Based on her post, her list of factors to improve might include: I have to read my speeches, which means I need a laptop to seem like I'm speaking extemporaneously--but I can't always have a laptop. The first two minutes of my talk are painful, and I fill them with fluff until I get comfortable. Do you find yourself running into the same speaking problems again and again? Do you try quick fixes or on-the-fly solutions, without success?

Having only Keynote on my laptop wasn’t going to cut it, so I bought a copy of Office 2008 and downloaded OpenOffice 3.0 Rather than giving points to the tools that have the most of whatever garbage they may offer, I’ll focus more on what is important and not count the fluff or garbage.  It was with great joy that last month, I uninstalled Office 2004.  The software, PowerPoint 2004 included, were getting on my nerves and there was nothing that suite could do to repair the broken relationship we had. 

Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude. In an industrial society, the scarce resources are goods and services. Lanham 1997 , 164] 1 University students are browsing Facebook on their laptops and sending text messages to their friends when they should be focused on the lecture; they are tending to their instant messages,