Monthly Archives: October 2005

Homemade audio drills

This past Friday Scott and I started talking about making audio drills with my taperecorder. You know, using the Speed Teacher software from Court Reporting Help.com. A teacher at school suggested that we avoid using Speed Teacher because building speed through visual cues, i.e., reading the text and then typing it, won’t build speed as [...]

Booyakasha! news

Follow the link to check out an article posted on CNN.com with some good news for those of us studying court reporting and that is . . . good salaries. So at least for now it looks like I’m not studying for no reason. Obviously, I’m not going to be one of those US$100,000 salary [...]

Ultimate testimony challenge

I do a lot of drills and I think I’m progressing well enough. I’m pretty eager to start working and think by the time I reach 225 wpm that I will be able to handle almost any situation. I mean, when I think about what I’ll be doing, I pretty much imagine taking depositions at [...]

Day in the life of this court reporting student

Here I am. Hard at work at the NYCI CAT lab. Working hard or hardly working?

Alternative court reporting

In contrast to the court reporter doll that I mentioned in my previous post, I thought I should plug Madam Court Reporter. Here you’ll find all kinds of stuff to buy for your career as a court reporter. Oh, Madame Court Reporter. No, I’m not talking about supplies or writers or software or any of [...]