From the former CTAP 4 Information Literacy Website...

Technology strategies for note taking

This guide suggests bothlow-tech and high-tech strategies for using technology to teach students to effectively take notes.
Note Taking Guide (.doc)

Questioning Note Chart

This student sheet allows students to organize the information they find on their researchable questions. By placing the three researchable questions in the top row of the chart, students will be able add information they find below in each column. The general note chart is designed to record information when students are taking notes about a specific source, not notes about a question. Finally, the GIST note chart helps students take notes on a single source when they are using the GIST method of taking notes.
Note taking chart (.doc); Note taking chart source (.doc); Note taking Chart GIST (.doc)

GIST Note Taking

This guide provides student and teacher instructions for using the note taking and summary strategy of GIST.
GIST (.doc) ; GIST for High School (.doc)

Mayan Geography

This article is used for the GIST and rule-based note taking strategies.
Maya Geography (.doc); Maya Geography Stops (.doc)

Rule-based Note Taking/Summary (Deletion)

This guide provides student and teacher instructions for using the Rule-based note taking and summary strategy (deletion).
Rule-based Note Taking (.doc)

Fact Frenzy

This online resource teaches students how to take notes using the deletion method. This site includes a demonstration and sample texts to practice: 
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/factfrenzy/opening.html

Maya Notes Sample

This sample note guide has notes on a Mayan research question created using the deletion method. Use this sample to model organization techniques to prepare for the writing process.
Sample Maya Note Guide (.doc)

Electronic Summary Frame (for Online Information Text)

Based on the work of Kate Kinsella, this structure heavily scaffolds summary for students
Summary Frame (.doc) ; Summary Frame Teacher (.doc)

Hardcopy Summary Frame (with Sentence Starters)

Based on the work of Kate Kinsella, this structure scaffolds summary for students.
Summary frame High School (.doc)

Inspiration Summary Frame

Using Inpiration, this template is a graphic organizer for students as they construct their summary.
Summary Frame (.pdf converted from Inspiration format)

PowerPoint Note Taking Process

This document lists the PowerPoint note taking structure for students and teachers.
High School Note Taking Steps (.doc);  High School Notes Template (.ppt);
High School Notes Sample (.ppt)

Process Steps for Digital Note Taking

This  document lists the note taking structure for students and teachers as they work through the process of digital note taking.
High School Process (.doc)

Sum It Up

This hot little number teaches summary strategies in a fun and engaging way. The student document has a form students can use to write their summary. The directions explain how the activity works. The article is used in the training to practice. The website is where this activity was found.
Sum it up (.pdf); Sum it up directions (.pdf); Sum it up Practice (.doc)

Critical Note taking Resource List:

• Reading to Learn Reading to Learn: Teaching Summarization
  This straightforward lesson structure also includes lessons designed to build skills needed to summarize.
• Curry School of Education: Direct Instruction of Summary
  Curry School of. Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 7 Nov. 2001. ..... “GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Use in Any Content Area (.pdf)
• Reading Quest.org Comprehension Strategies: Summarizing
  This site has a description of summarizing and how students can be taught to summarize. Be sure to follow the additional links on this page for additional strategies and lessons.
• Five Lessons for Teaching Note Taking
  Scroll down a little to see the links to five different lessons on teaching this skill.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
  This is a succinct description of the differences between these three methods of using information.
• Colorado State University Writing Guide: Summarizing
• This comprehensive site has a ton of information about writing conventions including summarizing and paraphrasing.