I'm in the same boat. I don't think it's the weight of the glasses that's causing me trouble, but the fuzziness that comes from two sets of glasses, one in front of the other.
About two months ago I told my friends that I normally see movies with, "I'm done with 3D." I'll go see the 2D versions, but until they come up with a "no-glasses" 3D technology, I'm opting out.
Have you looked at Zotero? It may do what you want -- I think it does import and export Bibtex, but if what you want to do is manage citations and bibliographies, it may do what you need without any importing or exporting. You can insert citations into your doc and then change your mind about the formatting en masse. Ditto the bibliography.
This requires both the Zotero Firefox plugin and the Zotero OpenOffice plugin. Dunno if it is compatible with 3.2.
Remote? No really. My disable option is local (to the laptop) and not very complicated. My laptops always have a power on password set. If it is stolen, that means there's probably no chance that I'll ever get it back, but it also means that the thief won't get much use out of it. Parts maybe, but that's about it.
I *have* a netbook (with which I am posting this message.) My Sony 500 is sitting here on the hotel bed next to me. If I plan on reading a book, I'll use the Sony. It's *much* more conducive to just reading than the netbook.
The screen is better. I can read it in the sunlight, it doesn't have the flicker that the netbook screen has, and the text is far sharper. True, I can't read it in the dark, but all I have to do is turn on a light.
It's more portable. It fits in the cargo pocket of my pants. No way the netbook can do that.
I can finish a book and go on to the next one without looking for a charger. The netbook would be good for a dozen chapters, *maybe*.
There's really no comparison. The netbook isn't a viable book reader -- the Sony (and Kindle) compete with dead tree, not with netbooks.
We're in the process of switching from WebCT to Blackboard. Moodle was (very) seriously considered, but the self hosting was not an option the University wanted to consider (for Moodle anyway) and the hosting provider (who was a Moodle Partner) underwhelmed the committee.
Moodle itself was highly regarded by the committee, but although they liked it better than the other alternatives, the new Blackboard was enough of an improvement over WebCT that the contrast was not as overwhelming as it could have been.
Don't discount the "sunk costs" in developing content. Most of that content was created over a great deal of time by non-technical users (i.e., faculty) and the inability to easily convert most of it would be a huge problem. *They're* not going to be able (or willing) to redo it from scratch, and if your IT department doesn't have an automated method to convert it, it's going to take a lot of time (with limited staff) to hand tweak it. It's do-able, but a strike against any system unable to automate the conversion.
Blackboard offered some financial incentives to stay with them and help in the conversion. The local Blackboard will be hosted here (as WebCT was before it) but with Blackboard support. I suggested finding a Moodle Partner that would provide a similar support (as opposed to hosting it) but that was not done in the time we had to make the decision, and as I said, this particular Moodle Partner was unimpressive, particularly in the support realm.
Personally, I'll continue to run my departmental Moodle server, and none of our classes will be using the campus Blackboard, but I do understand the campus decision.
If I remember my computer programming classes correctly, you used a keypunch machine (which had a keyboard) to create the punched card. Your deck of cards was your program.
Paper tape was also used, although I never had to deal with it. I believe Bill Gates learned to program in high school on paper tape.
I had exactly the same story. I honestly don't remember where we were moving from (it's been closer to 50 years ago than to 40, and we moved a lot) but the destination was South Dakota. They had learned cursive in the 2nd grade, and I was expecting to learn it in the third. When asked about it, the teacher in South Dakota pointed to the cursive alphabet posted above the blackboard. She said, "There it is."
Needless to say, I never *learned* cursive. I know the shapes, but they never came naturally, and I have never really used it. My writing tends to be run together block printing, never pretty, but usually legible.
I've still got one of those old Bell phones. Princess model, and you're right -- small as it is, you hit someone with that, they're going DOWN. When the phone co transitioned to "own your own phone" they offered me the option to buy what I had in place for $35.
FWIW, at my institution, textbooks are not considered "publishing" for the purpose of tenure, etc. They figure that if you're getting paid for it, it must not be of any academic worth.:)
I'm just a lecturer, so I have no pressure on me to publish, but, here anyway, textbooks are something you do on your own time to make money. No academic brownie points are forthcoming.
Those are not the dimensions of my netbook. Those are the dimensions of my Sony Reader. Perhaps smaller than a Kindle but *way* smaller than any netbook I've seen. The dimensions of the Kindle look like it's half an inch longer and double the thickness of my Sony. I haven't tried a Kindle, but I'd bet I could get it in the same pockets my Sony fits in.
By comparison, my netbook is four times the thickness of my Sony Reader, three inches wider, and three inches longer. That's a huge difference.
It's considerably smaller than a netbook. My Sony is about 1/4" thick. It's 5" wide and 7" long. When you're talking about a device that size, those differences are huge. I can put my Sony in a cargo pocket in my pants, or (with a little effort) in the inside pocket of my jacket.
I'm sorry, you're not going to find a netbook that can do that.
One of the things that the reader can do that your netbook cannot, is easily read the screen outside, even in direct sun. Unless you have an XO netbook, just try that on your netbook.
An e-reader with e-paper will not do what your netbook does, but the netbook will not do what the reader will, either. Whether you think it's a worthwhile expense is up to you, but their abilities don't overlap much.
In my experience, it's unlikely that the student found the paper somewhere. I'm not saying it never happens, but that's not what I usually run across.
In general, the student used material from a source that the writer of another paper also used. All it means is that you have two different students, possibly thousands of miles away, that have copied from the same website. Or magazine. Or whatever.
I also see a lot of students who copied from some source, but that is *not* the source that Turnitin shows as the primary match. Sometimes a student will have a long quote from some primary source (not plagiarism, a legitimate citation) and Turnitin finds its match on some random web page. Guess what? Websites plagiarize too.
Wrong. Turnitin provides automated computerized determination of *matching.*
The *instructor* makes a determination of plagiarism.
My students are required to use Turnitin. They are also required to have a certain number of scholarly and other sources, correctly cited. I *expect* matches, and if there aren't any I start wondering whether they really used those sources. They'd better be correctly quoted and cited, however.
I also make it clear to them that the student should be looking at the same report that I see and that they *fix* any problems that might show up. Some instructors may not bother to allow students access to those reports, and I think that's a grave mistake.
Properly used, Turnitin is an extremely valuable tool for both student and teacher.
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Good point. If my students can't cut and paste from Wikipedia, why would they even bother to go there?
I'm in the same boat. I don't think it's the weight of the glasses that's causing me trouble, but the fuzziness that comes from two sets of glasses, one in front of the other.
About two months ago I told my friends that I normally see movies with, "I'm done with 3D." I'll go see the 2D versions, but until they come up with a "no-glasses" 3D technology, I'm opting out.
Have you looked at Zotero? It may do what you want -- I think it does import and export Bibtex, but if what you want to do is manage citations and bibliographies, it may do what you need without any importing or exporting. You can insert citations into your doc and then change your mind about the formatting en masse. Ditto the bibliography.
This requires both the Zotero Firefox plugin and the Zotero OpenOffice plugin. Dunno if it is compatible with 3.2.
As does Thomas Paine and Publius.
Remote? No really. My disable option is local (to the laptop) and not very complicated. My laptops always have a power on password set. If it is stolen, that means there's probably no chance that I'll ever get it back, but it also means that the thief won't get much use out of it. Parts maybe, but that's about it.
I *have* a netbook (with which I am posting this message.) My Sony 500 is sitting here on the hotel bed next to me. If I plan on reading a book, I'll use the Sony. It's *much* more conducive to just reading than the netbook.
The screen is better. I can read it in the sunlight, it doesn't have the flicker that the netbook screen has, and the text is far sharper. True, I can't read it in the dark, but all I have to do is turn on a light.
It's more portable. It fits in the cargo pocket of my pants. No way the netbook can do that.
I can finish a book and go on to the next one without looking for a charger. The netbook would be good for a dozen chapters, *maybe*.
There's really no comparison. The netbook isn't a viable book reader -- the Sony (and Kindle) compete with dead tree, not with netbooks.
More than that. They froze the amount artists got royalties on to that amount the LP would have cost. The additional bump was only for the label.
We're in the process of switching from WebCT to Blackboard. Moodle was (very) seriously considered, but the self hosting was not an option the University wanted to consider (for Moodle anyway) and the hosting provider (who was a Moodle Partner) underwhelmed the committee.
Moodle itself was highly regarded by the committee, but although they liked it better than the other alternatives, the new Blackboard was enough of an improvement over WebCT that the contrast was not as overwhelming as it could have been.
Don't discount the "sunk costs" in developing content. Most of that content was created over a great deal of time by non-technical users (i.e., faculty) and the inability to easily convert most of it would be a huge problem. *They're* not going to be able (or willing) to redo it from scratch, and if your IT department doesn't have an automated method to convert it, it's going to take a lot of time (with limited staff) to hand tweak it. It's do-able, but a strike against any system unable to automate the conversion.
Blackboard offered some financial incentives to stay with them and help in the conversion. The local Blackboard will be hosted here (as WebCT was before it) but with Blackboard support. I suggested finding a Moodle Partner that would provide a similar support (as opposed to hosting it) but that was not done in the time we had to make the decision, and as I said, this particular Moodle Partner was unimpressive, particularly in the support realm.
Personally, I'll continue to run my departmental Moodle server, and none of our classes will be using the campus Blackboard, but I do understand the campus decision.
If I remember my computer programming classes correctly, you used a keypunch machine (which had a keyboard) to create the punched card. Your deck of cards was your program.
Paper tape was also used, although I never had to deal with it. I believe Bill Gates learned to program in high school on paper tape.
I had exactly the same story. I honestly don't remember where we were moving from (it's been closer to 50 years ago than to 40, and we moved a lot) but the destination was South Dakota. They had learned cursive in the 2nd grade, and I was expecting to learn it in the third. When asked about it, the teacher in South Dakota pointed to the cursive alphabet posted above the blackboard. She said, "There it is."
Needless to say, I never *learned* cursive. I know the shapes, but they never came naturally, and I have never really used it. My writing tends to be run together block printing, never pretty, but usually legible.
I'm pretty sure that *he* claimed it was Christine Peterson when interviewed for the documentary "Revolution OS."
I've still got one of those old Bell phones. Princess model, and you're right -- small as it is, you hit someone with that, they're going DOWN. When the phone co transitioned to "own your own phone" they offered me the option to buy what I had in place for $35.
By 9.04, you can't get rid of it. I've tried.
Lead lined fridges.
That makes all the difference, you see.
It's not. Pretty much everybody calls it "scuzzy", but that doesn't mean the originators realized that would happen.
FWIW, at my institution, textbooks are not considered "publishing" for the purpose of tenure, etc. They figure that if you're getting paid for it, it must not be of any academic worth. :)
I'm just a lecturer, so I have no pressure on me to publish, but, here anyway, textbooks are something you do on your own time to make money. No academic brownie points are forthcoming.
Those are not the dimensions of my netbook. Those are the dimensions of my Sony Reader. Perhaps smaller than a Kindle but *way* smaller than any netbook I've seen. The dimensions of the Kindle look like it's half an inch longer and double the thickness of my Sony. I haven't tried a Kindle, but I'd bet I could get it in the same pockets my Sony fits in.
By comparison, my netbook is four times the thickness of my Sony Reader, three inches wider, and three inches longer. That's a huge difference.
It's considerably smaller than a netbook. My Sony is about 1/4" thick. It's 5" wide and 7" long. When you're talking about a device that size, those differences are huge. I can put my Sony in a cargo pocket in my pants, or (with a little effort) in the inside pocket of my jacket.
I'm sorry, you're not going to find a netbook that can do that.
One of the things that the reader can do that your netbook cannot, is easily read the screen outside, even in direct sun. Unless you have an XO netbook, just try that on your netbook.
An e-reader with e-paper will not do what your netbook does, but the netbook will not do what the reader will, either. Whether you think it's a worthwhile expense is up to you, but their abilities don't overlap much.
In my experience, it's unlikely that the student found the paper somewhere. I'm not saying it never happens, but that's not what I usually run across.
In general, the student used material from a source that the writer of another paper also used. All it means is that you have two different students, possibly thousands of miles away, that have copied from the same website. Or magazine. Or whatever.
I also see a lot of students who copied from some source, but that is *not* the source that Turnitin shows as the primary match. Sometimes a student will have a long quote from some primary source (not plagiarism, a legitimate citation) and Turnitin finds its match on some random web page. Guess what? Websites plagiarize too.
Wrong. Turnitin provides automated computerized determination of *matching.*
The *instructor* makes a determination of plagiarism.
My students are required to use Turnitin. They are also required to have a certain number of scholarly and other sources, correctly cited. I *expect* matches, and if there aren't any I start wondering whether they really used those sources. They'd better be correctly quoted and cited, however.
I also make it clear to them that the student should be looking at the same report that I see and that they *fix* any problems that might show up. Some instructors may not bother to allow students access to those reports, and I think that's a grave mistake.
Properly used, Turnitin is an extremely valuable tool for both student and teacher.
Some professors won't accept attachments.
I accept student homework online via a website. Term papers have to be paper. I want dead tree, and only dead tree.
My first PC had 384k of RAM, and I paid a pretty penny to add the extra 256k to get it that high.
Right now, with 4G on a Gentoo box, System Monitor tells me I am using 27% memory for programs, 66% as cache. It also tells me I'm using 0% swap.
The cache fills up quickly, so RAM is never going to waste.
Everyone knows that any time somebody says "everyone knows" it's a red flag that whatever they're talking about just ain't so.
Now parse that.
Orrin Hatch, the "pirates should have their computers destroyed" Senator, had pirated software on his website in 2003.