Note-taking Strategies & Resources

These are many ways to take notes. Find the ones that work best for you.

Strategies (how to take notes in different ways)

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6 Strategies for Taking High-Quality NotesGet your students thinking deeply while they’re taking notes—and show them how to make the most of those notes later.

What is Mind Mapping? (and How to Get Started Immediately) - LitemindA mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. Just as in every great idea, its power lies in its simplicity.

What is Sketchnoting?

Sketchnoting is visual note taking that is less structured than Mind Mapping.

Resources (Tools you can use to take notes online)

Google Keep

On a laptop or desktop, you can add the Google Keep Chrome extension. When you want to take a note, pause your video, click on the Google Keep icon, take your note with a timestamp, then press play to continue watching. Repeat as needed. Interested? click here for more details on how to make this happen.

MindMupFree online mind mapping. The most productive online mind map canvas on the Web. Supports Freemind mindmap import/export. Easy mindmapping software.

I find Mind mapping to be most effective when done by hand but there are also many online mind mapping sites. MindMup is one of them that easily integrates with Google Apps. Find out more about this here.

MoocNote

This is an interesting application that allows you to take notes while watching video. It includes screenshots of the video each time you add notes. It also integrates nicely with YouTube. It is new (early 2022) and is currently free for everyone. Find out more here.