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Strategies for Online Learning—Week 3, Assignment 1

Using the material and tips from the lectures and your textbook, you will summarize a week’s worth of lecture materials. The lecture material can be from this class or one you have previously taken, use the following guidelines:

• Your notes should include the three techniques presented in your reading this week which are the outline, Cornell or split-page method, and the mapping system.
• Your notes should take up no more than a page and a half and preferably be under one page in length.
• In your notes, include how many pages of lectures are represented by your summary.
• If you are not taking any other classes, contact your Facilitator and they will allow you to summarize a week from this class.

I found it easiest to use a text editor—namely, Notepad++—for creating my outline. I don’t do well with paper; too often, I lose it. The materials were already summarized, so that was easy. I didn’t feel that this process was helpful to me, because I already know that I work best with an outline. I remember similar assignments to this one from high school.

Outline method

The American Craftsman Movement

• Gustav Stickley was inspired to publish his magazine The Craftsman.
  • The American Craftsman movement was born out of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
  • As a leading member and spokesman of the American Craftsman movement, Gustav Stickley originally founded The Craftsman to document and expound upon the philosophy of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
  • As the periodical evolved, it became the voice of the American movement.
  • In all likelihood, Stickley was inspired to publish his magazine to preserve a record of the thought behind the crafts movements.
  • He wanted to share his opinions and document the progression of art- and craft-related trades.
  • He also probably made some money on advertisements.
• The architecture style promoted by the magazine was popular among the people of the time.
  • Americans grew to love the American Craftsman style, which Stickley’s periodical promoted.
  • Its original, simple form appealed to many.
  • The natural, local materials and visibility of the handicraft involved in such style helped to bring dignity to even the most modest homes of the quickly growing middle class.
• The American Craftsman style as a movement was the result of the generation in which it was born.
  • The American Craftsman movement was born of social changes occuring at the time.
  • The “breakfast nook,” for example, was before the movement unheard of.
  • Victorian style dictated that the kitchen should be entirely removed from daily life; it was the place of servants, and an aristocratic family member was not to be seen there.
  • Conversely, in the Craftsman era household, the wife prepared meals.
  • Instead of hiding the kitchen, it became the heart of the home.
  • “The breakfast nook often placed under a window or in its own bay provided a place for the family to gather at any time of the day or evening, particularly while food was being prepared.”

Split-page method

The American Craftsman Movement

Mapping system

The American Craftsman Movement

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