For the kids....

failsafe

Last summer in the run up to exams, while I was doing the usual boards/bebo/anything to avoid study, I was doing a bit of spring cleaning of my room and I stumbled across all my old Leaving Cert notes. I know a lot of my friends have thrown out their notes by now, but I just feel like I put way too much effort into them to throw them away! So I thought I might make an effort to put them online, so that other people could get a bit of use/benefit from them.

I searched around for a site where I could put them so that they could be of use to younger generations doing the leaving cert over the coming years. I couldn’t find any site where I could put my notes, so long story short, I built one! (yes, I really am a dosser and do anything but study at exam time!)

The site is http://www.zulunotes.com

I posted it in the LC forum at the time and got a fairly good response. There’s a fair few active users contributing to it and even more seem to be benefiting from the notes!

I was doing commerce, and I actually found that putting up my economics notes was a good help at studying. One or two of the members who are studying sciences seem to think the same thing, so I decided to start this thread for anyone who might be interested in joining us in having a bash at making a comprehensive leaving cert wiki!

At present not all subjects have content, but a few are starting to take shape and grow (Applied Maths, English, Maths, Economics, Classical Studies, Biology)

While we work away at it, I thought it might be an idea to post it here because 1) boards users are usually pretty helpful 2) I know I have so many notes because I thought writing them out was the best way of learning, so others here might find creating an entry on a certain topic/essay may help and 3) because everyone gets bored of study and needs some distraction, that's the only reason I started doing it!!

So please feel free to create an account and add a page or two, or even just a bit about a subject, table of contents etc, or give some feedback here or to me by PM, all would be welcome!

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

How is this relevant in the slightest to TCD?

ApeXaviour

Zwei... it's quiet time.

Failsafe, I do regret having nothing to contribute. It's been nearly 6 years since I sat the LC and my notes have long been cast to oblivion. Seems quite worthwhile, good job, wiki format being the best medium for this kind of thing.

Crash

If anyone has any interest in doing the same thing for college, try www.uninotes.org

set up by a few lads in my year, who never quite had the time to properly promote it around college. perfect for putting up college notes etc.

xebec

Just out of interest crash...

Is there any issue with copyright with that site? Did the people who set it up have to get permission from each lecturer before linking their notes? Or is that not an issue because they're just grouping notes rather than actually hosting the files?

Crash

Well the idea is that you're not putting up lecturers notes - you're putting up your own notes on a course.

In some cases I believe there are lecturers notes on a site, in those cases the guys got permission from the lecturer and had a waiver up for it.

failsafe

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote: »

How is this relevant in the slightest to TCD?

The majority of TCD students will have sat the leaving cert, and therefore might be in a position to contribute if they wish (/are a bored student like me). Unfortunately there is no centralized "college students" forum to pitch this to so I thought putting it in TCD and UCD would let people know who might like to help out.

çrash_000 wrote: »

If anyone has any interest in doing the same thing for college, try www.uninotes.org

set up by a few lads in my year, who never quite had the time to properly promote it around college. perfect for putting up college notes etc.

That's pretty cool crash. That's actually where my idea came from, in one class we had a sh1t load of readings to do, all of which were 5-10 pages long, but only contained a few small bits of relevant/examinable information. 6 or 7 of us got together, split up the readings, and wrote up summaries and sent them to the rest of the group. I had thought of making a website (i didn't know about the concept of a wiki at the time) where we could post our summaries to, so the whole year could add to/benefit from them, but I never got around to it.

Then I found my old LC notes, as mentioned in the OP, and I think it appealed to me more because everyone does the same leaving, so a larger amount of people would be working on a generic set of material, as opposed to say "management" notes which would vary from Commerce to BESS to B&L to Dit business etc.