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Edited by Neil Anderson, Tuesday, 14 Jan 2014, 21:14

For the AI course. Always a good moment, not, "the books have arrived!" but still. Looking busy so far, folks are always nice here so I won't say that we look like a nice bunch.

Over the years of this trek of mine I’ (wow, I'm so used to writing HTML that I escaped what I didn't need to) ve come to judge my feeling about a course by how active I am in the forum. Everywhere I have succeeded I have written screeds.

We are all different I suppose. I've only talked to one of my tutors, once, about something non-course; I don't do tutors. (Although all of my tutors have been excellent) I don't do much beyond the units and TMAs; I almost never dip into all the other stuff (cds, videos, mind-maps etc.) that come in the box or are links on the web site. Maybe I should have?

Why do I like the forum so much? In the end it all comes down to: if I'm on top of my course I have something to say. Or maybe that that I love arguing? Or maybe [bad spelling coming up here possibly] loggharea. (yup, no spell check—addicted to writing crap.)

Whatever. I intend to milk these, my last UG, courses big-time. For who knows when I will get the chance again?

 

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Bren P

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I too am a beggar for not using the additional materials. I put it down to not being much of a visual learner - I like the old black-and-white textual stuff. Like a cooking recipe or knitting pattern - although they're better 'cos you can see what the finished article should look like!!!!