Throughout your college experience, there is a good chance that you will have to listen to a lecture or podcast online. For me I find online lectures more helpful because:
1. Can be accessed at any point and time. If for some reason you feel like your notes aren’t good enough to study with or if you didn’t understand a topic fully, you can go back to the source of the lecture and re-watch the material that you wish to hear again.
2. There are many features that can enhance effective listening. All podcasts and videos include pause, play, stop, fast forward, and rewind buttons. These features can enhance not only your effective listening but also your notes. If you didn’t fully understand a point or you weren’t able to write down the information quickly enough you can rewind and then replay the same information. These features are great because you do not have a chance for replays of information in a lecture hall setting.
but there can also be some problems that you can encounter with online lectures and podcasts. Those being:
1. Technology problems. These problems can range anywhere from your computer not working properly or the internet itself not working properly. These problems can, of course, occur at any point and time. So make sure all your technology is working right and that you watch/listen to the information a few days before required!
2. No visual cues. In lecture halls you are able to pick up on the lecturers body language, which can help you notice the big picture and what key points are the most important. You are still able to do this with an online video of a lecture, but you can not do this with a podcast. Since there are no visual cues in a podcast it is important to listen for verbal cues. Those being a change in the speaker’s tone or in volume.
also since you cannot see the lecturer/speaker in a podcast it is important to listen for the structure of the information presented. Listening to the structure of the information will allow you to understand the information more clearly and be able to take notes on the podcast more effectively. The structure that you should be looking for is:
1. Introduction – The overview of what the material will be about.
2. Transitions – New sections of the material (the main ideas).
3. Digression – Deportation from the main point
4. Restatement – Returning back to the main point
5. Conclusion – Summary of the material
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