Educational Technology

Support with Educational Technology

Our educational technology team guides students to apps and tools that provide accessibility to course material and support individual learning styles. The team also assists students with using innovative technology throughout the building.

Students may schedule an appointment or drop in to see a student Tech Coach or the Educational Technology Coordinator.

Support Focus Areas:

Online learning platforms used by UA courses
Catmail & Calendars
Apps for studying, time management, organization and mind mapping
Audio Note Taking Apps and the Smart Pen⁺
Read and Write Gold⁺
Innovative Technology within the SALT Center⁺

Audio Note Taking Apps and the Smart Pen

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Audio Note Taking apps on laptops and tablets capture the entire lecture and empower students to review key concepts and fill in missing items. It offers great benefits to students struggling with Dysgraphia, ADHD, Auditory Processing, etc.

Best Features:

Selective playback
Search
Annotation
Images

Tech Coaches steer students toward the appropriate apps and demonstrate how to use the technology.

The Smart Pen

Students may make an appointment with the Educational Technology Coordinator for a Smart Pen demonstration. The Smart Pen is available for short term checkout with a follow-up meeting to discuss how well the pen fits the student’s individual notetaking needs.

Read and Write Gold (free assistive technology software)

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The UA software license site provides free access to this software to all of its students to install on their personal devices. Both Windows and Mac versions are available.

Best Features:

Text-to-speech – you can listen to your documents and web pages
Audio Files - Create a MP3 of your documents to listen on the go
Voice recognition – talk to your computer and it types what you say
Highlighting tools – highlight key points in your document
Collect Highlights – pull out all your highlights onto a separate document for studying or research
Dictionary - to look up terms
Mind Mapping – use the brainstorming mode to quickly organize thought bubbles with the ability to convert them into an outline

Innovative Technology within the SALT Center

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Tech Coaches show students how to use the technology provided at the Collaboration Stations and at the Tech Bar. Students may connect personal laptops to medium and large screen monitors for increased productivity, focus, and for group collaboration.