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"Spring Hill High School is using the Cornell note-taking method as a learning strategy that can help improve your recall and the usefulness of your notes. Do you want to know more about Cornell Notes? These resources will help you understand the process of taking notes using the Cornell system." Includes videos showing how to use the Cornell Note-Taking Guide and various templates, as well as the Guide itself.

This looks like a great invention. As you are watching a video, take notes and the timeline codes will automatically link your notes to the portion of the video you were watching. The note tool will embed your video from YouTube, Khan Academy, or any of a number of sites, with the note-taking apparatus beside the video. Students might take notes of you or another lecturer in a flipped environment, and then compare each other's notes for review. Appears to be free so far.

S.L. Davis promotes the idea that "students should be learning note-taking as a way of organizing data and curating information they need for a defined purpose. Students should sift and cull, summarize and synthesize. Students should learn how to take notes in ways that correlate with real-life situations. Finally, students should master the skill of making meaning from their notes and finding the best ways to share that meaning with others."

Taking visual reading notes is not just for so-called "visual" learners. Everyone can benefit by visualizing what they are reading and making notes as they read. Review of notes later is also key to success in remembering what is read.

Whether you are taking notes on paper on an iPad, these are great tips for taking lecture notes, studying, and reviewing for exams.

"Here are three tools that provide students with the option to answer questions or ask questions while watching flipped classroom videos." These include Video Notes, Teachem, and Blubbr.tv. Links also to VideoNotes that allows students to take notes while watching a video.

Build a video library by importing videos from YouTube, G-Drive, or Dropbox. Then control the video with the MoocNote interface to take notes that link back to the appropriate places in the videos. Access notes from anywhere and share. You can also ask questions of the community. This looks like an excellent resource and tool.

This blog describes a strategy for teaching reading that involves note-taking and crowdsourcing notes. Has links to the lesson directions and to a detailed discussion of the plan in use with a sociology text.

A cute infographic (?) of the what and why. Visual notetaking is encouraged for lectures and readings, and may help students make the material their own. I would recommend a combination with text notes, as students do need practice in all kinds of writing.

This is a nice demonstration of scaffolding, note-taking, and discussion for young adult / adult learners.

This is an incredibly good tool to shape your video instruction. EmbedPlus lets you annotate any YouTube video with your own comments and then embed it on your own webpage or wiki (also supports WordPress). You could take your own video, upload it to YouTube and insert directions for note-taking, suggestions for other activities, and so on. With the Pro version (currentl $14.99/lifetime!) you can add external links to your annotations, and the interface will inform you if a video you are using has been taken down or moved. A Slow button lets you watch the action in slow-motion. Again, the Pro service lets you crop and splice interesting parts of the video. I hope this tool stay around for a while and remains free.

How to annotate a book using note and post-it's.

This looks like a very useful application to make pdfs more interactive and useful as teaching tools: "Turn your vision into reality by creating your own version of an existing PDF or textbook. Give it a dynamic touch, jot down notes, add video/audio clips, and discuss materials with your readers within your interactive content. Use Active Textbook to learn, teach or simply share your documents online - it's easy! "

This video lesson plan encourages "thinking notes" that "require students to track their response to a text and engage in more thoughtful reading? " Good idea that can be readily adapted to ESL/EFL reading classes.

The teacher poses an open-ended question based on actual historical documents that demonstrate opposing or differing views. Philosophical Chairs has students discuss the opposing texts. Each student expresses and opinion and then others "take sides" by physically moving to join the group where the idea they favor has been expressed. At least three students must express an opinion in the group before movement is allowed. The teacher puts notes on each opinion on the board as students speak. Combines reading with listening and speaking; preparation for a writing assignment

"Mind mapping is a visual form of note taking that offers an overview of a topic and its complex information, allowing students to comprehend, create new ideas and build connections. Through the use of colors, images and words, mind mapping encourages students to begin with a central idea and expand outward to more in-depth sub-topics." Gives some tips on the pedagogy of using mind-maps and how to teach it to students.

This set of videos from TeachingChannel has observation exercises that would be useful for teacher-training, or self-training. There is a note-taking worksheet downloadable in the Supporting Materials, and Questions to Consider as you watch the video. This is a nice exercise, and also includes a Think Aloud activity.

This blog describes some tools for live conference speakers to help make presentations more interactive: "here are a few tools that, thanks to the increasing availability of wireless connectivity at conference centres these days, might help to turn your passive listeners into a bunch of multitasking audience collaborators." These tools include TodaysMeet, for backchannel communications, live polling at Urtak, and Sync.in which will allow collaborative note-taking. Using all these tools will make a live presentation seem much more like an audio-video conference in WiZiQ or Elluminate.

Wallwisher can be used to post messages to someone or several people, but it can also be used for educational purposes. The page works like a set of sticky notes. In this page, Nik Peachey has asked teachers to collect resources or links to good Web 2.0 tools. It will take some time to go through them all. The disadvantage is that there is no inherent organizational method. New messages pop up wherever, sometimes even over other messages. But it might be great fun to have a class of students or student-teachers try it out and collect resources for you. For example, you could have students look for good Grammar sites on the Web, then have them explore each other's and write "comments" in another Wall wisher post.

Nik Peachey explains how to create lessons using video files. Create Quick Video Task Sheets Vidinotes is an interesting site that I spotted a few weeks back. It's a great way to produce instant (almost) video worksheets to go with YouTube videos. Basically, what it does is to convert an flv video file into a number of screen shots with a space next to each screen shot for the students to take notes."