Plug-in Notes and 1 Plus 3 Notes on my ECN203 class

Hey, girls. How is your weekends?

For this week, I tried the two notes-taking strategies on my ECN203 class because I am going to have one exam on Monday.

Let me talk about Plug- In Notes first, because I changed some steps based on the original requirements. Since I am an international student and this is my first semester in America, right now I still have some problems on taking notes,listening to the professor and thinking about questions at the same time. In order to solving the problem, I bring my recorder to class. During my classes, I mainly focus on listening and thinking, instead of taking notes. After class, I will listen to my recordings and take my notes. So I cannot skip some lines for important information on my hand-writing notes. But, you can see clearly where are important notes and where are not important notes on my powerpoint notes. If my write down a lot or I drew graphs besides slices, they are the signals of important.

I figure out questions every time after I finishing organizing notes for each chapter and answer them on every Friday nights.

Here are my Plug-in notes pictures.( Since my notes are a lot of pages, I just post few of them here as my example)

These are my notebook pages. On the left pages, they are the notes I take during the classes( usually in blue or read), On the right pages, they are notes I organize according to my recording( usually in black)

These two pages are my questions in black in left part, and my answers in blue in right part.

I prefer to using this strategy in my ECN class because it helps me to figure out the important points and drive me to review them again and again.

Now, I am going to tell my usage of 1 Plus 3 Note-Taking Method. In my opinion, it's a little complex to use them in ECN classes. Especially for Section B, since my ECN classes contain a lot of scattered information in one lecture and it's a little hard for me to using graphic organizers to cover all of them, it takes me more time to finishing trying this strategy and the rewards seems not satisfy.

Here are my steps.

First, as what I mentioned in Plug-in Notes, I write notes on left side in blue in during classes, and recording/taking my notes on right side in black after classes. (Like the following pictures.)

Then, I retake my notes and mark the important parts on my powerpoint.

If I write a lot of stuffs besides one powerpoint, that means this one is of importance. If not, then this powerpoint is not that kind of important.

Finally, I reread my notes and draw sections.

IF YOU TRY 1 PLUS 3 NOTE-TAKING METHOD AND IT WORKED WELL, PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!