TOPIC 6: TAKING LECTURE NOTES

DATE: 15 AUGUST 2019

CODE PROGRAM: CS110

VENUE: DK200A

LECTURER: MR.ZAABA

📃Why take lecture notes?

• Promotes active listening
• Provide an accurate record of information
• Provides an oppoturnity to interpret, condense and organize information
• Provides an oppoturnity for repetition of the material.

🖌NOTE-TAKING STRATEGIES🖌

📃Steps in the listening and note-taking :

• Decide to listen (motivation)
• Receive messages
• Pay attention
• Select relevant information
• Interpret information
• Condense (understand) information 
• Organize information
• Take notes

⭐THE INFORMAL OUTLINE
⭐THE BLOCK METHOD
⭐THE MODIFIED-BLOCK METHOD

📃In our notes needs :

• Headings (IMPORTANT)
  e.g. title
• Details :⇾Facts
                  ⇾Explanations
                  ⇾Definitions
                  ⇾Enumerations
                 ⇾Examples
                  ⇾Anything repeated or spelled out
• Anything on:
  –The chalkboard 
  –A PowerPoint slide
  –A transparency
• Drawings, charts, or problems written on the board
• Conclusional statements

📃Why you should edit your notes?

• To get feedback on your note taking
• To get an accurate record of information
• To organize the information in your notes
• To review both the text and lecture material and integrate the course material
• Prepares your notes for later review by adding recall questions in the margin

📃How to edit your notes ?

♡Fill in gaps

♡Check for accurancy

♡Clarify meaning

♡Improve organization

♡Develop recall questions

📃How to take lectures notes:

🔖CORNELL NOTE TAKING🔖

• NOTES :
  – this section is where you should take your notes during the course of the lecture. Use bullets, sentences, short-hand, etc
• KEYWORDS/ CUES
  – questions, main points, visual clues and other clues that jog your memory go here. Fill this section in after class
• SUMMARY
  – most important points and main ideas go here. Fill in this section after class when you are in the reviewing process