Your own public service announcements

What would you like to have someone whisper to you on the next test?  Do you know what the phone number 911 is for?  How long did you have to study to learn that? 

Do you use an mp3 player?  Do you have a computer?  Do you have a microphone?  Do you know where this is heading?

If you have something you want to be sure to remember, think about the tried and true methods that advertisers have been using on you all your life. 

Commercials.   Make audio files with spot announcements.  Mix them into the music files on your mp3 player.  Use things you want to be sure to remember.  You can summarize each item in less than a minute, once you understand it.   

For an extra boost, make cue songs.  You need open source files for this (mp3 files, for example).  Look for a song that that fits with what you want to remember.  Make one file: song first, then the spot announcement.  Audacity is a good program for this job.

Turn off shuffle and cue up your playlist. Chances are, you will remember everything on your playlist.  But if you need help, just start humming cue song.

You will see a natural connection between this idea and the rhythm venue.  But you can use this with the organizers, too.  Just be sure to start with the following quest question:

Quest Question:  What is the shortest way to say what I have to remember about this?

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Audio, Team Study

Audacity is a free, open-source audio editor and recorder that you can use to do these things. 
Audacity  101

Head Sounds
How to get suggestions from your mp3 player.

Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition.