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Collect information from anywhere into a single place. From text notes to web pages to files to snapshots, everything is always at your fingertips. Share your notes and collaborate on projects with friends, colleagues and classmates.

From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like Microsoft Word, we've put together a guide to help you choose the writing software that's right for you. With a concentration on long-form writing apps.

Facilitating campus-wide academic and career success through online courses for faculty, staff, and students on the effective application of technology. Tutorials on all things technology from Blackboard to Word.

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Religious topics are limited. Try searching specific religions like "Buddhism."

Web-scale discovery services promise fast, easy searching from a single Google-like box, pleasing users and making library resources more discoverable. Some librarians embrace the concept of giving users what they have come to expect from Google, while others are concerned that this will “dumb down” searching and undermine information literacy. In this article we explore the potential impact of Web-scale discovery tools on information literacy, focusing particularly on undergraduate research skills. We review the existing literature and present findings and experiences from two mid-sized academic libraries that have adopted EBSCO Discovery Service as their library home page portal.Web-scale discovery services promise fast, easy searching from a single Google-like box, pleasing users and making library resources more discoverable. Some librarians embrace the concept of giving users what they have come to expect from Google, while others are concerned that this will “dumb down” searching and undermine information literacy. In this article we explore the potential impact of Web-scale discovery tools on information literacy, focusing particularly on undergraduate research skills. We review the existing literature and present findings and experiences from two mid-sized academic libraries that have adopted EBSCO Discovery Service as their library home page portal.

Video. A lengthy You Tube video (1 hour), and dated 2008, but still relevant. Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch discusses "media literacy" as a site of ongoing struggle and professional development for an instructor in higher education. If our students come to us unprepared for school, does that mean they are unprepared for learning? Is the problem with them, or with school? Have we taught learners the wrong things about learning?

Podcast overview of issues related to studying religion on the web.

One of the best sites to help you create your own website. Free to educators.