Note Taking

This page is dedicated to the process and techniques of taking notes. There are many ways in which to take notes; the foundation of good note taking is organization and useful information. In order to accomplish this goal, the note taker must have a basic understanding of the topic being studied. The goal of note taking is to break down a body of text into a useful and easily accessible format. This will always be done through identifying the main and key ideas of the information. The example that follows is a good example of picking apart a body of text into key information.

MOVIE FRAME NOTES:

One of the most frequent note taking techniques used in our class is the Movie Frame Note. The MFN consists of a sketch and a brief description of the topic being studied. The sketch is drawn in a box on the left side of the page and the notes are written on the 4-5 lines to the right of the drawing box. The first picture below is a MFN handout; please note, more times than not, MFNs will be created in your notebooks (second picture below.)

SKETCHNOTES:

Sketchnotes are visual notes that expand on standard note taking. More so, Sketchnotes are an advanced form of MFNs. This type of note taking does not follow a traditional note taking format. Instead, Sketchnotes depend on the note taker's mind to organize and design words and images to present a topic. Sketchnotes use symbols, graphs, sketches, and note taking techniques. Below are several examples, on a various topics, of Sketchnotes. 

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