[nabs-l] class notes

[Sophie Trist]

I, too, take my notes using a braillenote. Someone said earlier 
that taking notes distracts them from a lecture. For me, the 
opposite is true. Taking notes keeps me focused. If I don't take 
notes, I sometimes space off and miss part of the lesson. What I 
do is, I take notes based on the teacher's lecture. Then, I read 
the chapter to reinforce the notes and cement my understanding of 
concepts I'm having trouble with.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Danielle Sykora <dsykora29 at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:19:23 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] class notes

I am also a high school student and I take my own notes using a
laptop. I believe that students should take their own notes as 
much as
possible in order to develop the optimal understanding of a 
lesson.

On 2/26/14, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
 I'm in high school, but thought I would comment. Accept for math 
where my
 notes are brailled, I type my notes. If the teacher has an 
outline posted, I
 will use that. I was taught that having my notes done any other 
way was
 completely unacceptable.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Feb 26, 2014, at 3:44 PM, "Steve Jacobson" 
<steve.jacobson at visi.com
 wrote:

 Sorry, I cannot help commenting even though I have not been a 
student in a
 while.  We don't always know what other
 disabilities someone may have that might affect their abilities 
to, for
 example, multi-task, but learning to take
 notes is a skill that will benefit one for their entire lives on 
the job.
 One just isn't always going to have a
 scribe to take notes.  My guess is that for at least a while, it 
is not
 easy for sighted people to take notes and
 concentrate on lectures, either, but it is an ability that can 
be
 developed in most cases.  Having someone else
 take notes just means that one will need to develop this skill 
later, when
 getting your job done might be on the
 line rather than a grade.

 Best regards,

 Steve Jacobson

 On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:10:21 -0500, justin williams wrote:

 Except for a few instances, I have always taken my own notes; 
maybe 99
 percent of the time. That includes right now.  I use a lap top, 
but I
 have
 used a notetaker in the past.  Hand written notes must be typed 
in to a
 computer for you to do anything with them; probably in Microsoft 
word.

 -----Original Message-----
 From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
Kierra
 Davis
 Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:06 PM
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
 Subject: [nabs-l] class notes

 --
 Kierra Davis
 Hello All,

 Just a quick question.

 I want to know how do you get notes for your classes? Do you 
take them
 yourself? Do you have a note taker? Does the school pay them, or 
are
 they
 doing it out of kindness? If they are handwriting the notes, how 
do you
 get
 them into a format you can access?

 I know this is more than one question, but I just want to know 
how
 others
 are handling this situation.

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