Recently my friend and I, have for some reason, talked to a lot of people about presentations - and we’ve been trying to convert them all to use “bullet-point-less” presentations. For those who we’ve talked to, you’ve probably already heard this, for those who haven’t…welcome to a whole new perspective on presentations!
Late last year, through random blog reading we found a wonderful blog all about presentations: Presentation Zen. There was one post in particular that compared the different presentation styles of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates which I feel is a great introduction and gets straight to the point.
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Now that University has started, it is getting busier, and assignments are already being handed out - despite having only finished Week 1! When we got the details of the group assignment for the semester, it gave me the idea for this post - useful sites for group work. For pretty much all my group assignments from uni (and group work outside uni) I’ve used some/all of the below sites and they have definitely helped with working together.
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“Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.”
Wilson Mizner
Research is probably something that uni students can’t escape from - especially if they’re doing honours and have to write up a thesis. Well, recently for one of our subjects which is a bit like preparation for thesis, we needed to write a research proposal. While searching through the Internet for credible sources, I discovered (or got told) a few tips and felt it would be a good idea to share them. So here are my 10 tips to hopefully make research a less stressful task!
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Few months ago, I signed up to Blog Action Day…
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment
If you haven’t guessed from the title, and from that short intro, this post will be about the environment - namely how to save water.
The reason for this topic is simply because Australia is facing severe drought conditions. A quick Google gives us an article from Wikipedia with the different water restriction levels currently in place:
- Brisbane: Stage 5
- Adelaide: Stage 3
- Canberra: Stage 3
- Melbourne: Stage 3
- Sydney: Stage 3
- Hobart: Stage 1
- Darwin: none
- Perth: permanent restrictions
As you can see pretty much all the major cities have some form of restriction in place. I’m not quite sure what ‘permanent restrictions’ for Perth really means, but either way it doesn’t sound good.
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If you know me, you’ll know that I’m not a picky eater and I can eat a lot - especially when it comes to snacks. And if you’re like me once I start eating/snacking I just can’t seem to stop! Initially, I tried the approach of no snacks at all with the reasoning that if there are no snacks then there’s nothing to snack on.
However, since I hadn’t snacked in ages, and knew I didn’t have any snacks in my room it failed horribly whenever sweets and junk food were in my reach - I just pigged out on them. Considering this “free food” is semi-regular (team meetings, birthdays etc) it doesn’t help with reducing the amount of snacking.
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