App Makes Citations a Snap
An enterprising group of college students have crafted an app that allows users to simplify the often tedious work of creating citations for printed books. Crafted by seven University of Waterloo students, Quick Cite, allows the user to snap a picture of the book’s bar code and have a formatted citation instantly emailed to them. Quick Cite is available on the iOS and Android platforms for $0.99. According to Hack College, which broke the story, the 7cubed team skipped class and challenged themselves to create seven apps in seven days. Quick Cite took about eight hours to write and is...
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Consistently, as I move about the TechEd venue, I hear surprise and confusion expressed as educators interact with Web 2.0 technologies. While it is important to applaud those seeking to learn about the various Web 2.0 technologies, it is alarmingly clear that the average educator is woefully behind in tech savvy knowledge. While it is true that knowledge often seems scattered, time and money are also commonly cited as major barriers to learning and implementing new technologies. The @ONE Project is trying to change this. The @ONE Project was initially designed with the purpose of making it...
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