How to get better at learning names

It that season again: A lot of new faces and a lot of new names. How to get better at learning students’ names.  

Podcast notes

How to get better at learning names

Dave and I talk about the approaches we use to learn students’ names.

Attendance2 iphone app on iTunes (iOS) There is an iPad app, in addition to the iPhone app, but they don’t sync/connect with each other. It is best to choose the device that you’ll have with you during each class session, to make the process of attendance tracking easier.

SoundEver app on iTunes – saves audio recordings into Evernote

Recommendations

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie  (Dave)

Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle  (Bonni references this book, in relation to Dave’s recommendation)

Visual thinking talk by Giulia Forsythe – her bio on Twitter is great: “I work at a university supporting teaching & lifelong learning. I think in pictures. Doodling helps me be a better listener, problem solver and communicator.”

Article: A learning secret: Don’t take notes with a laptop from Scientific American Counter-point article: Study proves why we need digital literacy education

Pencast example from Bonni on marketing (created with a LiveScribe smartpen)

Doodle breaks My visual notes from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipine

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