Re: TI-92's In Classes other than math?


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Re: TI-92's In Classes other than math?



On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Jason Smith wrote:

> Does anybody besides me use the TI-92 in other classes besides math?
> With the built in text editor I often use it to take notes in classes
> (due to the fact I can type faster than I can write), does anybody
> else do this?  Alot of the teachers won't allow it anymore though,
> they say taking notes on the calculator is 'cheating'.  Anybody else
> here take notes using your 92? How do you get around the teachers, or
> do they not care??
>
>

I'm not (yet) a teacher, but I wouldn't care; notes are notes are notes.
I have a PDA that I occasionally use for notes in seminars and so on; I
haven't got a TI-92 and using an alphabetic keyboard isn't nearly as quick
as Qwerty, so I don't use the calc. for notes.

On the other hand, I might raise an eyebrow in high school where it would
pretty geeky, imho.  (not that I'm not a geek)


Timothy Dixon  tdixon@fwi.com
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