Reply to Sean,
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu ([email protected])'s
article
I don't agree. I think there is much more at work here. Slides are
limited in size and text content simply because there is so much
information a person can absorb simultaneously by hearing and seeing.
So the slide with text is simply an anchor, a high-level memento to
rest one's eyes on, while the speaker gives some detail pertaining to
the high-level points that the slide makes.
For lectures I basically have a choice between two options:
1. Take notes and not remember a darn thing that was said. 2. Not take
any notes and remember the lecture.
I've seen a few raised eyebrows at times, but this is why I never
write anything down at a meeting or lecture I'm attending--it draws my
focus away from the material being presented.
What I really like is when a lecturer provides pre-written notes for
their
presentation. This way I can get everything out of the lecture
itself, and
still have material to review later if I want to be reminded of some
detail.
Other than a professor or two I've seen precious few people actually
do
this however.
I also find that taking notes isn't much use to me. I can't take good enough
notes to get everything out of them, so whatever I don't remember outright,
I need to be able to read out of the text. Mostly I end up remembering what
was taught (as in a list of topics) and how they relate and then dig out
the textbook (or wikipidia) for the details. This works because, if I known
what questions to ask and topics to Google, I can almost always figure things
out my self .
After 6 years of collage, all the notes I have taken could fit in a 1.5 inch
binder
