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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and the Classroom

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Angel Brady

A new tech­nol­ogy trend has been mak­ing the rounds in edu­ca­tion. The tech­nol­ogy trend is called BYOD or Bring Your Own Device. In higher edu­ca­tion, this idea is not really that new. It has become sec­ond nature for a stu­dent … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Serge Goldstein on the iPrinceton app.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by John LeMasney

Over the past two years, OIT, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a num­ber of Uni­ver­sity depart­ments and Black­board Inc., has devel­oped a mobile appli­ca­tion suite named “iPrince­ton.” This suite is cur­rently avail­able for iPhone/iPads, Android, and Black­berry mobile devices, as well as … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Google App Inventor

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Angel Brady

The Google App Inven­tor is a new tool that Google has launched. It is aimed at help­ing non-coders to develop Android apps (for Android phones) with a series of build­ing “blocks” for mobile phones. This is a great tool for … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Mobile App That Translates Text in Photos

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Angel Brady

Google is giv­ing a pre­view of a pro­to­type of their soft­ware called Google Gog­gles. Gog­gles is an Android visual search appli­ca­tion that  trans­lates text in a photo into another lan­guage. A per­son with an Android device can use the app … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Google Voice Search Can Now Understand Chinese

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Angel Brady

Google Search by voice func­tion (part of the Google Mobile app) is avail­able on cer­tain phones and now you can search in Man­darin Chi­nese. What’s also nice is that only is this app usable in another lan­guage other than Eng­lish, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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