Memory Strategies

For my TECH assignment I used the Memory Strategy called “7 ways to remember what you need to learn”. I completed this strategy in my Design History class, as it is my only academic based class. To complete this Memory Strategy you need to follow seven steps.

1. Select it, which involves distinguishing the important information and key terms over less significant material. For me as a kinesthetic and visual learner I first looked over the book and highlighted the important information I thought I would need to add to my notecards later
2. Write it, the second aspect, which involves taking notes in lecture, writing a summary of what you learn in class and then transforming that information onto anther method such as notecards or margin notes. For me personally I went to lecture, secondly I used my highlighted notes from the book and made very detailed notecards. I believe the process of making notecards is very essential for me as a kinesthetic and visual learner as not only writing the information down multiple times is helpful but also visually seeing the images.
3. Recite it, is the next aspect, which involves discussing the material in a study group. For me I blended steps one and two a little as I made all of my notecards in a group of people. Then after I was done we all as a group went over the notecards and discussed the possible test outcomes.
4. Relate it, this aspect was the hardest for me to do simply with the large quantity of information. This step requires you to think about the new information and the relate it to something you already know about. An example of the connections I made was with a design lamp called a tiffany lamp. I used a reference of a date and time I went to TGI-Fridays as those lamps remind me of that memory. I have found it hard to link images however I found the most effective way is to reference it to a memory.
5. Imagine it, is when you mentally visualize the material. This was great for me as my exam is completely image based; I found this step also helpful in connection with step number four.
6. Practice it; this step is exactly as it says it is, practicing. This action involves reviewing old notes/ notecards frequently (like every day). As I have so much information I placed all of my notecards on a spiral ring so that I could not loose any images. This also helps me break up the work. The spiral notecards hold 100 notecards and the material we need to cover completes three whole notecards rings. This works out perfectly for me because every day I study a different spiral of notecards on a three-day cycle. I believe this is the best method for me to actually learn the material and not just study it as a lot of times I memorize something but don’t actually learn it. Therefore, one a three-day cycle of notecards it guaranteed that by the time the third day comes around I have already forgotten the notecards from the first day, allowing me to really learn the material. 
7. Finally the last step is, anticipate it. Anticipate it involves thinking about what a specific author or professor might tell you, to then read or attempt to understand with a purpose. For me personally I used my skills as a mainly visual learner to anticipate the different objects and pictures that could be in each movement and elements that fall in that genre. 

here is the notecards I use in a spiral form