Plug-In and 1 Plus 3 Notes for SPA 102 and PSY 205!

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend!

So this past week, I modified my Plug-In Notes for my SPA 102 class. Plug-In Notes is an effective way of studying and reviewing what the professor went over during class after class. I thought these notes would help me keep better organized.

This week, we distinguished the two past tenses, the preterite and imperfect. To make it easier for me to understand the differences between these two tenses, after class I wrote down the regular and irregular conjugations, verb expressions, and when to use them. Since I am a visual learner, I organized these notes in a chart-like form. This helps me in that when I need to differentiate the preterite and imperfect, I can easily flip and refer back to my notes.

Here is a chart of my Plug-In Notes:







I haven't used the Plug-In Notes strategy in my SPA 102 class because I didn't think it would have worked. However, I adapted to it and it actually did help me keep my notes organized and help me study for future quizzes and tests. I didn't need to write down questions in these notes because it is very hard to anticipate test questions when the test is mostly fill-in the blank.

This week I also decided to try 1 Plus 3 notes again in my PSY 205 class. I thought it would help me summarize the notes I took during lectures and anticipate test questions. Before class, I took notes as usual and then after class I created a chart with key terms, graphic organizers, and test questions that I thought might appear on tests. I used Microsoft OneNote to help me organize these notes. Last time I did not include a graphic organizer, but this time I thought it was vital for me to include some. I ended up making 3 organizers! Since I am a visual learner, the graphic organizers really helped me with remembering certain key words. These notes also helped me anticipate test questions.

Here are my 1 Plus 3 Notes I took for PSY 205:




All in all, both the Plug-In and 1 Plus 3 Notes really helped me keep my notes organized. Plug-In Notes helped me differentiate different terms while 1 Plus 3 Notes helped me anticipate test questions and remember key terms.

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!!!!!