How To Take Better Lecture Notes | LBCC Study Skills

uh... todays workshop is called taking better lecture notes in just a quick uh... word about the one next week it's called how to predict test questions this is the first one of five workshops in a row i think it is that all have that terrible "T" word in it which is test or tests so it's kind of a long series in how to become a great test taker which always helps so that's uh... what's coming up next week now i wanted to ask everybody a question before we start and uh... again participation is welcome in these workshops we're talking about taking notes while teachers are lecturing today so my question is kind of a simple one but i don't know if you've ever thought of this why is it important or helpful for you to take notes while a teacher is talking what's the whole point of even doing that to remember yeah uh... one of the things that is the simplist way i can describe it is you wanna take notes so that you don't have to rely on your memory later on you could be a fantastic listener and you can concentrate really well on the teacher but unless you have an amazing ability to remember that two or three or four weeks later when you're studying for a test on that material uh... it's almost impossible to remember what a teacher said that's why you want to rely on your notes and if your notes are good and they're complete and you can study a lot from them you should do better as a result uh... the class that i teach which is learn eleven a study skills course my students are required on every test among other things to do a short writing probably less than a page where they describe in detail something that i've taught them in class kind of like their teaching it back to me and very often amazingly often especially early in the semester i get a student who writes as their answer i don't remember and how many points do they get for that uh... the big zero right and so what they're basically saying is i was there that day it's like three weeks ago i remember what you were talking about even remember what you were wearing but i can't quite remember what you said and they're trying to actually go back and remember that's dangerous so that's why you write it in your notes so that you can go over it and over it and when the test comes it's still fresh in your mind that's the goal okay so uh... as i mentioned a few minutes ago i'm gonna give you a handout that uh... is sort of a a outline of what i'm gonna talk about hopefully i'll be able to get all the way through this today there's always a lot that i would love to share never enough time so i'll just go ahead and sort of give you a but you can kind of pass that back if there are extras back there you can just hold on to them and i'll get 'em at the end and actually let me put some here case people show up late okay so in order to take better lecture notes uh... there are seven things listed here uh... couple of little sub points so this will hopefully be easy for you to follow uh...

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Length: 44min 26sec (2666 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 11 2011