Laptops in class?

[00clone]

Be careful about recording lectures without the express permission of the professor. The lecture and any accompanying material is the intellectual property of the professor and is protected by copyright law. While most profs will probably not have a problem with recordings for personal use, some may have concerns with you sharing them. Just something to keep in mind. If you are worried, just drop in to the profs office hours or catch them before or after class and ask.

Very good warning, considering he said nothing about recording, nor sharing lectures. But hey, thanks for informing us of your intellectual property rights, professor pants too tight.

[cyclonehokiece]

Very good warning, considering he said nothing about recording, nor sharing lectures. But hey, thanks for informing us of your intellectual property rights, professor pants too tight.

Look up what a Livescribe is before replying, it does have the capability to record lectures.

[Daserop]

pen and paper. I tended to remember more that way vs typing it all out.

[00clone]

Look up what a Livescribe is before replying, it does have the capability to record lectures.

I think your elbow patches are sewn on too tightly.

[iahawkhunter]

Be careful about recording lectures without the express permission of the professor. The lecture and any accompanying material is the intellectual property of the professor and is protected by copyright law. While most profs will probably not have a problem with recordings for personal use, some may have concerns with you sharing them. Just something to keep in mind. If you are worried, just drop in to the profs office hours or catch them before or after class and ask.

IANAL, but recording lectures for personal use would seem to clearly fall under fair-use within copyright law.

[ILiftWithRoyce]

I'm getting stuff together to bring to campus, and I'm not sure if I should take class notes with my laptop or the traditional pen & paper. What's your experience with this been like? I've heard that laptop bans by professors is becoming a national trend. What about at Iowa State?

Never had a professor tell my class we couldn't use laptops, even in small classes. Its a lot faster for me to type than write so I always use my laptop except in chem or bio classes where I have to draw a lot

[CLONECONES]

print off slides 3 to a page with the lines next to the slide...did that for 4 years and eliminated doubling up the info on the slide

hated when professors wouldn't give the slides to us tho

[colbycheese]

I use a laptop for some classes, and a pen and paper for other classes. It all depends on the class for me. Some professors teach entirely from powerpoint presentations. Those classes seem to lend themselves to taking notes w/in powerpoint w/ a laptop. Also, OneNote (in MS Office) is really useful for taking notes too, especially if the teacher teaches w/ PDFs.

I like using a laptop just for the fact that it limits how much paper I have to use. Also, a 2 lb netbook w/ a 10" screen beats the heck out of lugging around a giant binder full of notes and handouts.

Also, RELEARN CURSIVE if you've since forgotten how to write in it since stopping to use it in 5th grade! When I was an undergrad, I realized that I couldn't write words fast enough in manuscript, so I retaught myself cursive. That was well worth the effort as cursive seems like it's a thousand times faster.

Just my 2 cents.

[CYdTracked]

Granted when I went to ISU over 10 years ago (man I'm starting to feel old saying that ) there wasn't much for Wifi across campus yet but seemed like most of the people that brought their laptops were easily distracted and wound up playing games on them more than they took notes. I sat behind a guy one class that played NFL Blitz the entire time and it got distracting for me too trying not to watch him play it. Not sure why he even showed up to class when he wasn't even paying attention. I can't imagine just how many more distractions you would have now with internet so available about anywhere on campus now and devices with mobile internet built in where you have the temptations of social media and online games at your fingertips. I'd still recommend the traditional pen and paper notes to keep the temptations to get distracted away.