Cyber note taking july 2013

electronic note-taking techniques in 9 min

St Francis College CrestmeadTues July 30, 2013

Ian Grayiangray9@gmail.com

Responses December QHTA Conference 2010 % responseSOMEONE PLEASE RECORD

Bring a laptop 7Have students submit work electronically 75Mark electronically 50Facilitate on-line collaborative learning 50Use PPT to communicate information 100Taught electronic note-taking 5Used self-paced interactive learning devices with students

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Had students use a table or spread -sheet as a timeline

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Have a Facebook Account 50Twitter 1

CONTEXTS

1:1

Maybe not everyone takes notes

http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/flickeringbrad34.jpg

Digital Note Takers per lesson• Everyone• 3 or 4 SHARE• 1 SHARE• Other

REMEMBER WHEN?

Notebooks were special …and covered in brown paper

Hmm 50 years ago…maybe not

1963/Year 8 = ½ inch margin – copy from the chalk blackboard

Headings in colour were important

Tables sometimes

Maps

Contents page

1970s and 1980s the PTO technique Re-ordering/rethinking

1990s – - - - - - -- -- present Notes should be:

• Organised• Systematic• Detailed but not just copied• abbreviated• Sourced…including use of the

Notes area beneath PPT

• Notes must be dynamic – able to be revisited, re-ordered in the light of reflection• Collaborative even

better

Date Event Concept Refere Person ABC parts of answer

1815 Nap. defeated

Aristocrats return to power

Cowie Napoleon

1848 Revs all over Europe

1917 USA in WW1

1823 Monroe Doctrine

Word Tables for Sorting

Use Word Table to sort and impose some order

Home/Sort

One Note – Year 8

Visual Notes

• thinglink• interactive visuals• can’t embed in ppt but can link• http://www.thinglink.com/scene/319107808270221314

One Note – Yr 12Oral feedback to students And student supplement ‘note-taking’ with oral recording

Tags in One Note – for sorting

Tablet computers create a whole new set of possibilities

Dynamic note taking- Begin back-chat NOW• Go to the forum & begin leaving your

comments/questions now• …or later..#tweet tweet

Leading…

Reference Page 23

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Visual notes – Flow Charts – Smart Art; C Maps

Mobile notes

• Devices vary from ‘slates’ (eg ipads) to smart phones – EverNote,( iPhone and Windows Mobile integration),

ListThings, etc– Smart Phone apps

• Thinkfree Office

– “Notes” on the iPhone,– Calendars , Memos and Lots of apps for Android and

iPhone eg for latter - http://iphone.appstorm.net/roundups/productivity-roundups/100-apps-for-taking-notes-on-your-iphone/

Collaboration is key• https://www.diigo.com/

Are you using your Collaborative cloud?

• In-House foruns• Google Drive, • Slideshare• Twitter …..

Top 10 Sites for Note Taking

http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/top-10-sites-for-note-taking.html

Top 40 Ways to Take Notes on line…

http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/03/16/top-40-ways-to-take-notes-online/

Notes should be:• Organised• Systematic• Detailed but not just copied• abbreviated• Sourced

• And above all -

dynamic – able to be revisited, re-ordered in the light of reflection• Collaborative even

better

TO SUMMARISE

in such an era the pen/paper research booklet will kill the subject