Click the play button on the player below to listen to a lecture.  You should take notes while you listen.

Now view a PowerPoint presentation with my advice about how to take lecture notes.

• If you don't have PowerPoint, you can view a version of the presentaion here -- but the links won't work;
• another option is to download the free Open Office suite and read the presentaion in "Impress".

After viewing the presentation, compare your notes for this lecture to the notes in the presentation. Which version of notes is more effective? Why?