Good old-fashioned note-taking is a skill students should master.
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Below is a collection of some great visual noting apps. The apps provide a wide variety of interesting features that will enable you to take your visual note taking experience to the next level. For instance, using the collaborative feature you can work with your students or colleagues on the same visual note, diagram or mind map and in real-time. The apps also enable you to create your visual notes in different formats including: mind maps, diagrams, flowcharts, handwritten notes, sketches on virtual papers, and many more.There are numerous ways to use visual note taking with your students or in your personal/professional projects. Image credit: Inkflow app For example, you can use visual note taking to brainstorm new ideas for your project, capture and record your thoughts on the go, enhance your expressive writing with graphic elements, and to boost your planning and overall productivity. I invite you to check them out and share with us (@educatorstech) if you have other suggestions to add to the list. 1- Inkflow Inkflow provides you with a note taking and brainstorming experience similar to the pen-and-paper one. Whether you use a stylus or not, you will be able to easily sketch, draw or write your thoughts and re-arrange them the way you want. You can choose from a wide variety of paper backgrounds to use for your notes. You can also insert text and images anywhere on the page and customize their look and size. Your final notes can be exported as PDFs or JPEGs and can be shared to different social media websites. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android alternative (Evernote) / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 2- Trello Another great app to help you visually organize your projects and to-do lists. You can use lists, boards, and cards to capture your thoughts and enhance your planning. You can also draw on or insert due dates, labels, and checklists to track the progress of your projects. Also, "add Power-Ups like a Calendar view of your due dates or add locations to cards to get a Map view—your project will take on a whole new perspective." Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers / Age: 4+ 3- MindMeister MindMeister lets you leverage the cognitive power of mind mapping to enhance your overall productivity. It offers a number of interesting features that include: the ability to create and edit numerous mind maps, add different file types to your maps, use nodes to draw connections, supports real-time collaboration, syncs across different devices and platforms, and export your mind maps in PDF or PNG format. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 4- Lucidchart Lucidchart is another good app for visual note taking. You can use it to easily create flowcharts, diagrams, wireframes, process flows and many more. Lucidchart supports collaborative team work enabling you to work on the same diagram with your colleagues. The app offers various pre-made templates and shapes to choose from. Everything you create on Lucidchart mobile app is saved and synced with your account. You can also export your diagrams in different formats including PDF, PNG, or Visio. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ 5- Zoomnotes ZoomNotes Lite is an iPad/iPhone visual note-taking app. It lets you quickly make handwritten notes and sketches on virtual paper, on PDF files, on MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint docs (via GoogleDrive), and over images. Uniquely, it also lets you zoom in and out without arbitrary limits, an invaluable feature for this type of app. It has a free fully functioning pen (although you will be able to try the pens too), and more available as in-app purchases." Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+ This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).
Last Winter I organized a Make It / Take It for the Kodaly Music Educators of Kansas. I thought I would share with you what we did at this make it/ take it in case other districts, chapters, or groups of music teacher friends are interested in putting together their own "Make It / Take It". We decided that we would make the following manipulatives/games at our workshop: 1) Solfege texting sticks For this manipulative, each teacher got a set of Popsicle sticks and a pentatonic page of the texting tone ladders to cut out. We stuck them to the Popsicle sticks with rubber cement. It was a little sticky. Hot glue might work better, but glue along the top edges of the paper will help keep students from picking the paper off the sticks. Download a FREE template here. (Photo credit: Jennifer Patterson) A few ideas for using them: - Sing a known song on solfege and have students use finger to “text” the solfege as they sing - Sing a known song on words and have the students “text” the solfege - Sing do pentatonic melodic patterns and have students echo as they “text” the pattern - Sing melodic patterns on neutral syllable and have students respond with the solfege as they text. 2) Foam rhythm cubes Teachers got a set of 16 cubes. You can order them in bulk here. They could chose what rhythms to put on the sides. I really wanted a set for just ta, titi, ta rest, and takadimi (tika-tika, etc.), so I left two sides blank. Leaving those sides blank opens up the opportunity for student composing or improv if they can fill in their own rhythm on those empty beats. Ideas for use: - Students use the cubes in centers or small groups to find the rhythms of known songs (8 or 16 beats) - Compose new rhythm - Dictate 4 beat rhythm patterns - Compose or improvise new patterns on the blank cubes. 3) Sorted bags of colored transparent bingo chips to use on student high low charts or staves There wasn't anything to make at this station, but a lot of teachers wanted these bingo chips to use on their high/low charts and staves. I have a high low chart, a staff without the clef, and a staff with the clef that is laminated for each student in my class. These chips are cool because although they are colored, they are transparent, so students can see the line going through the middle of them if it is supposed to be on a line and they fit between the lines perfectly for space notes. Each teacher got 250 chips and they could put however many they wanted in bags depending on their class sizes. You can order these chips in bulk here. Ideas for use: - Use the chips to notate, dictate, or compose melodic patterns on student staff paper 4) Four Beat Heartbeat Charts Teachers got 120 heart die cuts and 30 strips of paper that were cut/punched out ahead of time. They glued down the hearts four to a strip to create 4 beat heartbeat charts. Ideas for use: - Students may tap the beat to known folk songs or recorded music - Students use Popsicle sticks to dictate patterns on top of the heartbeats - Students use erasers, beads, etc. to show how many sounds they hear on each beat 5) I Have, Who Has game cards I had a class set of "I Have, Who Has - Tika-tika" cards printed for KMEK members. If you want a ready to print set of cards, you can find them in my TpT store here (lots of different concepts are available), or you could create a rhythm list and create your own cards by handwriting them. If using my set with a big group of teachers, email me at [email protected] for special pricing on additional licenses. The teachers who attended the workshop just had to cut them out and laminate them! Prep Work Before the Workshop To prep for the make it / take it workshop, I spent a lot of time looking for ideas on Pinterest. I put together a Pinterest board with some ideas and let KMEK members comment in our Facebook group to say which manipulatives they would like for us to make. You can see the idea board here. Once we decided what we were going to make, I ordered all of the materials. Some KMEK members helped in advance cutting out all of the heart die cuts cutting strips for the heart beat charts. Once we had enough materials for all of the participants, we sorted everything into bags for each teacher and I printed up a contents sheet with instructions and ideas for use for everything in the bag. Download the instructions page we used here and feel free to edit it for your own personal use! Participants had to pre-register for the workshop so that we could anticipate how many sets of materials we would need to order. There was a lot of prep work that went into this workshop to make it a success, but it was a lot of fun, and our students got to have lots of new hands on manipulatives and games to use in music class as a result! It is always so much more fun to make these things with a group of friends than on your own, and you can benefit from buying in bulk if you are splitting the costs between several teachers. Here are a few more photos of our make it / take it workshop: If you have any questions about our make it/take it workshop or organizing your own, please do not hesitate to email me at [email protected]
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Take Note! {Note Taking in the Primary Classroom} 9 comments Note Taking, Popular Posts, Social Studies, Writing Note taking. It's a skill we've all used in our lifetime. I probably didn't start taking notes until junior high, but it was definitely a skill that I developed and used up until the day I graduated from college. In fact, I still take notes. This past year, I introduced note taking to my second graders. Say what? Don't worry, I didn't lecture my second graders and expect them to sit intently at their desks as they took copious notes on the subject matter at hand. Promise. Last year, everyone on staff was asked to come up with a few teaching goals. One of my goals was to foster student stamina within a whole group setting and one of the identified ways in which to do this was to incorporate note taking into my repertoire. At first, I was like, "Uh, how am I supposed to teach these kids how to take notes? I'm still hounding them to write a complete sentence!" But, then it dawned on me, I could do both! Plus, the more I thought about it, note taking is an awesome learning strategy! It fosters concentration and understanding. When we write things out by hand, our brains store the information more easily, so note taking leads to remembering. What does note taking in second grade look like? Here's a sampling of one second grader's notes. She did a pretty good job of writing complete sentences, most of the time. I told you, I'm always hounding my students to write complete sentences (insert winky smiley face). This was from one of our very fist note taking sessions dating back to November. When do your students take notes? I typically use note taking during a nonfiction read aloud pertaining to a unit of study and/or during a content related video. Note taking usually makes an appearance during my social studies and science time since most of my units are language arts based. What does the process look like? It goes a bit like this: The students gather on the carpet with their materials (the carpet area is my favorite teaching space). I read several pages in a nonfiction book. I pause and tell the students to write down one important thing they learned from the reading up to that point in time (in the form of a complete sentence); they use bullets to separate their ideas. I let a few students share their notes with the whole group. I read a few more pages and repeat. If we are watching a video, I do the same thing. I pause the video every so often and give the students time to write down something they learned, and then let a few students share their notes before resuming play. What do you do with the notes? Typically, I compile the students' notes onto a class anchor chart (or two). Note: I don't always write their notes as complete sentences on my charts. This is usually due to time constraints, paper size, and/or it may not be conducive to the assignment I give them once the chart is completed. Then, I have the students use the shared notes to write an informative paragraph (one reason I don't always write complete sentences on the anchor chart) or complete a graphic organizer (can/have/are, fact/opinion, and so on). While I mainly used this skill during Social Studies time, it can be used whenever and however you like, that's the beauty of note taking! What materials do my students need to take notes? Last year, the students did most of their note taking on mini whiteboards (as shown at beginning of this post), but that was not the greatest tool to use. The ink smears and many of the students write way too big most of the time. This year, note taking will make a return visit to my classroom, but instead of using those messy, super small boards we will use one of these generic note taking forms that I created. There are two different versions so I can start with the one that I think will best meet the needs of next year's kiddos. I may even copy the form double sided, just in case! You can grab a copy of these forms by clicking {here}. I hope you can use them. So, the burning question is, do your primary students take notes? Share It:
Integrating technology with education can make teaching and learning so much easier. Adding a QR code to notes can add so much to student learning. I stumbled across these one day in a craft store and became fascinated with the fact that audio notes, videos, and well as text can be uploaded onto each code. A package of two adhesive QR code stickers costs roughly $3.00. Although I purchased these, QR codes can be downloaded from many websites for free. It can be used with or without a cell phone. Once the QR app is downloaded to a cell phone or Ipad, a student is ready to go. After it is scanned with one of these devices, the extra "nugget" of notes, videos, or audio becomes available to a student. If a student does not have an Ipad or cell phone, the person can visit a website where upon typing in the letter code that is also written on the QR sticker, they can retrieve the extra notes. The idea of being able to "scan" additional and optional notes is enough to pique the curiosity of some students. I have already begun looking at ways to upload additional content to my notes for next school year.
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Recently, I was invited to conduct a workshop at a tutoring center about how to effectively take notes for school. I thought I would share some of the things we discussed! This is the main handout I gave to the students. Each student received a colored copy of this to understand the importance of colors and style of layout for note-taking. Note-taking is an essential skill that has to be mastered by students in order to excel. Apart from helping in retaining information and thereby making it easier to revise for tests, it is a valuable skill that is even useful during adulthood. It can be used at work during meetings, or at talks of interest. It's a skill that never loses its value. How many times have you gone for an exam after studying from the textbook or slides and gotten out of the exam wondering where some of the questions even came from? Those questions are most likely from something your teacher had mentioned in class and should be in your notes! Taking notes isn't just an activity a person does during class and completely ignores during any other time of day. It's highly important to get into the habit of working on it before and after class as well, if you'd like to excel in your studies! Before class, skim through next lessons texts. If you develop a slight understanding of what the teacher will discuss in the following class, it will definitely help in your note-taking, rather than going into class with absolutely no idea of what to expect. After class, go through your notes as soon as you can. While the points of class are still fresh in your mind, attempt to fill out any missing parts and organize your notes to make it clear and easy to understand. As for during class, there are many things to remember: Do's: *If you're in a physical classroom (rather than online), make sure to sit in the front row! Being right in front of the teacher helps in keeping yourself from getting distracted during class, and boosts your concentration level. From what I know, students that sit in the back generally tend to chitchat more with friends during class, and it can get distracting for students trying to stay focused! *Use legible handwriting. 2 months down the line when you're trying to study and can't figure out what in the world you wrote in your notebook...it will be frustrating. Don't write too big or too small, and keep the spacing consistent. As a rule of thumb, between each word there should be enough space to fit the letter "o". Also, find pens that work great for you. I find ball point pens to work the best and gel pens to make my writing messy. *Understand the lecture as you write. Don't keep writing without understanding as the notes won't make sense later on. *Use symbols and abbreviations. Writing at the same speed as your teacher is talking in is not an easy task. With the help of symbols and abbreviations, you can speed up the task. Here's an example of some: Source Make up some of your own if they help you in class! Just make a key somewhere in your notebook so that you don't forget in the future. Also, looking up what is coming up in the following class beforehand helps a lot as you can decide if you want to abbreviate any long words that will come up constantly. For example, if you're in History class and are learning about the French Revolution, it will take up too much time to keep writing "French Revolution" over and over again. Write down "FR = French Revolution" on the top of the page so you know what it refers to in your notes. *Figure out a method that works for you. Not every method will work for everyone. I will show you some examples of methods in this post! *Have revision sessions with your friends. Discussing concepts helps to engrave it in your mind for longer, and you will develop a better understanding of theories if you have someone to talk to about it. *Use COLORS! Make diagrams! It should be fun to look at. Don'ts *Don't write down everything word for word that the teacher is saying. Condense it and grasp the bigger concepts. Add examples as well for better understanding. Write it in your own words, not your teacher's. Simplify. *Don't write everything on the PowerPoint slides. You will be given access to these most likely, so it wastes time to write the same thing in class. If you're not given access, ask your teacher for them. *Don't get distracted while in class. Losing concentration due to checking your Facebook or talking to friends while in class can make you lose out some concepts in class. *Don't be shy to ask the teacher questions! The teacher is there for a reason and would love to answer your questions. It makes them happy when the students get involved!* *Don't cramp too much information on one sheet of paper. This makes it difficult to revise later on. As you can see in the example of the handout I passed out, there are some white spaces on the paper. It makes the page easier to read, and one can also write notes on it during revision time if anything extra is needed. Methods Print PowerPoint Slides: For those classes that have PowerPoint presentations in every session, an option is to print out multiple slides (4-6) on one page and write notes around that. This makes it easier during revision as you just have one reference point rather than going back and forth between your notes and the slides. Also, you'll have to write less during class. However, a lot of printing is involved, and not many people are up for that. Also there isn't as much writing space as a typical notebook. Here's an image of how to do it: Image Source Cornell Note-Taking System: This is possibly the most organized method, and is the best way to test yourself while reviewing as well. Here is the handout that was given in the workshop: Image Source In this system, 2 lines are drawn out on each page, one on the bottom for the summary, on one on the left side, which is known as the Cue Column. The largest section is the column on the right side, where the class notes go. Bullet points are recommended. The Cue Column is to be filled out after class. Here, apart from key points, you can also form questions. It's like the TV show "Jeopardy", where the answers are in front of you and you come up with the questions. This is great for revising, as you can cover the Note-taking Column and ask yourself the questions you wrote. Writing the summary down on the bottom ensures you understand the concepts and it's great for referring back to the pages when you are revising for tests. This is an extremely effective method! Rewriting notes after class: Ok, we're down to the method that I used while in university. Everyday, I'd go home and write my class notes all over again, using colors, drawing diagrams and using post-its. That was my idea of fun :) Apart from making the notes visually pleasing, it helped me revise all of the concepts and I understood class material a lot better this way. When the notes were colorful and neat, it made me WANT to open my book and study! It was definitely a method that worked for me, but all of my friends thought I was crazy :) One thing is for sure, you need to have time on your hands to work on your notes. In university, my only responsibility was to get good grades, as I lived with my parents. Rewriting notes not only helped me to digest the material better, but it allowed me to be a little creative as well, and I enjoyed that. I'm going to post some of my notes here. I did it in different steps. After I got married, I continued being a student in online classes. As time went on, I had less and less time on my hands. So my notes posted below are in 3 stages: (1) University days: Most free-time. Used colored pens, did drawings, printed pictures. (2) After getting married: more responsibilities. Still managed to rewrite notes, but only used highlighters and post-its. (3) After having a baby: No free time! Didn't rewrite notes, just highlighted after class and used post-its for vocabulary. The bare minimum that should be done after class is displayed in the last picture, highlighting. Normally I wouldn't highlight so much for classes like Science or Math, but if there is Literature involved, I tend to highlight the entire verses for quick reference. Finally, the last thing I discussed in the workshop was how to take Math notes. This can be quite tricky as it is not like the other subjects, but I found a video online that I feel will be very helpful to Math students: Video Source What YOU need to do now is figure out what method works best for you! With the correct mindset, you can make writing class notes effective and fun at the same time! I hope you enjoyed this post! Don't forget to Like this page on Facebook and Follow me on Pinterest! Thanks for visiting! Linked to: A Bowl Full of Lemons Remodelaholic Sweet Haute The Style Sisters Sweet Bella Roos
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