by Steven Sentosa on July 6, 2010
Being a student for almost seven years and a teacher lately has brought new perspective of note taking. It used to be that I took notes because my parents or my teacher asked me so. The initiative of taking notes came from someone else. As I grew older, I began to realize the importance of taking notes in my classes, meetings, workplaces, and even in a church service. From something that was “ordered” by someone else, taking good notes is now becoming a necessity. I start to realize that without taking a good note, I won’t be able to succeed in my life.
I know that taking notes doesn’t have to be on a piece of paper. It could also be a “mental” note. This method is fine and needed from time to time. It’s good for quick retrieval, but you will forget the details if you are only relying on your mental note abilities. Therefore, I will focus more on taking notes in a piece of paper, especially in a class lecture settings. By no means does a student need to be in a classroom setting for these tips to be useful. They’re helpful if you’re attending an online school as well.
Before we start, I want to lay down one simple objective of taking good notes. To me, a note contains every main details that your instructor lectures. It should be thorough enough that when you recite your note, it is as if you are repeating what you instructor was saying. Pretty simple, isn’t it? ok, here we go. [read more...]
by Steven Sentosa on July 3, 2010
Tomorrow, 4th of July, is a big day for all the Americans. We are going to celebrate the Independence Day. Some of you will travel and meet your families, some of you will watch the fireworks show, and some of you, including me, will have nothing to do tomorrow. You are just relaxing and hoping the weekend will go for eternity.
Whatever your plans are, you need to remember again what Independence Day truly is. Here’s a YouTube video to remind you to some of the famous quotes given by the previous US presidents and to give a tribute to those who sacrificed themselves for the freedom that we enjoy every day in US. Happy the 234th birthday for US!
Photo courtesy of Irish Shreve Garrott and video courtesy of TaylorX04.
by Steven Sentosa on June 30, 2010
In this past couple days, I have been playing around with WordPress 3.0 and decided to give the new theme “Twenty Ten” a try.
So far, I’m pretty pleased with the way it looks. It lacks the theme setup like those in Thesis theme; but overall, it is much better than WordPress’ old default theme.
Also, since I was trying out a new tool called Windows Live Writer, you might see two new temporary posts in your RSS Reader. It will be something like this.
I’m really sorry about those temporary posts. When I was setting up Windows Live Writer, it apparently made two attempts to access my blog’s native settings and look, and created two temporary posts like these. Please ignore these two temporary posts.
Another main reason why I changed the theme was also because my old theme, Arclite 2.02, didn’t seem to work well with Windows Live Writer. FYI, Windows Live Writer is a tool to access your blog from the convenient of your desktop software. Instead of going directly to the site’s dashboard, all creating and editing of blog posts can be done through your desktop software. It also has the ability to preview the post right in the software, so I don’t have to go back and forth, and refresh the preview page to see how the post look after I made any changes.
I am giving Windows Live Writer a try now. I liked it so far. It’s really easy to use. It has a lot of plug-ins, and I don’t have to worry losing my copy again now when the Internet connection drops, because the draft post is saved on your computer instead online.
I hope you like the new look of My Internet Corner. As always, I welcome any feedbacks that you might have regarding this new changes.
