Online Programmes that help with studies.

[Paulclem]

At the moment I'm studying for a L5 in Maths teaching at Warwick University part time. It's a distance learning course which is pretty good, and allows me to go to my full time work and study at home. I attend one session a month.

In order to work online I've been using an online programme called Evernote which allows you to create folders and notes on whatever stuff you want to copy from the Internet, or make your own notes on online texts. You can download it to any computer and it will upload your online stuff.

Have you found anything useful to use?

http://www.evernote.com/

[Paulclem]

I also use Dropbox at work. It's just an online storage programme but it updates any changes to docs you make and can be downloaded to any computer or logged into on the internet. I use it instead of a flash drive.

http://www.dropbox.com/

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, thumb drives and self-emailing have been critical for surviving college. Beyond that, this reader hasn't used any specialized programs.

But contingency is king here. There's always a chance that your thumb drive will fail, or that you won't have access to the internet, or that something will go wrong with the site. So, if it's something really important, this reader tries to roll 'three deep.'

1. Thumb drive (attached to car keys).
2. Self-email (sent from your email address to your email address as an attachment).
3. Physical copy (obviously doesn't work for Powerpoints or media, but for term papers it's great).

Evernote is supposed to be amazing, though.

Also, if you're doing any kind of research on the web, having a Google account can save your life. Google will save your searches/visited sites as web history that you can access from anywhere you log in.







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[Paulclem]

Is a thumb drive a usb storage stick? We call them various things from flash drives, memory sticks to usb drives.

I do e-mail myself stuff, and I have a couple of Google accounts. I've stopped using "thumb drives" if that's what I think they are in favour of dropbox, where I can store
stuff across the internet, and it will save over and share across any computers where i have it loaded. You can use it collaboratively too.

[Jack of Hearts]

Yes, a thumb drive is a usb stick. It seems with things like Dropbox and GoogleDocs they're becoming antiques.







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