Summarizing+and+Note+Taking

= Summarizing and Note Taking = These skills promote greater comprehension by asking students to analyze a subject to expose what's essential and then put it in their own words. According to research, this requires substituting, deleting, and keeping some things and having an awareness of the basic structure of the information presented. Research shows that taking more notes is better than fewer notes, though verbatim note taking is ineffective because it does not allow time to process the information. Teachers should encourage and give time for review and revision of notes; notes can be the best study guides for tests.

When working with students, teach rule-based summarizing strategies, reciprocal teaching, and a variety of note-taking formats. Use summary frames, teacher prepared notes and combination notes (visuals and thinking summaries). Have students compare their notes with others to gather missing facts.

Summarizing
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 * 60 Second Recap ("trailers for books"): @http://www.60secondrecap.com/
 * Into the Book (K-4 Reading comprehension): @http://reading.ecb.org/
 * ReadWriteThink - Student Interactives - Organizing & Summarizing: @http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16&type=24
 * Knotebooks (Physics): @http://knotebooks.com/about
 * Tagxedo (word cloads with style): @http://www.tagxedo.com/
 * Voicethread: @http://voicethread.com/
 * Wallwisher (online sticky notes): @http://www.wallwisher.com/
 * Wordle (word clouds): @http://www.wordle.net/

Note Taking

 * Big6 (note taking templates for research): @http://www.big6.com/category/big6-resources/note-taking-big6-resources/
 * CiteULike (scholarly sites organized & shared): @http://www.citeulike.org/
 * Delicious (bookmark sharing): @http://www.delicious.com/
 * Digg (bookmark sharing): @http://digg.com/
 * English Companion - School Tools - Note Making: http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
 * Fruitnotes (online noteook): @http://www.fruitnotes.com/
 * Graphic Organizers from teAchnology: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
 * Linoit (online stickies): @http://en.linoit.com/
 * LiveBinders (online notebook): @http://livebinders.com/
 * Notefish (online research into one page to organize & share): @http://www.notefish.com/
 * NoteMesh (organize many sets of notes into one): @http://www.notemesh.com/?a=home
 * Print What You Like: @http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/
 * Springnote (online notebook): @http://springnote.com/en
 * Squareleaf (virtual sticky notes): @http://www.squareleaf.net/
 * Weblist: @http://weblist.me/
 * WebSlides (turn bookmarks & feeds into interactive slideshows): @http://slides.diigo.com/
 * Wridea (group brainstorming documented): http://wridea.com/
 * Write Design - Graphic Organizers: @http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/