24 December 2008
New Series: Tech Tips
When I turned up for my first day of university back in 2001 I was armed with a notebook from the local news agent and a pen. It served me well over the next three years and when I arrived for my first day at law school I scoffed at all the yuppies breaking out their laptops.
I told myself I’d never become one of those yuppies – the pen and paper was good enough for me, I was oldschool. After my first year I quickly realised that those yuppies playing solitaire and fighting over powerpoints actually blitzed my grades and suddenly I didn’t feel so oldschool, just old.
The reality is that technology will help you improve your grades at law school. If you want to do well, or you just want to do ok but still have time to focus on other things, you aren’t doing yourselves any favours by turning a blind eye to the tech services around that can help you.
Of course, I’m not saying you need to blow your budget to bring in a whizz bang lappy or what not. But if you’re not paying attention to what’s happening in the tech field then you’re giving yourself a deliberate handycap for no reason.
So what are these technologies that can help us out? Well I’m going to try to list a number of them in this next series of articles. I’m aiming to discover and review one a week, until I run out and then it will be whenever I stumble across something that looks useful.
If you know of a tech service out there that might be helpful at lawschool please email it in (better yet, write an article about it) and we’ll hopefully get a nice list going by the time the next semester begins.
Related posts:
- Tech Tips: Google Goodies #2 – Google Reader
- Tech Tips: GMail Labs Stuff
- Tech Tips: Google Goodies #3 – Google Docs
- Tech Tips: Google Goodies #1 – GMail
- Tech Tips: Booko
