Sunday, September 25, 2005

SELF STUDY ACTIVITIES FOR ACTIVE LISTENING AND NOTE TAKING

You will need to use the Study Development Programme (SDP) website for some of these activities. It can be found at www.vincysdp.blogspot.com. You can access the internet in the Learning Resource Centre (LRC /Library). All the material is available in printed form in the LRC (Library). If you want a copy of the printed form, you can purchase them in the Business Centre at the College.

Active listening

(a) Apply active listening techniques in a lecture for one of your subjects then write a short report on your experience giving examples of how you applied each of the 3 components and self monitoring

Note taking

(b) Read the page on the SDP web site about review and recall of notes and answer the questions that follow. Write up your answers.

(c) Look at the notes you took during the lesson on note taking and active listening, could they be improved and how? Submit a copy of the notes you took during the lesson with your answer.

You can look at an example of linear notes and how they are organised on the SDP web site to help you.

(d) Look at the page on the SDP web site about note forms to help recall and review. Produce either Cornell/Jeopardy style notes or a Mind Map (patterned notes) for the notes you took during the lesson on note taking and active listening.

(e) Think about the activities and information in the lesson and for self study about active listening and note taking. What was most useful and why? What will you or have you changed as a result of the lesson? What was least useful and why? Submit a write up of your responses to these questions and any other thoughts you may have on the subjects covered by this class and self study.

The self study activities are to be submitted at the second class with in Communication Studies (approximately 3 weeks time from the induction week). They form part of the Communication Studies CAPE programme and will be marked.

Reminder about Weekly Study Plan A copy of your weekly study plan should be submitted at the first Communications Studies Class