tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703847687174045960.post6617794639573332987..comments2024-02-21T04:05:50.404-05:00Comments on The Beggar's Blog: Enter the DragonBill Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16101525260347714309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703847687174045960.post-40087923933720006842011-07-31T06:20:55.627-04:002011-07-31T06:20:55.627-04:00Was that Fr. Roper? It's sound advice for anyo...Was that Fr. Roper? It's sound advice for anyone putting pen to pad, including yours truly. I don't get to write as often during a rotation because I find it difficult to get my mind off what I'm doing long enough to let it wander. But one thing I DO do is write down whatever bits and pieces come to mind and then return to them occasionally to see if there's anything worth hanging onto. <br /><br />As to transcribing lectures, we had a service for that -- students who wanted to participate paid a fee at the beginning of the year and then we'd take turns transcribing the lectures and passing out copies to all the other subscribers. Students could pay someone else to do the job or do it themselves. For some classes, I found it essential and for others, eh. The best thing about it is, if you're more of a visual learner and benefit from reading than an auditory learner, then going over the transcriptions is almost a better use of your time than sitting in class. Or you can pick and choose in advance which lectures you want the benefit of being present added to reading the paper copy. But you're out of classes now, so that probably won't help you. You ARE done with classes, right?Bill Conwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16101525260347714309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703847687174045960.post-37812056041841967852011-07-30T16:51:38.967-04:002011-07-30T16:51:38.967-04:00There's also software that turns text into spe...There's also software that turns text into speech, and a male or female voice, as well as the speed, can be chosen. I almost bought Dragon last fall when I took Moral Theology, so that I could transcribe the lectures, which were complex enough that I wasn't always sure that I had caught everything.<br />Our former rector used to require the clergy to start sermons 4 weeks in advance, so that they could look up quotations in Bartlett's and let the words and ideas simmer. A hastily put together sermon, he found, could be dramatic but tended to be shallow. Words and ideas, like a good marinara sauce, need to have time to let the ingredients get together.EHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12257031379237071891noreply@blogger.com