Notetaking and Notebook

How do I make notes and maintain an active notebook?   This session explores why we take notes, what notes we take, how we take them, and then how we revisit, revise, and reflect on them through a planned process.  The following contains the main topics of this workshop while at the same time serves as a model of a technique for taking notes whereby several columns are used to 1) take the original notes during class and 2) revise the notes to identify key topics and to ask questions about the notes.

Instructor Notes Notetaking: Your Notes Notemaking: Thoughts about your notes
Notetaking: A
process where you take notes on something.Notemaking:
A process where you organize the information in your notetaking to make
sense of it for yourself
Notetaking Techniques

  • Verbatim vs Big Ideas
  • Abbreviations
  • Cues
  • Pronunciation
  • Highlighting
  • Cornell Notes/two column
  • Outlines
  • Sketchnoting
  • Technology
Note Interacting and Reflecting

  • Organize your notebook
  • From textbook to notebook
  • Words, words, words!
  • Review/Interaction/Reflection
  • Don’t do it alone
  • Know what you know and what you don’t know
Notemaking

  • From memorization to creation
  • Technology