3 - Note-taking

|Do Now|

• Go to the Padlet board and do a short write up about how you take notes. What is your technique? Do you use bullet points? A mind map? Do you add drawings and diagrams? Do you voice your notes to text?
• If you have time, go to last week's Padlet board to review what device tips and other information that your classmates posted.

|Check In|

Let's take notes about how you take notes! Let's see what you posted at Padlet.

|Learning Goals|

You will...

• better understand how "research-able" your topic of interest is.
• choose a topic to research.
• learn about different ways information (text structures) is presented to then learn how to take notes in response to each.
• learn about and review different tools for taking notes. Choose note-taking tools for each strategy and add them to your PLS chart.
• review note-taking tools using our tool review rubric.

|Learning Activities|

1. Let's further review the research process that you will follow.
2. Use a brainstorming app to make a list of possible topics to research. We will set up a free account with Bubbl to get you recording your research topic ideas.
3. There are several many ways that information is presented to us. And there are many strategies that can be used to take notes in response to how the information is presented.
4. Technology can enhance the note-taking strategies offering additional functionality over taking notes with paper and pencil.

|Content Information|

Common Text Structures: Non-fiction text comes at us in many different forms. The complexity can at times be a bit overwhelming. So to handle it, you need to be an information detective identifying the structures the author is using. Here are a few of the main text structures: Cause and Effect | Chronology - Sequencing | Compare and Contrast | Main Ideas and Details | Problem - Solution

Note-taking Strategies: You respond to the various text structures by choosing the right note-taking strategy to best record your understanding. Here are a handful of helpful strategies: Annotated Diagram | Boxes and Bullets | Cause and Effect (Flow Chart) | Cornell | Reverse Boxes and Bullets | T- Chart | Timeline | Venn Diagram | Web

Here are some images of the strategies to help you visualize them.

|Tutorials|

Part 1>

• Cornell Notes: This strategy adds to the boxes and details approach by having you summarize your notes at the bottom of the page. This video covers the basics.
• Mind Maps: Mind Maps (Concept Maps) definitely support the webbing approach to note-taking. They also can be adapted for some of the other strategies.
• Sketch Notes: Many of us build understanding by combining text, drawings, diagrams while including embedded videos, sound files and other sources of media. Sketchnoting thus brings together several of the strategies into one combined approach.
• Voice to Text: Having to run our ideas and understanding from our brains down are arms to then keyboard them can get in the way of our note-taking. With our mobile devices having keypads with a microphone button we can skip the typing and speak our thoughts to see them transcribed into whatever tool we are using.

Part 2>

• Bubbl
• Evernote
• Google Documents
• Google Keep
• Paper by FiftyThree
• Sketchbook Express
• Inspiration
• Lucid Charts (Chrome extension)
• Mindmeister
• Padlet

|Acknowledgement|

Special thanks to Monica Escobar for providing information about text structures, note-taking strategies and the images of the strategies.