Hello, I am finding in my final pre-reqs (pharmacology for example) that the instructors largely lecture off of PowerPoints. So far I have been using my tablet (a hacked HP touch pad not optimized for android, but working none the less, but kind of killing the battery.) I use an app, EZPdf Reader to annotate the PPs as PDFs.
It's OK. I am wondering if there is anything else out there that you find to work better? I plan on getting either an iPad Mini or a new Samsung Note 8.0 (coming out soon.) I am not the fastest typist, so I like being able to just scribble my notes in my own handwriting. so I guess my questions are:
Do you or classmates use a tablet for note taking?
Are the bulk of your lectures taught with PPs?
Are there any apps or tablets that you might recommend?
Our instructors post the lecture outline in a .docx format so we can download it. I open it up and add notes (in red) to that outline. Now for flash cards I use a Microsoft Office template for shipping labels. I type the nursing questions and answers on the shipping labels and print them out on Avery 5163 sheets and slap them on the back and front of 3x5 index cards. It can get a little expensive but it saves a whole lot of time (especially since I make 2 sets, one for me and one for my brother that is also in the nursing program with me).[/quote']
allycat77, BSN, RN
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