1. Academic Skills Center
Note Taking in College
Ms. Lauren A, Copeland, M.S.
Academic Skills Center
Buffalo State College

2. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

3. What % do we forget within 24 hours if we don’t write it down and review it?

4. Pros and Cons of Lectures
Lots of info in a
Little bit of time to
Lots of people
Cons:
Tempts intellectual laziness
Passive
Urge to leave learning for later
DISCOURAGES ACTIVE LISTENING

5. ACTIVE LISTENING ACTION, INVOLVEMENT, INTENT
Listen to and receive accurate message
NOT transcribing:
Identify key points and their
Supporting details

6. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

7. BEFORE Class: Note Taking
Q: True or False: Good note taking begins before class starts?
Do all assignments. (How many pages/day?)
*IMPORTANT: If your professor basis his/her lectures off of the text, at the very least, outline the chapter before class!
T-Zone:
Pre-class review:
Classify (Label): Date, topic, pp# of notes

8. ORGANIZATION IS YOUR FRIEND!

9. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

10. Strategies for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Vertical line 1 ½ “-2” from top to bottom
Left side: key points
Right side: supporting details
Encourages us to think differently
Excellent study tool

11. Cornell Note Taking Method

12. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

13. TIPS: Note Taking w/ Power Points
IN GENERAL:
Turn headings into questions
Organization is your……
Tip: number the slides

14. TIPS: Note Taking w/ Power Points
If you have a slide-show print-out:
With a notes section
Without a notes section
No slide-show print out:
If can access slide-show
If no access to slide-show

15. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

16. More Strategies for Recording Notes
Copy and flag material directly from the board
Write on 1 side
Lost signal
Leave plenty of blank space
Use complete sentences only when necessary
Different colors
Abbreviations: (w/, w/o, b/c, bldg., symbols)

17. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

18. Which can you relate to? Other planet Black out Squish face Bobber
Attitude face

19. How to Listen Actively Eye contact
BHN: accept and control (slash marks)
Postpone debate
Let go of your judgments of the speaker
Participate:
Listen for clues:

20. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: Note taking with power points
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.

21. Things to do AFTER class to improve your note taking
We forget 80% of what we hear within (?) if we don’t write it down?
Fill in key words in left hand margin
Self test:
reverse operations
Recite (short term to long term memory)

22. Few more things we can do AFTER class to improve our note taking….
Edit
Design a key
Graphic symbols:
Colors
Pictures
Arrows
Reorganize
Create flash cards
Create mind maps

23. Action, Involvement, Intent
Mind Map
Note Taking
Before Class
5 Tips
During Class
Cornell Method
General Strats
How to listen actively
After class
Self test
Edit
Create study tools
Active Listening
Action, Involvement, Intent

24. By the end of class, you’ll be able to:
Define active listening & explain its importance to you as a student.
Implement strategies BEFORE class to improve your note taking.
Implement tips for taking notes DURING class:
Cornell note taking method
Tips: note taking with Power Point
General strategies for recording notes
How-to’s for active listening during class
Implement strategies AFTER class to improve your note taking.