Grade Rubric Upgrade - Email Student Grades

We (Android for Academics) upgraded Grade Rubric. Now users have the option of generating an email message when you press the calculate button. The auto-generated message will include the final grade and a breakdown of your marks for each rubric category. All you’ll have to do is enter their email address (which will be very [...]

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Google Docs is About to Get Really Awesome

New Features Include Real-time collaboration Chat with Collaborators (you can do with with Google Spreadsheet, but not Google Word - now you’ll be able to) Better Comment Features Better Tab Functionality Slide-Tab Ruler Adjustment (will have a better word-processor feel)

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I’m an Android Developer!

I wrote my first app for the Android platform, and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s called Grade Rubric. It’s a simple tool for professors who grade papers and assignments using a grading rubric. You can read more about it here. Search for the app on the Android Market under “Grade Rubric”.

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Introducing Android For Academics!

It should come as no surprise to you guys that I love the Android OS. It should also come as no surprise that I think the Android OS has enormous potential benefits/applications for academics. I am now proud to introduce Android for Academics. The purpose of the site is two-fold. First, I’m working with an [...]

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Speech to Text in android update

I’m writing this blog post by talking into my phone. That’s because android phones recently updated with new firmware. The keyboard on the new firmware includes a speech to text option, and it is awesome. There are so many ways that this speech to text function would make an academics life easier. For example i [...]

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Google Docs Tip for Acadmics: 3 Reminders to Give Students

Here’s the Quick Tip Tell your students to make sure they can edit the file in Google Docs before sharing (especially if they’re uploading .wps and .doc files). Remind them to leave the “Convert to Google Docs format” option checked when uploading. Remind them to leave the “To Edit” option checked when sharing. Here’s the [...]

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Google Docs Tip for Academics: Saved Searches

A while back I outlined 10 reasons to have students submit papers using Google Docs. Now that I’ve used Google Docs for two terms, I have some tips and suggestions to make using Google Docs easier on you and, generally, more awesome.

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My First Android Guys Post

I’m now a contributor at AndroidGuys. Android Guys has been one of my favorite places to get Android related news since the first Android phone launched, and so I’m pretty excited to be able to help these guys out. You can check out my first post here.. It’s a video review/demo of Scan2pdf Mobile. Here’s [...]

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Windows and Apple Declare War on Google

Within a week of each other, Windows and Apple declared legal war on Google in two separate arenas. Windows Earlier last week the European commission started an anti-trust probe. There were suspicions that Microsoft was behind some of the complaints. Last Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that they were. (Aside: If Google is guilty of anti-trust violation, [...]

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Researchers Show New Security Threat to Smartphone Users

A team of computer scientists from Rutgers University recently revealed a range of nasty things a hacker can do with some simple, difficult to detect, malware. A hacker could text your phone and drain your battery, turn on your microphone and eavesdrop on important conversations, or even turn on your GPS receiver and figure out [...]

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