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Technologies for teaching, learning and research

WordPress

Availability: Contact CLAS OAT Comparable:  Drupal, Omeka WordPress is a powerful web content management system (CMS) that allows users flexible web design, abilities, and extensibility without necessarily learning to code a programming language.  Since WordPress is open source and open for development thousands of templates, plugins, modifications, and extensions have been developed, and some have … Read more

Hangouts

Availability: Free Download Comparable:  Skype, Saba Meeting, WebEx Google Hangouts is an application that allows real-time chat, voice, and video communications between users of Google accounts.  While Hangouts is not yet part of the UNCC google apps package (coming in July 2015), you may run across it due to its popularity.  Hangouts is free, a part … Read more

Sway

Availability: Free web application Comparable: Prezi Sway is an experimental software preview by Microsoft for a new presentation tool.  Sway allows users to combine text and media to create a presentable website. Users can pull content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Twitter, OneDrive, YouTube, or Facebook. A sway can be viewed or … Read more