Open Speed Reading

This second quarter in open lab, we are doing something that is in my opinion, just cool. We have each been tasked with both coming up with a skill, and then additionally learning that skill. The skill I chose is one in which I greatly increase my reading speed through speed reading, which is a very original name for the topic. I hope that it will increase my capabilities in reading articles for classes in a more limited amount of time, which would be very useful. I believe that while I am doing this, I will either learn how to stop procrastinating topics with a broad and undefined structure through creating my own structure or just disciplining myself greatly into learning the topic. This subject is theoretically incredibly useful. I can use it to study, glean the general information from an article, etc, while saving myself great deals of time for other activities, social or education based. One site that i have been to is http://www.spreeder.com and i found it incredibly useful and a very good introduction to the topic. My main asset in learning this is an app called Acceleread Speed Reading Trainer. It has also been very useful and has increased my reading speed through exercises that increase your eye strength. These also help you view more words at a time and try to eliminate this thing called sub-vocalization, which is you reading the words aloud in your head. Eliminating that increases your reading speed, and helps you view the words as images. I am greatly enjoying the topic so far and I can't wait to see where it takes me.