, course name and text page it refers
to.
Back of Card
On the top half of the card back, place the definition,
which you find from your notes, textbook, glossary, instructors
or fellow learners.
On the bottom half of the card back, make a picture that
will remind you of the term and definition.
Using the cards
- Go through your cards by making the front into a question
using: What is ..., Who is ..., Where is..., When do I use...,
Why is ..., or What are the steps?
- Answer the question completely out loud or on a piece
of paper and also recall the picture or illustration you
drew to go with the item on the front.
- Turn your card over and check your answer.
- Go through your cards once a week and sort the cards into
two piles - ones you know & will review weekly and cards
you don't know completely. Take a small amount (5 - 10 cards)
with you and go over them on a break, on the bus, during
homework, before class or any time you have a few seconds.
- Shuffle your cards for a change of order, then do them
again.
- Do cards by looking at your picture and say what the item
is on the front.
- Pick three cards at a time and explain how those cards
are the same and how they are different.
- Work with your classmates and review your cards and their
cards.
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Choose 10 terms from your learning that you want to learn and
remember forever.
Make up the cards and use the steps to learn them.
Start learning terms from your courses before you encounter
them in the course by using the glossary to build your cards.
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Now that you have started using
cards, explain what terms you will put onto cards from each
of your courses. |
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Continue to use cards for each
of the terms you want to learn, review them at intervals to
keep them fresh in your mind and be able to apply the terms
as you need them. |
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Create your own carry around
bookmark by printing the Cards
Bookmark. |
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Create a two page summary of
this strategy by printing the Cards
Handout. The summary covers four kinds of cards and gives
examples of each. |
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