Summarizing+&+Note+Taking

=**media type="custom" key="6430283"Read and Reflect**=

How do you currently apply this strategy without the use of technology?

//I have not used this strategy as much as I probably should. Although I know how to take notes, I haven't really emphasized note taking by my students on a regular basis. I generally give them the notes I want them to have in the form of an outline or graphic organizer. Occasionally, I will let them take notes, but as the author stated in this article, the notes are generally a mish-mash of ideas--often repetitive, not very well organized, or meaningful.//

What new insight did you gain from the reading?

//I need to do a better job of teaching note-taking. I need to look into the idea of "summary frames" as a tool that can be used to develop summarization. I would like to see some sample questions that teachers can use for this purpose, which means I will need to do more reading of Marzano's research.//

=Apply and reflect=

Provide evidence of the tool you learned.

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How might you use this tool in your classroom?

//I can see that it would be a valuable tool for students to use to be able to help with note taking, writing short summaries, or even with larger presentations. The great thing would be that students could provide their own commentary, written or audio, to each photo which would make them even more powerful and useful.

Please note that the address given to watch the VoiceThread site, was not available. I went ahead and watched one entitled, "Libby's Trip to Malawi" which was very good. If you get a chance to view it, pelase noter what the young man in photo #18 was carrying. I originally thought it was some type of dried vegetable, but then looking at it closer, found it to be dead mice. Ewww!//