Module 5 Web-Enhanced Listening and Viewing Strategies

In this week’s module, the most important thing I have learned is taking notes as an active listener. I learned how to keep up with the instructor lecture when they go too fast and also what to take note of based on how the instructor speaks. I have learned that abbreviating really helps when the instructor speaks too fast and writing down important details takes too much time. I have learned when to pick up important information based on auditory cues. For example, an instructor may drag out a certain idea to emphasize it and make it important. I learned these two techniques while working on the note-taking assignment from the 24-minute video we had to watch to complete it. I thought that the video on slide 15 was especially helpful in explaining the different types of note-taking. I learned the outline method and how simple it. It is a note-taking system based on bullet points and a hierarchy. You simply take top-level bullet points for main ideas and branch each one into smaller ideas for more in-depth detail. This is a note-taking style that I have been unknowingly doing since 8th grade when my history teacher taught his lessons this way to be able to easily learn and memorize historical facts.

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