[blindlaw] blindlaw Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4

[Joe Orozco]

Well, I doubt you'd be able to use the laptop in any case for the risk of 
unfairly navigating the Internet during a round.  The MPower worked well for 
flowing the opening and constructive speeches.  It was easy to insert points 
midway through the flow so that on my rebuttal I would be sure not to drop 
points.  In the American parliamentary style it was just as crucial not to 
drop points on topicality and other technicalities.  I'll be completely 
honest and say that I only started using the slate after my MPower crashed 
on me during one of my opening speeches.  I spent the rest of that round 
flowing on a slate, and while I will be the first to say it was hard as hell 
for me, it helped keep my notes more tighty because I was not as fast at 
slating as I was at typing.  It helped me concentrate on the key issues and 
less inclined to take stenographic notes.  Write me off list.  It's always 
good to meet a fellow debater.

Joe Orozco

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is 
what we do, what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and 
what we dare to imagine."--Senator Paul Wellstone
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ger sadlier" <gersadlier at yahoo.ie>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] blindlaw Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4


> Hi Joe,
> I won't make it to Oxford this year, unfortunately.
>  Did you?
>  Fascinating style of note taking though.
>  What I think I want is something to give me a bit of structure.
>  e.g. something with which to tkake down on three lines the opposition's 
> three main points.
> 1
> 2
> 3
> and maybe where they fall down
> and something to put my own major points on.
> nothing too long or fancy.
> Do you think this would be a slate and stylus's strong point?
>  I was thinking of using my laptop but the battery isn't as good as I 
> could wish. also its a little bulky.
>  Gerard
>
>
>
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