One of the most frequent tasks given to undergraduate and graduate students is reading or critiquing research articles. Often, you will be tasked with reading more than one paper at a time, so having a technique for quickly reading and understanding the article is of paramount importance. My supervisor, Dr. […]
Many of us want to capture important information when reading research articles. Doing this on paper is straightforward; you take a highlighter pen and annotate manually. However, in today’s digital age, we often read electronic versions of journal articles using digital devices (e.g., tablets, laptops, e-readers). Extracting information from these […]
Blue carbon is carbon that is stored and captured by the oceans. The ocean is a significant carbon sink of our planet. Blue carbon ecosystems are the coastal habitats like mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes that play a vital role in capturing CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 is incorporated […]
Adding audio narration is now essential to deliver content for consumption (e.g., eLearning materials and audio guides). In this post, I introduce you to some of the easiest ways to generate audio narrations, i.e., from text to speech. Here are some of the easy-to-use free tools that can generate decent-sounding […]