Mar. 29th, 2006

Victory!

Mar. 29th, 2006 12:04 pm
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The Deakin students have successfully convinced the uni to make lecture recordings available as podcasts, instead of restricting them to audio streaming. There are no actual lectures for my Law & Ethics subject, but the 3rd Year lectures in Geelong are covering the same topics as we are, so the lecturer has recorded everything for us. Each lecture coincidentally runs for the same time as my tram trip to uni... now I can listen to them while I'm travelling in to my tutorials. It's nice when the technology fits the users, instead of requiring the users to change.

I'm actually (horror!) enjoying the report-writing section of the communications subject. Each task involves a fictional case study (background, current situation, problems), needing a coherent report to summarise the issues and give recommendations to fix them. Lots of lateral thinking, lots of reading between the lines and lots of tangled information that needs to be teased out into a logical structure. I could happily do this for a living, if anyone would pay to have their workplace problems sorted for them.

Editing is also going well. I'm still missing a few details in the exercises as I've been rushing through without checking the dictionary often enough... however, when I slow down I'm as efficient as anyone else, and when I'm hurrying through I don't miss more than about one in ten errors. The exercises are designed to include unusual and deliberately tricky errors, so this is hopefully better than it looks. I'm fairly confident that I can cut down on the error rate by learning more of the underlying grammar - this will happen as I go, and won't affect the speed at which I work. I'm keeping my eye in by doing lightning-speed copyediting for Weapons of the Gods material...

Unfortunately, I've just discovered that there is a bigger pile of assessment due next Monday (and this Friday) than I'd thought. Fortunately, [livejournal.com profile] aeliel is also doing homework this weekend (she has ~175 interim school reports to write) so we may just bar the doors all weekend and write. Must remember to lay in supplies in case we don't make it out of the house.

Actually, I should leave the house at least once in the weekend. Last week's bruises have healed, so it must be time to practice some more firetwirling in the park. I'll get the hang of throws and contact staff tricks one way or another...

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