Emerging Technology

Tech Spotlight: iTunes U

iTunes U is a great source of free educational materials.  You can access it through iTunes on your laptop or through the iTunes U app on your phone or tablet.  Hundreds of universities and cultural institutions offer free access to lectures and course materials, among them many well-known names such

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Tech Spotlight: GoodReads

One great way to relax after class is to sit down with a good novel.  However, sometimes it is hard to find a great book to sink your teeth into or to remember if you’ve read that author before.  Some book lovers like to keep reading journals, but for the

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Tech Spotlight: Pixabay

As we all know, plagiarism and intellectual property rights are prime subjects these days for academics and business people alike.  It’s difficult to find sources of media that are available for use without stepping on someone else’s intellectual property rights.  But sometimes you need that perfect image for your PowerPoint

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Tech Spotlight: PDFescape

Sometimes Adobe Acrobat just doesn’t do the job when you need to work with a PDF.  Limited functions, clunky controls… or maybe you’re just on a computer that doesn’t have the appropriate program and you don’t have the permissions to install new software on the computer you’re working on.  Luckily

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Tech Spotlight: Quizlet

Take your studying into the 21st century with Quizlet <https://quizlet.com/>!  This innovative website and app allows students and teachers to leave behind old-school flashcards and move into the interactive studying of the future.  Using the website, students and teachers worldwide are creating vocabulary and knowledge sets for a huge variety

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Tech Spotlight: Libib

Like many of my friends and family members, I have a problem.  A problem with books, CDs, DVDs, and video games.  A problem in which I keep buying them and bringing them home, and then forgetting I have them, and then buying them and bringing them home again.  A problem

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Tech Spotlight: Genius Scan

Can’t make it down to the SINC site to scan that document for your professor?  Need to send a good quality copy of your work to your classmate?  Take advantage of a tool you already have in your pocket – your smartphone! Genius Scan <https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/>,  created by The Grizzly Labs,

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Tech Spotlight: Wired-Marker

One of the biggest problems that we as students have is keeping track of all the fascinating information that we find floating around the internet!  With a book, it’s easy to circle, star, or flag important information that you need to find later, but you certainly can’t do that on

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Tech Spotlight: Grammarly

Grammarly is a free google chrome extension that checks what you write and helps you fix any mistakes you make while writing. Grammarly tracks what you write and gives you suggestions on how to improve your writing. While Google Chrome already offers an option that checks spelling, Grammarly offers the ability

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Tech Spotlight: Empower

Empower is a banking app that seeks to replace and consolidate all of your other banking information into a single easy to use app. It’s difficult for college age students to keep track of all of the daily expenses they have and hold onto that last $20 they have lying around

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