Category: Student Posts 27

For sketch number 3 I decided to do a spread using my chemistry notes. A spread usually allows you to place a lot of items or in this case notes together in an interlinking way to help you create a bigger image.This form of note taking helped me memorize connections. During this creation process I […]

Throughout my film class, much of the note-taking process requires us to analyze elements of film—the lighting, setting, costumes, and more—in an effort to understand the deeper meaning and symbolism of certain motifs or characters. In this exercise, the process of selecting a specific frame from The Grand Budapest Hotel gave me an opportunity to […]

Sketch 3: In traditional text-based notes, information is recorded linearly, and can only be read a single way. Using this style of note taking allows me, as the notetaker, more freedom. I used my statistics notes from Bus350 class. The notes themselves were, prior to me making visual notes, very confusing. The topic of statistics […]

My visual notes page is all about supply, which I am learning about in my economics class. This section of notes highlights the things that can change supply specifically. The creative process was very different from taking traditional notes. Visual notes require a lot more time and critical thinking. However this critical thinking aspect allowed […]

For sketch #3, I visually took note on my PSYC 110 class. For this class, sometimes i find it a bit hard to understand the concept because there were a lot of words I didn’t understand. Majority of those words are parts of the organ or a biological term; therefore, if I haven’t researched more […]

I have never done visual note taking like this before so it was interesting. Although I don’t think it would be too useful for me when actively taking notes, it was helpful that it forced me to revisit my notes. Sometimes studying your class notes can be a bit of a drag but by going […]