More on Transcripts

This post follows on from previous threads on transcription ( here , here and here ). Antija Allen, Assistant Professor of Psychology a...

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Using Google Calendar as a To Do List

Over the past week I have read two posts by people about using a calendar as a productivity tool instead of a "To Do" list. A...

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An Easy Ice Breaker

Do you have any favourite ice breakers? Ice breakers are such a tricky thing to get right. I am sure that you , l ike me, have found yo...

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Four Helpers for Writing Formal Reports

Writing reports is a key management skill. Consider: feasibility studies, marketing plans, research studies, development proposals, envir...

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Ako: teaching and learning

I have read that if we treat students as our customer (and I do), we may " inappropriately " box education into " a produ...

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Self-Publication and the ISBN, ASIN and DOI

Hachette Book Group (2014) International Standard Book Numbers are more commonly known as ISBNs. ISBNs provide a reference code for an...

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When Office Autocorrect goes bad

If you use MS Office's autocorrect function a lot, then, like me, you may have found a few glitches in the autocorrect library entries...

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The shifting sands of self-drive cars

I read a post recently on Medium by David Silver, who works at the Ford Motor Company. He was agreeing with a WSJ report of Elon Musk say...

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The decision-making process: why people change their mind

A recent HBR post explored strategies to deal with people who get stalled in their decision-making process, and so appear to change their ...

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Exploring the Feynman Gap

Wolswijk (23 October 2014) Engineers tend to know about the "Feynman Gap" (o r Feynman Te chnique ): largely because of the ...

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Automatically getting from recording to transcript

Usually there is only one way that you can create a transcript of a sound or video file: and that is to type it out yourself. You would ...

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Career practitioners transition into career development

From what I have observed, after 21 years in the field (16 as a Career Development Association of New Zealand professional member), I thin...

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What goes in our Discussion Chapter?

What goes in our discussion chapter? How, as undergraduates, do we get this right? First, bridging from the findings chapter summary, we...

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