In a Minute

Review with students the purpose of minutes generated from meetings, or have them do a quick online review of meeting minutes. Example resource sites are Effective Meetings.com and Meeting Wizard.org.

Using minutes obtained from meetings that students attended, compare the notes taken by students to those recorded as the official minutes.

PRACTICE Strategy

1 - Pick out key ideas from given sentences

2 - Pick out key ideas from paragraphs

3 - Pick out key ideas from a conversation (could be from a recorded speech)

ASSIGNMENT

Given an audio or video recording of part of a meeting, students demonstrate their ability to record minutes of a meeting. Appropriate preparation would be to be able to refer to at least one official set of minutes from a previous meeting.

Keyboarding skills may be assessed during this activity.

Note: To obtain the recording needed for the above assignment, assign the task of making the audio or video recording to a student. A related task to develop keyboarding skills would be to make a typed transcript of the meeting from this recording, and divide the keyboarding task amongst the students involved.