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Monday, January 05, 2009

"So easy, a student could do it!"

... Welp, that is my goal. I mean a student who wants to spend the cognitive effort doing an assignment, not figuring out technology.
I'm impressed with how easy it is to scan into TextHelp (Read and Write Gold), and the fidelity to the original.
I'm less impressed with the dictionary, which I have to remember to set to advance - basic couldn't handle "superiority" - and all it does is sit there, not giving you options, so you don't have a clue what you could do or should do, and why it's just sitting there. I tried to get the word predictor to give me "superficial" and it didn't. Doesn't seem to know any words that begin with superf (superfluous, either).
I"m impressed with how many people came in to school today and kept me busy... but a few minutes left to figure out highlations...

Oh. And I *WISH* the silly thing could read numbers. "four hundred thirteen (pause for comma) zero zero zero." Yukkers.
(Be it duly noted that I'm *looking* for aggravations.)

I am beginning to see the appeal of twitter :D

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