<p>Do any of you use tape recorders to tape lectures? I find that often a professor is talking so fast so before I can write something down, s/he is on another point already, my sentence is unfinished, and I'm rushing to keep up with the next one. And if I think about something else or am tired, it's even harder to get the details that are sometimes so crucial.</p>
<p>I'm looking for a recorder that lets you upload the file onto a the computer. (That's a digital recorder, right?) How much would one spend on a simple recorder meant for lectures? Any recommended models or brands? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>i have a olympus digital voice recorder.. the mp3 i get out of the lecture ends up huge .. just to warn you. also it's a bit difficult to go through the file to find what you want.. and you have to have time to listen to it. i used it in hs for bio and i never listened to anything i recorded, but i'm hoping to use it in college.. but that hasn't started yet.. so that's all i can say.</p>
<p>people always talk about this and determine that its not feasable. its simply too much work to listen to the same lecture twice. just take notes the first time around.</p>
<p>If you have an iPod, I saw on the morning show (or something...) a nifty device that hooks up to your iPod and lets you record things, including lectures. automatic upload to iTunes on your computer, i assume</p>
<p>if uve got a tablet pc, theres this program from microsoft called one note that lets u take digital notes and record the lecture through a mic thats on the comp.</p>
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Do any of you use tape recorders to tape lectures? I find that often a professor is talking so fast so before I can write something down, s/he is on another point already, my sentence is unfinished, and I'm rushing to keep up with the next one. And if I think about something else or am tired, it's even harder to get the details that are sometimes so crucial.
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Don't record notes; it's a crutch that wastes time listening to the SAME material multiple times (you should ask yourself why the rest of the class seems to be ok without doing that), and won't be allowed when you get into smaller classes upper-division. You probably need to improve your notetaking skills. Bite the bullet and work on your skills now. You shouldn't be trying to produced a transcript of what is said, if that's what you're doing. In fact when you write "my sentence is unfinished" that's already a clue you don't have the best approach, even if you're just rewriting what was said in your own words. You shouldn't be writing complete sentences in class, you should listen to a paragraph or two from the speaker and then jot down a few words to remind yourself of the key points. Later after the lecture while it is still fresh in your mind is when you go back over your notes and fill in more detail.</p>
<p>And to step back even further, have you done the reading in advance? The college lecture is a place to amplify, explain, and go beyond what is covered in the reading. The standard assumption is that you've completed the reading and have built a framework in your mind to understand the topic of the lecture (including familiarity with the details), so the speaker can go from there. </p>
<p>There have been dozens of threads asking about using a digital recorder for taping lectures. The general consensus is:</p>
<p>Your professor needs to OK having his/her lecture recorded.
At a later date, you have to re-listen to the lecture and take notes…essentially doubling the amount of time you spend for each class.
If charts or drawings are done on a blackboard, you may have no record of that in your initial paper or typed notes.
In science and math classes, a recorded lecture may be of little value.</p>
<p>Re: OneNote 2007 (Beta)</p>
<p>For those who try to type their notes into a laptop or, better yet, use a Tablet PC to “write” your notes onto your screen with a stylus, the newest Beta version of OneNote is available for download. With OneNote, you can type or take “written notes” and use either the built-in mic on your laptop or an external mic to capture the lecture. OneNote’s tool bar has a time-stamp icon that can be “pasted” to a particular line or word in your notes that can be played back at that point. Unlike having to play back a digital recording to find where your professor mentioned “George Washington”, in OneNote, you write down “George Washington” and paste a time-stamp. Afterwards, you can play back that portion of the audio where the professor begins his discussion on “George Washington”.</p>
<p>Now, much depends on your internal or external mic and the acoustics of the room. My nephew has a M200 Toshiba Tablet PC with a unique three mic array on the screen. Two of the mics act to cancel stray noise making for a clearer recording. This means some experimentation on your part to see if this feature will work for you.</p>
<p>My son taped some of his lectures--he is ADD though. He said it helped to be able to concentrate on some of the visuals and not be obsessed with note taking. Think it is prob. most useful in science classes.</p>
<p>I would think it would be least useful in a science class, because you have zero visuals when you go back and listen to them...</p>
<p>most professors discourage this and encourage their students to develop the necessary notetaking skills to proceed in school. There are services on most campuses that can help you modify your notetaking so that it is more efficient and recording would no longer be useful.</p>
<p>You will see very few to no students doing this.</p>
<p>be careful, a lot of professors wont let you tape because their words arent copy written, at least thats what my history professor told our class last semester... i just assume take notes in class because if yall are anything like i am you would probably tape the class then never listen to it</p>
<p>again, screw that, I'm paying 47,000 for the lectures. I'm sure under fair-use laws I should be able to record them.
Also their words are copy-written to them the minute they live their mouth.</p>
<p>Listening to the same lecture twice isn't really worth the effort unless your professor is the type that likes to give test questions on obscure details briefly mentioned in lecture. In some lower level introductory science classes, depending on the lecturer, the lecture may be just a cursory rehash of the book, so reading and doing the problems in the book was more effective anyway. Plus it's harder to follow along if you can't see what the person is talking about.</p>
<p>If the professor says you can't record, and you do, you can get sent through university judicial processes for intellectual property violations. Not saying you will, but going in saying "$47,000 a year means I can do anything I want" probably won't fly.</p>
<p>Again, you won't see many people doing this. Most professors will want a reason that you NEED to do it (not just "I can't write that fast" or "I can't write and look at the pictures at the same time" but instead "I have a learning disability" or "I am hard of hearing") and may ask for documentation before permitting it. They're bound to wonder why everyone else in a 100 person lecture can follow and take satisfactory notes, when you can't...</p>