Rather than a traditional lecture, where students are hurrying to copy down notes on a powerpoint or into their notebooks with little structure, I use guided notes. At each class meeting, I go through these handouts, using a doc-cam, filling in all the missing information, which they copy into their own document for later study. I've found this frees the students up to better "digest" the material, since they don't have to write nearly as much and can instead listen to the lecture. This is the s