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Technologies for teaching, learning and research

Parallels

Availability: Download Comparable: VMware Fusion Parallels is a virtualization utility that allows you to run a Windows operating system environment within the MacOS.  The platform shares your computer’s hardware resources with the guest operating system according to customizable specifications.  Users can dedicate a set amount of memory, number of processors, and other computer resources to the virtual instance … Read more

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