Comments on: A Pair of Useful Things http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/a-pair-of-useful-things/ Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Derek Bruff http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/a-pair-of-useful-things/comment-page-1/#comment-80396 Derek Bruff Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:56 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=270#comment-80396 I liked many of the ideas shared in the "Ideas for Taking Notes" posting and comments. I recently finished writing my first book (on teaching with classroom response systems), and I used a blog to keep track of my research and interview notes. The ability to tags posts let me categorize notes in multiple ways, and as I organized my tags over time, a structure for my book developed organically. Plus, my blog's search tool gave me a second way to find important notes. The original poster mentioned the challenge of capturing quotes from printed sources during note-taking. I wonder if the <a href="http://www.livescribe.com/" rel="nofollow">Livescribe Pulse pen</a> might work well for that. One could use it to jot down a few notes about an interesting passage, then read the passage aloud. The pen records the audio and syncs it to the notes that are taken. Later, one could look through the handwritten notes, find a passage of interest, then tap the pen on the notes to hear the audio that was recorded when those notes were taken. I haven't tried this technique, but it might be useful! I liked many of the ideas shared in the “Ideas for Taking Notes” posting and comments. I recently finished writing my first book (on teaching with classroom response systems), and I used a blog to keep track of my research and interview notes. The ability to tags posts let me categorize notes in multiple ways, and as I organized my tags over time, a structure for my book developed organically. Plus, my blog’s search tool gave me a second way to find important notes.

The original poster mentioned the challenge of capturing quotes from printed sources during note-taking. I wonder if the Livescribe Pulse pen might work well for that. One could use it to jot down a few notes about an interesting passage, then read the passage aloud. The pen records the audio and syncs it to the notes that are taken. Later, one could look through the handwritten notes, find a passage of interest, then tap the pen on the notes to hear the audio that was recorded when those notes were taken. I haven’t tried this technique, but it might be useful!

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