Welcome 2023! We hope you all had a restful, relaxing, and enjoyable holiday season. To returning students, welcome back! To new students, we are happy to have you join

For those of you who are new to the Tech Tips: Work Smarter, Not Harder blog post, our goal here is to show you different technologies, or different ways of using technology, to make your academic life easer.

To start off the new year and the new term, we’d like to take a look back at our posts from 2022 (that’s what are the cool blog posts are doing these days, right?!):

• Kurzweil 3000 – is FREE software primarily designed as Text-To-Speech (read-aloud technology), but also many other features built-in to support writing, comprehension and studying
• Brightspace Pulse – is a FREE app developed by the same company that developed the LEARN platform. This app communicates with LEARN and helps you organize and remember important dates across all your classes
• Accessibility Features of WebEx – this blog post focuses on user-enabled accessibility features built-into WebEx, a web conferencing platform used by many programs within the college
• The Academic Success Centre did a take-over of the Tech Tips blog and highlighted two very important technology resources they have available to students:
  • Technology Literacy Module
  • Tech Peer Tutors
• Pomodoro & Forest – this blog post offers a suggestion to support students with the ever-increasingly difficult task of time management. But, with a fun spin that can lead to trees being planted in the real world!

As for this year, who knows what the tech tips blog will explore! Voice dictation? Immersive reading? Bionic reading? Fonts designed for specific disabilities? Apps for mental health? Citation technology? Website blockers? The possibilities are (quite literally) endless!

Have an idea for a tech tips blog post? We’d love to hear from you! Please email your ideas to eament@rrc.ca.