Learning mainly
Today in a class of 200 plus physics students, the textbook was seen as the most useful source of learning for the last term. 60% plus. Lectures were second.
There has been some writing on the topic of lectures recently. Mary Burgan’s December article [Burgan, M. 2006. "In Defense of Lecturing," Change Magazine, November/December] [...]
PDF writer.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796&package_id=53473
Quite a nice little programme: automatically installed as a print driver in Word. Have created several PDF’s and they all seem very fine.
Evernote
This is like a personal receptacle for all your thoughts and ideas with a flexible tagging classification system. Quite remarkable.
From the PR: “EverNote is an ambitious attempt to categorize the uncategorizable. The [...]
Stuff is the problem
What is stuff? All those things that are left unfinished, half through through, embarked on then dropped;
Things that need fixing, replacing, maintaining, tidying, finding . . .
Projects you may or may not do. Books and papers. . . . (you get the idea)
Adapted from the 43 Folders blog:
So how does GTD work?
identify [...]
I’ve taken a bit of a break from the community aspect of my life. The change from the College to the University has accounted for most of this. However, things have moved on. First the West Coast visit and now next week we have our next session on community nurture/community development, and [...]
This is much later than I intended for a Part Two. There is much more of a psychic challenge than I ever thought possible. Dave Allen has talked about this in one of the podcasts done with Merlin Mann. Someday Maybe. This basically says “Give yourself plenty of time to come to grips with [...]