Strategy: Recording lectures

8 Keywords: Note Taking, Recorder, Recording, Digital Recorder, Minidisk, Specific Learning Difficulties, Olympus, Audio Recorder

Olympus digital recorder"...because I can use the Dictaphone for all the lectures. I am not missing out on lectures. I don’t have to worry about writing notes because all the information is there on the Dictaphone. I can go home and I can listen to it as many times as I like. I can save it to my disk, so I can put it on my hard drive. I can do whatever I like."

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Don't forget to ask your lecturer whether it is all right to use a recorder. There is a Skill document about recording policies and procedures (PDF download) which you may find useful in this situation.

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"Well I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t write. Because I knew that I could discuss everything. All the teachers thought that I didn’t have a problem with that. I could research, which was fantastic. They couldn’t believe how much research I could do. And retain the information from research... So I use my Olympus DS40 recorder for note taking... I can actually download the podcasts onto the DS40, which means I don’t have to download them onto my PC."

- Guenevere

Tip

There are several ways of converting your WMA files to MP3 files if you do not want to listen to them in the DSS Player or Windows Media player. This can be helpful if you want to save different sections of your recording by using the free editing program called Audacity. One converter is called Smart Audio and Curriculum Suport offer advice on using iTunes to convert the files.