Article that includes an excellent description of universal design for learning.
Alnahdi, G. (2014) Assistive technology in special education and the universal design for learning. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology. 13 (2) Retrieved from http://www.tojet.net/articles/v13i2/1322.pdf
The volume of social networks and resulting conversations is growing exponentially everyday. People are discovering new social networks, making more connections, downloading more social apps and buying smarter devices, all contributing to an explosion of social data. Organizations are seeking to use this data to increase sales, advance their bottom line and meet corporate goals.
The rise of smartphones has brought real-time location data into many aspects of Americans' lives. Some mobile services use the smartphone's location to offer directions, targeted recommendations, or other location-specific information to the user. Other services incorporate a location "layer" into other types of functions, while still others exist specifically to share the user's location with friends or the general public.
Gamification white paper from the consulting company Bunchball. It's the first paper to go over how motivation and fun could be used in engagement, brand loyalty and consumer psychology.
Lucassen,G. & Jansen, S. (2014) Gamification in consumer marketing - Future or fallacy?, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 148, 25 August 2014, Pages 194-202,
EDUCAUSE link to legal alternatives for downloading. Sites states that the "Higher Education Opportunity Act requires all colleges and universities to offer legal alternatives to unauthorized downloading."
We have two Google add-ons available in English: This add-on is available for all SurveyMonkey plan types, including the free BASIC plan. To import your Google Form into a survey: Get the free SurveyMonkey for Google Forms add-on. Open your Google Form. Click Add-ons from the toolbar. Open the SurveyMonkey add-on.
Author's Note: This article has been edited to correct inaccuracies in Google Docs functionality in Firefox, and Google Apps support.] Game on. Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software, but Google is virtually synonymous with the Web.
This year, Microsoft has made Office available for the iPad, iPhone, a preview available for Android, and even dropped the price to free. Meanwhile, the incumbent, Google Drive and its associated apps, have been building out features. Today, we compare the two on mobile.
Slack is a group site that bypasses email and allows all group messages to be in one place. I am using now for marketing classes because it has been replacing email in many advertising firms.