Emerging Technology

Tech Spotlight: PresentR

PresentR is a video-based presentation software that gives users realtime feedback about body language, eye contact, and other good practices as they present to help them become better public speakers. The software analyzes a video feed of the user presenting to make suggestions for improvement. PresentR also tracks scores over

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Tech Spotlight: ChemReference

ChemReference is a free online interactive periodic table of elements. Students who are studying chemistry may find ChemReference to be a useful chemistry reference tool to use in their studies. ChemReference was created by Nathan Bookout when he was a university student studying engineering. The website has a clean and user-friendly

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Tech Spotlight: Print Friendly & PDF

Print Friendly & PDF is a free Google Chrome extension that makes it easy to edit a web page to make it print-friendly before printing it out. The extension allows you to remove any unwanted text, images, and ads from a web page so that you only print what you

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Tech Spotlight: Flashcards by NKO

Flashcards by NKO is a free mobile flashcard app that allows users to create and study virtual flashcards. Students can use this app to study and memorize material for their classes by creating and reviewing flashcards. Flashcards allows you to easily create and customize your own flashcards. You can add text with rich

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Tech Spotlight: Duolingo Bots

Duolingo, the language learning site, has recently come out with a new feature that pairs chat bots with learners who want a native speaker experience without the scheduling and cost. The feature lets learners chat with bot characters drawn from common travel experiences: a taxi driver, police officer, chef, and

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Tech Spotlight: Sensay

Sensay is a platform that helps connect people with questions to people with answers across many fields. Instead of letting bots answer questions, Sensay puts AI to work to decode users’ natural language queries and connect them automatically to a person that may be able to answer their question. Sensay

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Tech Spotlight: ATLA Religion Database

With over 4,000 active religions in the world, it can be difficult to track down scholarly religious research. Luckily for us, the American Theological Library Association has compiled a database of over 1,800 journals in the fields of theology and religious studies to make research a breeze. With coverage from

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Tech Spotlight: Jeopardy Labs

Jeopardy Labs is a website where users can create and customize their own jeopardy game templates for free. Instructors can use this tool to create jeopardy-style games for reviewing material with students during classes, which may be helpful before a test. They can have students play in teams and record the scores using the scorekeeping function located

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Tech Spotlight: Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

Writing a paper on some aspect of Asia and can’t find relevant research for your topic? If so, the Bibliography of Asian Studies might be the resource you need to get your research back on track. With an index of over 850,000 journal articles and books on all subjects pertaining to

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Tech Spotlight: Kanopy Streaming

Kanopy is an online streaming video service that provides a wide collection of films, documentaries, and foreign language videos in a variety of academic subjects. Subjects include the social sciences, the arts, education, business, health, global studies and languages, sciences, and more! It has an easy-to-use interface that allows users to browse

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