http://www-slc.uga.berkeley.edu/CalREN/procrastechniques.html

Maybe you can help Michael at Muskingum College. He has the "I'll catch up later." disease! See Learning Strategies Database: Procrastination.

http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/Timeb.html

If school is not your thing, then try the American commercial site by Daytimers and read their take on Procrastination:Conquering the Inner Demon at

http://www.daytimer.com/content/resource/library/resource_library_procastination.asp

The reason that the Cornell Notetaking System works so well is that

it is a system! It begins with getting input / information. Then it builds in a quick review, by having the student fill out the recall column. Finally it encourages feedback and review, by making it easy to do. (Look at The Information Processing Model in Chapter 2 and you will see the correlation.)

It does not require you to learn outlining or any fancy way of taking notes. Besides everyone knows that teachers can't count. In lectures: they say first, second, next, next, seventh!! So don't try to outline. Just use dashes and dots. Unless you need to know a discrete number like 26 letters of the alphabet.

It is easy and quick to do.

It sets up your notes for studying for the tests, which after all is the goal.

So for this class, I want you all to use test questions in the recall column. See page 167 in your textbook.

After all, if you take notes in the right hand column, these should be the answers. Now for review, you make the questions in the left hand column and then it will be easy to study for tests.

THE CORNELL SYSTEM FOR TAKING NOTES
http://library.stmarytx.edu/lac/tests/cornell.htm

Do you find that your notes are useless for studying for tests. See what advice this Economics Professor has for his students.

The Cornell Note-Taking System
http://www.econ.ilstu.edu/Mark_Walbert/ECO240/Other/CornellNTS.html

http://dartmouth.edu/~acskills/lsg/cornell.html

To see a sample of the Cornell notetaking format, look at the notes for an Effective Learning Lecture at York University in Canada.

http://www.yorku.ca/admin/cdc/lsp/note/note4.htm

Another sample in Australia is in color. The left hand column is too full. I would put questions in here instead of titles or headers, but the two column format is a good illustration. Print it off in color for a good model, if you want.

http://www.cimm.jcu.edu.au/netshare/learn/notetaking/activity/cornell.html

http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/booknote.htm

Another Cornell site follows the five R model. ( See page 188 in your textbook).

http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/notetaking.html#Cornell

Understanding Listening Skills

Begin with Learning to Listen to University Lectures at York University in Canada. They talk about the characteristics and features of lectures. This is a must for those of you transferring to a four year college.

http://www.yorku.ca/admin/cdc/lsp/note/note3.htm

The University of California at Berkeley will give you a system for Effective Listening and Notetaking. You will also see an example fo the Cornell format at

http://www-slc.uga.berkeley.edu/CalREN/Listening1.html

Finally look at Triple A Listening at Dartmouth. They insist that listening is not the same thing as hearing! In order to listen you need the three A's. Let us know what they are in your field trip reports for this week.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/lsg/triple-a-listening.html

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/lsg/notetaking.html

Then compare this field trip with what the students at Virginia Tech are doing. Is it the same? Which one do you like better?

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/cornell.html

See the how and why of listening and notetaking at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/Study/listening.html

Finally, see what to do in the classroom for listening and notetaking.

http://www.csbsju.edu/academicadvising/help/clasroom.html

For example, if I am taking notes in history of the Roman Empire. I may write that one of the major persons was

julius sees her

Now I know that that is not right, so I may underline this to remind myself to look it up in my textbook. When I look it up, I find that it is really

Julius Caesar

Oh well. It sounds the same! All I need is to come close. But I do need to correct the spelling before the test or look like an idiot! But in my notes, I don't worry. Just something close. Even if I only try the first two letters ju________ and then just add a line to fill in the blank later.