I recorded my lectures AND took notes. After class I would listen to the lecture again and fill in any holes I had in my notes, then I would go back again and organize them and type them up and used that to study by. It would be nice if I could actually afford the software where the lecture would be recorded and it would instantly come up on my screen as words I can read. From what I gather this technology has been around for a while but hasn't yet been perfected enough for everyday practical use such as 4 block classes per day, 5 days a week.
I dunno most voice to text software I've seen was rather crappy. It'd certainly be awesome if it actually worked, but most things I've seen needed about an hour of calibration for just one person's voice, and even then it wasn't all that accurate. Might be better now, though, dunno.
ew. that crap? just give me a pen and note and I'll pwn whatever the gadgets they have
Haha, I
like my toys. :P
Silly and useless? It's efficient, fluid, and quick. Are we talking about the same thing?
Loopy special handwriting where all the letters are connected? It might also be that it simply hasn't been preferred or taught all that extensively the entire time I was in school, but most people could more easily and more quickly write in block letters, as well as having their handwriting be neater and more legible in block letters, among my classmates and other students close to my age.
I'll grant that could be a vicious cycle sort of thing, though.
It's called developing a customer base.
I know.
Schools aren't (well, shouldn't be) the place for that, though, to me.
In business, yes. We have clients that send faxes to us, and request faxes.
Huh. Must just be the career I'm in, I've never touched or used a fax once in my job. I use email for anything that would have previously used a fax. But then, I'm already spending 95% of my time on a computer for my job anyways.
Maybe it's silly to you to get back money but the rest of us can use that money.
I more meant the concept of rebates are silly. I understand why they do it (they get to claim it's "on sale" but they only have to give the sale to like 5-10% of the people who make the purchase), but it still rubs me very much the wrong way.
I don't carry a keyboard with me for taking quick notes.
Yeah, I'm prolly weird in that regard. I take my laptop with me basically everywhere, and anytime I need to take notes, I either use that, or I use one of the many whiteboards I have in either my office at home or at my desk at work.
I have no problem reading my notes later.
You probably have much,
much better handwriting than me, lol.
And you think learning cursive is a waste of time? It sounds to me like you had a lot of time to waste.
Of course I did, I was a kid. I also spent a ton of my time reading, and playing on the computer, and all sorts of other things that I enjoyed.
Well, that's mature. :roll:
Wait, what? People are accusing me of being
mature now!?
Do you even read what you post?
Sometimes. But seriously, in poorer school districts, the teachers are far more likely to only stick with exactly what the curriculum dictates, whereas teachers in richer school districts often have much more leniency with their curriculum to teach what they see is actually more useful, meaning that for a while, richer school districts were teaching their students how to type, whereas poorer school districts were teaching their students cursive.
Boy, have you got it backwards!
Fast typing skills will get you a job in data entry at DMV. Whoopee!
:roll:
Let me know how effective you are at doing any job which involves significant amounts of typing (which means more and more jobs since computers are being used more and more in a wide variety of positions) if you're not able to type without staring at the keyboard and if you can't type using more than two fingers. I know as a software developer, while you technically
can do that, you're likely to be
far less effective as a programmer than you are if you can touch-type.
And you think learning cursive writing is a time waster?
Haha, just because something isn't a necessary skill and/or isn't necessarily useful for the general population doesn't mean it can't be useful to some people. I'm sure writing in cursive isn't a waste of time for some people (such as yourself). It all depends on if you'll use it and gain any benefit from it, which most school children (at least anymore) won't.
I'm hoping that you're just being silly.
Well, I do that a lot, too.
But seriously, how many kids do you currently think even know what a genealogy record is, or where to find them, or anything else?
