As an undergrad, I got really good at taking notes. However, I took them according to my own odd little system, and I’m not sure they would have been of any use to someone else. Now I can be less sad about missing out on the ShareNotes.com concept, wherein college students take notes, upload them, share them (was that not implied?), and get paid if their notes are awesome enough to be downloaded. If you’re a spectacular note-taker, and you’re planning on showing up to class and taking notes anyway, you may as work your marketable skill.
ShareNotes.com is a unique online lecture note sharing service. We’ve created a collaborative environment that allows college students who share classes to also share their lecture notes. In just minutes you can be part of the ShareNotes.com community. Bolster your study materials, share your lecture notes and maybe even make some money.
You can take advantage of ShareNotes.com a couple of different ways. You may post your quality lecture notes and make money each time your notes are downloaded. Or if you would prefer, you can choose to download quality lecture notes that have been posted by your colleagues. Either way, you win. You may choose to do one or the other, but we think you’ll do a little of both.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
I have enormous difficulty wrapping my mind around this. Can understand people in the large undergrad service courses not sharing ftf but outside that? I would like to see some stats on this service in a couple of years, especially on density of usage by level of course or year group of individual user.
When I was an undergrad, my majors courses were small. My physics year cohort was five people. Graduate classes were larger but you still saw folks continually and could borrow their notes if you timed it properly – not the day before exam.
Does this relate to the difference in lectures between (a) read and then listen and (b) listen and then read? Someone in the tower needs a grant to go study this.
Comment by Simple Country Physicist 05.31.09 @ 3:51 amI’d never heard of sharenotes.com, guess I’ll check it out in the fall.
Comment by s. hunter 06.06.09 @ 12:29 pmThanks for the post. I can assure you that there are thousands of users interacting through ShareNotes.com. We started the site about a year ago and have jsut started this year to give a good push.
I think we’re on a good path thus far.
Bill Novak
CEO – ShareNotes.com