Study skills

Writing a summary of discussion of a paper is for me a very effective study skill, making me engage with the material and having to think about it in detail. It also requires me to reexamine a text, particularly focusing on what I considered to be important during the first read through. It also provides me with ready made notes and reminders for when I need to draw on the material again.

I've fallen off the wagon over the past few weeks due to various factors. I've found my previous blog posts to be hugely helpful for my current essay, so once the current coursework crunch is out of the way I intend to be more disciplined in making a post covering a paper I have just read.

And so it begins...

This is intended to be a learning log, a means to keep track of interesting things that I learn and help to consolidate my learning. I think I do quite well at learning, but my approach is to stumble or bulldoze my way through it. I don't learn in a clever or systematic way. I probably never will, but I can try to improve.

Hopefully this blog will also help improve my writing style..

So, what am I learning? All kinds of things ideally, but sadly time is limited so I'm sticking to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Philosophy. The first is for my job, the second for ... I forget what for exactly, but I'm studying for a Masters in it. This may raise a question for some of you; if you're all into HCI why don't you have your own funky website? Ha! As if I have time for that. Laziness and sleep deprivation prevails.