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Laptop Contingency Planning

By Mark Shead 3 Comments

If you have a laptop, there are three things you should plan on happening: Theft Dropping Data Loss If you are not preparing for these situations, you are asking for trouble.  There are three main things you need to do to handle these areas: Security - If someone steals your laptop, what information will they have access to? All of your data? Damage - If your laptop is damaged, how long will it take you to get back up and running? Data - If all of the data on your laptop is gone, do you have a way to recover it? Security Your laptop security could be as extensive as encrypting your entire hard drive.  The big thing you need to do is think about what would happen if … [Read more...] about Laptop Contingency Planning

Laptop for taking Notes

By Mark Shead 21 Comments

Unclutter posted an article about using a laptop to take notes at college.  I tend to disagree.  It is hard to beat a pen and paper for taking notes.  One thing that is commonly overlooked is how different tools exercise your mind.  When you work on the computer it uses substantially different parts of your brain than when you write with pen and paper. (I don't know what happens if you use a typewriter.)  Since so much research and writing papers is done on the computer, taking notes by hand allow you to interact with the content in as many different parts of the brain as possible.  What do you think?  Is a laptop an effective way to take notes in a classroom? … [Read more...] about Laptop for taking Notes

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