[OS X TeX] Lectures in beamer & combined lecture notes

[chlists at me.com]

Dear list,

I am in the process of putting together a 3-day short-course for M.Sc. students in geosciences and was wondering whether anyone here has some advice on how to best/most efficiently. I'd like to combine individual beamer presentations into a coherent set of annotated lecture notes. 

My current plan was to use the recommended beamerarticle package to do that, maybe in conjunction with the tufte-handout class. However, as there are many people on the list with extensive teaching experience someone might have other recommendations.

Many thanks,
Chris