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Overheard Discussion

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Can't you just scan it all in? I thought you could just scan it into the computer. I am sure I saw somewhere that you could just scan information into the computer. Customer: What? I hope you've never had a similar discussion but I bet you have.

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Guest Post: 5 Effective Ways of Maximizing Mobile Tech In Learning Pursuits

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They can also scan textbook barcodes with their phones to find the best available online deals. Before they head out to campus bookshops to purchase a newly printed paperback, students would first check online resources like CourseSmart to find ebook and digital counterparts, that are accessible on laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

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Gamification of Learning and Training

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Search engines have a difficult time with image searches, and while facial-recognition software has made strides over the past decade, a new computer can’t scan a photo of, say, Robert Pattinson and tell you who it is. In 2006, Google created a game to help it tag pictures and photos on the web.

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What Happens in a Story…Happens in Your Brain

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The process consisted of the participants reading a story phrase by phrase and the researchers scanning areas of the brain with a 3-T Siemens Vision MRI scanner to observe whether or not corresponding brain activities occurred. Louis conducted an experiment with 28 participants who were right-handed and native English speakers.

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Guest Blogger: Stephanie Evergreen-Solving Four Slidedeck-to-eLearning Problems

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This means the audience has finished scanning the slide content and is on to perusing their Twitter feed before the presenter is finished reading the same set of bullets. It’s too text-based. People are pained when the presenter reads the words off the slides. People can read seven times faster than they can speak.

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Creating a Hospital in 3D to Explore Possibilities

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It was fully equipped, and included every manner of bed, gurney, and tool used by medical staff, including sophisticated diagnostic equipment from digital sonography to CAT scans and MRI suites; fully-equipped examination rooms, offices, and operating theaters; and suites for anesthesia, arthroscopic surgery, trauma, and cardiac catheterization.

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Karl, The Meme has You.Again, Again

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I think I should scan and put on the web some day. *Look for OJ cameo. 2) I once wrote a joke book called "If Dan Qualye Can Get a Job, Why Can't I." It was a parody of all the job search books I was reading at the time. I no longer have the electronic copy but I think I have a hard copy somewhere. Unfortunately my son's beat me all the time.

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