This paper explores the role that notemaking strategies can play as part of an emancipatory pedagogy designed to empower students. We will argue that being taught active notemaking is fundamental in enabling students to use information with confidence and thus that notemaking allows students to gain a voice (Bowl, 2005; Burns et al., 2006) within their own education.
"Search Pad is a note-taking application that automatically tracks and organizes sites" There is a video available to explain how to use search pad. Search Pad (beta) was released in July, 2009