Module 5: Web-Enhanced Listening and Viewing Strategies

The most useful thing I learned in module five is the listening strategies workshop. I learned a few new strategies about listening and note taking. When you have a speaker discusses the lectures to people you should listen for changes in tone and volume. When listening to those speakers you don’t have any visual cues. Paying attention to those changes and the body language of the speaker will help convey the message they are giving. When sitting in lectures here are some strategies to use for notes taking, choose when and where to listen, use the pause, replay, stop, and restart features, and point out those main points of the lecture. During the assignment in module five the listening strategies workshop I had to put my listening skills to work. I had to take notes on the lecture that was given on the assignment. My notes weren’t  exactly the same as the examples the website has at the end. My notes were most similar to the example of the Mind Map. I definitely can put these listening strategies to practice in the classes I am taking for the remaining of this semester and for the classes I will be taking in the future. In the past I have struggled with listening and taking notes at the same time. I get overwhelmed and distracted on the main points and the message given by the professor. In those lecture classes I hope to use these strategies and improve my note taking skills. The advice I give you as students is when you get stressed out about things not working out in the way you would like, keep trying new things. Being overwhelmed about my note taking style not being successful in the past allowed me to take this module and use the strategies given in the lesson on slide number seven.

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