Strategy: Dual monitors for reading and writing
6 Keywords: Monitor, Dual Monitors, Screen, Portrait Mode, A4, Tablet PC
The picture is of Nick working with a flat screen monitor a few weeks after the comments he made below!
"With an electronic bookstand, if I remembered about another page or another document, I could easily look it up and have it displayed in an easy-to-see format, much like an able-bodied person can do by rearranging paper notes. For me, an electronic bookstand would be very useful idea.
What I really need is a thin, flatscreen computer monitor that displays one or two pages of text. I would want to be able to control them (preferably wirelessly) from my laptop PC. The big advantage for me here would be with writing essays. I don’t find it sufficient to simply look at my notes on the same screen as the essay. I like to see what I’m writing while looking at the notes. It wouldn’t work if I had lots of windows on the screen, no matter how big the screen was, as this would just be confusing."
"Well it's certainly a huge help for me to have electronic resources wherever possible, it is just so much easier than flicking through books which I have to move on and off my laptop. I think that many other students find stuff on Blackboard just so much easier to access, it is not just me."
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"When displaying essay notes, I have to display them in paper format at the moment. I have to stick with three or four pages of an essay notes, for example. I can’t change the pages myself. If I didn’t content myself with these three or four pages, I’d have to be calling someone in every five minutes when I remember something that’s on page six of the notes, or in another document."
- NickTip
Microsoft article on 'Two monitors are better than one' with screen grabs and advice as to how to achieve the use of two monitors on one computer using a Windows operating system.
