Both of them take notes on their own laptop computers using collaborative word processing software called Aspects .
Aspects allows students and notetakers to see each other's notes while writing their own.
In this way, notetakers model good notetaking during the class period, and students leave class with their own notes and with those of the notetaker. Photonics' Cooperative infrared networking device allows student and notetaker to work together without wires. The Macintosh PowerBook provides portable, battery-operated computing power. After class, students integrate their notes with those of the notetaker and are tutored to use their enriched notes to study electronically.