Otago HSFY chat - archive

[sibirica]

Also, is it possible to get e-copies of the textbooks? (I have a copy of the Cambell and Reece biology from high school, but what about physics and chem and hubs?)

You can read the physics textbook online for free - if you search for it in the library database it will come up with an e-book option in the list, and it also lets you 'loan download' it for up to 7 days. If you wanted to spend money some textbooks let you buy electonic copies for cheaper but I can't remember which ones relevant to HSFY do it, the individual publishers website will probably tell you if it's an option ...?

 

[Profiterole]

how does loan download work, does it just not open after 7 days?

 

[Cathay]

Does the actual stream code (e.g LL1 for chem) actually mean anything to us? i.e will we need to know the stream for administration logging and other stuff?

No.

how does loan download work, does it just not open after 7 days?

I'd presume it works on a log-in basis - log in with your username and password to read it, etc... I'm sure you can renew it after 7 days though.

 

[sibirica]

I'm not too sure, when I tried downloading it my computer couldn't recognise the file format <_< so I've just been using the online version, but I assume the file has some sort of timer that corrupts it, or it only works offline for that amount of time before you have to log in again to access it.

[OFFTOPIC]some of the other textbooks you can read free online are in a much nicer format, and you don't have to keep logging in after it times-out on you if you spend too long on a page, bleh[/OFFTOPIC]

 

[juna]

Hi guys, this has been bugging me for ages- to print our slides, do we just load money up on our student card, and then download the slides from blackboard onto our computers, then print it? What if we want to print in the library? Thanks

 

[Cathay]

Hi guys, this has been bugging me for ages- to print our slides, do we just load money up on our student card, and then download the slides from blackboard onto our computers, then print it? What if we want to print in the library? Thanks

Download them onto a computer (note: a computer =/= your computer) - there will be computers in the library for all sorts of purposes, and printing is one of them. Printing at a library/lab computer will lead to the document being sent to the library/lab printer system. Go to the nearest printing station and log in (by swiping your card) at the computer console, you should then find your document in the waiting list.

Also you can find out about iPrint (search it on Otago's website), where you install this program onto your computer then you can print straight into the uni network - and they'll go into the library/lab printer system. Anything you print on iPrint goes into the full university library/lab printing system, and you can find them in the list at any lab/library printer's computer console.

 

[Voldemort]

Guys, quite frankly, I would also consider the fact that over the course of a year, that is a lot of printing. Black and white printing is 10 cents per page (colour is a dollar I think), and past the money, its a lot of loose paper. I would suggest taking your laptop, using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader, in which you can add comments to your pdf, and annotate your slides. That is one option, which is also good for organisation. Even better for organisation is using Onenote, printing your slides to Onenote and typing on them like that.

But it is entirely up to you. If you like dealing with paper you should print stuff out. Don't some halls have free printing? Or is that just a rumor?

 

[skyglow1]

Good luck everyone

 

[juna]

Guys, quite frankly, I would also consider the fact that over the course of a year, that is a lot of printing. Black and white printing is 10 cents per page (colour is a dollar I think), and past the money, its a lot of loose paper. I would suggest taking your laptop, using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader, in which you can add comments to your pdf, and annotate your slides. That is one option, which is also good for organisation. Even better for organisation is using Onenote, printing your slides to Onenote and typing on them like that.

But it is entirely up to you. If you like dealing with paper you should print stuff out. Don't some halls have free printing? Or is that just a rumor?

I think at St Margarets, it's free, but I know that for Carrington, you have to pay. So would you recommend downloading all the slides (that are up on BB) and then adding notes on that as we go during the lecture? Can you only do that if you have the latest Adobe reader? Because what I was going to do was to just take my laptop (instead of pen and paper, because I can type faster) and then print out the slides, and hand write all the extra notes onto the lecture slides. But your way might save more time....

 

[Voldemort]

Yes, I believe it is only the latest version of Acrobat reader that does it, which, as you will know, is a free download. But I also do recommend printing to Onenote and then typing on the slides, that way you can organise everything better and it's easier to view.

 

[juna]

Yes, I believe it is only the latest version of Acrobat reader that does it, which, as you will know, is a free download. But I also do recommend printing to Onenote and then typing on the slides, that way you can organise everything better and it's easier to view.

Do you mean (for onenote) to download it onto onenote, and then typing on it?

 

[Profiterole]

Hubs page on Black-board is up! (finally!!)

 

[Voldemort]

Do you mean (for onenote) to download it onto onenote, and then typing on it?

Errm... I dunno what you mean... I meant open it up in your pdf reader, click file/print, and then there will be an option to "print to onenote". After you click print, your lecture slides will appear as a note in Onenote, which you can then file into the appropriate notebook, and you can freely type on it. You should probably give it a whirl before your lecture, so that you can familiarize yourself with it, but its not that hard, really. Its very user friendly.

[MENTION=13833]jonathan810[/MENTION], don't get to excited, there probably isn't anything on there... XD

 

[Profiterole]

@jonathan810 , don't get to excited, there probably isn't anything on there... XD

hey, there's a stream list, that's a 100% self-improvement rating!!

 

[frootloop]

Just out of interest, did they tell you in the prelim lecture what the HSFY class size is this year?

 

[sibirica]

The lecturer in physics today said there was about 1200ish HSFY I think? (opposed to the 1800-odd in total for papers like HUBS) correct me if anyone heard otherwise...

 

[frootloop]

The lecturer in physics today said there was about 1200ish HSFY I think? (opposed to the 1800-odd in total for papers like HUBS) correct me if anyone heard otherwise...

If that's right then you guys have ~150 less people in your cohort than we did (yay for marginally better odds? )
And yes, your individual papers will have 1800-2000 people in them ('cept maybe PHSI and HEAL), because plenty of BSc kids take some of the HSFY papers, and all of the PE kids have to take HUBS.

 

[Profiterole]

so its another 'fight-for-a-seat-in-the-theatre' like today for cells. (Quad 2 is a dark, dark, place that no-one wants to be in x.x)

 

[Ruth]

It was 1228 (which is a really really nice number).

 

[Profiterole]

any first-years here know what the HUB's intro will be about?