Tech Spotlight: Duolingo

Duolingo is a foreign language learning app that breaks down languages into easy to learn segments. Using elements of games and scoring points, Duolingo makes learning languages fun and more interesting than trying to make it through a full language course. Duolingo’s main feature is observing how millions of people

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Tech Spotlight: JoVE

JoVE stands for, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and is a way for scientific researchers to easily access videos on experiments for the purpose of reproducing the experiments accurately. JoVE is the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific video journal. JoVE helps to significantly cut down the resources necessary to reproduce experiments, by showing

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Tech Spotlight: Coursera

For those who don’t know, Coursera is a free online educational resource that offers courses in many different subjects. The website allows for full interation with a subject, from quizzes and video learning.  Coursera has access to around 2000 courses from schools like; Penn University and John’s Hopkins. With all of these

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Tech Spotlight: Scopus

Scopus is a database of citations and abstracts of peer reviewed: articles, journals, and books. It offers a look into multiple fields including: humanities, science & technology, history, Medicine, and more. Scopus also has tools to help find the most comprehensive research that’s right for your needs. It is the largest

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Tech Spotlight: SBU Map With Useful Locations Marked

A map of Stony Brook University has been created highlighting the locations of: Bus routes, parking, printers, bus stops, dinning places, bike stations, and computer labs. This map can be useful to students both new and old, and contains everything a commuter would need to know about the campus to save time

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Tech Spotlight: Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Open Access Theses & Dissertations is an online database allowing for students to find open access to graduate Theses and Dissertations worldwide. These open access documents will be of great value to graduate students looking to do intensive research or needing help in writing their own dissertations or Theses. The OATD

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Tech Spotlight: American Film Scripts Online

American Film Scripts Online is a database of screenplays and scripts, most of which were never published or available to the public. This database allows for the users to look through different scripts and obtain a better sense for learning and developing screenplays and scripts of their own, as well as

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