Issuu is a digital publishing platform that is used by a large number of publishers to publish their magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Issuu includes an inbuilt exceptional browser that allows for life like browsing of magazines. It also includes an ability to download a published document in PDF format. Issuu allows the publication of a [...]
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This past week, I encountered Skype connection issues on two different Apple computers. The first was on a university owned MacBook and the second was on my new personal iMac. When I tried logging in, Skype would sit at the “Signing in…” screen for 3-5 minutes before rejecting my login, saying something about a connection [...]
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I don’t know how we missed this update, but on April 15th, Google debuted an updated Google Docs editor with real-time collaboration! One of the biggest issues people have had with Google Docs is that it takes a little while for the edits to show up on the collaborators’ screens. Not anymore! It now updates [...]
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The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave’s best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here’s how to manage a group project in Wave.
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These workshops will introduce faculty and support staff to the various technological solutions recommended in the LSA Teaching Through the Flu web guide (http://bit.ly/LSAFlu). Participants will learn about various ways to handle posting lectures or media, communicating and collaborating online, collecting and distributing files, delivering live lectures over the internet and conducting tests and quizzes [...]
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Screenr “Screenr. For Twitter.” I do realize how ridiculous that sounds (I mean, just say it out loud). However, for those of you who are frequent tweeters, or those who think you might become frequent tweeters if you ever find a use for it, Screenr might be just the kind of add-on you need. Twitter [...]
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This evening a friend posted a tweet about tips for Twitter academic users. Although I am a Twitter user, and have personal and professional friends with whom I twitter, I have had a difficult time envisioning how Twitter can be used effectively in most classes. For maintaining simple communications across the country, following a conference [...]
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U-M’s Health Sciences Libraries presents this slideshow of cool tech applications or webservices.
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