Writing – AT HelpDesk / Centre de dépannage TA

For many students, organizing information can be just as challenging as learning it. Between lecture notes, assignment deadlines, brainstorming sessions, and studying for exams, it is easy to become overwhelmed by scattered ideas and disconnected information. That is where the SimpleMind app can be especially useful. Designed as a mind mapping and visual organization tool,…

In this article, we’re doing something a bit different. Rather than our typical content that is normally written by a sole author (Seaver), we’ve invited our colleagues Rebekah and Louise to help us test out and give their thoughts on a variety of notetaking apps across a variety of devices. Each of us will review…

The inq smartpen is designed to bring note taking, audio recording, and analysis into a single workflow. From my experience, it handled most of those core tasks well. However, I experienced enough hiccups along the way to say that my experience with this pen was not exactly perfect. One of the first things I noticed…

Chromebooks are great educational tools due to their small size, low price, and general ease of use. They also come packed with accessibility features. In this guide, we’re going to look at how to enable and use these features, as well as provide users with some handy keyboard shortcuts. How to Open Accessibility Settings First,…

From the same company that created the widely heralded Dragon Dictation, Dragon Anywhere Mobile is a voice powered dictation app that lets you create and edit documents by speaking instead of typing. It runs on mobile devices and is designed for people who want a simple and reliable way to write using their voice. For…

Category: Writing

SimpleMind: A Free(ish) Mind Mapping App

Putting Notetaking Apps to the Test: A Three-Author Experiment

Inq Smartpen: Powerful on Paper, Rough Around the Edges

How to: Enable and Use Chromebook Accessibility Tools

Dragon Anywhere Mobile