Epics of India

For my week 15 tech tip, I chose to try out the snipped of HTML code which turns your browser into an easy to use platform for just typing. I’m not sure if this is something I’ll use in the future, given my easy access to Microsoft Word, but it was cool to see the an example of what coding can do for your webpage. I’ve tried creating my own webpages in the past using HTML code, so maybe this is something I could incorporate into that.

For my week 14 tech tip, I chose to try out the word cloud tool. This is something I’ve seen others used in the past, including our own professor for this class, and it seems like an interesting way to turn a story, document, or some other kind of text entry into a visual that’s easy to understand. I think this could be useful in a lot of my engineering classes in assisting me to see what the fundamental ideas of a chapter of a textbook or a problem are.

For my week 13 tech tip, I chose to download and try out the Canvas mobile app. This is something I’ve seen a lot of my friends use in the past but for whatever reason I had never given it a try. Since downloading it I’ve found myself using it quite often, especially over the past couple days just to check assignment updates and announcements given the recent development of online classes for the rest of the semester. It’s definitely something I’ll continue to use.

For my week 12 tech tip, I tried out Duck Duck Go, an alternative search engine to Google which doesn’t track or save your data. Given the heightened awareness of data tracking in the world today, this seems like something that will eventually become very popular. It was also cool just to try out something new, as well as to see that there are things out there that work just as well as Google, which is saying something given how used to it we are.

For my week 11 tech tip, I chose to download and install the text to speech package. This is something I’ve heard about but have never used before, although for the reading of epics of this class or for readings in many of my other classes, this is something that will be extremely useful in the future. Especially with online classes the rest of the semester, the ability to use this to multitask while doing things around the house or even other assignments will be very beneficial.

For this week’s tech tip, I chose to download and install the Firefox browser onto my laptop. I’ve always used internet explorer for an unknown reason, but this should come in handy as Firefox is much faster. I may even try downloading Chrome in the future.