Study while commuting???

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I'm not looking for ideas on how to not get caught read while driving (lol), just wondering if anyone records lectures or is it possible to record lectures to listen to while driving. I will be commuting about an hour each way to nursing school this fall and I'm trying to figure out how to make that productive time. And its a rural commute so taking a bus is not an option nor is car pooling.

I'm probably the only person to not own a smart phone or a laptop (hear I'll be needing both for nursing school though so that will soon change) so here is one idea I had: can I record lectures on a smart phone or a laptop so I can listen to them while I drive? Anyone out there do that?

Pipestone, I just emailed my profs to ask if they would mind if I recorded the lectures. One prof has emailed me back and said she prefers not to be recorded and thanked me for asking. She said she views her lectures as a more intimate discussion discussion of the material and uses examples from personal life and those of patients. So make sure to ask first!

...One prof has emailed me back and said she prefers not to be recorded and thanked me for asking. She said she views her lectures as a more intimate discussion discussion of the material and uses examples from personal life and those of patients...

I'm not sure I understand her reason for this. Or, I should say, I understand it, but it's not valid IMO.

I taped lectures with my phone and would listen to them as I studied my powerpoints and notes.

I also listened to them as I did my grocery shopping, house chores (dust, vac, cleaning etc), while folding or sorting laundry as well as when I was commuting to school. My commute was only 20 minutes but I tried to use every available minute I had to get in my studies :)

I'm not sure I understand her reason for this. Or, I should say, I understand it, but it's not valid IMO.

Or its his/her way nicely saying no because they don't want anything they say being put back in their face should there be a descrepency and they just used the above reasoning as why they don't want to be taped ;)

We had one professor have no issues with taping, that is until he said something and it came back to bite him in the butt.

Listening to recorded lectures while commuting got me through nursing school. I've retained so much information listening to recorded lectures.

Better than recording lectures, IMO, is recording your own study notes.

You benefit from the process of creating them and they contain only that information which you feel you need to study... much more efficient study time than just listening to material, some of which you already know.

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Susan 102 has it right; you need permission to record anyone. I have in my syllabus that students may record audio (not video), for their personal use and may not post anything on any social media. Why? not because I'm afraid to be "bitten in the butt"; but because I occasionally misspeak and have to correct myself, or some of my attempts at jokes fall flat, even if they don't I don't want that on Facebook being taken totally out of context.

Most of the students that do record simply put their recorder up on the desk near me, and I have no problem with that. Not sure how well it records everything as I tend to wander around the classroom rather than stay in one place though.

I just felt, out of courtesy, that I should ask permission first. Another prof emailed me back and said it would be fine if I don't distribute it. I respect both prof's choices.

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