Share School Gadget Thoughts, Win a 500GB Drive
By Harry McCracken | Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Quick reminder: We’re still collecting your reflections on gadget you used (or use) for schoolwork, and the ones you wish you had (or have). Share your thoughts by 5pm PT tomorrow and you might win a nifty 500GB Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive.
Read what folks have said so far and enter here.
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August 20th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I used the LiveScribe smartpen, as cheesy as it sounds, it’s a great tool for school. I primarily used it for keeping track of my thoughts as I wrote. When I write, ideas run out ahead of my cogency and return with nebulous concepts beyond my ability to congeal them right away. Rather than lose them I used the audio record function and recorded my ideas aloud, shorthand. Later as I organized for a second draft, I would then review the concepts I had recorded and work the good ones into a second draft.
Same goes for editing and proofing papers and those of my friends.
Of course the pen has many different functions but this alone was my favorite.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:14 am
I had one of those crappy PDAs you could get for $5 from Walgreens. Although it was crap, it helped some what.