The document discusses various methods and tools for digital note taking. It provides examples of how teachers have used tools like PowerPoint, online collaborative learning, electronic submission of student work, and electronic marking. The document also discusses the evolution of note taking from notebooks to digital tools like OneNote, tablet computers, and mobile apps. It encourages making notes organized, systematic, detailed, sourced, and dynamic to revisit and reorder with reflection.

1. Cyber Note taking
QHTA Conference, 2012
Ian Gray

2. S
mdubbleu.wordpress.com

3. Responses December QHTA Conference 2010
% response
SOMEONE PLEASE RECORD
Bring a laptop 7
Have students submit work electronically 75
Mark electronically 50
Facilitate on-line collaborative learning 50
Use PPT to communicate information 100
Taught electronic note-taking 5
Used self-paced interactive learning devices 25
with students
Had students use a table or spread -sheet as a 5
timeline
Have a Facebook Account 50
Twitter 1

5. 1:1

6. S h a r in g
– Email:
iangray@somerville.qld.edu.au
– Sharing via Twiitter:
• @iangray9
•
SomerChat@somerville.qld.edu.a
– FaceBook – History Teachers
Queensland
– Slideshare – no need to join

7. Digital Note Takers per lesson
Everyone
3 or 4
1
Other

8. REMEMBER WHEN?
Notebooks were
special …and covered
in brown paper
Hmm 50 years ago…
maybe not

9. 1963/Year 8
= ½ inch margin – copy
from the chalk blackboard

10. Headings (in
colour) were
important

11. Tables sometimes

12. Maps

13. Contents page

14. 1970s and 1980s
the PTO technique
Re-ordering/rethinking

15. 1990s – present
The essence of Historical
research = reflection based
on Critical Inquiry and
introspection

16. Does font
1990s – present matter?
Notes should be: Really?
•Organised Really?
•Systematic
•Detailed but not just copied
•abbreviated • Notes must be
•Sourced…including use of dynamic – able to be
the Notes area beneath PPT revisited, re-ordered in
 the light of reflection
• Collaborative even
better

17. Word Tables for Sorting
Date Event Concept Refere Person ABC parts
of answer
1815 Nap. Aristocrats Cowie Napoleon
defeate return to
d power
1848 Revs all
over
Europe
1917 USA in
WW1
1823 Monroe
Doctrine

18. One Note – Year 8

21. One Note – Year 12

22. One Note – Yr 12
Oral feedback to
students
And student
supplement ‘note-
taking’ with oral
recording

23. Tags in One Note –
for sorting

24. Tablet computers
create a whole new
set of possibilities

25. Begin back-chat NOW
• Go to the forum & begin leaving your
comments/questions now
• …or later..#tweet tweet

27. Survey Monkey
• Who has used it?
• Uses:
– data gathering – spontanenous – in class – fast.
– (faster than copying a url from paper …
– critical inquiry
– student evaluation

28. wordle
Leading…
Reference Page

29. Visual notes –
Flow Charts –
Smart Art;
C Maps & Rationale

30. Mobile notes
• Devices vary from ‘slates’ (eg ipads) to smart phones
– EverNote,( iPhone and Windows Mobile integration),
ListThings, etc
– Smart Phone apps
• Thinkfree Office
– “Notes” on the iPhone,
– Calendars , Memos and Lots of apps for Android and
iPhone eg for latter -
http://iphone.appstorm.net/roundups/productivity-roundu

31. And the list goes on
– Kindles
– Student eDiary
– What your fave note taking tool when away from
PC?
• Pen paper
• Phone – calendar? Notes?
• Ipad
• Collaborative cloud?
– Google Docs, slideshare, twitter …..
– Windows Live

32. Top 10 Sites Top 40 Ways to
for Note Taking Take Notes on
line…
http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/top-10-sites-for-
http://www.marcandan

33. Notes should be:
•Organised
•Systematic
•Detailed but not just copied
•abbreviated
•Sourced
• And above all - dynamic
– able to be
revisited, re-ordered
in the light of
reflection
• Collaborative even better

34. Discussion time
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