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Tech Spotlight: Shakespeare App

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Laura Costello

Shakespeare is a free mobile app that allows users to read plays, sonnets, and poems by William Shakespeare. Students who are studying English and Shakespeare may find this app to be useful when reading Shakespeare’s works. The app contains the…

Tech Spotlight: Google Arts & Culture

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Laura Costello

Google Arts & Culture is a free mobile app that lets you virtually view artwork from museums, galleries, and archives from around the world. Students who are studying art and art history may find this app to be useful in discovering…

Tech Spotlight: PresentR

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

Tech Spotlight: ChemReference

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

Dr. Joanna Kiryluk on IceCube and Cosmic Neutrinos Research

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Clara Tran

On November 30, Dr. Joanna Kiryluk engaged the audience in the Special Collections Seminar Room with a journey from outside our Galaxy to the earth’s South Pole. Dr. Kiryluk discussed how cosmic neutrinos were tracked, the discovery of the elusive…

Tech Spotlight: Print Friendly & PDF

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

Tech Spotlight: Flashcards by NKO

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

Tech Spotlight: Duolingo Bots

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Darren Chase

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share, and cultivate. Creative Commons provides free tools that…

Tech Spotlight: Sensay

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Laura Costello

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…

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