I have Office on my laptop and on my home PC but I know that from time to time I will not be at either of these PCs so today I made a decision to move into the Cloud for my personal computing.
What does this mean? It means that from now on I will do all my non work related Word processing and PowerPoints on Google Docs (only exception will be very private items as I am not 100% convinced yet). I will give it the Obama 100 day test to see how it goes).
One of the things I like straight away is that Google Docs allows me to easily switch between English and Spanish and has an easily accessible special characters toolbar.
I typed out the following nota from Unidad 1 - Sesion 7 to test it out have a peep.
For a start on the
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Vocabulary and Grammar Sheets
I set this blog up for a number of reasons. One is to track my progress in my OU course (L204 Viento en Popa) and to keep a log of my experiences. The forums on the OU student home get much too busy with lots of duplicated messages and I do not use them that much. The blog that is provided is very basic by the OU and takes a lot of clicks to access. I can access this blog from anywhere and from my IPhone.
Another reason is to store online a weekly crib sheet with information that I have learned and possibly other people might use as reference material. Standard disclaimer applies of course!! For some of the courses I did on my OU MBA people posted very helpful summaries and I decided I would do something similar for this course.
For the one pager crib sheets I plan to keep them fairly simple. One part will be new vocabulary that I have learned, one for a grammar piece and another part for sentences that particularly struck me from the texts or from unrelated reading. To be honest it may not be of any use for other people on the course but it helps me to summarize some of my learning.
Lastly I hope to gradually start writing this in both English and Spanish (corrections welcome !!!) to improve my writing skills (definitely disclaimer on that !!)
I have just completed El Rumbo L140 and got a reasonable result for what I would call minimal effort. This course is tougher and does not allow for such an approach. It says in the notes that you should be doing 12-13 hours per week and after working through the first part of the book I agree that you need to keep on top of the material. My dictionary is already well thumbed.
At the bottom of each post I plan to post some articles from the web from Spanish speaking sites that struck my attention during the week.
Another reason is to store online a weekly crib sheet with information that I have learned and possibly other people might use as reference material. Standard disclaimer applies of course!! For some of the courses I did on my OU MBA people posted very helpful summaries and I decided I would do something similar for this course.
For the one pager crib sheets I plan to keep them fairly simple. One part will be new vocabulary that I have learned, one for a grammar piece and another part for sentences that particularly struck me from the texts or from unrelated reading. To be honest it may not be of any use for other people on the course but it helps me to summarize some of my learning.
Lastly I hope to gradually start writing this in both English and Spanish (corrections welcome !!!) to improve my writing skills (definitely disclaimer on that !!)
I have just completed El Rumbo L140 and got a reasonable result for what I would call minimal effort. This course is tougher and does not allow for such an approach. It says in the notes that you should be doing 12-13 hours per week and after working through the first part of the book I agree that you need to keep on top of the material. My dictionary is already well thumbed.
At the bottom of each post I plan to post some articles from the web from Spanish speaking sites that struck my attention during the week.
The material in this article is no related to the Open University. Please use the material at your own risk. There may be errors in the content but I try to ensure the accuracy of what I include.
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