Personal Blogs

I am quite pleased with how I have managed to keep up with the last few weeks' work whilst I have been on the move. I have noticed some differences in how I am able to work when I'm reliant on public wi-fi and occasionally friends' computers:

• it is hard to be so organised when all you have is a phone. You can't have multiple documents open or make use of sites like Refworks.
• the keyboard and fonts are so small!!
• working on public wi-fi means working in environments which are not so conducive to study and thought - though it is great for eating ice-cream
• I didn't really manage to get Google + working whilst I was away
• you have to remember to take passwords etc with you, or have access to them somewhere
• the OU forums were very temperamental on the phone (the technology, not my fellow students!) I lost several amazingly profound posts
• I couldn't work for sustained periods so my contributions were shorter and pithier (even) than usual
• I downloaded (or so I thought) all the sources I needed for the activities and took them on a memory stick. That worked quite well but a few items didn't open properly. For example, the tutor's comments were absent from the Ann Other TMA.