Microsoft Office 365 University: Good deal?

This is not your father’s Microsoft Office. Microsoft is changing the way people work with their flagship productivity suite. Office 365 is the latest version of Microsoft Office and the first version of Office to be subscription based. While you can still install the software traditionally on your computer as Microsoft Office 2013, the Office 365 offering …

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Adobe: Bring creativity to the classroom

An informative article from Adobe, with video, on why creativity is so important in education. As an educator, you have an opportunity and an obligation to foster creativity in your students, while also helping them develop digital skills. When students become creators of digital content, they can amplify their ideas and increase their impact. Take …

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They have an App for it!

With the smartphone market booming, people are trying new and innovative ideas to get an edge on the competition. One way to do this is by offering apps that let users do anything you can possibly think of. Apps may be categorized into many different forms, but we will focus more on the smartphone apps in …

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Android officially pulls Flash from Google Play Store in favor of HTML5

The bell tolled on August 15 for Android-based device owners using Adobe’s Flash Player multimedia plugin. As foretold in November 2011, Adobe will be offering no certified implementations of Adobe’s Flash Player beyond Android OS 4.1, and as of August 15, Flash has been removed from Google’s app store, Play, according to a PCWorld article, …

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Online Accessibility for Students with Disabilities

Synopsis of “How to Session” for Accessibility. Hardware, software, and techniques to use in creating an online course were discussed. The technologies presented were: Screen Readers: Kurzweil 3000 JAWS-PC Voice Over-Mac Speech to Text Dragon Naturally Speaking-PC Dragon Dictate-Mac Screen Magnification and Color Contrast Zoom Text-PC Mac Screen Magnification Braille Reader/Writer Accessibility Techniques: 1. Alt …

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