note taking in lecturespractising strategies.ppt

1,NOTE TAKING IN LECTURES-PRACTISING STRATEGIES,ROBERT BLAKEEffective Learning Programme for International Students,Student Learning Development Centre,2,Note Taking In Lectures:practising Strategies-outline,This session will help you with ways of recording what you hear in lectures:A strategy for listening&taking notes in lectures How to lay out notes How to use symbols and abbreviations Questions for clarifying points for note taking,3,Practising Note Taking Strategies-Introduction,Taking notes in lectures can be a difficult experience.One student commented:We have lecturers who talk at us non-stop,scribbling stuff on the whiteboard all the time,and were still trying to get it down minutes after theyve left the room quotation from Rowntree,slightly adapted 1998:119,4,Practising Note Taking Strategies in Lectures-Introduction,What has your experience been of lectures so far?How successfully have you been able to take notes?Has Powerpoint been used in your classes?Has it helped you to take better notes?,5,Practising Note Taking Strategies in Lectures-Introduction,How can we take more effective notes from lectures,whether Powerpoint based or not?,6,Practising Note Taking-SQL2R,To use lectures creatively,a balance between listening carefully and taking notes is needed.One way to take more effective notes in lectures is to adapt the SQ3R strategy used for effective reading Survey,Question,Read,Recall,Review to SQL2R:Surveying Questioning Listening&Note taking Recall Review,7,Practising Note Taking Strategies-Surveying,Surveying:listening for signposting.Signposting language explains the overall structure of the lecture,and how the parts of the talk are structured.Surveying the lecture for signposting signals can help you plan the layout of your notes.In Powerpoint based lectures it involves surveying the overall structure from the handout.,8,Practising Note Taking Strategies:Surveying-Signposting,Some examples of signposting language Ill begin by Well,The first of these settings,One of the key questions So now weve come to.To sum up,what weve looked at so far,9,Practising Note Taking Strategies-Questioning,Along with surveying,questioning can be helpful:Before the lecture,ask:-What do I want to get out of this lecture?-How does it fit in with the course?-What do I already know about this topic?,10,Practising Note Taking Strategies-Questioning,During the lecture ask yourself:-what are the main points?-What clues is the lecture giving about what is follow e.g.There are 3 main theories.-What is informative?-What is analytical?-What is the lecturers opinion?,11,Practising Note Taking Strategies-Recall&Review,After the lecture remember to Recall&Review.Unless you have a superb memory,youll forget much of what youve heard&made notes on,So its necessary to find ways of recalling,12,Practising Note Taking Strategies-recall,Quickly draw a quick mind map,spider diagram or flow chart summarising what you remember What are the main points?,13,Practising Note Taking Strategies:Review,Review involves assessing how well youve been able to remember the lecture information during recall Make questions about the parts you couldnt remember.Review your notes to answer the questions&fill in the gaps.Make a list of those bits you did not understand&reread your notes to understand,14,Practising Note Taking Strategies-types of notes,You can record your notes in a number of ways including:Linear notes Flow diagrams Mind maps,15,Practising Note Taking Strategies-types of notes,You can record your notes in a number of ways including:Linear notes:with headings points are numbered sequentiallyFlow diagrams:suit logical thinkersMind maps:suit visual thinkers.Put the lecture topic&aspects of the topic branching off from the central point See slide 17 for an example.,16,Practising Note Taking Strategies-linear notes,An example of Linear notes:Taking notes from lecturesPrepare for the lecture Use tape/buddy+good note taking Look for organisation clues from lecturer Taking notes from readingsKnow what you want from the reading Look for organisation clues from headings,sections,paragraphs Dont write down examples SQ3R Approach Survey flip through&layout Question structure and relevance Read twice through quickly Recall main points,facts&biblio.Details Review repeat steps&relate to task Example from Exeter University Web site http:/www.ex.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/note_taking_appendix_a.htm,17,Practising Note Taking Strategies-mind map notes,An example of notes in the form of a mind map from Tony Buzan.Note the use of colour&space,http:/www.mind-,18,Practising Note Taking Strategies-flow diagram notes,An example of notes in the form of a flow diagram,Liverpool Hope University http:/www.hope.ac.uk/gnu/stuhelp/notes4.htm#Note,19,Listening To Lectures:Note taking,Useful lecture notes reflect the structure of a lecture by marking out the:Introduction Main points Sub-points Supporting detail References,20,Practising Note Taking Strategies-mind map notes,You can use subordination to identify the importance of information:key information on the left hand side detailed points in the middle comments&questions on the right hand side,21,Note Taking Strategies-lecture details,Also record on each page:Course title-abbreviationsLecture titleLecturer name or InitialsDate Page numberSub topic?Helps you locate topicsThis can help you to avoid plagiarism&keep track of your notes 6 months on,22,Note Taking In Lectures-Symbols&abbreviations,Symbols&abbreviations can save you valuable time:enabling you to write less&identify the main points more efficiently.reducing the time you take writing notes therefore giving you more time to understand lecture contents&to concentrate on the main points of the lecture help you to take notes using you own words,23,Note Taking In Lectures-using abbreviations,e.g.for examplei.e.that isetc.etcetera:and so onN.B.noteQ.questionNo.numberprobs.problemsp./pp page/pages1st firstmax.maximumc.about/approximatelyref.referencethro/thru through,imp importantsit.situationeval evaluationanaly analysisdiff/diff.y difficult/difficultydiff.t different,24,Note Taking In Lectures-using symbols,What symbols would you use for?thereforebecausestatement/answer is correctstatement/answer is wrongquestion;is the statement correct?or(this/that=this or that)and/plusditto(means the same as the words immediately above the ditto marks)does not equal,differs from,is the opposite ofis/are/have/has/equalsleads to/results in/causesdoes not lead to/result in/cause,25,Note Taking In Lectures-asking for clarification,To take notes more effectively you may need,if the lecturer allows,to ask questions for clarificationThink of some questions that you can ask to make a lecturer easier to understand,26,Note Taking In Lectures-asking for clarification,Im afraid I didnt follow your point aboutCould you go over that again?Could you go over again what you said about.Could you explain what you meant when you said that?Could you be more specific about.?Could you expand a little on what you said about?,27,Note Taking In Lectures-asking for clarification,Could you give an example of Sorry/Im afraid I didnt catch what you say about.Sorry you speak a little louder please?Sorry could you speak a little more slowly please?Sorry to interrupt,could I ask a question about.,28,Note Taking In Lectures-further help,For further help,seeAndy Gilletts excellent UEFAP site athttp:/www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/celt/sldc/materials/lectures.htmLook under structure,to see many examples of language lecturers use to structure their talks and exercises.See also the SLDC web pages on What am I getting from lectureshttp:/www.uefap.co.uk/listen/listfram.htm,