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Note-taking and listening

Note-taking and listening. Marg Cartner Student Learning Services . Note-taking. When do we take notes in everyday life? When would it be useful to take notes on your course? Why take notes?. Note taking tools . Note-taking. Preparing before class Actions during class

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Note-taking and listening

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  1. Note-taking and listening Marg Cartner Student Learning Services

  2. Note-taking • When do we take notes in everyday life? • When would it be useful to take notes on your course? • Why take notes?

  3. Note taking tools

  4. Note-taking • Preparing before class • Actions during class • Follow up activities Name 5 things you can do before class that will help you focus and will help with note-taking in class

  5. Before class Actions • Check course outline to find out the subject • ‘Skim’ read material on the topic • Review previous notes • Prepare questions to ask in class • Check Moodle for tutor’s power point slides or readings • Have materials: folder, text, handouts, pens etc. • Take water • Arrive a little early Questions • What will the class be about? • What do I already know?

  6. During class • Name 5 things you can do during class that will help you focus and will help with note-taking in class

  7. During class • Listen actively • Use headings & sub-headings, date , page # • Use abbreviations • Write on right side of page • Write key words and phrases • Use numbers and indent points, leave space • Show relationships with arrows • Identify unclear areas with question marks • Circle unknown words • If tutor says ‘this is important’ ** • Aids: Take photos of writing on board Dictaphone – ask tutor Note taker

  8. After class • What can you do after class that will help you remember and understand what was covered in class?

  9. After class Actions • Make a mind map or notes of the topic, from memory • Read your class notes and add other points • Look up, record, learn new words • Add headings, questions ???, information in margin • Talk to others about topic • File notes carefully – date, topic, Questions • What was covered today? • How does it relate to previous material? • What were the main points? • What did I not understand?

  10. Listening & taking notes • Why focussing can be hard • Material too complicated • Bored, which may mean: • know it already • don’t understand • haven’t got a framework to hang new info or ideas on • tiredness • Distractions - internal - environment • Strategies for keep focussed

  11. Listening cont. • Worries - internal-self doubt, external • Distracted by others / self • Physical - posture, water, temperature • Negative attitude to particular topic • Course book activity - page 30

  12. How to Note-take No one way – what works best for you • Cornell method page 29 • Mind maps (like a structured brainstorm p.310www.mindomo.com Built up from a central topic either radiating out or linear in columns • Can practise - U tube, websites, TV, radio, newspaper, mags • Experiment what works well for you

  13. Basis of good cooking • TYPES • white -chicken • brown • fish • vegetable • instant • 500gms bones • wash/blanche bones • 100 gms vege • cut vege finely • bouquet garni • 3 peppercorns • NO - potatoes • - pumpkin • Bones • Vege • Stock making • Cooking • After cooking • Start with 1 litre cold water • boil • simmer 3/4 hours • FISH 20/30 mins • no lid • no salt • Skim off fat & scum • strain • when cold remove fat • fridge

  14. Forest & Bird NZ • Heading important • Quick calculation - year • When? • Why? • Abbreviations • Bullets for points • How many staff? • What work? • Numbering useful • Get definition bio-d. • Why restore? (find out) • What threatens nature? • Began 90yrs ago (1923) to protect F and B. Now, all natenvirs. – “giving nature a voice”. • Research • Educate public • Inflgovt policy – eg. marine reserves, mining, pest control • Work to restore bio-diversity. • Threats: 1. possums, rats etc. 2. deer 3. loss of habitats (forest, wetlands, rivers) due to farming, urban dev, mining, power prod.

  15. How to take useful notes • www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCrslHx7xA

  16. Interpersonal Relationships and Facebook Ask self questions • What do I already know about the topic? • What so I predict it will be about? • Vocab - What are interpersonal relationships? - What does this mean?

  17. Interpersonal Relationships & Facebook Online social networks • Warnings it makes us lonely and estranged • focus on weak relationships & abandon deeper off line relationships vs • Make us more satisfied with our social lives • improves strong & weak relationships • contact loved ones – distant, keep up other relationships, ‘meet’ new people not normally ‘meet’ • Research supports #2 - improves people’s networks & psych well–being - helps maintain & deepen off line contact - Evidence

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