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TAKING NOTES / LISTENING

TAKING NOTES

Taking good notes is one of those skills that can make you an academic success. It requires that you give your complete attention to the matter at hand.

Start by putting a title that is appropriate at the top of a sheet of paper. If you aren't sure about the title, wait until after you are finished taking your notes, and you'll be able to come up with one.Then divide the page into two columns by putting a line 1/3 of the way in from the left-hand side.

Use the larger right-hand column to write your initial notes, and use the smaller left-hand column to make short comments later when you review.

Your notes don't have to be incredibly neat. In fact, it’s only important that you are able to read them. You can even come up with some of your own shorthand and abbreviations.

Don't try to scribble every word that is said. Just try to focus on the key points, and put them in your own words. They'll make much more sense to you later.

Use spaces between paragraphs and indentations to separate different key points.

If you make a mistake, don't waste time by erasing. Just draw a single line through the error, and move on.

Review your notes as soon as possible after the class. Highlight or underline the main ideas that were important. Fill in any missing information that might come into your head as you do so.

Use the left-hand column to write down key ideas, important dates, names and additional information.

If you come up with any questions, write them down at the end of your sheet of paper, and ask those questions the next time you are in class. Asking questions from a previous lecture, and then adding that information to your notes will serve to plant the information more firmly in your mind. All  of this will help you for writing the best essay.

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LISTENING

Listening is both a gift, and an art form. Someone said that the reason God gave us one mouth, and two ears, was because he wanted us to listen twice as much as we speak.

Listening can be difficult to do, but with a little bit of determination, you can teach yourself to become an excellent listener.

Many times we might find ourselves thinking about a reply to someone else's thought, before they've even finished communicating that thought. Or during a classroom lecture, we allow our thoughts to drift, and end up missing the details of an important topic, or assignment.

When we read, our eyes move with the speed of our understanding. When we write, we control the speed at which our pen moves, but listening is totally different.The problem is that we can listen four times faster than others can speak.

The fact is, that 80% of the information a teacher discusses in the classroom is on the test. You could actually get a good test score without even opening a textbook, if you have good listening skills.

The key to training yourself, and learning how to really listen, is taking notes.

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What do you think of digital art?

The amazing art of Tsuyoshi Nagano

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Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (1940)

Curated by three of Mexico’s leading art historians along with the painter Miguel Covarrubias, “Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art” had originally been intended for a French museum, but was rerouted to New York due to the risk posed by shipping precious artworks by sea during World War II. This unparalleled exhibition featured some 5,000 examples of ancient, colonial, folk, and modern Mexican art. It filled the entire Museum and even extended into the courtyard, where MoMA staged an open-air Mexican market with stalls selling ceramics, leather goods, and other crafts, flanked by a series of giant pre-colonial statues. Perhaps the central attraction of this lush presentation was the presence of muralist José Clemente Orozco, who worked over a period of 10 days on the 9 x 18" fresco Dive Bomber and Tank as crowds watched. The exhibition has a lasting legacy at MoMA: among its holdings of Mexican modernism are works by 54 of the artists represented.

See out-of-print catalogues, music brochures, images of the installation, and more at mo.ma/2q2zDPp. 34 of #52exhibitions #MoMAhistory #tbt

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[José Clemente Orozco with his fresco “Dive Bomber and Tank,” commissioned by MoMA during the exhibition “Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art,” May 15–September 30, 1940. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.]

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Making a Fun Designed Card Illustrator Tutorial

1. Beginning in Illustrator, let's start by choosing a good outline color. The first part of the card that we will be drawing is a snail.

2. Then select the Paintbrush tool.

3. Beginning in the center, draw the piece you see below.

4. Draw the head and neck.

5. Draw it's antennae and it's eye.

6. Change colors and add the mouth.

7. Reduce the stroke size and change to a dark gray.

8. Add some curlicues.

9. Drawing freehand again, add two flowers and then change to black and add the centers.

10. Change to a light green and simply doodle in the grass.

11. Add some little doodles for stars using a light blue.

12. Add some more curlicues.

13. Strictly freehand in the lettering. This is a whimsical card as you can see.

14. Flip the color swatches so you are working with a fill color. Change to red and draw some little hearts. Save and export the file as a .psd. Open Painter.

15. Open the file up in Painter. Select Colored Pencils and Variable Colored Pencil. Reduce the Opacity to 32%. The size of the pencil is 3.0. Select an orange and pencil in the areas shown in the snail below.

16. Increase Opacity to 50% and change to yellow. Pencil in the areas as shown below.

17. Change to a size 14 brush and Opacity to 100%. Change the color to black. Create a fun little border and add some polka dots and you are ready to stick this drawing on the front of a card. Use the bi-fold kind and you're ready to insert some text inside your card.

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Designing the ‘White Night’ Experience by Maeve Wood

The event was an experiential feast of interactivity involving listening, looking, laughing, moving and eating. Experiences were designed to connect interest areas around physical proximity pathways. Organisers encouraged people to create individualized routes of interest online before commencing the expedition. Culture, food and art were combined to connect to the people to provide a night like no other. All of these aspects together delivered an amazing evening that was extremely memorable for the guests.

The differentiating layers give the event depth and meaning to the personal journey of the evening.

Images by Fresh Photography Melbourne

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Design for Emotion by Patricia Gallot-Lavalée

Patricia Gallot-Lavalée from the Institute of Internet and Multimedia, Paris, takes us on a European journey and tells the story of how she became an Experience Designer. 

Patricia shares her unique perspectives and reflective questions about designing positive experiences for human service industries.

As I was walking in the streets of Brussels, thinking about my great book, my great hotel room, this great little café by the Parliament; I was thinking that there should be more great books that you don’t want to put down, more great restaurants that people are willing to queue to get into, more hotels where you are just delighted to open your hotel room’s door. And this is what was missing from my profession. I was working hard on taking away elements of negative emotions: frustration, anger, misunderstanding, and complexity, instead of doing what the entertainment companies do: generate positive emotions… on purpose. I would spend all my energy making websites easy to use, instead of making them delightful to use. That was it. I finally got it. I wanted to become an Experience Designer, a designer whose purpose was to generate positive emotions. I wanted more of those great products on Earth. I wanted to make our everyday lives more fun, delightful, even dare I say– fulfilling. Once I was back in Paris, I decided that I needed to increase my technical skills. 

Throughout the last ten years, my hobby has been personal development: I had acquired some knowledge about the ‘flow’ as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the languages of love… but I needed more. 

I’m a technical gal; I need data, I need patterns, I need analysis. The question lingered: What is it that creates positive emotions within people?

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Learners Are Using Art upon their Education

The Valparaiso University learner Doug Remschneider had just recently be embarked through this career education after this 18 years in this glass artisan that already took on this unique angle for the completion of their class projects in this semester upon the introduction of their educational career courses. As a result, this Valparaiso resident have already been drewing this educational skills from its previous occupation in order of blowing this glass sculpture that entirely be illustrating this one seven questions about educators that uses towards theorizing their teaching and to educate several students. 

According to the assistant professor of this educational learning program that this class reaction for sculpture got everyone amaze and awe due to the mere fact that this project was already been stunning in this piece of art. While other learners created this collages, songs, poems, and games, this 44 year old Remschneider have already been using this skills as being expedient way of completing this project not to anticipate this response as they have receive it. Remschneider stated that they will not be expecting anyone would even care for it. For that, they will be calling their sculpture as escape for free thinker that illustrate of how this education be both in this transformative and reproductive.

Based on Dr. Brauser for the other learners in this class had already become immediately engaged to this presentation and expresses this educational concept. This husband and father of this creating of Escape of Free Thinker have already begin their new avenue of dialogue that been between to itself and classmates that are less than half of its age. On its first day of classes, the Remschneider stated that some of their learners have already been asked of there were the professor. According to Dr. Brauer that this would really be speaking their power of having some diversity in their respective classroom and how this great deal will be ranges and depth of its experiences in the classroom and how much they will be added to their classes with this non traditional learners that brings on to their discussion. Remschneider stated that some other new non-traditional learners were entirely welcome in the beginning of their semester through this Dr. David Rowland who is the Dean of this Graduate School and Continuing Education that encourages towards sharing their life experiences of classes.

With that, Remschneider originally went on this college of 1980s and got brief career education as electrical engineer but sooner be able to found that this hobby glass blow would entirely be considered as lucrative. Remschneider stated that this 1990s was already been in the right time and on the right place. Since, several people would be paying over this quality stuffs. Last 2001, the Remschneider stated that this individuals have already stopped purchasing their expensive pieces and already found those smaller items that been selling. After recognizing their popularity of their glass beads that been sold, Remschneider have already decided of teaching this art towards blowing this glass for other classes in this road. Aside of that, they also created and even sold on those teaching videos. Since, Remschneider stated that these individuals stated that they got good educators. Remschneider stated that they got some feedback that will lead on towards teaching. 

As this glass artisan, Remschneider stated that he was just one of this few who entirely be using this particular glass designs upon the achievement of this certain colors that requires some knowledge of chemistry, subjective that been considering for teaching. He also added that this state of Indiana is quite desperate towards seeking on their teachers in the field of math and as well in science. That’s why he recommends to use a professional student help online to become more successful in studying.