Our schoolwide focus this year is improving reading across the content areas. I am part of the team working on the next inservice–”during-reading strategies.” We’ll be looking at student notetaking specifically and one of the strategies we’ll be revisiting is using Inspiration as a notetaking tool.
My hot-of-the-presses Inspiration 8.0 arrived and I was eager to explore with it. Having just finished Friedman’s The World is Flat, I decided to see what it would feel like to take notes myself on Friedman’s first chapter.
As I worked with the chapter, I was able to more clearly see the comparisons and information patterns Friedman created. I am sharing it below in case it might help others in modeling notetaking for students. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/flat.html
