Paperless Challenge Podcast Part 2
Eric Mack and Tracy Hooten from
The Student Tablet PC have posted
part 2 of what I believe to be a 4 part series talking about their experience with the paperless challenge. Just had time to listen to it and once again they share some very valuable information and like the first one it was a delight to listen to and again can't wait for the next one!
I plan to comment on it tomorrow like I did the first one if time permits but this week is busy so please forgive the lack of posting. I should have a lot of major exams and quizzes wrapped up by the weekend so I should make at least one decent entry then for now check out their
podcast!
Paperless Challenge Podcast, Part Two
Week 3! You Know You're A Dork When...
This weeks You Know You're A Dork When...on a date your able to work the word erythrocyte into the conversation sometime during the night.
AND why did noone tell me I was using the wrong You're for two weeks! Man as you can see I did better in science and math in school than I did in english!
Dorko's Corner: You Know You're A Dork When...
Comments from Tracy
Well without my knowledge apparently the only way anyone could comment on my post was if they had a blogger account. I actually did not know this so I changed the settings today so that anyone that wants to leave a comment should be able to now! Hopefully I won't get some weirdo posting weird stuff on here but I am sure I can remove that if need be.
I discovered this when Tracy from
Student Tablet PC sent me a comment about a comment (go figure) that I left about their most recent
podcast. If you still have not
checked it out I suggest you do!
Here's the comment...
"For eBooks, I think both Eric and I agree that we still like the non-digital version of the book. In fact, most students I know with tablets value the paper textbook and even use it frequently. The thing we're trying to push is a digital version available so that one doesn't have to scan for hours to use tablet functionality and to save on weight when needed. I like to have the book open on my desk at home, but no way I'm carrying two 7 lb books with me to class or in my backpack at all. That's a lot of valuable time wasted during breaks, lunch or bus rides when I could be reading."I personally thought for awhile that we could go completely without those big and heavy books but Eric and Tracy must have already known better and only wanted to have a digital edition on top of their paper book brother. Recently I have concluded that this would also be the most preferred method for me as well.
The main slogan that ebooks stores such as Mc Graw Hill and SafariX have going is that they claim their ebooks are cheaper. This much is true and I didn't mind saving over $150 this semester by going the ebook route but I truly do miss my paper textbooks and although I have not decided yet, I may go back to that method.
In a perfect world a publisher would sell me their textbook and provide a digital version with the book. Then I could use the textbook at home but would be able to use the digital one in class, on the bus and on the go. I sometimes take for granted that my school is a commuter school so my car is never more than 15 minutes away from my class. So when I spend an entire day at school I often used my car as a locker so I would not have to carry all my books with me all the time but could get to them if I had to. I know friends at MSU and U of M that have to walk great distances to get to class and this would not be practical for them so having a ebook in their case would be very beneficial.
Also saving time by not having to scan them would be a tremendous benefit. I know I was only able to scan about the first 9 chapters of my Anatomy book this term before classes started and my schedule got incredibly busy and spending the time to scan them without a auto paper feeder was not a practical use of my time anymore. I had ebook editions for my other classes and that were stored on my tablet and ready to go whenever I needed them and this was incredibly nice!
The best thing about having an ebook version for me is having it almost all the time but more importantly is having digital versions of all the figures. I am a visual learner so when I can copy and paste those figures into my notes and make little comments around them it really turns on the learning process for me.
My histology book last semester did not have a ebook version but did ship with a CD that had all the figures on it and I found this is incredibly useful and if publishers are not willing to include an ebook version with their regular textbook a CD filled with all the figures would be nice at the very least.
There are consequences to ebooks alone though and I hope to point them out throughout this semester since it seems that if you want to purchase an ebook you are going to have to go the ebook route or the paper textbook route and there seems to be little space in between. Although there are two current options I think if you would like to have both a digital version and paper.
- You could buy the paper version and scan and digitalize it yourself but this requires a lot of work in my opinion. or
- Buy an ebook version and then print out the entire book yourself
The second option is the one I am looking into right now since I have already bought the ebook version this semester. A lot of the time you may even skip certain chapters in class so having a hard copy in that case may not even be necessary. The thing I have to look into is how much printing all those pages is going to cost. I have no idea how many pages my printer can print without having to buy a new ink cartridge but I suppose since an ink cartridge for my printer costs around $30 and if I can get away with 2 for a 1000 page book I would break out about even if I had bought the textbook alone. We always seem to have paper in the house so this would not be an issue. I also need to go to Kinkos and see how much they charge per printout and see what kind of deal I would get there.
So it's not a perfect world and this whole ebook thing still needs some work but I think publishers have made some effort we just need to push them a little harder so we can make it work better for all us.
Thanks Tracy for the email and can't wait for the second podcast!
SECURITY!
Alright I know I promised to write about my adobe ebook today but like most of my plans I have to make a detour. The thing is last night before I was heading to bed my Zinio copy of PC Mag came in and splattered across the top was the title "Stomp out spyware and viruses once and for all." Now I know most of you've heard about it and I know anyone that has a computer has had to deal with all the adware, spyware, and viruses that try to work themselves into our beloved machines every day. But the concept of staying secure and keeping your laptop protected from a student's perspective is far more important than that of the daily desktop user.
My tablet is my digital notebook, it has all my class notes, handouts, and even some of my digital ebooks on it. If anything was to ever infiltrate my defenses I know I would have to waste an afternoon trying to fix it and hope nothing was lost or got deleted in the process. With so much valuable information stored on a students laptop I am still amazed by the number of individuals that fail to keep their anti-virus software up to date or shell out the extra cash for an anti-spyware program. I know personally I probably have spend around $100 to get myself a security suite and anti-spyware program but I feel much safer now when ever I log onto the internet.
Schools are terrific places for viruses and the such to run free as its the perfect breeding ground with so many computers all connected to the same network. And although it may be a lot of money for buying the protection you need its much better than spending a Saturday afternoon at your local computer shop trying to get your computer up and running again. When working with students computers and fixing them the number 1 problem I see is some sort of adware or spyware on their machine. In the article it mentioned that the "Geek Squad" which is a subdivision of Best Buy found over 2000 pieces of that junk on someone's computer. My personal record is about 200 but I am sure the amount of stuff that finds its way onto our computers is far greater than many of us even suspect.
I guess I can't stress this enough but a student's life involves computers. I don't know of any student that does not work with a computer every day. Learning about spyware and how to stop this stuff it is so important! I try to help those that come to me but honestly there is a lot you can do before you show up to my door step with a computer that takes 15 minutes to boot up.
Number 1 get a Internet Security Suite. Many of them exist out there and PC mag does a terrific job detailing their favorites. I don't like to be a spokes person for PC Mag but if you know nothing about spyware head to the bookstore and pick up a copy of their February 21st edition. I was glad to see that my personal choice of Zone Alarms security suite earned the editors pick. I switched to Zone Alarm from Norton when Norton was really taking up a lot of resources. I know that Comcast my internet provider provides a free copy of McAfee for all its users and that is what is on every other computer in the household and I have had no real problems with that software either. Of course ANYTHING is better than nothing! So get SOMETHING!
I also use Adaware for my antispam and it was not reviewed in the issue but it has also served me well over the past couple years. I even downloaded SpyDocotr which won an editors choice in the issue and it was not able to fine any bugs on my computer! So I must be doing something right since the articles tossed around crazy statistics about how many people have spyware, viruses, or adware on their computer.
So I could go on and on about this issue and bore the heck out of you since I am sure you've heard it all before but once again a student's laptop contains a lot of important stuff so spend the extra dough to keep your computer clean and you won't regret it I promise!
Working with Ebooks
Alright as much as I hate doing this I do have to dip into the dirty frustrations I am having with ebooks this semester. They have tons of advantages don't get me wrong, but I just never gave enough credit to those big and heavy textbooks. Something so simple as a hard covered book filled with hundreds of pages is an experience that I am finding harder and harder to simulate with my ebooks.
My single greatest complaint is real estate. In a big textbook you can sprawl it out across your desk you can see a lot of information at one glance. You can see figures, and text and then take your notes on a computer or piece of paper all at the same with very little effort. When you have an ebook this scenario takes on a new look.
At first I thought I was going to be able to do everything from the comfort of my Tablet PC. I quickly realized that wasn't going to cut it. I then hooked up an extra monitor to view the ebook with and used the tablet to take notes with. This worked for awhile until I ran into my next problem. A textbook can show two pages and has images embedded through out it. This is a similar case with my Adobe ebook so its not so bad there but my SafariX book which I view online is setup so that it has text break image break more text. So basically you can not see the image and the text at the same time without scrolling up and down between the two. For someone that sometimes has a hard time learning and needs to see the text, the image, and take notes about it all at the same time it was hard to do with an ebook, although it is surprisingly simple and easy to do with a regular old textbook.
So my latest solution may be kind of extreme, especially of those that aren't computer geeks like myself. But basically I now use my tablet to take notes, my old laptop to view the textbook with and an extra monitor that serves as extra space for displaying images or display notes from class that I can compare the book to as I add my own notes and read the book. I guess it can be best described with a picture so here ya go!
Tomorrow I hope to be able to go into the commenting issues I am having with my Adobe ebook!
A Quick OneNote Entry
Well Tracy from
Student Tablet PC is going to try to make the move to OneNote and
and this article on OneNote also appeared on my RSS feader so I figured I would share. I wrote a brief article on my OneNote experience early this semester,
A Semester With OneNote, and I think I highlighted some of the key features but of course didn't mention everything. I also mentioned that you can download a
free 180 day trial of OneNote and this is the single most program I promote. Microsoft should realy pay me for how many people I tell OneNote about and then show them how to setup their digital Notebook.
The biggest thing with OneNote for students that I have worked with is that they are unfamilar with it. They either have never heard about OneNote or never really wanted to take the time to see what it is really all about. Its not till I show them my notes that they start to understand the power of it over using other programs like word to take notes. Also the biggest thing is that a lot of people see me using OneNote on my tablet but I quickly tell them that I used OneNote way before I even had a tablet. The tablet just makes the experience that much better. So you don't have to have a tablet, its free for a semester, and if you spend some time with it you can really start to appreciate it and realize why the founders like to call the program "an add-in pack for your brain"
Before you jump on the OneNote train though test drive it as I have noticed there are a lot of frustrations with it as no program is perfect. The boxes are weird sometimes, making lists kind of messes me up here and there, and tables are not supported (but they are in OneNote 12 :) However simply having the ability to have all your notes in one place is extremly valuable. Also with all the cool feaures included in OneNote 12 it makes learning how to use OneNote 2003 now that much better of a concept. For those of you that are not up to date with all the new products and are asking yourself what the heck is OneNote 12 let just say that as cool I think OneNote is, OneNote 12 just blows me away somtimes! Of course I haven't had the chance to play with it myself but if its anything they say its going to be I can't wait!
Dorko's Comments on Paperless challenge Podcast:
I've been busy studying for anatomy this week so haven't got around to posting this but if you didn't know there is a very good podcast from Tracy from
Student Tablet PC and
Eric Mack who I learned also has an excellent blog about working with a Tablet PC. Both them talk about the tools and software they use in this first podcast and I definetly recomend you listen to it.
I found it interesting that they mentioned that they needed the use of an extra monitor. I personally have found this very important as well and I wonder what they would think if they also had to deal with ebooks instead of regular textbooks. I have concluded if I ever have the money a small cheap laptop would have to one day replace the textbook and the my current tablet would be used to take notes. Actually a slate model would be ideal for this in my opinion. Of course if it ever goes totally paperless I think the need for multiple models or ever digital paper would have to come into play. I've seen articles on flexible digital paper and these are all things I look foward to. I guess I mention this because although Tracy says she would love the idea of digital paper I still have my doubts. I was as eager as anyone when I learned two of my book would be available as ebooks but have since come to the conclusions of dealing with them for about a month now that there are definetly some negatives. I'd like to point this out later but let me just say for now that ebooks are definetly something that needs to be looked into on a personal level. Try the demos first and check my blog for opinions as I go as I have certainly learned a lot by working and trying to work with them this semester.
I guess everyone likes the idea of ebooks and I wish I could recomend this without any regrets but like the whole paperless situatoin we still have a ways to go. The steps are definetly starting to take shape but there still seems to be so holes that need to be filled.
Well I just thought I would comment on that since I have a lot of experience with it but also in their article they mentioned a lot of the software the use and I must say I use much of the same software myself. GoBinder, OneNote, PDF annotator, and Acrobat are all tools that I have equipped my laptop with. Both of them also mention the use of a program called mind manager. I looked into the program and it looks interesting. I may even download it myself and give it a try. I looked into purchasing it since I never liked to get hooked on a trial and then soon relaize that if I want to keep it I am going to have shell out a ton of money. A student edition of MindManager basic costs $115 which in my opinion is A LOT of money. Unless I totally love it then I am going to have to keep that program out of my list of recomendations and put it in the if you have extra money category since as beneficial as the program looks thats a lot of money.
Of course even with my doubts it doesn't change the fact the paperless challenge and podcast that they are doing is incredibly awesome and again would like to thank them for sharing their thoughs and putting it out for us all to listen to. Awesome job guys! Keep up the good work!
Well that's it for now. I'll have some time tomorrow I think so I'll post some of my frustrations I am having with my Adobe ebook as its really starting to annoy me although I have found somthing that kind of works but more on that tomorrow.
Lenovo X41 Tablet Review
If you have visited my blog or website you know I am the proud owner of a Lenovo X41 Tablet. I spent a lot of time researching it and even waited for it to hit the market. I even have a short write up on it on my website in the
My Tablet section. Although the price was steep I can honestly say I don't regret the purchase ever. The IBM bullet proof build (well not really bullet proof but known for their durability) extreme lightness, and very long battery life are all things that led me to my purchase of the X41 as a student. I even highly recommend it to any student that is willing to spend the money as a tablet to look into as I can just go on and on how great the machine is.
Anyways here is another review on the X41 and like always there are links to a bunch of other reviews on
my page. They talk pretty highly about it but do claim a 2 minute start time. Maybe I have a lot of stuff running on mine or something but its more like 5 minutes for me and the speed is sometimes a problem but these features are easily pushed aside by allowing it to sit in stand-by most of the day along with all the other great features that far outweigh the negative. So another review that just gives me the opportunity to brag a little bit about my ultra cool tablet!
Tablet PC2 Lenovo X41 Tablet Review
You Know Your A Dork When...
This weeks You Know Your A Dork When comes from my experience at the gym this week as I am getting ready for by huge anatomy practical this week (which by the way I am nervous as hell about) maybe I can think of something stupid and silly to relax myself before I take the exam...anyways here it is
You Know Your A Dork When.... working out at the gym and doing arms curls your secretly thinking to yourself that long and short head of the Biceps Bracii are flexing your arm and the long head originates from the supraglenoid tuberlce and the short head from the coracoid process and both insert at the radial tuberosity but also the Coracobrachialis originates from the coracoid process but I better not get that mixed up with the coronoid process because I know the Brachialis inserts there....
You Know Your A Dork When
Another Student Tablet Blog
When not studying like crazy I spend a lot of time on the web. There are tons of good resources available for tablet pc owners and I keep running into ones that are tailored for students which is always a nice find! Here is a
blog from a student with a Gateway CX200 tablet (one of the lesser expensive tablets that I often suggest people to look into)It's just one more blog you can check out to see how students are using Tablet PCs!
Check it out!
Student Tablet PC - Tip of the Day
If you haven't seen it yet
Student Tablet PC has a new addition to their blog. They now have a tip of the day and the first few have been pretty cool and included some power saving tips and other general tablet pc and pc tips. It's another reason to check out their page everyday and see something new! They even have an
RSS feed for it so you can add it to your feed reader!
ebook: First Impressions
As I previous wrote in
my ebook article a few weeks back I am working with two ebooks this semester. One from
SafariX and the other from Mc Graw Hill in an Adobe format. Working with both books these past two weeks I've come across the pros and cons of both books. All though both books have pros and cons they are different for each book. I'll address some of the annoying issues that I have with ebooks in general and concentrate mostly on the
SafariX online version this time. I'll post about my Adobe version in a later post as it certainly deserves its own but due to a busy schedule I figured I start with some general observations and inital experiences with the
SafariX version.
First off like all my ebooks this one was a lot cheapter that the text version so ebook version got a big plus from the start. The second thing I ran into and this was true for both ebooks is that I had to change my note-taking and reading habits or at least alter them a bit. When I would read a text book I would have the textbook open to my left and then have my tablet in front of me so I could either type or handwrite my notes on it. Then when writing down important concepts or looking at figures I could easily change my line of sight. I also would highlight important things in the book as I went. When I opened up my ebook the ebook was now on my tablet and I also wanted to take notes of my tablet. At first there was no way to view both of them at the same time. So I tried minimizing and switching windows. I even tried out a demo version of
Actual Tools which someone recomended to me that allows you to easily roll up and use transparency along with other tools to eaisly display and switch between other programs. However I really needed to display both the book and have my tablet open ready to take notes. Luckily for me I have a desktop computer that I use to handle all the heavy applications and major tasks so I simply hooked up the monitor from that computer to my tablet and could have both applications running. Disconnecting the monitor from the desktop computer was a real pain but I quickly realized one of the advantages of the
SafariX online version.
Stupid me I forgot I could just open the ebook in a browser on the other computer. So that was a much simpler solution. However inserting images from the ebook into my notes became a little harder this way since there was no easy way to click on the picture on the desktop and insert it into my notes on my tablet. However I solved this problem easily with two options.
I could save all the images on my tablet first and then drag and drop into my notes as I read the book or I could set up a shared session in OneNote. I choose the OneNote shared session just because I thought that was cool and never tried it before. I also have two copies of OneNote, one for each computer so no problem there. Setting up a shared session was easily (I may post about it later) and I could now easily insert pictures from the desktop and write with the tablet.
I later went to the saved method though since I wanted to be able to insert figures into my notes during class and since the book was online and I had a poor signal in my Micro clas from the internet it was just easier to save all the pictures on the hard drive and insert them at will.
For any of the methods above to view both your ebook and take notes on your computer you are going to have to somehow get ahold of two monitors. This can be a pain especially since an old cheap monitor which would be used in my case to read the ebook are often sometimes harder to read from for long periods of time. A small LCD monitor with good resolution that you could set up next to your other computer would be ideal but probably not practical for most students that want to view both the ebook and take notes on a computer. Of course if you simply bought the ebook to save money and prefered to take hand written notes or could stand switching between applications then you would avoid this whole problem all together!
So after I got this problem worked out I ran into a similar situation in class. Often in class I would have my book set up on the desk next to me and have my tablet at the desk/seat I was at. I could then easily glance over to book as the profesor made refernces to it. Brings a second monitor would not be an option in this case, although have a small slate model tablet pc would be my dream situation. I could use the slate as my digital textbooks which I read from and use my current tablet pc as my digital notebook. Of course this senario is completely outrageous and thus not a possible solution. I was hoping the internet connection would be strong enough so I can have the book open in my browser in class and could scroll through it during class however I was having troubles connecting to the network in this particular class room. I did have most of the figures saved on the hard drive so when he refernced one of those it was not too bad but it would still be nice to have the book. SafariX does offer the option to print out the pages and I was seriously considering this as I would have a print copy that could last forever, (remember the subscription is only for 150 days) and I could easily bring only the chapter or two that was being discussed that day to class so it would still be lighter than carrying a heavy textbook. The more I thought about it though the more I realized that printing all those pages could get expensive as I would probably use up at least one ink cartirage to print out over 1000 pages. I thought about going to Kinkos to see how much it would cost to print out maybe black and white copies there figuring it would be cheaper than printing out all of them myself. But then it hit me! This is a Tablet PC and we always talk about going paperless. Most of the time we scan images and then print them to GoBinder, OneNote, or create a PDF in Acrobat. Again it seemed I was a little slow in the problem solving department but did eventually arrive at acceptable solution. I simple created printed the online version to pdf's and saved it on the hard drive. I could now access the book anywhere and would also have a personal saved digital edition of the book. I don't know if printing an entire book in exactly legal in this case but I figured as long as I don't go off distributing my digital copy I should be the allowed area to do as I like with the book for personal use.
Wow, this article got long quick and speaking of my microbiology digital book I have a lot of reading to do from it today so although I would love to talk about other things I have run into when using my ebooks they will have to wait till another day! Hope you can learn from my mistakes and experiences and stay in touch throughout the semester because by reading my experience you can hopefully decide if its worth jumping into the world of ebooks!
OneNote Tip: Cornell Stationary
For all those users that use OneNote there are many templates available to download from the Microsoft site. I really enjoy the Cornell note taking method and fell in love with it over break while beta testing for GoBinder. OneNote has a Cornell stationary but the page itself, that is the margin line, does not grow as your notes do. I would often just copy and paste the image to expand my notes but this was just not functional in class. I looked and looked and nowhere could I find a Cornell stationary that would grow with my notes the way I wanted to. To be fair to OneNote though the Cornell stationary is in fact how the note taking method is meant to work, however I would have preferred the stationary to grow just a bit and then add the summary part when I want to. There are many time in class a certain main topic would be about two pages and I would rather have the page grow and then add a big summary at then end than splitting it into two separate pages. Anyways while in class today I discovered this little trick I guess you could say to create my own growing Cornell template. This may be trivial but I figured I would share just in case someone out there is suffering with the same problem.
First create a blank page with the lines you would like to use. For me I prefer the narrow lines which is a stationary that you can download from the
OneNote communinty section on the Microsoft page. If you have not downloaded all the different rule line types I suggest you pay a visit and look at all the other cool stationeries they have there as well! I know the first thing I did when I started OneNote with my template is download the narrow lines since the college rule was just too BIG!
After you have selected the paper type of choice write something on the page in the text box. Make sure you can see the outline of the box because you are going to have to be able to select and move it. You can set the shading of the text box in the options section.
After typing select the box and adjust the width of it to the width/size that you would like for cue column (the space to the left of the margin line) I like to make mine about two inches but everyone has their preference.
Now grab the text box, by left clicking on upper portion of the box until you get those movable cross hairs. Now just simply move the box to the left hand of the screen. The screen should automatically expand slowly as you move your box in that direction and as you move left the margin line will stay stationary. You know have your cue column set up.
Now make another text box with your mouse to the right of the line. Adjust it to the appropriate width and this will not be your content section. Add a few spaces and each section and then save it as your stationary and you now have a custom growing Cornell stationary.
The page will still keep all that extra space to the far right of the page that was part of the original stationary but that doesn't really bother me. When I printed my notes it still ignored that space and only kept the parts that I actually had written on.
Start the New Year off right with OneNote or GoBinder
I used OneNote all last semester (
check out my brief article on it)and I recommend it for anyone that uses a laptop or Tablet PC to take notes in class. It is far superior to anyone that has tried to use Word (which I still see people do) and lets you stay much more organized in my opinion. Plus Microsoft has a
180 day trial for OneNote. This trial started a ways back but I think it still good so what better time to with OneNote. It's a new year and with a free trial of OneNote in hand your pledge to become more organized can now come true. There are also just so many features that make OneNote great for students that I could go on and on. And the new versions of OneNote (OneNote 12) which is being currently worked on gives even more office to learning how to incorporate OneNote into your daily student life.
If you hate Microsoft though and are looking for another alternative
GoBinder is another choice and is also offering a sweet deal to start of the New Year right. I even took advantage of the deal despite being a OneNote fan because I still like GoBinder for keeping track of my schedule and appointments since it is much more orientated around a students life than Outlook and it really helps me keep tasks straight. For Students
GoBinder retails for $49 but if you buy it before January 31st like I did you get it 30% off which I think came out to be about $34 you can't go wrong. I also believe if you buy GoBinder 2005 you are going to be allowed to upgrade to GoBinder 2006 for free which is currently in Beta testing. I am currently beta testing GoBinder 2006 and must say it shows a lot of promise. I was hoping to be able to use it instead of OneNote this semester but its still just too buggy and unreliable for me and although neither OneNote or GoBinder does everything I want OneNote does more of what I need at the moment. Regardless Tracy at
The Student Tablet PC is a big fan of GoBinder so it is a very neat program and worth a look.
Whatever program you choose start the year off right and get organized using either of these incredible useful programs. In the end they should save you time and keep you organized and allow you to get a good start this winter semester!
You Know Your A Dork When...
I've wanted to do this for awhile but never got around to it so while avoiding studying today I just decided to make a quick section in the Dorko's corner section about what I want to do with this. Basically my last name is Dorko and I study a lot (most of the time) so I end up doing a lot of things that are dorky. To poke fun at some of the things I do and add some humor to the school week I am going to try to come up with a new You Know Your A Dork when phrases. If you have one of your own email me and I'd love to post it! To get the ball rolling here's the first one..
You Know Your A Dork When.... you have a poster of the periodic table, detailed cross section of the human body, and a detailed outline of the Glycolysis cycle posted on your walls
It's True I do...although the glycolysis one has come down for the time being
eBooks Can lighten your book bag and your wallet
I really wanted to go all out on this article to provide a complete overview of eBooks for students since there is still a lot of unanswered questions about them. However the semester has started so I decided to post what I had and hopefully you can get an idea of my desire to work with eBooks over this semester. As I write about in the article I will be experimenting with two eBooks from two different companies that come in two different formats. I will post experiences with these eBooks over the course of the semester in my blog but for now take a glance at my
first article on ebooks for students!
A New Blog
If you have found your way here you can see that I am working with a new blog. The original blog I had was one that I basically created myself and without knowing all that much MySQL and database scripting it was more of a chore than something fun to work on. Also I am a Biology major not a Computer Science major so I really need to spend more time with my anatomy book than playing with my website. With this new blog format it will allow me to easily add new updates and posting without spending as much time. If I write a detailed article I'll still post it on DorkoTech but can easily link to it from the blog. I can also now easily inform my fellow students when I update the OU Dorks section much more easily. I'll have to eliminate much of the news section from the website but I'll do that when I have some more time.
DorkoTech is still going to be around and you'll be able to find help for classes still in the OU dorks section. Basic
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