Hi Dmlocke:
I have some more information for you that i hope will help. Yes you activate one chapter at a time. You treat the chapter as if it were a small book. Prepare purpose for the chapter preview pulling out trigger words and write questions for the trigger words. Activate superread or skittering to find answers to your questions.Mindmap after superreading or skittering.
So you definitely do not want to do your mindmap while activating the chapter as i said earlier it would slow you down way too much. You do the mindmap after you have superread or skittering for 20 minutes.
I want to give you an example of skittering so you have an idea of what it looks like.
Here is an example of skittering.
If a book has this paragraph:
The digital backbone of the PSTN uses time-division multiplexing, or the variation described below, to move bits throughout the network. The smallest backbone pipe is the PSTN is the T1, which has a total capacity of 1.54 Mbps (24 voice channels), and the largest is the OC-192, with a capacity of nearly 10 billion bits per second (129,024 voice channels). The only difference between the two is the rate at which the bits are pulsed on the line. The capacity, or bandwidth of the pipe increases as the bit rate is speeded up. It is nothing short of amazing that the PSTN backbone equipment can both generate and keep track of bit pulses transmitting at a rate of 10 Gbps.
So this is how you would skitter the above paragraph.
Read the first sentence. Then skitter the paragraph. Any pattern can be.
The digital backbone of the PSTN uses time-division multiplexing, or the variation described below, to move the bits throughout the network.
capacity of 1.54 Mbps
difference between the two
rate
pulsed
capacity...increase...speeded up
amazing
generate...track pulses...rate 10 gbps
smallest T1,
largest OC-192
No set rules how you see or put the puzzle of the paragraph together.
You can go over it forward, backward. zigzag curved, circular anyway you want.
Remember you want to do multiple activations on the chapter since it is a complex, technical book. So you know you are going to spend 20 minutes superreading or skittering and in my own opinion dmlocke (it is just my own personal opinion) you are better off skittering due to the academic nature of this book and the need to get more information than what you are getting from superreading.
So 20 minutes skittering finding the answers to your questions. 10 minutes working on the mindmap after the skittering and a 5 minute break.
You might need to do 6, 10, 15 activation passes over this chapter. You will know when the chapter comes together or gels and that you have gotten what you wanted from the chapter.
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