2. Are Your Notes Like Swiss Cheese? Too Many Holes! A Workshop On Note Taking Skills Brought to you by the UC Clermont Learning Center

3. What We Will Cover HHow To Get The Most Out Of A Lecture. LListening Skills. TThe Day Dreaming Trap. TTips For Taking Notes While You Listen. SSuccessful Note Taking Methods. RReviewing Your Notes After Class. OOrganizing Your Notebook.

4. BBe Prepared AArrive early AActively participate RReview notes soon after class RRethink all examples covered in class How To Get the Most Out of Lecture

5. Ways to Be Prepared For Class Ways to Be Prepared For Class PPrint them out before class. RReview posted notes before class.   I  I f possible, triple space typed notes and print PowerPoints with a notes section. UUse these to take notes on in class by filling in the missing information. IIf your professor has Notes/Power Points on Blackboard… AAlways read or thoroughly skim the text before class. YYou will be better able to follow the lecture's main points.

6. Do You Have Any of These Bad Listening Habits? Quiz When listening in class… DDo you call the Subject Dull? DDo you criticize the Speaker? DDo you tolerate distractions? DDo you only listen for facts? DDo you try to write down everything the speaker says? DDo you not write down anything at all and assume you will remember it?

7. Listening is a Learned Skill! People do not instinctively listen well, whether in conversations or in class! It is something that we all have to LEARN!

8. Tips On Effective Listening BBefore class: review your notes from the previous class to refresh and mentally prepare for what the instructor will be talking about. DDetermine why what the instructor is saying is important to you. RRemember: the responsibility for interest and understanding lies with YOU, NOT with the instructor. Learning is up to the learner.

9. More Tips On Effective Listening IIf you can't hear, arrange things so you can. LLook for the instructor’s pattern of organization. LLook for the main idea or ideas of the presentation. Facts are important only as they support the speaker's points.

10. Beware of Day Dreaming! AA speaker before an audience slows down to about 100 words per minute. WWe think an average of 400 to 500 words per minute as we listen. WWhat do you do with your extra thoughts? UUse Your Thought Power Wisely: Anticipate the next point. Identify supporting material. Recap What They Have Said So Far.

11. Take Notes While You Listen CCondense-do not use a sentence when a phrase will do! LLeave open space to go back and fill in extra information from the text. FFocus on the things the speaker focuses on: Things written on the board. Things repeated. Facts or ideas emphasized by tone of voice or body language. Anything included in a wrap up summary or reviewed from the previous lecture.

12. Making Outline Notes *Outline notes place the general information to the left. -Details or examples that explain the general topic are indented. -As the details get more specific, they are further indented. *When more general topic are introduced, return to the left. You do not have to use letters, or roman numerals for an outline. They are your notes: Use whatever symbols work for you!

13. Record the lecture as fully as possible in whatever note taking method you are comfortable with. **If you miss a statement, write down key words, skip a few spaces, and get the information later from a fellow student, the text, or the professor. RecallColumn: Class Notes Column Immediatel y, reduce information to short summaries and statements here. Use them for reciting, reviewing and reflecting. Using The Cornell Note Format

14. Reviewing Notes Before Next Class RRead through your notes and highlight important information. TTurn the important information in your notes into note cards so that they can be carried with you and reviewed frequently. RRe-write your notes more clearly or in a different format. This is the perfect opportunity to add in information from the text not covered in class.

15. Webbing As A Note Review Instructor’s Main TopicSubtopics Explained Details Given on Subtopics Secondary Details

16. UUse a 3-Ring Binder instead of a Spiral Bound Notebook. Start the quarter off with one binder and add another later on if necessary. Use dividers to separate your various subjects. Organizing Your Notebooks: Part 1

17. TTake notes on loose-leaf lined paper. You can move your notes around in your binder if more notes are given on a specific subject later on. You can insert handouts (from class or Blackboard), quizzes or tests right along with that chapters notes. TThis makes studying for Mid-term and Final Exams much simpler! Use post-its or sticky tabs as tabs to separate each chapter. Organizing Your Notebooks: Part 2

18. Visit Us on Campus at: The Learning Center Room 100 Educational Services Building www.ucclermont.edu/tlc Need More Help With Your Note Taking Skills