How do you take notes in meetings and lectures?
- One Note?
- Drawing (doodle revolution)?
- Scridb?
- Word?
- How easy do you find to reference your notes after the meeting
or lecture?
I’ve been doing the Gamification course for a few weeks now and
have been using Dialog Mapping techniques to capture the key
information in a format that I can easily reference.
As a comparison I saw some notes taken from week one of the course on the
Gamification site by Sudarshan Gopaladesikan
It immediately struck me that in order to review this I would need
to either be very familiar with the content (which is unlikely,
even for the author after a few weeks). Or I would need to reread
the notes and hope to make sense of them. Invariably I would lose
some of the tacit knowledge I had at the time of writing.
Dialog Mapping
Compare this to the the notes I’m taking using dialog
mapping.
From here I can see a structure – this is not typical IBIS
notation but helps my layout my home page if you will. Drilling
into Game Elements I get to
further explored as to reasons why game elements only doesn’t work
and also a look at common elements.
And then allows me to drill down further if needed.
The benefit I have with this format is that as I complete more of
the course I will be able to build on, extend, cross reference and
develop the ideas and rationale behind the use of Gamification in a
format that is easy to understand, can be shared and acts as a
reference point for future work in this area.
If you are interested in the techniques I recommend you look
up
Jeff Conklin
from CogNexus Group
Paul Culmsee and his awesome Clever work arounds blog
and if you are lucky enough to be in the UK in October 17/18th
sign up for 2 day master class on Solving complex problems with Issue
Mapping.
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