[RickA]

One thing about the typing.

The best way to learn is active learning where one is utilizing as many senses as possible, and actually participating physically as well as mentally in the process.

The more times and the more ways one processes info through the mind, the more subject it is to recall.

For example, reading is passive learning, as is reading and highlighting.

Reading and physically jotting down questions, comments in the margins, is active study/learning.

When you are typing info consider that you are reading, the info, then you are repeating the info, in the process of typing it out, which also, means that you are reading it again.

After you type it, you will go back and check your typing, which means you will read it yet again, for a conscious, active and particular purpose.

If you go back and do some serious proofreading in an effort to perfect your writing, that is some very deep study, not only of the subject matter but of many other aspects, and techniques for learning and encouraging the habit of recall activation.

Now if you were to read out loud while you were typing that would be adding two more senses into the studying process, you would be reciting the info and hearing/lisening to the the info, while you are reading, typing, re-reading, and forming questions, and jotting them down while doing all the rest.

This is economy of time spent learning.

Further, if you read into a recording machine, while reading, speaking, typing, then you can later rehear (rehearsal) the information.

If, while you are rehearsing, you read what you are hearing, and at the same time taking notes you are being a very active reader.

The mind is a recording machine, and stores every event that one experiences, the problem is activating recall.

This kind of active participation in the recording and storage of experiential nuggets helps in training the playback mechanism of the recording device.

The more one does it the easier it becomes.

I have proof.

Again thank you for your work.

You make good choices in your subject matter.

..........kelsey's crick?
From an episode of Andy Griffith where the character of Ernest T. Bass was trying to learn the different bodies of water so that he could impress Romona. This in reference to the learning tools that mrg has offered. An attempt at self inflicted humor.....