In the spirit of online learning I have madly been trying to decide on a way of organising my notes and studying that takes me away from my traditional method of pen and paper.
It has been a hard grind not made easier by the amount of options out there.
I have added in Firefox add ons such as Scrapbook, which allows you to capture web pages and then edit them make notes and attach to various sections of the website and classify them by placing a folder structure designed to suit. I have personalised my Google homepage to include all sorts of productivity/time management tools (calenders, todo's, spell checker, dictionary etc). I have started using this nifty little utility called Google Notebooks, It allows you to take notes while reading the contents of a browser, you can then save and organise your notes into sections. I've also registered for Google Docs and Spreadsheet. (gees I always loved google for searching but I had no concept of all the other options out there!!)
I guess the added beauty of studying totally online is the transportability of it. I can login from work, from home, from an internet cafe, and all my study materials are accessible. I don't know exactly where this course (by course I mean the BA in Internet Studies) will lead me, but I do know that it has already made me into a more avid user of the Net. Before this, I was technically proficient(given my role as web admin, I had to be), but I really did not understand what it meant to be an 'Advanced Internet user'.
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Liked your tools. They were new to me.
Cheers,
Elle
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