Note Taking Necessities

The Power of Plug-In-Notes

This week we learned the important strategy of note taking skills. Note taking strategies are so important because without good notes you do not have the information needed to do well in the class. Before learning this strategy I took all of my notes by hand and would write everything on the board. After class I would put my notebook away and not look at the class notes until studying for the test.

After reading through all the note taking suggestions I knew that Plug-In-Notes were the perfect thing for me. I am a kinesthetic learner so in class I like to take notes in a notebook so while I write them I learn them, so I decided that after class re-writing them on the Microsoft Word notebook view would be a good way to review and make my notes neater. This tool can also work for visual learners or audio learners because looking at the notes typed out neatly is good for a visual learner or there is a tool to record your professor for the audio learners.

All you do to access the Plug-In-Notes is open up a new Microsoft page and go to the bottom left corner and click on the notebook tab. This will open up a window with a page that looks like a notebook and you can take notes and draw diagrams in different tabs for different classes.

This method does not have any negative aspects because it will help everyone have neater, more organized notes, and for people like me it helps reinforce reviewing the notes after class.

This method can work for any class that you have to take notes in. It works

great for note heavy classes like my HTW 318 and WGS 203 classes. It can also work for History, Math, Science and many more classes.

In WGS and HTW we sit there and copy notes off of the board. Like I said earlier I still continued to write these notes down in my notebook during class but after I sat down and copied them onto the Plug-In-Notes page.

I would recommend this tool to anyone who wants more organized notes and enforcement to review.